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This. Cannot emphasize this enough. I used to be bogged down with all sorts of decisions. What framework should I use? How can I make this code cleaner? What should this project be about? Is this decision going to bite me in the ass later?

Now I can safely hand this all off to Claude while leisurely browsing e621. The unlock is incredible, and I wouldn't trade this velocity for anything.

I just cleaned out the gutters on my house. Took a while to direct the guys I hired, but feel pretty proud of the result.

dont worry man it was a joke

Complete opposite for me, and it is important you hear this. I spend $200 a month Anthropic on Claude Code uplift more free time while no boilerplate yet success and is much more fulfilling now than in the pre-agentic era of hobby coding.

This article has a narrow view of "making" which is stuck hopelessly in the past, in my honest opinion. A human in the loop guiding the process is 100% making something, no matter how much you torture the definition of "make."

When I write software with Claude, I'm the one with the agency, not Claude. Without me, the software wouldn't even exist. A director "makes" movies. A collage artist "makes" images. A fisherman "makes" a catch. Someone searching YouTube and clicking on a video "makes" a video. These are widely agreed upon definitions, so it should not be controversial to say you "make" software with LLMs.

You're absolutely right!

says the guy making a sloperating system lmao