Definitely

I just did three tasks purely with Claude - at work.

All were pretty much me pasting the Linear ticket to Claude and hitting go. One got some improvement ideas on the PR so I said “implement the comments from PR 420” and so it did.

These were all on a codebase I haven’t seen before.

The magic sauce is that I’ve been doing this for a quarter century and I’m pretty good at reading code and I know if something smells like shit code or not. I’m not just YOLOing the commits to a PR without reading first, but I save a ton of time when I don’t need to do the grunt work of passing a variable through 10 layers of enterprise code.

Depends on the “app”.

A full ass Lemmy client? Nope.

A subtitle translator or a RSS feed hydrator or a similar single task “app”? Easily and I’ve done it many times already.

These are the principles I follow:

https://indieweb.org/make_what_you_need

https://indieweb.org/use_what_you_make

I don’t have time to argue with FOSS creators to get my stuff in their projects, nor do I have the energy to maintain a personal fork of someone else’s work.

It’s much faster for me to start up Claude and code a very bespoke system just for my needs.

I don’t like web UIs nor do I want to run stuff in a Docker container. I just want a scriptable CLI application.

Like I just did a subtitle translation tool in 2-3 nights that produces much better quality than any of the ready made solutions I found on GitHub. One of which was an *arr stack web monstrosity and the other was a GUI application.

Neither did what I needed in the level of quality I want, so I made my own. One I can automate like I want and have running on my own server.

Same thing would happen if they were a non-coder project manager or designer for a team of actual human programmers.

Stuff done, shipped and working.

“But I can’t understand the code 😭”, yes. You were the project manager why should you?

What if I can find it but it’s either shit or bloated for my needs?

I’ve made full-ass changes on existing codebases with Claude

It’s a skill you can learn, pretty close to how you’d work with actual humans

Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh

Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time

Karma guaranteed

For me it’s either this or Framework Desktop, I’ve got the money, just waiting for the email from Valve telling the final price.

Steam Machine is better for gaming, which is nice

But Framework can do Mac levels of AI work, which is also nice, it’s also not completely useless for games.

LTT said the same

Yep, and it seems the ram is upgradable

Most likely not, my guess is that it’s going to be super fast unified memory like in the Framework Deaktop

“If you’re not paying, you are the product”

Nobody offers services for free, the money has to come from somewhere

https://www.helloruby.com/

It’s a kids book about a girl called Ruby who goes on adventures that slowly teach the basic concepts of programming to kids.

It’s also been translated to 22 languages and won a bunch of educational awards.

Depends on the ads though.

4k with shit streaming bitrate is barely better than high bitrate 1080p

But full bitrate 4k from a Blu-ray IS better.

And bypassed. For the price of a Galaxy Fold you can buy an iPhone AND an iPad or even MacBook.

”But I can change their minds!”

…every well meaning left-leaning idiot on the internet.

No you can’t; they’re not arguing from a place of good will, they all argue for the sake of arguing.

And in the worst case you’re arguing with a LITERAL PIECE OF CODE.

Block and move on.

Chezmoi for user stuff, Ansible for system level (packages, user accounts, base services like mail and vpn)

Docker compose managed with opentofu for applications because I’m weird like that

Self hosted FreshRSS, read both on the web client and on NetNewsWire linked to the installation on my phone.

Built a few feed hydrators for sites with shitty feeds with no content in the feed.

Not my blog, but a great write up on how to do it: https://hamatti.org/posts/i-built-custom-rss-hydrator-for-better-github-and-youtube-feeds/