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Living Dangerously with Claude

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132 points FromTheArchives | 4 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.606s | source
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catigula ◴[23 Oct 25 02:56 UTC] No.45677712[source]▶
Telling Claude to solve a problem and walking away isn't a problem you solved. You weren't in the loop. You didn't complete any side quests or do anything of note, you merely watched an AGI work.
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1. _factor ◴[23 Oct 25 17:36 UTC] No.45684538[source]▶
Writing your Java code on an IDE, you just sat by while the interpreter did all the work on the generated byte code and corresponding assembly.

You merely watched the tools do the work.

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2. bitpush ◴[23 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45684610[source]▶
This exactly is the part that lots of folks are missing. As programmers in a high level language (C, Rust, Python ..) we were merely guiding the compiler to create code. You could say the compiler/interpreter is more deterministic, but the fact remains the code that is run is 100% not what you wrote, and you're at the mercy of the tool .. which we trust.

Compiled output can change between versions, heck, can even change during runtime (JIT compilation).

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3. catigula ◴[23 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45684616[source]▶
This is a failure of analogy. Artificial intelligence isn't a normal technology.
4. catigula ◴[23 Oct 25 17:44 UTC] No.45684640[source]▶
The hubris here, which is very short-sighted, is the idea that a. You have very important contributions to make and b. You cannot possibly be replaced.

If you're barely doing anything neither of these things can possibly be true even with current technology.