@grimalkina I am still horrified by the disdain many software developers have for the people who use the systems they develop.

Whenever I got to work alongside the people using stuff I had a hand in developing I always learned a lot about both the world the software was used in and how misaligned my notions were with the reality.

@grammargirl these folks are stealing language to whitewash a con. In my opinion.

Hallucination is a deviation from the normal way healthy human minds work. The confident incorrectness presented by the companies shilling AI is working as designed.

@talexb

In this case I have, as Baldrick might say, a cunning plan.

I have “inherited“ a Rails app with no tests which reflects the state of Rails 10+ years ago.

So I let the Claude tool extrude tests for all the endpoints (lots of reasonable examples in the training data, I hope) and make them pass.

As I don’t allow the Claude tool to do git commits, and I have a copy of the code inaccessible to the host the tool is running on for good measure, I can see the less than 20 lines of the core application the tool has interfered with and review them. My hunch is they are signals of bigger changes I need to make, and I hope I can quickly expunge the tool’s code from the non-test codebase quickly.

I wish I could say the tool’s code was worse than the application code, but that’s a beer chat!

@drahardja @talexb a client wants me to use the Claude tool, and one thing I am training myself to do is be consistent in my use of “the Claude tool” in any communication including commits. It is not a co-worker in any more meaningful sense than a magic 8 ball I decided to call Ian.