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Because Anthropic has never claimed that code is free? It's pretty easy to argue your point if you pick a strawman as your opponent. They have said that you c
by BoiledCabbage 8mo ago
Because Anthropic has never claimed that code is free?
It's pretty easy to argue your point if you pick a strawman as your opponent.
They have said that you can be significantly more productive (which seems to be the case for many) and that most of their company primarily uses LLM to write code and no longer write it by hand. They also seems to be doing well w.r.t. competition.
There are legitimate complaints to be made against LLMs, pick one of them - but don't make up things to argue against.
- vasco 8mo agoHead of Claude Code at Anthropic 3 days ago: "Coding is largely solved" https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-...
- teemur 8mo agoI'm not sure coding has ever been the hard part. Hard part (to me) has always been to be smart enough to know what, exactly, I (or somebody else) want. Or has someone heard of a case when someone says something like "These requirements are perfectly clear and unambiguous and do not have any undefined edge/corner cases. But implementing that is still really hard, much harder than what producing this unicorn requirements spec was"?
- oytis 8mo agoBut they already know what they want, they have it. Rewriting it to be more efficient and less buggy should be the lowly coding that is supposed to be solved
- oytis 8mo agoPoint still stands. If you are so much more productive and have some of the most expensive engineers in the world, why not write something decent
- throwaw12 8mo agoWhy rewrite if thing exists? You can use those expensive engineers to build more stuff, not rewrite old stuff
- oytis 8mo agoCause it's (allegedly) cheap and you can do much better? Avoiding rewriting things should become a thing of the past if these tools work as advertised.
- jachee 8mo agoWhy create Windows when MacOS exists? Why create Linux when UNIX exists? Why create Firefox when Internet Explorer exists? Why Create a Pontiac when Ford exists? Why do anything you think can be done better when someone else has done it worse?
- LordHumungous 8mo agoWhy not rewrite if code is free
- throwaw12 8mo agosuppose, for them generating code is indeed free (tokens), but autonomous coding is not solved (at least yet) if it gets solved, (1) we are all f....d! Not only software engineers. (2) they can rewrite it using Assembly. they == AGI
- topaz0 8mo agoFor some people the relevant properties of "thing" include not needing overpowered hardware to run it comfortably. So "thing" does not just "exist", at least not in the form of electron.
- xigoi 8mo agoWhy did they create Claude if ChatGPT already existed?
- noah_buddy 8mo ago
- LordHumungous 8mo agoHowever there are many people out there making the argument that code is free or nearly so. I think the article is directed at them.