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We're hovering around the point that differentiates software developers from software engineers. If you create tools that people use to e.g. make or receive an income, moral and legal standards require this level of focus and commitment.

Because of this there's a chain of trust between myself and the tools I rely on to do work. The people who create those tools see unpredictability as a problem, and that's the only reason I'm using them. I can't work on important systems with a vendor product like Claude Fable.

That being said there's plenty of work to do where it'd be amazing. This isn't an either/or situation.



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