As Claude Code turns one today, it is wild to think about how different life as a software engineer was just 1 year ago.
We had AI coding tools (I worked for a company building one) but Claude Code changed the software development landscape completely.
I have been writing code since I was 12 years old. I enjoy it, I'm passionate about it, and it is the one thing I knew I wanted to do when I grow up. Claude Code has changed the way I code. It has allowed me to build faster, validate ideas in days, build and experiment with ideas I never had time for, and I strongly believe that it has made me a better software engineer.
Claude Code has also allowed people from non-technical backgrounds to become builders. In our recent Opus 4.6 hackathon many of our finalists and participants were lawyers, product managers, construction infrastructure workers, a cardiologist, and others from backgrounds that had nothing to do with code. People with deep domain knowledge outside of software are now able to build solutions to their problems. A lot more software is about to be built!
I believe that this is the most exciting time to be a builder. The barriers will continue to be lowered. New ideas and solutions will improve life for many underserved communities. I am so happy to be along for the ride.
Happy Birthday Clawd! 🎉🎂
Personal AI agents like @openclaw really make UI less & less useful.
Clicking buttons / Filling forms started feeling like using pen & paper 5 years ago.
Asking an AI agent to complete the whole workflow is just 10x faster, especially if it involves a lot of intermediate steps.
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
@craigbrockie The idea here is to feed the bad bacteria so it doesn't attack the lining? Will it create an ever increasing necessity for such a high fiber diet? Are those bacteria resistant to common antibiotics? Thanks for this thread
I still cannot believe that I can:
- look at a world map and tap anywhere to zoom in at street level
- instantly access any song, book, movie, tv show, or podcast ever made
- have any conceivable question and get an immediate answer or video explanation
- take a photo or video wherever I am and add it to my massive, searchable, always accessible personal archive
- video call anyone in my life, at anytime, no matter where they are
- watch live sports on a little wireless glass rectangle
- type out these thoughts and have them read by thousands of people, all over the world, a few seconds later
why aren't UNDO and REDO just regular keys by now?
we deserve to be freed from the hassle of remembering which programs use CTRL-SHIFT-Z and which use CTRL-Y...
Vou liberar de forma GRATUITA a minha planilha automatizada que utilizo para fazer Valuation por múltiplos.
Para receber, é só deixar um RETWEET nesse post e ME SEGUIR!
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finding out the origin of the name of this color Chartreuse was such a fckin trip.
"It was named because of its resemblance to the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764."
ok, why is the drink called that?