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Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.

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This has huge potential as an education tool. People still have to learn how to code. A person who doesn't cannot achieve shippable products even with Claude code.

There are a lot of situations at work where posting a confluence page or a markdown doc on slack doesn't really get any traction, but a mob session does as you can step through things.

Something like this might be a good middle ground (can't interrupt with questions, but can still step through changes). That said, I usually write a script and spin up Loom as the 5 minute limit forces me to keep it tight.

I disagree, and even more so in the future. Programming languages will become a relic of the past. I think LLMs will just create binary from spec/tests/

Why do you think this? I don't see a pathway for a language model to create binaries directly. Is someone working on this?

I mean the code would be intermediate and not really kept around. Code could be any language llm would choose best depending on requirements.

You are living in a fantasy. We are nowhere near this, and engineers who understand fundamentals very well are the ones in demand.

We will see, I still think we will need engineers who understand fundamentals, and yes we need to teach new devs these like we teach them how assembly, computer architecture works, even though we likely don't build our own compilers or hardware. But as time goes on there is less need to know about the lower levels.

This is a trap. If you don't have control over your code you dont have control over the product. Someone, somewhere in the stack needs to understand how everything works.

So you know every line of code in every framework/library/sdk you use! wow

No but someone does. If something goes wrong, someone would be able to debug and fix it.

Indeed, his name is Claude

I love using AI tooling but I'm not convinced it's safe to use straight to binary until we have 100% deterministic outputs from it.

Would two great developers produce the same output given a spec, probably not. The spec and validation would be part of the solution. The code can be different each time.

Bro, Claude is not a person.

I made CodeMic for those who love to write code by hand and understand code written by hand. It's my little sanctuary from AI.

You may very well be right about the future. I won't argue. I just love the art of programming :)

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