I think you are off by about 3 orders of magnitude as my Austrian flat need about 7MWh a year for heating and 3MWh of electricity. I could generate 24kWh per year on an indoor bicycle.
Same here! Started learning self hosted k3s, with terraform and IaC and all the bells and whistles. I would never have had the energy to look up how to even get started. In three hours I have a cluster.
Is that really a fair comparison? I think the amount of people who can memorize each and every configuration item is vanishingly small... even when I was bootstrapping k8s clusters before the dawn of LLMs I had to lookup current documentation and maybe some up to date tutorials.
Knowing the abstract steps and tripwires yes, but details will always have to be looked up. If just not to miss any new developments.
> It doesn't matter - GP is now able to do things they were unable to do before. A distinction without a (real-world) difference.
I get that point, but the original post I replied to didn't say "Hey, I know have $THING set up when I never had it before", he said "I learned to do $THING", which is a whole different assertion.
I'm not contending the assertion that he now has a thing he did not have before, I'm contending the assertion that he has learned something.
These points are about organising code and workflow. Even if you have organised your functions to the lowest possible unit of work you can still have a mess of async queue microservice hell which is the actual architecture.
Architecture is another topic entirely and the scope is higher abstractions across multiple systems.
But all the senior business folks think AI can do no wrong and want to put it out the door anyway, assuming all the experienced engineers are just trying to get more money or something.
so many of these Authentication providers have a hockey stick pricing scheme, where the first few users are near free and when you grow you are going to get mugged and kicked in the groin.
Regarding using AI tools for programming it is not a one-for-all choice. You can pick a grunt work task such as "Tag every such and such terraform resource with a uuid" and let it do just that. Nothing to do with quality but everything to do with a simple task and not having to bother with the tedium.
Why not? I regularly have a couple Claude instances running in the background chewing through simple yet time consuming tasks. It’s saved me many hours of work and given me more time to focus on the important parts.
> a couple Claude instances running in the background chewing through simple yet time consuming tasks.
If you don't mind, I'd love to hear more about this. How exactly are they running the background? What are they doing? How do you interact with them? Do they have access to your file system?
I would guess that they're running multiple instances of Claude Code [0] in the background. You can give it arbitrary tasks up to a complexity ceiling that you have to figure out for yourself. It's a CLI agent, so you can just give it directives in the relevant terminal. Yes, they have access to the filesystem, but only what you give them.
Those tasks can take hours, or at least long enough where multiple tasks are running in the background? The page says $17 per month. That's unlimited usage?
If so, it does seem that AI just replaced me at my job... don't let them know. A significant portion of my projects are writing small business tools.
> Those tasks can take hours, or at least long enough where multiple tasks are running in the background?
Maybe not hours, but extended periods of time, yes. Agents are very quick, so they can frequently complete tasks that would have taken me hours in minutes.
> The page says $17 per month. That's unlimited usage?
Each plan has a limited quota; the Pro plan offers you enough to get in and try out Claude Code, but not enough for serious use. The $100 and $200 plans still have quotas, but they're quite generous; people have been able to get orders of magnitude of API-cost-equivalents out of them [0].
> If so, it does seem that AI just replaced me at my job... don't let them know. A significant portion of my projects are writing small business tools.
Perhaps, but for now, you still need to have some degree of vague competence to know what to look out for and what works best. Might I suggest using the tools to get work done faster so that you can relax for the rest of the day? ;)
Yeah, Claude Code. I have the $100/month Max plan. I run 3-5 instances “in the background” (just another terminal) while I work. It really helps work through the backlog of “easy-ish things that I eventually need to do, but are relatively low priority.”
reply