I like collaboration. It's hard and messy and produces imperfect results. But it's happening less than ever and I think that's bad.
@mattiem I think collaboration might be happening more than ever but always collaborating only with Claude šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļø
@icanzilb yes I’m sure that fits some people’s definition of ā€œcollaborationā€
@mattiem one that will ultimately get more and more one sided šŸ˜”
@icanzilb @mattiem I always get the creeps when AI treats itself as a person.
I had a thread with Claude and at some point it said "as you can see in your conversation". I asked what conversation and it responded "our conversation" šŸ˜“
@jandamm @icanzilb that is the killer feature though!
@mattiem @icanzilb yes there are so many (including me sometimes) who also speak about AI as a person. They're really good at pretending.
@icanzilb @mattiem too anthropomorphic for me
@mattiem this is very much on my mind. It sure is liberating to not have to ask the build team something but maybe that gives signal! Maybe it’s better that they are aware in a form other than a GitHub email notification. Etc…
@jacobvo working with others is only going to get harder. And the skills required are already tough to develop…
@mattiem The trend of modernity is we each increasingly become our own everything.
@kyle happiness might be measured in bandwidth, but fulfillment is measured in tokens

@mattiem Yes. The dominant systems are optimizing for isolation and ā€œindividualismā€, in spite of the abundant evidence that humans are, fundamentally, a social species.

We learn, think, and understand, most effectively, when we do so socially and collaboratively.

In the context of software development, pair and ensemble coding are the most effective way, that we have figured out so far, for us to work.