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I’ve been building websites for 30 years and have been architect- or CTO-level at web startups for 15 years. I’ve done all of this painstakingly myself many, many times. I know whether Claude is good at it or not.

I was responding to a claim about production quality, not about project size

This was a web UI, which is much more complex than a desktop UI because of legacy browsers and idiosyncrasies

I completely disagree. If you do the architecture and review the work, they can do bulletproof production work.

I have them review each other’s work before I review it, and they also do security audits of the entire codebase on a regular schedule.

For frontend work especially, the productivity boost is insane. Claude built me a replacement for a complex UI that took a human developer 6 months to build poorly, and Claude did it in two hours.

If you need “imagination” to prove that this guy was a good dad, he wasn’t a good dad.

What a ridiculous and childish snipe lol.

Sorry I don’t see it the same way. I don’t see a hero or admirable life’s work. He spent his life choosing himself over others.

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Geeks got rich. We didn’t get cool. Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, et al have proven that money doesn’t make you happy, beloved, or cool (and actually seems to do the opposite).

Because they’re all fraternity rejects who still want college boys to think they’re cool

“Temporarily unable to go to Northern Ireland” doesn’t justify abandoning your child for the entire rest of his life.

There’s no way to spin it so that Bushby isn’t an absentee father and a selfish person.

Typical lawns are not native grass and don’t spread by rhizome. You’re making my point, and I can’t tell if that’s your intention or not.

You’re just inventing your own definitions of “native” and “natural” that are different from how scientists and other people use those words. It’s a pointless semantic argument.

It’s not really a complicated philosophical question.

Lawns aren’t native to your area. That type of grass didn’t evolve there, and it didn’t evolve to being trimmed short. That’s why it doesn’t produce seeds and why it’s killed by leaves.

That’s just revealing how strange and unnatural lawns are. I switched to low-growing native plants and have been very happy with almost zero maintenance.

To train their LLM

My impression for a while was that there were nasty political threads that devolved into flagging and name-calling. I have seen things about politics (elections, corruption, contentious lawsuits, etc.), but I haven’t seen the accompanying flame wars.

There was also an experimental period where they’d banned all political articles, and then they reversed it.

I haven’t noticed a huge change since 2022, except perhaps that politics are discussed quite a bit less

What about it isn’t consistent over time?

Claude seems better at frontend dev work than at any other category of task. It’s far better than the last senior frontend dev I worked with.

> you generally don't end up writing a lot less code with a framework

What? This is absolutely untrue for anything that isn't a trivial v1 prototype. Complex applications have a lot of boilerplate, which is unavoidable with the baggage of HTML and CSS.

There's a reason people are obsessed with web frameworks. Writing vanilla HTML/CSS/JS for large or complex apps is an enormous pain.

This is obvious and not an interesting observation.

The question is how to get a good and efficient dev experience while also preserving that level of speed.

AI has now made that question mostly irrelevant, since it can generate and rapidly edit vanilla webpages without a framework to make the DX better.

I feel bad for them because they seem like some of the better actors in the dev tool space. They make quality products and seem to care about users a lot.

I don’t know why I should feel less empathy for them “because capitalism.” Capitalism has a lot of innocent victims, and in the AI era, there’s no longer something new to move on to.

A functioning government committed to free markets would mandate unlocked devices.

The unregulated market naturally coalesces into oligopolies or monopolies and doesn’t fix issues like this.

Opinionated never meant deterministic. It meant strong conventions and narrow options for customization. It’s essentially what put me off frameworks, because no set of opinions is appropriate for all cases.

Not in recent US history, no

You have a very narrow experience of the world, then. The most bland, ugly, tasteless neighborhoods I’ve seen are all in HOAs. The most beautiful are all without HOAs.

But that’s all beside the point, because this article is about how HOAs are bad for people who need somewhere to live, not about what offends your (unusual) taste.

Dog noses are attached to a large bag of water with a liquid cooling system, so they're not hot to the touch.

A chunk of plastic can easily get painfully hot to a sensitive piece of skin, like a dog nose.

Dogs likely don't live long enough for microplastics to be a big problem. We haven't seen an increase in cancers in dogs in recent years like we have with people.

They're main exposure to microplastics would be from toys, water, dishes, and low-quality food, anyway. This nose guard would be a small drop in the bucket.

> I love the cope required to start ranting about C on a topic where a bug is found on a crítical selling point of rust

Rust was largely created to be safer than C, so comparing Rust to C is always relevant in a thread about Rust's safety.

The comparison (that Rust is still an improvement over C, even if it has bugs) is relevant.