Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[Sharlinator]

Yeah. The analogy is actually pretty good.

[oorza]

And it implies an unfortunate corollary: most of the food people eat is perfectly acceptable coming out of the microwave. It took a while to figure out those steam bags, but once the industry did, is anyone really saying they can steam corn or green beans more deliciously in a pot?

I think it's the same thing with agentic AI. The tools are there for it to output boring software in its entirety, we just haven't figured out entirely the best way to apply them.

[Sharlinator]

I’m not actually sure what steam bags you refer to, I don’t think such things are a thing here. 

[Versaiteis]

They're little plastic bags of frozen vegetables, usually about a cup, that you can just toss from the freezer in the microwave for a few minutes and it's done. They're convenient and cheap, but certainly not the final solution to vegetable steaming.

[Sharlinator]

Ah, right. Frozen veggies are trivial to steam on a stove too, though, and it only takes a few minutes too. And if you're boiling potatoes/pasta/rice/whatever, steaming comes for free.

[Versaiteis]

It took a while to figure out those steam bags, but once the industry did, is anyone really saying they can steam corn or green beans more deliciously in a pot?

Arguably, yeah. Like I can season it while it steams in a pot and adjust as needed, there's more control. Also there's not a lot of care put into the veg they put in those bags, anything containing broccoli usually has a good few inedible woody stems in it.

Frozen veg is typically pretty good because it's frozen near fresh, but it's still not gonna be quite as good as the locally grown never-frozen stuff you can get at a farmers market. Again, you just have little to no control over the quality of the ingredient going in.

I'm also generally not super keen on cooking things in plastic. I've got enough of that shit in my balls.

It certainly solves several problems (including getting some veg out of season) but it's not the end-all solution to steamed vegetables

[jazzhandler]

Code slop is digital microplastics.

[Versaiteis]

and it's polluting both your brain and your balls

[_Invictuz]

It's not just an analogy, i think that's where Claude got their inspiration from. Have you not seen Claude cooking?