🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
Taught by the people who built it.
Free. No registration. No paywall.
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.
Watch it and bookmark it now.
That was one of the greatest endings to any sporting event I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Easily one of the greatest shots/moments in the history of the NCAA tournament. I love sports so much. Nothing like it.
CJ Stroud on if God is blessing the Texans because of their testimony:
“I don’t want it to ever be confused, I don’t think God is like ‘the Texans are gunna win.’, but I think regardless, win or loss he gets the glory, and that’s up to us, that’s just worship. Him giving us our talents, abilities, & these jobs, he’s more than worthy of all the worship is really why we do what we do. It’s not because we want favor from the lord. In my opinion, you don’t just get favor from the lord just because you give him glory, he deserves it. It’s not because we follow Jesus that we win every game.”
monthly stack overflow questions over time. 3710 questions last month, just slightly under the 3749 from the first month of it being public. human software engineering had a good run, and now we've come full circle.
Stop using the world burning power of a large language model in AI coding to do something basic like moving a CSS element five pixels to the left.
Use it for something that is actually complicated like centering a div
Yes. Software engineers will all go away. There will be a new profession of people whose only job is to tell the machines what they should do in a manner that’s efficient and precise.
Claude: "I've defined phase one of your project to be completed during weeks 1-4 and updated the spec."
Me: "Implement phase one now."
*5 minutes pass*
Claude: "Phase 1 is complete."
My biggest worries about coding with AI:
1. Beginners not actually learning
2. Atrophy of skills
I’m seeing #1 happen and I don’t have a good answer yet.
Leveling up as an engineer requires grinding and it’s not always fun. If AI can solve most of the problems for you, when do you lean into the healthy friction? When do you embrace the suck? Coupled with fewer opportunities for pair programming, it’s definitely tougher for those starting their engineering career.
It’s not all bleak though. Those with high agency are figuring it out and learning extremely fast. I just worry about the industry as a whole outside these folks. We need better products and better education. I’m hoping to try and do my part here.
For #2, I’m definitely paranoid about this for myself. What will it feel like to build software in 5 years? Will I have forgotten someone of the skills I used to rely on? Maybe that won’t even matter because we will truly be operating at a higher level of abstraction. Even if that pans out, it’s always been important to deeply understand the systems/dependencies you’re building on.
I normally talk about the stuff I’m optimistic for but think it’s good to have a healthy skepticism here.
Kirk Cameron is done with Israel 🇮🇱.
He’s encouraging Christian Zionists to read their Bibles and to not be so retarded.
ONLY THOSE IN CHRIST JESUS
ARE THE ISRAEL OF GOD - If you follow the Bible.