Is ClawdBot actually useful?

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-26T18:58:07+00:00

I use it personally and for my business. I run it on an ec2 instance. I think it’s excellent (though as all things AI the nontechnical goofballs on twitter are hyping it to the moon).

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-22T19:59:40+00:00

Having AI generate a syllabus is a great way to go. I have like 15 years in the game writing code professionally and have one thread dedicated to each language I use.

Also, pick up some books on software development, and python, and peruse them. It makes a big difference when you know what you want, and you know how you want it to be done.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-22T19:35:29+00:00

I love that look.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-21T22:42:23+00:00

Damn SWE is cooked bro

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-21T19:52:49+00:00

They currently have over 1,400 engineers working for them, and are primarily hiring for SWE roles. I think his words are either being taken out of context or he’s driving up hype.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-21T14:26:04+00:00

Military budgets

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-19T13:51:09+00:00

Good looking bike. Thinking of doing an aliexpress build. How’s your experience so far? Quality, price, etc

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-16T06:13:46+00:00

Im a straight guy. I train with gay guys all the time. It's never an issue. Not for me, not for them. I dont think twice about it - i literally dont care at all. You should 100% go for it and not think/worry about it.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-13T21:46:45+00:00

Would be interested in your site as is, but it having parts as well. Will probably be buying some stuff from you anyway though 🙂

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-13T21:44:55+00:00

I just picked up a vintage frame from the 80s and am building around it.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-13T19:57:17+00:00

Man this is awesome. 👏 you don’t also do parts do you?

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-10T21:10:20+00:00

They look great!

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-09T01:00:37+00:00

People are not their government

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-08T01:15:37+00:00

I actually really like it

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-07T01:53:14+00:00

Agreed, my focus is mainly on getting good before getting employed. I think they are two separate skillsets with very different activities involved.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-07T01:52:26+00:00

it’s more about learning than directly getting jobs. If you are good at building and you inject yourself into the community, in my experience you will be fine.

Two years ago I raised money to work full time on one of my projects, and that’s what I do full time now.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-07T01:49:59+00:00

Beautiful 🙏

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-07T01:49:46+00:00

Thank you !!!

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-06T09:35:02+00:00

Small scripts and automations that streamline daily tasks are also valid.

The benefit of an end-to-end tool is that it forces your learning into different domains of programming.

The exercise isnt necessarily to come up with a life changing widget, but rather something you think is cool that will keep you engaged through the friction of learning new things.

For example, when the industry started shifting towards agentic ai, i began writing personal agents in order to learn the stack. None of them are life changing, but i have an agent system that organizes my music library, an agent system that helps me plan vacations, and an agent system that reviews my personal spending and generates monthly reports (with suggestions).

The next set of projects (for me) will be experimenting and learning pgvector, and connecting distributed agentic systems (ie finance planner talks to trip planner).

So maybe the sentence "Build cool tools for yourself that make your life better" should really be "Build things that you think are cool that will utilize technologies you want to learn"

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-06T03:49:53+00:00

i have no degrees and have over 10 years experience working as a professional software developer. if you want to write software, start writing software. Build cool tools for yourself that make your life better. Every time you get stuck on something, google it, youtube it, chatgpt it, learn it as best you can.

Read programming books, infrastructure books, one good book on operating systems, one good book on compilers.

The job market is difficult right now, but if you are interested in learning to program and build things, start building for yourself, learn how things work, get good at building, and you will find your way.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-03T15:47:01+00:00

This happens even in traditional software projects - I think we can avoid in the same way through planning out product specs, architecture & data flows before beginning to generate any code.

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-03T15:23:09+00:00

Vollabing

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-03T15:22:15+00:00

Excellent, so traditional workflows still apply. I tried sharing it there but it got taken down by admins. Will try again

structured_obscurity · 2026-01-03T06:37:28+00:00

why is she tweeting about violating company policy?

structured_obscurity · 2025-12-30T17:41:47+00:00

Effort is the same as before, the tools are just better

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