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by neogodless 32 days ago
Can someone translate this?

> What we're capable of delivering now is incredible and would have been unimaginable just a few years ago

What I mean is - are there concrete examples, real world "things" that came from AI programming, that are incredible, and someone can talk about and point to how AI led to the thing being possible?

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One thing I will say has been a personal boon, is Claude picking up the slack for my personal (relative) weaknesses. My project frontends are prettier than before and my sysadmin tasks take much less research time. I don't think it makes my strengths that much stronger, but it raises the floor of everything.
But raising the floor or having some improved tools available to pad your skillset is neither incredible nor unimaginable. Could you elaborate how you feel it would have been unimaginable before you started using Claude?
I have to admit that these days, whenever I see a project site clearly built with Calude, I am overcome with a vague sense of nausea and head for the exit.

I don't think I'm the only one.

Every software that is released by any big company is now in part AI written.

Over the next few years, every piece of software everywhere will be in part AI written.

There's not going to be anything to point to because it's everything.

That doesn't really clear anything up.

We've had large applications released by big companies before AI.

Windows 11 existed before Microsoft started relying on AI to contribute to the codebase. What incredible things have been added to Windows 11 now that Microsoft is using AI to write it?

They’ve said competent. Obviously you’re not competent enough to understand it. Try to feed their message into latest Opus and ask “explain like I’m five”. Good luck!