[zackify]

I just built two projects where one dogfooded the other and setup a fully working slack bot all in 1 hour. If you still want to manually do things you can. AI can answer questions about common topics way faster than searching docs. Idk why this kills peoples passions. Especially of you're old enough to not need a salary

[zahllos]

I agree. I wanted a particular tool to support my development. The libraries are well known and understood by people who work in text editors, but this is not my area and I have a busy life. Simply working out what I needed to know produced enough inertia to stop it happening.

I finally made it with Claude. I've been writing code a while so I absolutely didn't let Claude loose and I still refactored stuff by hand as sometimes that was faster than trying to get Claude to do it. I also know what the whole thing does - I read all the diffs it presented.

I wouldn't fully trust it to go off and do its thing unsupervised especially in my areas of speciality. But the scaffolding work like command line arguments - typing all that out was never my passion and I had snippets in my editor for most of it.

Perhaps if your passion is the process of doing that kind of meticulously laying out of each file then I can understand. Although the journey for me is the problem solving. Nothing much excites me about any of the boilerplate parts.

Claude can certainly take a stab at the solution too and is best when it has some kind of test case to match or validation step. To me working out what those are was always the core of the job and without them Claude can make plenty of mistakes.

It's just a tool and I use it in ways to support what I enjoy.

My work situation is way more complicated. Bigcorp organizational dynamics nullify any marginal gain anywhere.

[il-b]

>Idk why this kills peoples passions

Corporate management is full on FOMO and pushes agents down onto teams

[skywhopper]

How old is that exactly?

[saltcured]

Abstractly, it's where log(forecast(assets)) exceeds log(anticipate(desires)) by log(safetymargin).

Molecular biologists are still searching for the pathways that govern the expression of assets, desires, and safetymargin.

Doctors and tax accountants are still arguing over whether the forecast and anticipation functions are learned or innate. And philosophers and used car salesmen can't even agree on where these functions sit on the cause/effect axis.

[nly]

>= 60 apparently.