Recently purchased an 100 year old home. it was dead in the middle of winter and the house has steam heating which wasnt working. a few screenshots and chatgpt gave me a step by step of which levers to pull and knobs to turn. this was terrifying considering i knew nothing about these systems. it worked!
My thinking is definitely better. I spend more time worrying about the specific architecture, memory layout, GPU features, etc. to come up with ideas for optimisations, and I think less about specific implementation details. I’ve gotten a better mental model of our code faster because of this. I have also found substantial speed ups by thinking about the problem at a higher level, while iterating on implementation details quickly using Opus.
i'll echo that practicality only surfaces once it is apparent what can be done. yea this feels like running "DOOM on pregnancy test devices" type of moment
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