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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by edude03 on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:46AM (#48893533)
I liken it to dieting. If your only goal is to be certain weight, then learning how to cook, learning how to portion, learning to make a meal plan, learning about macro nutrients is all "friction" now that we have GLPs. And maybe using a meal prep service reduces some "unnecessary friction" but you still would have to learn a bunch of useful skills along the way.

Concretely, If your only goal is to produce "software" then learning about design, planning, project management, testing etc is all unnecessary friction when you can just ask an LLM to "make it so"

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by Cyberdog on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:56PM (#48896316)
As someone who has been losing weight over the past year, the cost of GLP1s is and was a greater point of friction to me compared to just eating less garbage.
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by overgard on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:13PM (#48897357)
Nitpick, but this is misunderstanding GLPs (I'm on them). If you don't change your diet and your habits, yeah, you'll temporarily lose weight but it'll come right back when you're off it AND you'll lose a lot of muscle. You kinda still need to do "the right things", it's not a magic cure all. (Of course, same thing can be said of AI).
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by edude03 on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:54PM (#48897902)
A fair callout, though yes it was supposed to be a simplified analogy. I think you got it exactly right though that its temporary in the same that I'd argue the benefits of using AI are temporary
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by overgard on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:37PM (#48898486)
I definitely agree with your overall point, just wanted to correct that one thing.
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by theshrike79 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:24PM (#48914248)
GLP's don't make you lose muscle. Losing weight without exercising does.

You'll get the exact same muscle loss with a CICO calculation weight loss.

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