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"It used to be you'd ask ChatGPT for some code and it would spit out some code and you have to run it and test it."
"Anthropic came up with Claude Code back in sort of February of 2025 and it took off like crazy and a bunch of people started signing up for $200 a month accounts"
"These days, I'll often just tell Claude, here's a URL to this thing, here's another thing. Go and read the source code and then solve this new problem. And it works so well."
"I never used Apple Script because Apple Script is a whole programming language you have to learn and I've been using Apple Script for like two and a half years now because ChatGPT knows Apple Script"
"and so now I can automate things on my Mac and that's great"
"I spend way too much time on Hacker News"
"I use that one more than the one on my own computer. Partly because that's the one you can access through your phone."
"If you've got the Anthropic Claude app installed on iPhone, there's a code tab and you can go in there"
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Clear filters"both Anthropic and OpenAI realized that code is the application like being a having these things generate code."
"both Anthropic and OpenAI realized that code is the application like being a having these things generate code."
"OpenAI's o1 was the first model to exhibit that. And now all of the models do it."
"in November we had what I call the inflection point where GPT 5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along and they were both just ex they were incrementally better"
"in November we had what I call the inflection point where GPT 5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along and they were both just ex they were incrementally better"
"and I like Andrej Karpathy's original definition of vibe coding"
"this company called StrongDM has been pushing this and doing some really interesting experiments around this"
"somebody needs to assign you access to Jira and then give you access to Slack and all of that kind of thing"
"somebody needs to assign you access to Jira and then give you access to Slack and all of that kind of thing"
"they built their own simulation of Slack and Jira and Okta and all of this software they were integrating with."
"once they spun it up it was a little Go binary that sat there"
"you can tell Claude Code fire up a sub agent that uses Playwright to simulate a browser"
"I think Firefox just a few days ago, maybe last week, said that they'd done a release which was assisted by Anthropic."
"Anthropic had discovered a hundred like potential vulnerabilities in Firefox and responsibly reported them to Mozilla"
"I was talking to the founder of Linear the other day and this idea of the factory"
"if you talk to Cloudflare and Shopify both said they were hiring a thousand interns over the course of 2025"
"if you talk to Cloudflare and Shopify both said they were hiring a thousand interns over the course of 2025"
"Thoughtworks the big IT consultancy did a offsite a few about a month ago"