News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work. Parent comment

Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by soiltype on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:00PM (#46595383)
Considering the ubiquity and necessity of driving cars is overwhelmingly a result of intentional policy choices irrespective of what people wanted or was good for the public interest... actually that's quite a decent analogy for integrated LLM assistants.

People will use AI because other options keep getting worse and because it keeps getting harder to avoid using it. I don't think it's fair to characterize that as convenience though, personally. Like with cars, many people will be well aware of the negative externalities, the risk of harm to themselves, and the lack of personal agency caused by this tool and still use it because avoiding it will become costly to their everyday life.

I think of convenience as something that is a "bonus" on top of normal life typically. Something that becomes mandatory to avoid being left out of society no longer counts.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:38PM (#46595662)
People love their cars, what are you talking about
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:15PM (#46596271)
I am a car enthusiast so don't think I'm off the deep end here, but I would definitely argue that people love their cars as a tool to work in the society we built with cars in mind. Most people aren't car enthusiasts, they're just driving to get to work, and if they could get to work for a $1 fare in 20 minutes on a clean, safe train they would probably do that instead.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by jakeydus on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:15PM (#46596967)
I am this person. I love the convenience of a car. I hate car ownership.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:11AM (#46599516)
Right and I assume we will have BO police at the gates to these trains?

People love their cars not because they’re enthusiasts

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Drakim on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:32AM (#46601423)
That seems like a somewhat ridiculous objection. Should everybody start owning their own private planes to avoid people with BO at airplanes?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:37PM (#46606607)
No, but if they could, they would. That’s what’s being debated here. Whether people would, not should.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Drakim on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:58PM (#46606952)
Should we restructure society so that having a private airplane is easier and cheaper, but if you don't have one you'll have serious trouble in daily life?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:06PM (#46608001)
No
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by djhn on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:41PM (#46608580)
Is this some culture or region or climate related thing? I’ve never heard of BO brought up as a reason to avoid public transport or flying commercial in northern parts of Europe. Nor have I experienced any olfactory disturbance, apart from the occasional young man or woman going a tad overboard with perfume on the weekends.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:40PM (#46611609)
Of course they wouldn't, owning and operating a plane is -incredibly- inconvenient. That's what we are discussing, tradeoffs of convenience and discomfort, you can't just completely ignore one reality to criticise the other (admiting some hypocrisy here since that ideal train system mentioned earlier only exists in a few cities).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:38PM (#46611598)
I guess that's one reason to not use public transport, but it seems many cities overcome that pretty readily.

Perhaps it depends on how smelly your society is.

Anyway I think we are in agreement, given a good system and a good society trains become quite attractive, otherwise cars are more preferred.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by yard2010 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:32AM (#46598209)
I love my car. And yet I really want to see all the cars eradicated from existence. At least from the public space.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by soiltype on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:53PM (#46608776)
No, people hate being trapped without a car in an environment built exclusively to serve cars. Our love of cars is largely just downstream of negative emotions like FOMO or indignation caused by the inability to imagine traveling by any other mode (because on most cases that's not even remotely feasible anymore).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:04AM (#46599931)
What has gotten worse without AI? I don't think writing or coding is inherently harder. Google search may be worse but I've heard Kagi is still pretty great. Apple Intelligence feels like it's easy to get rid of on their platforms, for better and worse. If you're using Windows that might get annoying, personally I just use LTSC.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by soiltype on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:59PM (#46608861)
The skills of writing and coding atrophy when replaced by generative AI. The more we use AI to do thinking in some domain, the less we will be able to do that thinking ourselves. It's not a perfect analogy for car infrastructure.

Yeah Kagi is good, but the web is increasingly dogshit, so if you're searching in a space where you don't already have trusted domains for high quality results, you may just end up being unable to find anything reliable even with a good engine.

[ Parent | on HN ]