i started using claude in a new way and i've already pushed out like 6-7 PRs this morning so far. this is way more than i would've done previously
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@shibao i'm getting so much done i'm tired every day
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@lain i was already tired every day before ai! actually integrating ai into my workflow has been a huge improvement for this, i was borderline about to burn out completely until ai saved me at work tbh
@shibao yeah, there's a lot more productivity and much less "how do i actually call this api do i really have to figure this out for 3 hours" type stuff
@subnetter @shibao yes, but for programming they are not quite there yet. for other stuff they are quite usable, gemma 4 is really good.
@subnetter @lain all the ones i tried out were shit
@shibao @lain I heard a few good things when you use vulcan with some of them, but I still refuse to use anything related to OpenAI and Anthropic because of my ethical lines. I've toyed with Qwen3.5 for simple shit like emails and basic documentation lookup.
I am not a swe but none of my co workers have productivity boosts from LLMs and a few have leaked sensitive data on them 🫠
I am not a swe but none of my co workers have productivity boosts from LLMs and a few have leaked sensitive data on them 🫠
@subnetter @lain you kinda have to be a good dev to use them well tbh which is kinda funny
I've found that I am forced to develop an understanding of libraries I use anyway because the models (GLM 5.1 recently) get stuck on the implementation details and I have to ask very precise questions. I gain this understanding faster because I don't have to dig through the sources myself, but in the end I still know now how this rendering library packs the color channels and alpha bits. If I didn't ask, I would have just been stuck.
might be a skill issue
might be a skill issue
@WandererUber @shibao i don't see this behavior but i also have no idea what you might be 'doing wrong'. maybe i should just record a session of writing some tool with it.
I would love to see that
@lain @shibao i had thought of this and "hmm will i lose the ability to find out stuff for myself" and the answer I think is, "no". Instead of having to get pissed at trying to find how to do something, or read a lotta docs, Claude/Gemini can simply point how a stuff is/works and then I do the work myself. Hell, this reminds me of trying to navigate the openAI api endpoints and strugglling to find the exact values for the thingies.
@lain @shibao I've been focused on programming lately, and with Claude and Gemini I've been able to learn stuff and write rust code fairly fast as a programmer, but I don't vibecode, I just ask about concepts or how-to-do-thing and I then implement. I also did a clean room thingy, I had vibecoded a script for something I do, and now I'm implementing that on my program, so I told it to give me the details as if we were clean room implementing smth. Very fun.
For other things like fixing bugs in build stuff (nix, c++, gentoo [in the past]), it's also really good because I don't have to get fucked and either cope with the failure or wait for a fix.
For other things like fixing bugs in build stuff (nix, c++, gentoo [in the past]), it's also really good because I don't have to get fucked and either cope with the failure or wait for a fix.
@mischievoustomato @shibao yeah i've been fixing / modifying software a lot. it's really the age of the individual's software.
@lain@lain.com @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @shibao@shitposter.world everything is so enshittified these days. I wish I was a fucking nerd who could write software.
@lain@lain.com @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @shibao@shitposter.world does that come with free willpower too?
@lain @MacGuffin @shibao ha, i know how2program a bit, but i dont have money for anything. I push the limits of what my laptop can do, and use the free tier stuff of things.
@mischievoustomato @MacGuffin @shibao here's some free stuff https://nitter.net/modal/status/2041820290716729379#m
@lain @shibao yep. I haven't modified much currently, but like, sometimes stuff will break for me on nixOS, and there might be a PR waiting, there might not be, and with Claude I can fix that for myself. Also giving it a nix derivation and an arch pkgbuild and telling it to update the nix deriv according to the pkgbuild and it doing great. It's really good.