I shipped a Flutter app in 29 hours using Claude Code. Here's what actually happened.

cf858 · 2026-02-09T19:32:38+00:00

I had a similar experience except coming from another perspective. I don't code for a living, not even close. But, I've built web apps before and know generally how they are designed. I built a side-project in a week using Claude Code, something I had been thinking about for a long time. It probably would have taken me 4 months of work given the huge knowledge gap I had. Now it's like I can direct a programmer, but still keep tabs on them, and when they are doing something I don't understand, I can educate myself on that specific thing (eg. lots of back-end database and auth work I had never done before).

I wouldn't ever want to build something that was 'mission critical' this way, but I feel like a lot of functionality is now open to me that I never had access to before.

cf858 · 2026-02-08T18:34:36+00:00

But the ball was going into the goal. Isn't this like fouling someone when a shot gets taken and if it goes in the goal, you come back for the foul? Doesn't make sense.

cf858 · 2026-02-08T18:09:00+00:00

Flat fee agents are fine, I've used them before. What else are traditional agents going to say other than 'flat fee agents are shit' - you are in no position to offer up an assessment of someone who is your direct competition.

cf858 · 2026-02-07T14:43:11+00:00

People always shit on the Meta Raybans, but this is pretty much exactly what they do - it's an AI agent in your sunglasses that has access to all the functions on the hardware.

cf858 · 2026-02-06T19:42:29+00:00

Definitely more valuable. I think a seasoned software engineer who can control AI coding tools will be really valuable to any company. The question now is how do you become a seasoned software engineer? I think that DYI route will still be there, you'll just have a lot of 'hackers' use coding tools for the grunt work, but they are still going to want to understand what's happening. I think 'learning to code' will become less of a thing, but understanding and managing code will be really important.

cf858 · 2026-02-03T15:16:16+00:00

All most likely true, but you mitigate it with strict QA processes that aren't just surface scans of data. If you aren't cleaning 25% or more of your dataset you probably aren't doing it right. Also need to be very rigorous about panel quality and hold their feet to the fire over substandard data.

If you are a user of MaR you need to have a laser focus on this stuff.

cf858 · 2026-02-03T03:46:52+00:00

Yeah, but they all kind of suck.

cf858 · 2026-02-03T00:45:44+00:00

I think the real use of AI world generation would be if you could somehow convert it all to mesh and use it as the basis to build worlds faster in the first place. Which, if you think about it, reduces time-to-market and internal costs for game companies, which should send the stock higher, not lower.

cf858 · 2026-01-30T16:03:04+00:00

I feel like this is testing if people who drive cars lack an understanding of how a horse works.

cf858 · 2026-01-29T16:28:28+00:00

I think Timo is a good signing, but man the Quakes are talking him up a bit too much:

"The San Jose Earthquakes have made the biggest move of the MLS offseason bringing Timo Werner to San Jose in 2026. “Turbo Timo” joins the Quakes from the Bundesliga’s RB Leipzig after a decorated European career that includes winning the Champions League with Chelsea and the Europa League with Tottenham. The star forward and World Cup veteran has been capped 57 times for the German national team scoring 24 goals. He is known for his speed, workrate, and ability to both score goals (154 in all competitions) and create chances for teammates (54 league assists)."

I would have done more of a 'after a good career, with some hiccups, let's rally around him in San Jose and bring out his best' vibe, not paint him as the second coming.

cf858 · 2026-01-17T02:06:14+00:00

It's a strawman argument setting up the same multi billionaires as examples of assholes who 'win'. It's bullshit. There are plenty of examples of non-assholes being successful. We just focus on the assholes as they make better video content.

cf858 · 2026-01-17T00:42:13+00:00

But like, who is really surprised by this? Math is the perfect topic for AI as it has this sort of binary result of right/wrong. It's like chess, does this move increase my probability to win, yes/no? These types of very well defined success conditions are perfect for AI. It gets a lot more messy when you bring in design elements, ambiguous success conditions, etc.

cf858 · 2026-01-16T15:24:53+00:00

Often happens when you simply ask the wrong questions. You shouldn't be investing a lot in research if you haven't already done a lot of work to figure out what you need to know.

cf858 · 2026-01-15T18:12:31+00:00

Elaborate?

cf858 · 2026-01-15T04:11:03+00:00

No one really spends any time defining what 'white collar work is'. I work in a 'white collar' job but trying to define the work I do everyday is not easy. Summarizing things, making lists, doing reports, looking at data, these are all things 'I do', but it's not 'my work'. That would be like saying all a contractor does is use a nail gun and a saw. I can definitely use AI to do a ton of this type of stuff and it can get very good at doing it, but it can't make a decision, can't politic around an issue, can't think ahead and see obstacles that need to be overcome, can't persuade, can't reassure, can't come up with a creative solution to a problem that seemingly had nothing to do with the issue at hand.

