I have not been able to switch to Opus 4.5 in XCode. It defaults to Sonnet 4.5 and I couldn't find where to change it (or if it's possible). Anyone know?
Most of this comment was written by an LLM. There are certain tells, such as the tone, as well as usage of “ for quotations instead of the much more common ". I think you added the last couple of sentences.
>> Yeah. Exactly the same as there should never be an “artisan era” for chairs, tables, buildings, etc.
That's funny you bring up those examples, because they have all moved on to the mass manufacturing era. You can still get artisan quality stuff but it typically costs a lot more and there's a lot less of it. Which is why mass-manufacturing won. Same is going to happen with software. LLMs are just the beginning.
I live in a city where there are new houses being built. They are ugly. Meanwhile, the ones that exist since a long time ago have charm and feel homely.
I don’t know, I‘m probably just a regular old man yelling at clouds, but I still think we’re going in the wrong direction. For pretty much everything. And for what? Money. Yay!
You're continuing to make good arguments for why mass-production should exist _alongside_ artisanal craftsmanship. Broad availability of housing which is functional, albeit of questionable aesthetic appeal, is a good thing to improve housing availability[0]; and also it is a good thing for (fewer) well-built, charming, individual homes to be available for those who want to spend more and to get more.
[0] I'm extremely aware that there are other contributing factors to housing shortages. Tax Billionaires, etc. My metaphor still works despite not being total.
Is that the topic of discussion? I thought it was something along the lines of “tax the rich so we can do things with the money”. That is the area I’m saying it is a no-op in. Statements without context frequently don’t mean the same as what they mean with context.
this argument ignores basic opportunity costs.
taxing that wealth allows the state to redirect labor and materials production and distribution toward high-utility public goods: high-speed rail, dense urban cores, and affordable housing. instead of subsidizing insolvent suburbs, we could be modernizing the logistics network and actually growing the real economy.
worse, you completely miss the political dimension. hoarded wealth buys the lobbying power to prevent these necessary structural changes. you are engaging in the exact kind of apologetics that has led to american infrastructure collapsing while the capital class extracts rent. thinking that resource allocation is a 'no-op' is economically illiterate
But by doing this you are just making everything else more expensive, that’s the point.
Printing money and spending it on those projects would have literally the same effect.
I’m responding to what I infer as the notion that people must have to say what they say about UBI, which is the implicit “we will pay for X and that will be it” not “we will make other goods more expensive in order to have X, and how we are happening to implement that is by taxing the rich”.
Like how about we just eliminate corporate-government corruption? Like there are a lot of shit business people today with a lot of shit politicians in their pockets, and many of them did not legitimately earn what they have, but is it really better to prevent the accumulation of capital over a certain amount? Then the powerful in your society are <checks notes> people who won a popularity contest.
Maybe you didn’t intend it this way, but your comment comes across as an attempt to co-opt the discussion to pitch your own thing. This is generally looked down upon here.
It was an off-the-cuff comment and probably not worded ideally but the intent was to discuss how Oban is branching off into a new direction for their business based on language-specific products while I went a different direction with Faktory. Since I came to the exact same fork in the road in 2017, I thought it was relevant and an interesting topic on evolving software products.
Knowing Mike and his work over the years, that is not the case. He is a man of integrity who owns a cornerstone product in the Ruby world. He is specifically the type of person I want to hear from when folks release new software having to do with background jobs, since he has 15 years of experience building this exact thing.
>> The limiting factor at work isn't writing code anymore. It's deciding what to build and catching when things go sideways.
Actually I disagree. I've been experimenting with AI a lot, and the limiting factor is marketing. You can build things as fast as you want, but without a reliable and repeatable (and at least somewhat automated) marketing system, you won't get far. This is especially because all marketing channels are flooded with user-generated content (UGS) that is generated by AI.
Recently, I came across Erich Fromm's distinction between "being mode" and "having mode" (AI really explained it the best, would paste it here but it's somewhat long). You're, in contrast with parent post, looking at it from the "having mode" - how to sell the "product" to someone.
But you can also think what would you want to build (for yourself or someone you know), that would otherwise take a team of people. Coding what used to be a professional app can now be a short hobby project.
I played with Claude Code Pro only a short while, but I already believe the mode of production of SW will change to be more accessible to individuals (pro or amateur). It will be similar to death of music labels.
Depends if you're talking about new client acquisition or expansion of existing products in order to assure your client doesn't leave.
The issue I see with this, at least in enterprise, is while we may fix some smaller plates of spaghetti, we're busy building massive tangled pasta apps that do even more.
Yes, very common in Turkish culture. My dad passed away a month ago. Everyone who came over to offer condolences brought pastries, cakes, various home-made foods. And roasted chestnuts, which are sold by street vendors in Turkey in the winter.
I thought about why that is, and came to the same conclusion as you: when you are grieving you just need to be able to go through the motions, and not stressing about what foods to make is really helpful.
If anything the silver bullet people are mostly managers and C levels... some of which don't even use the tools themselves.
Of the devs that rejected it at first, the ones with the same sentiment I'm seeing online in threads like these, we forced one to give it a try. He now treats totters between using it well and treating it as a silver bullet. I still hear him incredulous about the things claude does at meetings, "I had to do <thing> and I thought I'd let claude get a crack at it... did it in one shot"
The whole "real software" thing is a type of elitism that has existed in our field for a long time, and AI is the new battleground on which it is wielded.
>> When I've had LLMs write unit tests they are quick to write pointless unit tests that seem impressive "2123/2123 tests passed!" but in reality it's testing mostly nothing of value.
This has not happened to me since Sonnet 4.5. Opus 4.5 is especially robust when it comes to writing tests. I use it daily in multiple projects and verify the test code.
I thought I did use Opus 4.5 when I tested this last time but I might have still been on the $20 plan and I cannot remember if you get any Opus 4.5 on that in Claude Code (I thought you did with really low limits?), so maybe I wasn't using Opus 4.5, I will need to try again.
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