LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

I’m programming software development workflows for Claude in plain english (custom commands). The non-deterministic is indeed a (tiny!) bit of a problem, but just tell Claude to improve the command so next time it won’t make the same mistake. One time it added an implementation section to the command. Pretty cool

This is the big game changer: we have a programming environment where the program can improve itself. That is something Fortran couldn’t do.

(bit off topic, but I wished someone told me this a few months ago; for regular programming generation, use TDD and a type safe language like Go. (Fast compile times and excellent testing support). Don’t aim for the magical huge waterfall prompt)