I wonder if Claude could do a good job or setting this up for someone not technically inclined

Until it can disassemble a robot to attach a programmer to the mainboard, it cannot.

It can, it has meat buttons it can press or boss around.

Say what you want about coding agents, when the cost of writing code goes to near-zero, the cost of wrangling tools becomes a much bigger fraction of development effort. This is an amazing opportunity to address long-standing frictions.

Life imitates art, even when that art is slop

Cringe-worthy at best

Development has always been a small fraction of B2B SaaS expenses after the first couple of years anyways

Governments prosecute violations of laws in ways that suit their interest. News at 11

It's not terrifying at all, some shops will fail and some will succeed and in the aggregate it'll be no different for the rest of us

Precision in language is important for software engineering.

Both you and the grandparent comment are correct. The implementation is slow because the API that it exposes is so leaky that implementation changes (for example a tracing garbage collector) are impossible to implement without changing the API, and the API cannot easily change because of the dependence or the ecosystem on it (e.g. numpy)

We have the unique ability for genocide but also the unique ability to invent sophisticated tools, one of which is culture, whose functions include ways to override our impulses in ways we deem valuable.