Post by @daisy@cloudisland.nz

2026-05-13 09:11 UTC

@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io Except there is a difference between a fun toy for the “common person” and a load-bearing dependency for a business or an industry or an entire economy. But even then, the “common person” is going to encounter the LLM’s favourite thing: a local maximum. If they want to actually start writing code themselves, whether because the LLM has hit a wall or Anthropic has jacked the pricing or merely out of curiosity and a desire to learn, they’re going to pop the hood and find huge volumes of truly awful code that a beginner software developer is really going to struggle to make sense of.

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@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 2026-05-13 09:23

@daisy@cloudisland.nz > If they want to actually start writing code themselves That's the thing: I think they have zero desire in writing code themselves. Literally none at all. What they want is a utility that does the thing they want it to do. Hooks into the kids' school calendar and sends them a notification or whatever it is. It might be janky and they might have to get Claude to update it every few months, but to do that they just open Claude and say "it isn't working, can you fix it", and Claude will. For the 'normal person' this is as close to a miracle as makes no difference. Finally, the computer does what they want.

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@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 2026-05-13 09:24

@daisy@cloudisland.nz I'm not saying this will end well! I have no idea how it'll end. I'm just saying that I understand why people want it.

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