The Rise of Whatever

Speaking as a grump who recently chilled out, put reservations on hold and gave Claude a crack... it turns out that the anti-AI crowd (which still includes me in many regards) gets a lot wrong about the experience of using it, as demonstrated in TFA. You don't get reams of wishy-washy code unless you ask for it. If you're an experienced developer who Knows What They Want then you can wield it like a scalpel. None of the output is a surprise because you discussed the context and requirements first. It just gets there (probably) faster than you might have typing out keywords yourself. If the goal is Whatever, then sure, you will get that faster.

> If you're an experienced developer who Knows What They Want then you can wield it like a scalpel.

But that's not what the marketing says. The marketing says it will do your entire job for you.

In reality, it will save you some typing if you already know what to do.

On HN at least, where most people are startup/hustle culture and experts in something, they don't think long term enough to see the consequences for non experts.

Well I never set much store by marketing and I'm not planning to start. :) More seriously though it helps explain the apparent contradiction that it sounds scammy at a macro level yet many individuals report getting a lot of value out of it.