Yeah, it really pulled the veil away, didn't it? So much dismissiveness and uninformed takes, from a crowd that had been driving automation forward for years and years and you'd think they'd get more familiar with these new class of tools, warts and all.
Say what exactly? Driving automation of all kind with Claude Code level tools has been incredibly fruitful. And once you spent sufficient time with them you know when and where they fall on their faces and when they provide real tangible reproducible benefits. I could not care less for the AI hype or bubble or whatever, I just use what I see works as I'm staring these tools down for 10h+/day.
The problem is that these conversations are increasingly drifting apart as everyone has different priors and experiences with this stuff. Some are stuck in 2023, some have so very specialized tasks that it's more work whipping the agent in line that it saves, others found a ton of automation cases where this stuff provides clear net benefits.
Don't care for AGI, AI girlfriends or LLM slop, but strap 'em in a loop and build a cage for them to operate in without lobotomizing themselves and there's absolutely something to be gained there (for me, at least).
