Luke Skinner

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Spiral out.

Keep going.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

If you spend money with Anthropic, stop.

They are outright anti-technology, are irreparably damaging the industry in a cowardly and pathetic attempt to benefit themselves, and do not deserve your money.

They are making you worse at your job, and that is their goal as they lie through their teeth about “how concerned they are”.

This has to be the single most morally bankrupt company that has ever existed in modern technology, and nobody—least of all developers who know better—should support them.

Just stop.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@rfleury Did you tell them to delete their website?

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@HSVSphere But won't you miss manually turning your fans on and off so kernal_task doesn't grind your machine to a halt because Steve Jobs didn't like fan noise

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

Today, on the heels of a very large production deployment involving load balancers, networking, applications, and a mix of 10+ application and db servers both on VMs and as-a-service, I carved out the requisite few hours to manually produce the documentation.

I could have uploaded all the notes and existing docs into a copilot chat and had it spit out the documentation, but I chose not to, despite AI being able to complete such a task, imminently more so than writing code.

The reason I wrote the documentation myself is because I also have to maintain the system. I want to know it--and actually writing out what *it* is--*is* the process of coming to know the system.

Skipping the process of manually producing the documentation introduces a risk vector that *will* come to bear.

The production of the documentation is as important as it having been produced, and to the extent this applies to documentation, it applies infinitely more more to a code base.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

I have tried vibe coding and literally can not wrap my head around how people take any of this seriously.

Even “AI assissted” coding is a dumpster fire.

Even “just add comments” is useless because adding comments and cleaning up is an exercise in understanding the code.

Despite having tried, I can not find a reasonable use outside of a chat bot to ask questions.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@vvsmoe @garrytan The right to free speech is a philosophical principle any individual can and should endorse.

What someone actually speaks when exercising that right is a choice that others can choose to support or not.

Pitting these two concepts against each other is a false dichotomy.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@zeddotdev @velsinhax @robinebers Agreed. UI is great

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@velsinhax @zeddotdev @robinebers this is a completent

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink enables people with ALS to speak again

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

>be me
>oh thats an interesting post
>i should go look something up before responding tho
>come back to X three minutes later to respond
>state refresh nukes post

@nikitabier whhhhhhhhhhhy

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

disregard ai, acquire skills

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

"Claude Cowork can burn 50 jobs in under 30 minutes"

[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

Claude Cowork can apply to 50 jobs in under 30 minutes.

Here's how to set it up.

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

@DovySimuMMA sorry I don't speak Irish, can someone translate?

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

Are you observing deadlines that actually exist out there in the world?

Or are you creating deadlines?

One of these approaches produces positive outcomes, and the other is a disaster factory.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

Handmade Hero enjoyers least affected

[Luke Skinner @CoolHandLukefer]

People confusing the production of picks and shovels with gold prospecting.

Just because you may be able to produce picks and shovels faster debatable doesn't mean you know where you gold is.

Not only has that part not changed, it is and always has been the real bottleneck.