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You just described what I do with my ultrawide monitor and laptop screen.

I can be fully immersed in a game or anything and keep Claude in a corner of a tmux window next to a browser on the other monitor and jump in whenever I see it get to the next step or whatever.

I mean, windows users install things they’ve never heard of all the time.

If this was a real thing you needed to do, and it is too much work to get them to install WSL, you could probably just send them the link to install Git and use git bash to run that curl install sh script for dumbpipe.

And if this seemed like a very useful thing, it couldn’t be too hard to package this all up into a little utility that gets windows to do it.

But alas, it remains “easier” to do this with email or a cloud service or a usb stick/sd card.

Europe is the world‘s second largest economy and has the world‘s highest standard of living. I’m far from a fan of regulation but they’re doing a lot of things right by most measures. Irrelevancy is unlikely in their near future.

What? Can you elaborate?

A lot of people, in Austria at least, have moved to signal in my experience. My communities in the US and Austria have trended toward adoption of Signal with very few holdovers between messages and WhatsApp, some partly due to my pressure but overall it’s just getting away from the BS of the alts

I think it’s important to highlight this part of the abstract:

> modern smartphones are better understood as external to, but symbiotic with, our minds, and, sometimes even parasitic on us, rather than as cognitive extensions

“Symbiotic with, and sometimes parasitic.” It feels like the symbiotic bit is more on point overall.

How much further to peak Enshitification?

Exactly. Everywhere I’ve worked, this was a quick and non-intensive collaboration between engineering management and like one finance person. It’s baked into a ton of tools already (like you mentioned, Jira) so the percentages are usually just there and eng leaders review it with FP&A twice a year.

Have you tried Claude code? I’m surprised it’s not in this analysis but in my personal experience, the competition doesn’t even touch it. I’ve tried them all in earnest. My toolkit has been (neo)vim and tmux for at least a decade now so I understand the apprehension for less terminal-inclined folks that prefer other stuff but it’s my jam and just crushes it.

Maybe usually it’s just for personal fun or learning. I think “your audience” can be you and that’s enough. I’ve personally written articles for nobody but myself and “the world” and I’m shocked by how much traffic they get over a decade later. Sometimes the little esoteric things you record for nobody in particular shows up for those particular nobodies and it matters.

I’ll happily let you know when I release. Goal date for public beta is the 15th. I’d love eyes and feedback on it ASAP.

Hopefully it’s obvious that Claude will not have simply written the entire thing but you might get a sense of what it can do quickly as part of a whole - maybe similar to your last sentence but I suppose I am claiming massive improvements (in productivity, no warranty on quality yet).

Also keep in mind I’m entirely solo here. I fully agree with your points that the proof is in the pudding and obviously there’s nuance to all of it. But yeah, I’m not exaggerating with my commentary above.

Of course they do. I’ve been primarily a front end developer for 15 years. Working with designers. Shit takes so many iterations and so much time. Claude is faster but still “struggles” compared to basic rails work and API calls and test writing and whatnot.

I’m not sure how to answer the question on percentage of time coding. I quit my job as a director where coding wasn’t part of the job but have kept up on side stuff and architecture at work. Since the new year when I started this it’s been in bursts, some weeks or nights I’ll go super hard coding and others I’ll focus on other stuff. I go to conferences and study a lot on the subject of the industry so that’s what I do in bursts of the non-coding time.

I hired a virtual assistant to help with the non-coding things so lately it’s been a lot more.

In general I’d estimate at least 50% of my work on this thing since January has been coding but it’s really hard to gauge. Claude over the past 3 days has surpassed my personal coding productivity over the past 3 months though, if it wasn’t clear what I was saying.

Better start now! It’s incredible and unbelievable how productive it is. In my opinion it still takes someone with a staff level of engineering experience to guide it through the hard stuff, but it does in a day with just me what multiple product teams would take months to do, and better.

I’m building a non-trivial platform as a solo project/business and have been working on it since about January. I’ve gotten more done in two nights than I did in 3 months.

I’m sure there are tons of arguments and great points against what I just said, but it’s my current reality and I still can’t believe it. I shelled out the $100/mo after one night of blowing through the $20 credits I used as a trial.

It does struggle with design and front end. But don’t we all.

Thank you!!

This is really cool, and very relevant to something I'm working on. Would you be willing to do a quick explanation of the build?

Are you talking about set and setting? What recreational drugs do you mean? I’m not finding the analogy but actually curious where you’re coming from.

Yeah these are both extremely basic great use cases for LLM-assisted programming. There’s no difference, I wonder what the OP thinks that is.

How many of those included US citizens and legal residents?

It’s not about the economy! They don’t need that anymore. It’s about POWER.

They already have more than everything money can buy, and more than the GDP of most countries.

It’s not about the “company” anymore. They want _everything_. And will do whatever they can do get it, even if we think it looks stupid.

“Whoopsie doopsie we said something contradictory, anyway you’re all wrong and deported - don’t call back ever, and your school doesn’t get your taxes anymore but bombs for killing people in the Middle East does!”

This comment and the parent’s are the best retorts I’ve seen yet to the “these people are just stupid” idea we hear all the time. These “rules” are not calculated and brilliant, and that’s the point. They’re controlling at any angle they want.

Well, they reproduced so we could exist now. Definition of ancestors.

They mention a few times that they travel with the intent of making money. That’s the root of the problem.

I wouldn’t like traveling anymore either if I did it mainly to make money. Oops.

Not the best title if that’s your message

Some say it's quite deliberate.

Imagine seeing the exact point in time the asteroid hit!

Suppose you haven’t been here.

Why does it need an Apple M-series chip? Any hope for it getting on an intel chip and using it with Linux?

The API has a different pricing structure than using the app. This cost seems high to me compared to previous models I’ve used large data sets with.

Huh, it's not paywalled for me. I'm using Brave and have a robust Pihole situation but.. yeah it's all there

What a world it would be if he didn't lie his arse off eh?