FitchApps (u/FitchApps)

FitchApps commented on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/vismit2000

giancarlostoro · 9 days ago

> This is all wonderful and all but what happens when these tools aren't available - you lose internet connection or the agent is misconfigured or you simply ran out of credits. How would someone support their business / software / livelihood?

This is why I suggest developers use the free time they gain back writing documentation for their software (preferably in your own words not just AI slop), reading official docs, sharpening your sword, learning design patterns more thoroughly. The more you know about the code / how to code, the more you can guide the model to pick a better route for a solution.

FitchApps · 9 days ago

I'm seeing things that are seriously alarming though. Claude can now write better documentation and document things 95% there (we're building a set of MCP tools and API end-points for a large enterprise..) - Claude is already either writing code or fixing bugs or suggesting fixes. We have a PM, who has access to both React and API projects, on our team who saw one of the services return 500; they used Claude to pinpoint the bug to exact database call and suggest a fix. So now, it's quite common for PMs to not only post bugs but also "suggested fixes" from the agents. In a not so distant future, developers here will be simply redundant since PM can just use Claude to code and support the entire app. Right now, they still rely on us for support and deployments but that could go away too.

FitchApps commented on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/vismit2000

FitchApps · 9 days ago

This is all wonderful and all but what happens when these tools aren't available - you lose internet connection or the agent is misconfigured or you simply ran out of credits. How would someone support their business / software / livelihood? First, the agents would take our software writing tasks then they encroach on CI/CD and release process and take over from there...

Now, imagine a scenario of a typical SWE in todays or maybe not-so-distant future: the agents build your software, you simply a gate-keeper/prompt engineer, all tests pass, you're now doing a production deployment at 12am and something happens but your agents are down. At that point, what do you do if you haven't build or even deployed the system? You're like a L1 support at this point, pretty useless and clueless when it comes to fully understanding and supporting the application .

FitchApps commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels

gritspants · 12 days ago

My disillusionment comes from the feeling I am just cosplaying my job. There is nothing to distinguish one cosplayer from another. I am just doordashing software, at this point, and I'm not in control.

FitchApps · 11 days ago

100% there....it's getting to a point where a project manager reports a bug AND also pastes a response from Claude (he ran Claude against our codebase) on how to fix the bug..Like I'm just copying what Claude said and making sure the thing compiles (.NET). What makes me sleep at night...for now is the fact that Claude isn't supporting 9pm deployments and AWS Infra support ...it's already writing code but not supporting it yet...

FitchApps commented on Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver

abc123abc123 · 18 days ago

Let politicians fight and die in their own wars. If russia "visited" my country, I'd follow it with a drink in my hand from the bahamas. No piece of dirt or earth is worth dying for, ever.

FitchApps · 18 days ago

Russia doesn't just "visit" your country. Lookup what Ruskiy Mir (Russian world) really means, basically your country gets subjugated by the Russians and I'm not talking about civilized or professional Russian forces - I'm talking about drunk and poor 20yo boys from a remote Russian villages that are now seeing the spoils of western civilization for the first time (do lookup what happened in Bucha, Kyiv suburbs in 2022 at the onset of invasion). Then of course the refusal of the Russians to recognize any other culture or language...the list goes on and on. So - yes, you could escape with a drink but then "If Not Me, Then Who"?

FitchApps commented on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet state-of-iranblackout.whi... · Posted by u/silencednetizen

Huntsecker · a month ago

Think what's going on in Iran is very sad, but from an outsider America has become one mouthpiece, rarely do I see dissenting voices in the media, that is its always Iran/China bad and at the same time they Kidnap a foreign leader and its all wow look how great we are.

does feel its back to might is right, and the last 80 years of relative peaceful times is sunsetting.

you may ask what has the above goto do with a tech article on Iran blocking the internet, its basically just how its written feels alot like propaganda (not saying the content is invalid) that is, oh the indignity of not having internet for 118 hours, personally didn't have it for much of my childhood, the above is not to diminish the other sad loss of life which is obviously terrible just feels like even tech articles have become partisan.

FitchApps · a month ago

The problem with other freedom-loving nations, the EU, etc is that they're a bunch of cowards and I feel like America is the only place that can stand up to the regimes like Iran/China. Who else if not US?

FitchApps commented on FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/birdculture

FitchApps · a month ago

Such a cool project. Thanks for building it. Amazing what one can do with a tiny VPS.

FitchApps commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

FitchApps · 2 months ago

Text Editor that doesn't use AI :)

FitchApps commented on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/harambae

fooker · 2 months ago

Okay, assuming you could invest 100k out of your 170k per year into companies you know were doing well on tech from 2015, how much would you have ?

(say: AMD, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Facebook)

The answer is about 10M, which is not that far from what I estimated, even without including Nvidia. Now add in house price appreciation.

There are plenty of people who have managed to do this, from fairly normal tech jobs.

FitchApps · 2 months ago

170k after taxes leaves you with about 130k net, maybe 140k; if you live in a big city and have a family, it's almost impossible to save 100 grand of that 140k. More realistic you would save about 50k and still come out ok, but lets be realistic noone is saving 100k from 170k gross salary

FitchApps commented on AI's Dial-Up Era wreflection.com/p/ai-dial... · Posted by u/nowflux

graeme · 3 months ago

We have a ton of good, small models. The issues are:

1. Most people don't have machines that can run even midsized local models well

2. The local models are nearly as good as the frontier models for a lot of use cases

3. There are technical hurdles to running local models that will block 99% of people. Even if the steps are: download LM Studio and download a model

Maybe local models will get so good that they cover 99% of normal user use cases and it'll be like using your phone/computer to edit a photo. But you'll still need something to make it automatic enough that regular people use it by default.

That said, anyone reading this is almost certainly technical enough to run a local model. I would highly recommend trying some. Very neat to know it's entirely run from your machine and seeing what it can do. LM Studio is the most brainless way to dip your toes in.

FitchApps · 3 months ago

Try WebLLM - it's pretty decent and all in-browser/offline even for light tasks, 1B-1.5B models like Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct. I put together a quick prototype - CodexLocal.com but you can essentially a local nginx and use webllm as an offline app. Of course, you can just use Ollama / LM Studio but that would require a more technical solution

FitchApps commented on An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In hamy.xyz/blog/2025-10_une... · Posted by u/speckx

FitchApps · 4 months ago

Not much in the article itself. Basic summary: * Getting to sleep on time more often and waking up in the mornings feeling rested * Don't need caffeine to start doing things (no zombie feel) * Less anxiety and easier to enter a focus session