What is the phrase? Kicking in open doors?

Yeah, a bit. But that still has more autonomy than usual with these Claw thing.

The decision to write the piece, the complaints, the tone and the decision to published it were initiated by the slopherder.

Yeah he decides “AI is good actually for coding” but the same reasons apply there.

(Note: Non-coders prototyping is a different use case than professional coding - I am talking about professional coding here)

LLM code lets people shit out systems with no intent. And those systems are a waste of time. They just feel “90% there” for people who never had to finish a project in their life.

In the small scale, I get PRs of 200 lines of JS from someone who felt super productive because Claude wrote it for them. What did the JS do? Replicate the CSS “transition” property badly. They could have written one line instead. And gotten a bug-free, efficient, readable and maintainable version of what they were trying to do instead.

In the large scale, you get thousands of lines of RPC middleware instead of someone saying “hey at this point, should we move this responsibility from module A to module B and get rid of a lot of code?”

And I refuse to be on the defense of luddite or hater like the author does. Because I have never heard that claim from anyone who is capable of actually shipping stuff better or faster than me.

Their stock valuation relies on leaving partnerships like this open.

Watch the incentives, not the face.

Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.

The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.

As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.

Sure.

Most people in entry level do.

That’s not my point.

People not in entry level have other options, and they are discouraged by this.

I never understood this need to filter out applicants who have other options.

If I had three potential employers to interview with and one of them pulled this, I’d put them on hold and see if the others pan out.

Your personal data is safe with us.

So give it. Very safe. Give it!

We take your home safety very seriously. Please let us in. Let us in. Let us rummage through your nightstand drawers. Your secrets are safe with us.

Your children are also safe. Give them.

They are speedrunning capitalism.

Next is to pass the corpses of the major IP holding companies around and sue each other and everyone for patents until nobody can afford lawyers anymore.

“Your kid is safe at school, because we insist all teachers use condoms”

Don’t signal boost their lies.

Another spammy wave of invalid security issues is disgustingly disrespectful of the maintainers’ time.

Are they slowly inventing movies?

I went to Librefox. It has some harsh defaults that I ended up tuning, but so far it works well. Could just port over bookmarks and such.

As a Firefox user, this is not long-awaited. It’s a tepid excuse for a dead project. The forks of Firefox are the only real alternatives if you value privacy over convenience. If you don’t, then there are faster browers than FF anyway.

What if Z was X?

This thing looks like it can do okay on Q. It may be good at Z in the future!

Headline: “Thing does X!”

Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”

Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.

The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.

Yet we now allow “it generated so much code!!!” to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.

You sure told that made up character! Yeah!

Fun experiment: Ask Google if there are more stars in the solar system than grains of sand in a glass of water. See the AI confidently say “yes” and then refresh the query and see it confidently say “no”.