Readit NewsThe quote about pedophilia is concerning indeed, but I think that rather stems from ignorance about the issues than promoting pedophelia. It's easy to shit on such things and wokely dismiss someone's entire opinion, which I find a bit weak.
I worked at Apple for a good amount of time, and the general rhetoric from Apple folks still there is that Woz is “insane” and not to be trusted.
I personally always found that to be so far from the truth, and the root of it really was how much Apple people didn’t like him speaking open and freely about the company (failures, success, and everything between).
I also get this too often, when I sometimes say something like "would it be maybe better to do it like this?" and then it replies that I'm absolutely right, and starts writing new code. While I was rather wondering what Claude may think and advice me whether that's the best way to go forward.
> I believe with Claude Code, we are at the
> “introduction of photography” period of
> programming. Painting by hand just doesn’t
> have the same appeal anymore when a single
> concept can just appear and you shape it
> into the thing you want with your code review
> and editing skills.
I like coding by hand. I dislike reviewing code (although I do it, of course). Given the choice, I'll opt for the former (and perhaps that's why I'm still an IC).
When people talk about coding agents as very enthusiastic but very junior engineering interns, it fills me with dread rather than joy.
So yeah if you like coding as an art form, you can still keep doing that. It's probably just a bit harder to make lots of money with it. But most people code to make a product (which in itself could be a form of art). And yeah if it's faster to reach your goals of making a product with the help of AI, then the choice is simple of course.
But yeah in a way I'm also sad that the code monkey will disappear, and we all become more like the lead developer who doesn't really program anymore but only guides the project, reviews code and makes technical decisions. I liked being the code monkey, not having to deal a lot with all the business stuff. But yeah, things change you know.
I honestly found it to be the absolute worst Python framework I've ever worked with. I found it so hard to intuitively write code for it because it just does stuff for you in the background and you can't always see the execution order of code, especially when leveraging that default dashboard feature. I lasted 11 months in a role that used Django exclusively. I'm happy for people that built a career with it, but it just blows my mind people aren't more critical of it. Not that they necessarily need to be though.