lol, yes, I would say that I basically travel to Scotland (in aggregate) half price

I can’t remember the last train to Scotland I didn’t get delay repay on

That’s of course without getting into matters of product taste, ability to work in a team etc… I do think everything is just going to be very very very different and we’ll have to work it out

I agree in some ways but don’t in others: I work on a complex distributed system and models can’t yet hold the code + infrastructure in the context window, I still have to heavily design changes before I make them…

Do think the world end state looks like “code is free, technical ability matters”

Every time Anthropic release a new model they poll internally on whether people would give up the model (opus 4.5) or the harness (Claude code), ppl would give up the model, by a long way, the harness really matters and often find skepticism from ppl copying and pasting code into ChatGPT

Yeah I think that programming suffers from being economic valuable to replace, a large verifiable RL training set that’s open source and genuine interest from users in doing so; don’t see however how this doesn’t come for us all in time. I think the “harness” matters a lot; Claude Code is great.

Have you used a coding agent like Claude Code w Opus 4.5? It’s like programming from the moon, that’s the level of difference and capability gap

This year was the year I stopped programming really

open.spotify.com/track/1JG1Y8... I would’ve had this, and midnight request line

I got the edgiest boy award

I don’t think it does? At all? In fact “whoops staging is accidentally public” is likely the story we’d be reading instead

This has aged unbelievably well

Keep in github if as low maintenance as you describe

Great band; saw them live a couple of times in the heyday: youtu.be/8xluWk0JcfA?... this is the peak for BEB maybe