I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again

Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again by heddycrow on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:00PM (#47291448)

My knee jerk is that there are quite a few people who can't or won't snowmobile when needed and ski when needed.

That's where the analogy starts to break a bit. You can't mode switch between skis and snowmobile, but you sure can ai assist/not pretty quickly.

One more quick one - imagine skiers showing up to the snowmobile club hating on snowmobiles and vice versa.

I, for one, have still not properly got a grip on how tech enables this sort of a analogy-breaking reality.

Effing go ski then; there's even a club for that! (rhetorical, not directed at anyone in particular) And shame on me cause I show up to the ski club on a snowmobile with skis on my back.

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Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again by qnleigh on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:09PM (#47300883)

Actually I think it still kinda works: - You could ski easy routes but snowmobile harder ones (not that anyone actually does this).

- Snowmobiles are loud and chew up the snow, analogous to AI flooding a repo with low-effort PRs?

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Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again by heddycrow on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:20PM (#47304125)

I can guess that you like this exercise and you seem to be adept at it. I can't help but think you are my kind of people in that regard. Kudos!

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