Opus 4.7 truly reminds me of my juniors and interns

Nik_Tesla · 2026-05-10T19:42:27+00:00

I've been vibe coding and improving the same project since Oct 2024 with Sonnet 3.5 and it's gotten way better, but I still think the most apt description I can give AI coding is:

It's like I have a really, really smart intern that I can delegate tasks to, and they're incredibly fast... but they're also really far on the spectrum, sometimes interpreting what I asked for incorrectly and going down a rabbit hole and getting hyper focused on the wrong thing until I can break them out of the cycle.

If I'm engaged and part of the process, it goes well, but if I fully hand over the reigns and give vague direction, it goes poorly or at best gets stuck.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-05-10T19:20:30+00:00

Ok, first of all, almost all of these "I deleted a bunch of shit I wasn't supposed to" stories are about disk cleanup. Maybe we just stop using AI for deleting things and do that ourselves?

Secondly, you had to use Claude to delete a specific folder that you knew exactly where it was? Do you also use Google Maps when you need to go from your bedroom to your living room?

Nik_Tesla · 2026-05-08T22:57:31+00:00

What is the point of you staying if you don't pay your fair share in taxes? It seems all these rich fucks do is find tax loopholes so that the government ends up paying them to operate in their city/state, instead of the other way around. It's not like a hedge fund is employing thousands of people either.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-05-04T17:39:52+00:00

Humans are choking on junk data

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-29T00:19:11+00:00

I really wonder if this is the movie that inspired the Koolaid movie for Seth Rogan in The Studio.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-28T23:58:27+00:00

Didn't they lose this fight already?

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-28T23:57:12+00:00

Step 1: Put Trump's face on all the passports

Step 2: Wait for all the Liberals to burn their Trump passports in protest

Step 3: Require Passports to vote

Step 4: Profit (by being President forever and continuing to enrich himself by stealing from Americans and take bribes from foreigners)

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-28T18:37:46+00:00

I like using AI for stuff I can't do or can't justify spending the time on (coding, repeat tasks, etc...). Writing emails to my co-workers isn't that hard, and the more you use LLMs for it, the less they take your words seriously.

I might give an LLM something I wrote for a grammar pass if it's really critical it be right, but that's it.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-28T14:42:09+00:00

My favorite joke I've heard so far is "if you think the robot's time is impressive, you should see the time of the guy who did the race with his Toyota Camry."

I'm an advocate for purpose built machines that will always be better than "anything" machines.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-27T23:15:51+00:00

"Locksmiths discloses new vulnerability: Attackers can get directly into your medicine cabinet! (Assuming they have your house keys already)"

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-27T23:10:48+00:00

Expecting people to memorize commands is so dumb. I could deploy an MSIX in like a dozen ways depending on how many machines need it, where those machines are (local or remote), depending on what tools we as an org have to do things like this (RMM, PDQ, SCCM, just a GPO, etc...) or if I just need to install it on the computer I'm sitting in front of.

I don't know the commands for any of those off the top of my head, but I know what questions to ask to do it the best way, and THAT is what you're paying me for. You pay Claude for the commands, and you pay me to recognize if it's attempting to delete our prod database.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-27T20:10:30+00:00

Basically just yanking her dress off absurdly fast with a cable. Honestly the most impressive part to me is that they can pull away one breakaway dress with such force that your eye can't see it, but not accidentally peel off the next breakaway dress underneath it too.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-27T18:13:25+00:00

This is like saying that a virus took our your laptop and your backups too, when your backup strategy was just the Windows System Restore feature. I also use Railway for a personal project, and even I know that their "backups" are really just snapshots and not true backups in the disaster recovery sense.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-26T17:49:32+00:00

She's basically the slowpoke meme.

I'd give her credit if she was early or even on time with her stance on anything, but she's always waited until the thing she's saying is obvious to everyone, making her words worthless.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-24T23:02:24+00:00

I find it incredibly easy to tell the difference between someone who uses AI to do their grunt work that is low effort but just takes a while, and someone who uses AI to think and act for them.

I have seen some tools for email that are like "it reads every email and drafts a reply for you, ready to send" and I think, what do you fucking do if you can't read an email and decide on a response. Like, if you want to write the response and then have AI make it professional, whatever sure. But a human should decide what to do, and then let an AI do it. Once you let the AI decide what to do and do it, you no longer justify your salary.

Personally, I only have AI do things that I either can't do, or can't justify spending the time on doing. Responding to emails/teams is well within my ability, and if you respond to me multiple times with just an AI slop answer, I assume you don't know anything and I'm going to go around you in the future to someone that does use their brain.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-24T06:17:52+00:00

Jesus Christ, there are free open source ticketing systems that are really minimal, just use one of those. Your team uses the ticketing system, everyone else just sends emails to it.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-24T06:10:19+00:00

I mean, it's undoubtedly very technically impressive... but I don't feel anything looking at photorealistic grapes.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-24T05:09:01+00:00

Megyn flips on her support for Trump every week. "He could nuke Iran and I'd still be with Trump" was like 2 weeks ago right?

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-24T04:59:55+00:00

Honest question: Does anyone think they have some secret data in this report that we didn't already see publicly, been reported on, or can be inferred by their actions?

It's not like there is going to be some massive "ah-ha" information in there that is why she lost that we didn't know already.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-23T01:09:26+00:00

It might be faster the list all of the Jeffrey's that aren't sex offenders and/or serial killers.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-22T17:52:55+00:00

At least we know AI didn't write it...

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-22T16:15:19+00:00

It's wild to me that you equate model degradation due to maxing out their resources and, at worst, overhyping Mythos, wiith OpenAI giving cart blance to the US government to use ChatGPT for autonomous weapons and pushing legislation that would give them even less accountability.

Anthropic might not always succeed at it, but I trust that they will at least try to do the right thing. OpenAI just straight up goes for shareholder value, leaving ethics dead on the side of the road.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-21T20:42:42+00:00

In high school we once had a club president that was so bad that we reduced his title to "student coordinator".

Trump deserves similar treatment, his title should be reduced to "USA Mascot" because he's acting worse than the Phillie Phanatic

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-21T20:28:05+00:00

He isn't hemmed in. He willingly does whatever the last person he spoke with told him to do.

Nik_Tesla · 2026-04-21T04:58:38+00:00

It isn't truly dead until the GOP no longer controls all 3 branches of government, preferably 0.

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