There are things I want to talk about, but I don’t feel like writing any of it.
Mike Hall: There’s an addressable market of 1.
What finally made it “work,” if our definition of “work” is “make code that does what I want with about as many obvious bugs or issues as if I’d devoted months to this project starting from scratch…”
You see, that’s what LLMs are good for. They may not be smart enough to write production-level, professional code, but goddamn if they’re not great for helping normal people whip up things that would have been next to impossible for them just a year ago. I do it all the time.
LLMs today are like desktop publishing software in the late 1980s. Using Claude feels like when I first got hold of an Apple LaserWriter and PageMaker. Suddenly, I could make things, all by myself. Didn’t matter whether I was “qualified” or not.