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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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"This is the most important thing when you're working with coding agents is they have to test the code. The best way to do that is to use a programming technique that we've been using for decades called test-driven development."
"If you use the term red/green TDD, that's programming jargon which I didn't used to use, but it is jargon for run the test and watch them fail. The agents know what that means."