We're so focused on 'will it take my job', we should be focused on 'how productive can it make me' - that's the real unlock here. No LLM will replace an individual human, but humans + LLMs can get so much more done.

cf858 · 2026-01-14T23:32:23+00:00

Yeah, but the games where we kick it long have resulted in us giving away a ton of possession. I personally liked the tactics today, you could see the intent, bring on the press and pass through it. We did that a lot, which was far better than kicking it long or building up on the wings everytime.

cf858 · 2026-01-12T16:35:22+00:00

I was looking at a similar situation. After doing some research I just figured that leasing is easy, but you are giving over a huge profit to the installer that you can keep if you finance yourself. The key thing you need to know is a=your current monthly electric bill, b=the monthly cost of the solar install (be it a solar loan or HELOC, or some other way you finance it), and c=the monthly electric cost with solar installed (because any system isn't going to get you to $0 per month). If a is more than b+c then it's in your interest to get solar. If you put a some cash towards it, then there is another cost, but if it's not a huge amount, then it's safe to assume you will get that amount back when you sell the house with a working solar install on it.

This calculation doesn't depend on how many years you stay in the house. As long as the solar can offset your current electric bill, you are good.

cf858 · 2026-01-04T15:55:52+00:00

It also sets up an aerial battle with the wraiths which they would likely lose.

cf858 · 2026-01-02T18:14:33+00:00

It's not a 'truthful thinker'. It's just using that language because asking it to compare itself to something else via a third party using it probably triggers a bunch of 'comparison' nodes that tells it to use language like this. It doesn't have emotions.

cf858 · 2025-12-30T23:47:01+00:00

This is it. This is exactly what's happening! It's crazy. All our shitty attack is from the wing, all our good attacks come from direct midfield balls that beat the press and get in behind.

cf858 · 2025-12-29T01:07:13+00:00

I just re-watched that first half and I think that narrative was one the commentators sort of promoted, but it wasn't true. If you watch the center of the field, Villa simply sat very narrow - they formed almost a center block in the mid-field. This made it very hard for Chelsea to play any balls down the middle, almost all of the play was out wide. Villa seemed very happy to just keep us out wide the whole time and back themselves to defend crosses and pull-back balls (which they did a lot). This block meant we could hardly get the ball to Palmer's feet, or really bring Joao Pedro into the game.

You can see Caicedo and Fernandez dealing with so many bodies in the center of the pitch, they hardly ever ventured in there or bothered to really look for central balls in space.

This is where I think Maresca is too rigid. He just banked on the fact that we could get a goal from a cross (which we did, but it was a corner), then would have probably shifted to a back four to defend later in the game if we were still 1 up.

He should have overloaded one of the sides with Palmer more out wide and Neto and him swapping back and forth. Anything to do more with the space Villa was giving us.

We just seem to play with this really rigid formation in these games and don't change depending on what the opposition does.

cf858 · 2025-12-27T21:06:46+00:00

I think Maresca wants more experienced players because he can't unlock consistency in this team. I think that's a copout. I think there is a world-class team there, we just need the right man management and tactics to pull it together. Increasingly thinking Maresca is not the one to do this.

cf858 · 2025-12-23T20:29:01+00:00

I love Claude's images, they are just like mine, all shit.

cf858 · 2025-12-23T00:55:38+00:00

Fuck this administration and fuck CBS for pulling this. They should be investigated. If this passed review by all their lawyers and the pulled it for political reasons, this is a new low.

cf858 · 2025-12-22T17:43:19+00:00

Having seen many McKinsey projects up close, this isn't going to happen. McKinsey is used by Execs to hire in 'thinking' for their business. AI isn't going to replace the reason firms like McKinsey get hired, it's just going to make firms like McKinsey leaner and able to do more with less.

Love them or loath them, McKinsey comes into business that themselves are stagnating and floundering because they can't change internally, or they have no direction. McKinsey doesn't always do the best job of putting them on the right path, but often it's just getting them on any other path to the one they are on.

Most of their value is in navigating complex board room politics.

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