@isaackuo @tilton probably one of the better use cases I've heard of Claude was someone using it to rewrite things that were written in some proprietary ORM DSL back into SQL. Using one shiny new thing to back out of a previous shiny new thing. I think a lot of Claude users are falling straight into the vendor lock-in trap making special tools for it instead of just making a damn script that they can run on their machine. And letting it make spaghetti code that humans can't understand.

@normative.bsky.social especially for people who've dealt with malignant, delusional narcissists feeling like someone just like their abuser now controls everything.

@blogdiva NYT added the "context" that it's the "Muslim word for God" *facepalm*

@parkermolloy.com it feels like they’re still competencewashing him. The expletives aren’t the issue here.

@independentpen @cwebber I think one issue is that a lot of this really is a social science question that developers treat as only an engineering problem. I and the author of the blogpost relate to being dissatisfied even with valid outputs. It’s like someone being “correct” but not in a way that gives us any confidence their underlying model is good.

@tilton yeah I fucking hate it. It’s so self-obsessed and backwards. We devs should be thinking about how best to serve end-users not fighting a holy war on behalf of dev tool vendors.

@kevincarson1.bsky.social imagine if instrument makers had the same mentality as the tech industry, randomly moving frets around because the existing layout is too old-fashioned.

@rootwyrm @futurebird @aaron.rupar I don't deny the ulterior motive aspect of this (especially when it comes to NYT, ugh), I just think on top of that (and related to it), is a conceptual blind spot a certain kind of person with a lot of privilege tends to have. People who've never had shit hit the fan in their personal lives can't imagine the system breaking down. Conversely, ~some~ people who've been through really fucked up shit might also cling to any semblance of stability.