Kyle Hughes
I haven't opened Xcode to do any work since November. If that was required to do my best possible work then I would do it, but I am doing better work than is possible when I do it so I do not do it. That is why I am not twisting myself into knots about what skills I am losing versus gaining. If I am losing skills then it is because they are not necessary to do my best possible work. The skills I am gaining are required to do my best possible work. I have never been precious about this.
Mar 4 at 4:35pmWeb
Show threadKyle HughesMar 4
Maybe it will be the case that this technology stops progressing right now and I am coasting on the momentum of how good I was before programming agents and I am flying too close to the sun and will come crashing down in 18 months. I think it is more likely that one single additional step change completely commodifies me and I am paving roads in 18 months and do not have health insurance.
Show threadTed CarstensenMar 5
@kyle paving roads for who and to where and for what goods for who to buy? Can you put in a good word?
Show threadKyle HughesMar 5
@ted To get the children to and from the mines. I decided I'm likely too tall to actually swing the pickaxe.
Show threadJoe Fabisevich Mar 4
@kyle We get it, you love Claude Skills.
Show threadKyle HughesMar 4
@mergesort I can’t lose skills because I back them up through Backblaze. Use code DUMPTRUCK47 to get 15% off your first year.
Show threadBrian WebsterMar 4
@kyle @mergesort It's not just a dump truck you can dump something on! It's a series of tubes! (kids, ask your parents)
Show threadKyle HughesMar 4
@bwebster @mergesort Who do you think you're talking to? That was a defining moment for my personality.
Show threadBrian WebsterMar 4
@kyle @mergesort I'm just channeling the crotchety over here.
Show threadKyle HughesMar 4
@bwebster @mergesort I was born in the tubes.
Show threadIanMar 4
@kyle what do you browse code with, Zed or so?
Show threadKyle HughesMar 4
@iandundas I don't, really; I guess GitHub if absolutely necessary. I review diffs in Sublime Merge or GitHub, and just use Claude Code for semantic search of the code base.