> Every time someone has any idea it's accompanied by a multi page "Clauded" memo explaining why it's a great idea and what exactly should be done (about 20% of which is useful).
we're in the same boat, and currently trying to fix that 20% problem because it's the biggest hindrance to shipping things quickly
there is a ton of learned ceremony that we have to undue gracefully because it's extremely tempting to vibe code a problem spec as opposed to just... talking to users directly and understanding what the actual problem is
There are still several avenues for this, and I imagine they'll continue to exist even in a mostly-AI-enhanced world. You'll need to dedicate time to finding them.
For example, Battle of the Bits [0] is a community all about chiptune music. I'm sure you _could_ use AI to help you learn and produce some things, but the community is mostly about sharing ideas about what works at the electronic level, so even if AI became super capable, it wouldn't help you engage with the community in any meaningful way. There are several such communities across different domains and I imagine they aren't going anywhere anytime soon, regardless of how much improvement happens w.r.t. AI, since the focus is on "what you learned" and not so much "what you did".
Similarly, I have seen communities focused entirely on Silicon Graphics workstations, or pc-98 internals. Human passion-based communities aren't going anywhere, Google just makes it incredibly hard to find them outside of word-of-mouth.
This is overly dismissive, there are many things that are possible now that weren't before because writing the code is no longer the bottleneck, like porting parts of the codebase from managed to unmanaged for teams with limited capacity. Writing code is about 1/3rd of the job. Another 1/3rd is analysis, which also benefits from AI allowing people who aren't very good at it to outperform. The final 1/3rd is-
> the effort to carefully design and implement correct solutions to real-world problems.
That's problem-solving - that part doesn't get sped up, and likely never will, reliably.
Given some intelligent system, an AI that perfectly reproduces any sequence that system could produce must encode the patterns that superset that intelligence.
I never advocated for Windows, but I always used it because it "just worked". At a certain point, I realized - as OP had - that I was spending just as much time configuring Windows as I would be spending configuring Linux.
I've moved to Kubuntu and haven't looked back. Proton support is amazing, and Claude Code fixes the doc-diving problem that used to plague Linux. In fact, with Claude, I was able to get such a buttery smooth setup on Kubuntu - Wezterm auto-saving and restorable sessions (even with multiple windows), a working fading background switcher with history, automounting drives and vhdx images on startup - and these are all relatively simple things, but they were near-frictionless to set up and they don't break on a random Tuesday. I love it and would recommend anyone who is on Windows to reconsider.
One thing I had fun doing last year was having Claude parse some gamebook PDFs I got on archive.org, split them out into sections, and build a wrapper for presenting the sections with possible choices and just watching it play through the books by itself. You can do this with some D&D adventures as well, Claude Code has gotten good enough to run ToEE pretty well.
I was targeted by this exact same attack several months ago. It sounded incredibly real, the emails looked legit, down the domains, Google even has a process for this exact scenario. The only thing that tipped me off is that they sent a login request to my phone. Nothing about the login request seemed off- it even originated from a Mountain View IP. But it was the fact they had sent me a login request which prompted me to drill the voice on why they needed a login request instead of some other form of verification. The disembodied voice soon became agitated and eventually told me that I should expect to lose access to my Google account soon since I hadn't complied with their request.
It was only after I checked Twitter that I saw Garry Tan's callout of the exact same scam. After experiencing it myself, I wouldn't fault anyone who fell for it. The only other tip-off was that the voice was pretty monotone and unemotional, but that only appears obvious in hindsight, not in the moment where you're slightly panicking that someone might be trying to claim access to your account.
we're in the same boat, and currently trying to fix that 20% problem because it's the biggest hindrance to shipping things quickly
there is a ton of learned ceremony that we have to undue gracefully because it's extremely tempting to vibe code a problem spec as opposed to just... talking to users directly and understanding what the actual problem is