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Maybe I’m just getting extremely lucky, but I don’t use AI to code at work and I’m still keeping up with my peers who are all Clauded up. I do a lot of green field network appliance design and implementation and have not felt really felt the pressure in that space.

I do use Claude code at home maybe a couple hours a week, mostly for code base exploration. Still haven’t figured out how to fully vibe code: the generated code just annoys me and the agents are too chatty. (Insert old man shaking fist at cloud).

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We're witnessing a divergence between Coders and Clauders, with the latter dominating the market at a lower cost of labor + subscription fee to the almighty AI providers. Coders may be called in, hopefully with better renumeration, to review and debug the massive amount of code being generated. Either that or they will also be replaced by specially trained/prompted language models doing the review.

> + subscription

With how much some people spend on tokens that they've shared on here, and concerns about raising prices, I've kind of been wondering if we're actually heading to a point where seniors who don't use AI are going to be cheaper than juniors who do.

In the future Claude will keep a tight ship on dissenters. If your monthly quota doesn't exceed the 10k worth of tokens your employer will be notified and you will be flagged as a "dissenter". Your lease will be cancelled, because who would trust someone ignorant enough to not use LLMs in their daily life, and you'll be vetoed from the field for life, for clanker companies will proclaim that anyone who doesn't use LLM-assisted coding should be culled and so they'll run a tight ship.

And executives will get millions in bonuses for figuring it out, and the remaining programmers, probably one or two, will raise their necks over who's the best prompter and how everyone else was dumber than them for not figuring it out.

ai skeptic fanfic evolves in fascinating ways every day

Take it a step further: AI generated AI skeptic fanfic :D

Yeah, the AI productivity gains are a myth in my experience.

> the generated code just annoys me and the agents are too chatty

I’ve eyerolled way less with Codex CLI and the GPT models than with Claude.

I haven’t spent much time with Codex+GPT, will definitely give it another look

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