Well, um.

I don't think they should dismantle the program, but I recall when an audit investigation got an Energy-Star label for a "Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock".

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Hope they've actually improved things since then.

At least they won't be shitting in my house and tracking it all over the food prep surfaces.

How it is? Where they was? What them with do to coin?

I can write, and have written both the examples I provided here before. Claude did a great job, and provided clear, legible working code.

These were little jobs, not big ones. I wouldn't try having it land a plane or prescribe meds...well, at all right now. Maybe in future with much human supervision and review.

It's also important to keep in mind that until very recently, ALL programming errors with catastrophic results came from humans, not AI.

We're not uniformly good, and not at all foolproof.

Not denying your experience at all, but I've had a great experience using Claude to do the busy-work of "open a serial port on any of 3 platforms", or "set up the basics of a tkinter GUI" in Python, such that it let me get to the real work of manipulating data, addressing the device on the serial port, designing the UI much quicker.

I wouldn't hand an AI the whole task, at least not yet. But the thankless grunt work? Yes please. Away with it.

The one time I had trouble with Claude was when every suggestion ran into one particular OS+Python version bug neither Claude nor I knew was breaking every attempt. At that point, Claude started flailing, and appeared to realize my free question budget was diminishing, and suggested something easier but hacky. When I ran out of questions, I researched with search, found the bug online, resolved with a version upgrade. Not Claude's fault.

Every bit as good as the rest of Microsoft's products.

Competition is stiff.

"Aaaand 'Live and Let Die is leaning at the tape..."

...dissipation of Intel Inside"

Dunno, man: golden opportunity for pron AND a sandwich!

I don't disagree with that, but that describes much of human coding too.

This reaction is pointing in the wrong direction.

The bigger the budget for a project, the more fraught the decisions, the worse the consequences for you if you f it up.

So the greater the budget, the more conservative your creative decisions (yeah, saw that above: good point), AND the more scared you are to change things with a lot of high-budget sunk cost.

'Is this the right decision? I'm not gonna rock the boat.'

And let's not forget shielding humans from radiation once they get out of Earth's magnetic field.

Oranges: painted.

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