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I used to have ideas and jot them down in Apple Notes and then usually forget about them entirely. Now I have an idea and jot it down in the Claude Code tab on

by simonw 9mo ago

I used to have ideas and jot them down in Apple Notes and then usually forget about them entirely. Now I have an idea and jot it down in the Claude Code tab on my iPhone... and a couple of minutes later the idea is software, and now I have another half-baked project to feel guilty about for the rest of time.

falloutx 9mo ago
In couple of minutes? My claude code takes like 5 mins just to wake up and write a simple plan.
- foretop_yardarm 9mo ago
  Possibly relevant: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6008 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6008
  - falloutx 9mo ago
    Wow an issue going on for 6 months without any input from Anthropic again, not even surprised
- barishnamazov 9mo ago
  You are taking to simonw, surely Claude have given him free super fast unlimited token access to nightly version of Claude 5.1 Opus. (just joking, your posts are great, Simon!)
  - turnsout 9mo ago
    I still use Opus for difficult challenges, but if we're building a web app or creating a few scripts, I default to Haiku. It's so much faster, and obviously doesn't impact your usage as much.
adventured 9mo ago
There will be a split of two major outcomes from LLM coding near-term. The larger often half-baked projects will flail like they always have. People will get tired of bothering to attempt these. Oh look you created a big bloated pile of garbage that nobody will ever use. And of course there will be rare exceptions, some group of N people will work together to vibe code a clone of a billion dollar business and it'll actually start taking off and that'll garner a lot of attention. It'll remain forever extremely difficult to get users to a service. And if app & website creation scales up in volume due to simplicity of creation, the attention economy problem will only get more intense (neutralizing most of the benefits of the LLMs as an advantage). The smaller, quasi micro projects used to more immediately solve narrow problems will thrive in a huge way, resulting in tangible productivity gains, and there will be a zillion of these, both at home and within businesses of all sizes.

by simonw 9mo ago

falloutx 9mo ago

In couple of minutes? My claude code takes like 5 mins just to wake up and write a simple plan.

foretop_yardarm 9mo ago
Possibly relevant: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6008 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6008
- falloutx 9mo ago
  Wow an issue going on for 6 months without any input from Anthropic again, not even surprised
barishnamazov 9mo ago
You are taking to simonw, surely Claude have given him free super fast unlimited token access to nightly version of Claude 5.1 Opus. (just joking, your posts are great, Simon!)
- turnsout 9mo ago
  I still use Opus for difficult challenges, but if we're building a web app or creating a few scripts, I default to Haiku. It's so much faster, and obviously doesn't impact your usage as much.

adventured 9mo ago

There will be a split of two major outcomes from LLM coding near-term. The larger often half-baked projects will flail like they always have. People will get tired of bothering to attempt these. Oh look you created a big bloated pile of garbage that nobody will ever use. And of course there will be rare exceptions, some group of N people will work together to vibe code a clone of a billion dollar business and it'll actually start taking off and that'll garner a lot of attention. It'll remain forever extremely difficult to get users to a service. And if app & website creation scales up in volume due to simplicity of creation, the attention economy problem will only get more intense (neutralizing most of the benefits of the LLMs as an advantage). The smaller, quasi micro projects used to more immediately solve narrow problems will thrive in a huge way, resulting in tangible productivity gains, and there will be a zillion of these, both at home and within businesses of all sizes.