now Claude is my best friend at work
lqstuart on Hacker News
100x developer
In the thread “AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox”
Helped: Applying critical thinking and strict requirements to AI output.
Got in the way: AI is worthless for large distributed deep learning jobs.
… and will likely always be worthless since the APIs change constantly and the iteration loop is too cumbersome to constantly resubmit broken jobs to a training cluster. Then I started working on some basic grpc/fullstack crap that I absolutely do not care about, at all, but needs to be done and uses internal frameworks that are not well documented, and now Claude is my best friend at work. The best part is everyone else’s AI code still sucks, because they ask it to do stupid crap and don’t apply any critical thinking skills to it, so I just tell AI to re-do it but don’t fuck up the error handling and use constants instead of hardcoding strings like a middle schooler, and now I’m a 100x developer fearlessly leading the charge to usher in …