I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. A lot of the time, I'm resorting to using an AI because I can't get information on how the current API of some-thing works into my brain fast enough, because the docs are non existent, outdated, or scattered and hard to collate.

And they write hundreds of MD files (for skills) that never break. No sense of accountability.

Someone at work recently termed this “Claude Creep”. It’s so easy to generate things push you towards going further but the reality is that’s you’re setting yourself up for more and more work to get them over the line.

We always find that small teams of locals can do much much more than a team with an unlimited number of low cost "developers". Not just because the competence of low cost devs is poor, but also the structure of how you work changes for the worse with a bigger team, for the worse with a distributed team, and for the worse with a skill-diverse team.

Thats before you get into the cultural flaws of favored destinations like India.

So we have been able to argue things like add one local + ai is better than about 20-100 Indians, depending on role and business structure needed to manage low-competence low-trust "developers". So we are planning to completely on-shore in the near future.

The bean counters are happy, and the quality of the work is improving.

> I’ve had the idea that from a social perspective it’d be regarded like plastic surgery, in that it only looks weird when its over-done, or done badly.

The style isn’t a limit of the technology, it’s a limit of the lobotomized models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The open source community has lots of models that are great at creative writing.

The section about being "glazed" into action resonates. Hidden within this concept I think is something profound about human motivation, innuendo and all.

> AI generated prose is at best boring, and at worst genuinely unappealing. I’m continually tempted, because in theory it should work well. The AI has perfect spelling and grammar, has more than enough context to produce article-length content, and can do in seconds what takes me hours.

I have a thesis in mind...that there is something fundamental to the human spirit that relishes a sort of friction that LLMs cannot observe or reproduce on their own.

Since LLMs, if I see a video I think is interesting, I take the transcript, feed it into an LLM, I summarize it and ask it a couple of questions. I've turned 12 minute videos back into the 5 phrases news it was based on. I suppose that when you're the one generating the request, it feels more personal. It is also very interesting that most LLMs respond like a normal person when you talk to them directly, but suddenly adopt the more annoying blogger speech patterns when you tell them 'create content'.

Marketers present a list of potential problems

The smallest success stories are marketed as indicators of future success, but to verify this, one must wait patiently for the future to arrive

a system that can allocate all the atoms / energy better than all of mankind won't eternally exist to coddle hairless apes

I would be interested what date this was? I am surprised if it's been recent that Claude didn't 1 shot this.

I think we'll find that for most AI stuff.

Some people push Claude and Claude Code at work, weights are closed, even Claude Code is completely closed and proprietary.

If terms, which Anthropic controls, ever change, all work and time spent on these products will be for naught.

No, I don’t think any skills or knowledge is acquired by the use of these tools can be reliably translated to another tool / model.

Hence I firmly think it’s utter nonsense rubbish to engage with that, and even Qwen3.5-Coder-Next plus OpenCode spits out working apps.

Really, do better product users.

> For now at least I’m keeping my Claude Pro subscription, but given the persistant rumors of undisclosed rate limiting, and ever improving performance of local LLMs, I can easily imagine that I’ll cancel my subscription before the end of the year.

My friend is trying to do the same, the Docker stack he made for his SaaS is really amazing, it is following the standards from the ancient age.

Not counting from 1971s DARPA? Sorry I'm allegric when LLMs being called AI like nothing existed before it.