Post B2adHDQVBKF8octNiK by Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B2adH7thjq2NfSVcOm by bigzaphod@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T17:32:12Z
       
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       I'm not an AI fan, but I increasingly feel pressure to try out a "real" AI workflow at some point and not just occasionally use ChatGPT to search StackOverflow.I guess that'd mean something like Claude Code?But it seems like I have to spend money to use it.Also, to me, a lot of articles that talk about AI coding workflows give off the impression that the workflow is all about making more AI tools for your AI workflow.Which seems stupid.I'm left feeling like none of this is real.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adH9Ubo79ScCmbYm by bigzaphod@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T17:40:23Z
       
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       I kinda want to just see how this all is supposed to work, but I'm coming at it from a pretty skeptical position.My experience asking ChatGPT code questions is... shall we say... highly mixed.I don't like how often it seems to be wrong. Or, sometimes, the code it spits out might look okay, but it's wrong about it!Like, one time it said, "Here's an implementation using CIImage" and hilariously the code used CGImage.Those are totally different APIs.How is anyone supposed to trust that?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adHAeZUYiODOS4jA by jamesthomson@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T17:57:05Z
       
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       @bigzaphod In my experience, every time I asked it particularly hard questions, I ended up with nonsense, rather than it saying “I don't think that's actually possible”, and I wasted more time trying to determine that than by trying to work it out myself.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adHBYw6znl2Cp5aC by Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T18:05:54Z
       
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       @jamesthomson @bigzaphod happy to showcase my workflow for the sort of things I do - my favorite these days is paste a nasty stack trace from telemetry and get a fix
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adHCPkwc3Jg1XGue by bigzaphod@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T18:09:31Z
       
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       @Migueldeicaza @jamesthomson are you using Claude Code?Also, one thing I'm confused about with all this is... how *often* is it used? Like, some comments/articles I've seen act like they don't even write code anymore - just talk to Claude. That seems.... optimistic.Other takes sound like they mostly still code by hand and just ask now and then for like, a quick ref or to spit out some boilerplate.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adHDQVBKF8octNiK by Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T18:13:25Z
       
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       @bigzaphod @jamesthomson i have both, but I think codex is vastly better.I write code, debug, plan, but man, the amount of stuff I delegate is insane.  It feels like I get like 10 times more done.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2adHEJ5uLubXwQyo4 by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-01-23T18:40:20Z
       
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       @Migueldeicaza @bigzaphod @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".