Early preview for y’all
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This, by the way, is how certificates are now working here. Feel free to review the code:
I haven’t read this yet, but you’ve triggered a memory about how travel is so much more about the journey as the destination. Indeed, much travel (trail hiking) doesn’t even have a stable destination.
Some part of coding with “AI” must evoke the feeling of having become a tool of the tool.
This 100% encapsulates all of my feelings working with Claude Code as a requirement at work. Just last week after hooking it up to Playwright and Burp MCP, it found some high/critical vulnerabilities super quick by ripping through the JS bundle on the front end of a website and having me prompt it to test for specific vulnerabilities, but it was so antithetical as to why I loved this discipline.
I’m hoping the bill comes due sooner or later and these companies can’t keep hemorrhaging money because the compute costs versus what they’re charging for subscriptions just don’t add up, but even if that’s inevitable, there’s the question of how long that’ll take.
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Uggh I’m doing the exact same thing right now with ZAP. I really don’t like the feeling of automating away my favorite parts of the job—or someone’s job entirely.
As a corollary from decades ago, our surveyors would gather elevation datapoints across a landscape or field, which could be plotted out onto paper, but we didn’t have the software yet which draws the contour lines. … Contouring by hand was really enjoyable work, and notably the difficult terrain details required a detailed scrutiny was was quite beneficial to making the presentation and achieving a better understanding of the drainage details; which is not derived from automated plotting.
From my coding days, I wouldn’t want to be deprived of naming and understanding my variables and data structures; … but that was way back when it was mandatory to keep some consciousness (and maybe record) of memory and cpu usage.
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Exactly! I have to be careful about what I’m gripping so tightly. Is it truly the act of creation, or simply the familiar tools?
I still maintain that genAI is materially different than traditional automation, insofar as there is not a direct correlation between my instructions and its output. What the model produces is not, in a real sense, mine. And so using models to create robs me of something more than, say, using a programming language compiled into machine code.
paraphrasing you … speed coding is right up there with wax fruit 
As a SuperCalc [spreadsheet] user I couldn’t fathom what use a mouse could be. Later as a CADD operator [Digicad, MicroStation, AutoCad] mouse clicking icons (construct line etc.) to expand option icons (parallel, perpendicular from, perpendicular to, etc) was fast, efficient, and fun.
My resistance to “AI” is strictly moral/spiritual as it deprives the precious human of building a thriving society while wantonly and willfully destroying the precious biosphere which sustains us.
The capitalist establishment has been lying to me for a very long time.
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Typos:
Doing so has required bending Discourse, our new platform of choice, into something a Learning Management System.
Missing “of”. “…something of a Learning…” I think.
I also prompted the model to output the plan to an external Markdown file tor future reference (context disappears over time).
Typo: “tor” instead of “for”
Indeed, purity is weapon used to divide labor against each other
“is weapon” should be “is a weapon” I think
Another great post. Thanks Taggart.
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My constant editor. Thank you!
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