Before LLMs, I believed most programmers *wanted* to be good at their craft but were prevented from it by org problems or lack of good resources. Now, I think that population is much smaller than I thought. I'm not sure what to do with this besides feel sad about it, which is what I've been doing.

claude design babeyyyy. i still don't understand why you would put an immense amount of money and prompting into a tool that produces mediocre derivative drivel when you could just buy a $50 template and get the exact same result. this anthropic psy-op is wild.

That's been my finding as well in the small amount of material I have made it through, but I keep trying to check in periodically. Can't remember anything else that I've personally spent as much energy trying to find evidence for while only finding counterexamples!

Fuck Around First Out

Any standouts in the lot you watched? I keep trying to find good demos that will change my perspective, but I have low patience for both Influencer Content type videos and also 5-hour ridealong-style work session videos, so I haven't made it through a ton of material.

I've thought about it although I am one of the best to ever do it in terms of sucking horribly at convincing Guys With Money that they should want to employ my services.

Would be great if we could collectively, like, remember who bought fully into this stuff and then not take them seriously in the future, but I know we won't.

I've spent a lot of time in the "making and operating websites" business, so I have endless empathy for ops folks when uptime is struggling, UNLESS those same folks are constantly openly disdainful of the users who are the *reason their job exists*, then that empathy drops to zero.

literally not much

Am I going to drive 2+ hours to the nearest Jollibee in Chicago for the Jollibee x Final Fantasy XIV thing…………..

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"Taste is now the most important software development skill" would be terrible news for 100% of the guys I've heard saying that if it were true.

Holy shit I didn’t even know they made those. Is there like a waitlist I can get on or…?

Seems like “…or you could learn how to do your job?” is how I feel about roughly 97% of the AI “use cases” that aren’t outright fraud.

When it comes to problem solving there are basically two approaches: "add more stuff until it looks right again" and "fix the foundation so the problem is impossible". The add more stuff guys are my mortal enemies.

More and more I am seeing "I would never use it for anything creative but I generative AI seems fine for coding" and I wonder if people realize that coding is also a creative field and the generated code is also coming from scraped and plagiarized human code, please don't give coding a special pass

Incredibly beautiful book. I was bawling through half of it.

The stock market but you’re only allowed to invest in a company if you can first pass a 101 level final exam about the field of that company’s core business.

Have been considering option 2 also. Figure I can make a bunch of incredibly unhealthy decisions ten years ago that lead to me producing something that taps into the nostalgia of a cohort experiencing both the alienation of adult life and their first >min. wage paycheck and boom: retirement funded.

thank u in advance Claude Design for the 1 billion additional “that’s not really what design is about” convos I will be having

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

100%, people are using the same words to mean very different things.

It's this. Vibe Coding The Operational Attitude has been happening and degrading software quality since...uh, well, my whole career, regardless of when specifically LLMs entered the workflow.

THANK YOU. This whole thread is great and especially "reading code is more difficult than writing it." I keep encountering people who believe the opposite and it baffles me.

LLM‑Assisted Software Engineers Can Only Be Mad (And Will Block Smartasses)

An impromptu essay on the impossible equilibrium of AI‑augmented coding

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AI is when good thing happen, human not careful enough with good good AI is when bad thing happen 😠

y’all there are so many books

Being right about everything has really not been paying out like I was hoping. Gonna pivot to Aggressively Wrong and see how that goes.

I don‘t know what’s going on here but I want to invest for $100 million.

"An upfront specification is never correct" is bang on.

Hopefully each game also maps the other shoulder button to some kind of "consume a rare resource" action.