Claude is very good at unfun-but-necessary coding tasks such as writing docstrings and type hints, which is a prominent instance of "laundry and dishes" for a dev.

“Sorry, the autogenerated api documentation was wrong because the ai hallucinated the docstring”

You can't read?

Please don't say you commit AI-generated stuff without checking it first?

I don’t commit ai-generated stuff. Do you?

Of course, but not without review.

It’s exactly like working with another human. PR review is there for a purpose.

>writing docstrings and type hints

Disagree. Claude makes the same garbage worthless comments as a Freshman CS student. Things like:

// Frobbing the bazz

res = util.frob(bazz);

Or

// If bif is True here then blorg

if (bif){ blorg; }

Like wow, so insightful

And it will ceaselessly try to auto complete your comments with utter nonsense that is mostly grammatically correct.

The most success I have had is using claude to help with Spring Boot annotations and config processing (Because documentation is just not direct enough IMO) and to rubber duck debug with, where claude just barely edges out the rubber duck.

I intentionally said docstrings instead of comments. Comments by default can be verbose on agents but a line in the AGENTS.md does indeed wrangle modern agents to only comment on high signal code blocks that are not tautological.

Soon you'll realize you're the "AI". We've lost control.

This sums up my feelings almost exactly.

I don't want LLMs, AI, and eventually Robots to take over the fun stuff. I want them to do the mundane, physical tasks like laundry and dishes, leave me to the fun creative stuff.

But as we progress right now, the hype machine is pushing AI to take over art, photography, video, coding, etc. All the stuff I would rather be doing. Where's my house cleaning robot?

I would like to go even further and say: Those things, art, photography, video, coding ... They are forms of craft, human expression, creativity. They are part of what makes life interesting. So we are in the process of eliminating the interesting and creative parts, in the name of profit and productivity maxing (if any!). Maybe we can create the 100th online platform for the same thing soon 10x faster! Wow!

Of course this is a bit too black&white. There can still be a creative human being introducing nuance and differences, trying to get the automated tools to do things different in the details or some aspects. Question is, losing all those creative jobs (in absolute numbers of people doing them), what will we as society, or we as humanity become? What's the ETA on UBI, so that we can reap the benefits of what we automated away, instead of filling the pockets of a few?

Well it would be funnier if dishwashers, washing machines and dryers didn't automate that ages ago. It's literally one of the first things robots started doing for us.