5 months here. I love it that other than the way the shitty languages bamboozle the model and cost me more, I like it that I can just 4 hours, fork, stir-fry, fix 30 bugs, deploy it with profiling, and in a few days I make it 20% faster, bug free.

The thing is that I dreamed of coding for 20 years before I even had the money and room to put a desk in and a computer on top.

Now I only have to babysit a robot that is able to almost tackle a serious refactoring of the Linux kernel. The previous version struggled to make my secp256k1 library fast, now it is in spitting distance. And I'm building a new kind of machine intelligence, which I'm not going to call AI because it's not an approximation. But figuring out all the control systems that go with the memory system and semantic graph is tedious. The LLM has no clue. I'm inventing this and every so often we get into this dialectic and my brain vomits out a whole plan and then because I can describe it, Claude can make it.

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Edited by Claude Opus 4.6