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aaronrobinson

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“ Let the frontier labs win by being better; don’t let them define safety or security, or pull up the ladder of humanity’s collective knowledge”

Love this.

You need a mix of price, availability and trust. I just head for the nearest Sainsbury’s. They have. Reputation to protect, I can do my shopping at the same time and their prices are competitive. I just wouldn’t go to the cheapest place unless it was a hire car.

I read that people just allow Claude Code free rein but after using it for a few months and seeing what it does I wonder how much of that is in front of users. CC is incredible as much as it is frustrating and a lot of what it churns out is utter rubbish.

I also keep seeing that writing more detailed specs is the answer and retorts from those saying we’re back to waterfall.

That isn’t true. I think more of the iteration has moved to the spec. Writing the code is so quick now so can make spec changes you wouldn’t dare before.

You also need gates like tests and you need very regular commits.

I’m gradually moving towards more detailed specs in the form of use cases and scenarios along with solid tests and a constantly tuned agent file + guidelines.

Through this I’m slowly moving back to letting Claude lose on implementation knowing I can do scan of the git diffs versus dealing with a thousand ask before edits and slowing things down.

When this works you start to see the magic.

Sinclair C5 6 months ago

This is the same guy that created the ZX81 (that I learned to code on) and the ZX Spectrum. He changed my life.