what a fucking shitshow.
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Peter Steinberger is a great example of how AI is catnip very specifically for middle-aged tech guys. they spend their 20s and 30s writing code, burn out or do management stuff for a decade, then come back in their late 40s/50s and want to try to throw that fastball again. Claude Code makes them feel like they still got it.
@peter like all divorced dads, they were too self absorbed to notice that their wife (or QA department or line manager or PM) was doing all the hard work to protect them and their families from their own bad decisions
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@peter this is goddamned spectacular
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@peter “Do I look like I have time to clean up all these loaded guns I left lying around”
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@peter oh my GAWD I am here for this.
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@peter i dont know why he wouldnt just have his own moltbot or whatever review it? You can infinitely scale your productivity with more mac minis
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Lol. Love how he is treating it like some entity he's powerless over. Just kill it, dude. Now, before the lawsuits catch up.
I pulled the skill to load moltbot this morning and it's a mile long. The whole place is a giant prompt injection playground.
@TheServitor @peter But... But... The innovation!
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@peter "I don't have a magical team that verifies user generated content."
Just use clawdbot /s
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Peter Steinberger is a great example of how AI is catnip very specifically for middle-aged tech guys. they spend their 20s and 30s writing code, burn out or do management stuff for a decade, then come back in their late 40s/50s and want to try to throw that fastball again. Claude Code makes them feel like they still got it.
@peter @suzannealdrich Totally. If I had a dime for every tale of "I'd almost forgetten how to code it's been so long maaaan, what with my 7-figure VP job in Santa Clara and all…but then I picked up Claude Code and now I'm releasing 80 new apps every hour. This is the greatest thing in the history of mankind!"
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@peter And it took barely a week or 2 between this dogshit AI "automaton" was released, alerts that this exact sort of abuse could be pushed and it happening.
The more I hear about AI, the less I understand the concept of FOMO.
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@peter And it took barely a week or 2 between this dogshit AI "automaton" was released, alerts that this exact sort of abuse could be pushed and it happening.
The more I hear about AI, the less I understand the concept of FOMO.
I am definitely not missing out on anything.@enthraxxx @peter you're missing out on all the malware
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@enthraxxx @peter you're missing out on all the malware
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lol everything is happening because the Silicon Valley guys got old and are having a midlife crisis.
@peter good job all around, midlife crisis techbros
/s
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@peter Wake me up when Eternal September ends.
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@enthraxxx @peter my condolences
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@peter The AIristocrats!
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lol everything is happening because the Silicon Valley guys got old and are having a midlife crisis.
@peter Came here [via a boost] to say exactly this. I’m LOL-ing and SIGH-ing at the same time.
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Peter Steinberger is a great example of how AI is catnip very specifically for middle-aged tech guys. they spend their 20s and 30s writing code, burn out or do management stuff for a decade, then come back in their late 40s/50s and want to try to throw that fastball again. Claude Code makes them feel like they still got it.
@peter Yeah, I really don’t understand it. I just spent my 40s writing code too, and now at the end of them I’m… writing code, because I never lost it. Just published a new thing yesterday, wrote it in C mostly without even autocomplete since I largely used BBEdit rather than Xcode.
I would be absolutely mortified if I had to use an LLM to be productive, and I would find admitting to using one deeply, deeply shameful.
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Peter Steinberger is a great example of how AI is catnip very specifically for middle-aged tech guys. they spend their 20s and 30s writing code, burn out or do management stuff for a decade, then come back in their late 40s/50s and want to try to throw that fastball again. Claude Code makes them feel like they still got it.
Being pretty much exactly one of the stereotypes you describe, I like it because I can quickly bang out ideas I’ve had for years without all the drudgery.
Most ideas never came to fruition because I dreaded plowing through a bunch of boilerplate code.
Helping other developers solve complex problems makes me feel like I still got it.
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@peter @GeekAndDad What part of this is surprising?
