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3D30497420 | 27 days ago

> People outsourcing thinking and entire skillset to it - they usually have very little clue in the topic, are interested only in results, and are not interested in knowing more about the topic or honing their skills in the topic

And this may be fine in certain cases.

I'm learning German and my listening comprehension is marginal. I took a practice test and one of the exercises was listening to 15-30 seconds of audio followed by questions. I did terribly, but it seemed like a good way to practice. I used Claude Code to create a small app to generate short audio (via ElevenLabs) dialogs and set of questions. I ran the results by my German teacher and he was impressed.

I'm aware of the limitations: Sometimes the audio isn't great (it tends to mess up phone numbers), it can only a small part of my work learning German, etc.

The key part: I could have coded it, but I have other more important projects. I don't care that I didn't learn about the code. What I care about is I'm improving my German.

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isqueiros|27 days ago

Seems like you are part of the first group then, not the second. The fact that you are interested in learning and are using it as a tool disqualifies you from someone who has little clue and just wants to get something out (i.e. just spit out code)

3D30497420|27 days ago

As I reread the original post, I'm not actually not sure which group I fall into. I think there's a bunch of overlap depending on perspective/how you read it:

> Group 1: intern/boring task executor

Yup, that makes sense I'm in group 1.

> Group 2: "outsourcing thinking and entire skillset to it - they usually have very little clue in the topic, are interested only in results"

Also me (in this case), as I'm outsourcing the software development part and just want the final app.

Soo... I probably have thought too much about the original proposed groups. I'm not sure they are as clear as the original suggests.

idopmstuff|27 days ago

This is me, but for writing code. I own a business, and I use Claude Code to build internal tools for myself.

Don't care about code quality; never seen the code. I care if the tools do the things I want them to do, and they verifiably do.

bwestergard|27 days ago

I'd love to hear about what your tools do.

jason_s|26 days ago

How do you verify them? How do you verify they do not create security risks?