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Claude Code now supports hooks

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mkagenius ◴[] No.44431021[source]
As an aside, people say AI will eliminate coding jobs, but then who will configure these hooks? Or think about adding such a feature?

These kinds of tooling and related work will still be there unless AI evolves to the point that it even thinks of this and announces this to all other AI entities and they also implement it properly etc.

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mrmincent ◴[] No.44431095[source]
To misuse a woodworking metaphor, I think we’re experiencing a shift from hand tools to power tools.

You still need someone who understands the basics to get the good results out of the tools, but they’re not chiseling fine furniture by hand anymore, they’re throwing heaps of wood through the tablesaw instead. More productive, but more likely to lose a finger if you’re not careful.

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forgotoldacc ◴[] No.44431379[source]
And we may get an ugly transitory period where a lot of programs go from being clearly hand made with some degree of care and some fine details that show the developer's craftsmanship, to awful prefab and brutalist software that feels inhuman, mass-produced, and nothing is really fit for the job but still shipped because it kind of works well enough.

People go to museums to admire old hand-carved furniture and travel to cities to admire the architecture of centuries past made with hand-chiseled blocks. While power tools do let people make things of equal quality faster, they're instead generally used to make things of worse quality much, much faster and the field has gone from being a craft to simply being an assembly line job. As bad as software is today, we're likely to hit even deeper lows and people will miss the days where Electron apps are good compared to what's yet to come.

There's already been one step in this direction with the Cambrian extinction of 90s/early 2000s software. People still talk about how soulful Winamp/old Windows Media Player/ZSNES/etc were.

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rolisz ◴[] No.44433341[source]
I think it's going to go the opposite way: we'll get a lot more custom made software, that fits exactly what a small customer needs. The code might be utter crap, the design might not be award winning, but it will be custom made to a degree that you can't customize your average Savas.
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1. bluefirebrand ◴[] No.44435455[source]
This was the promise of "no code" / "low code" solutions in the past

It has never worked in the past, I'm not entirely convinced that it will work now

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2. himeexcelanta ◴[] No.44436582[source]
Agreed. Trying to live in a high level of abstraction without understanding the components of the system will cause the project to fail after a certain point.