I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN. Yes, there are security risks and all but honestly this is the future. It's a great amplifier for hackers and people who want to get stuff done.

It took some training but I'm now starting almost all tasks with claude code: need to fill out some word document, organize my mail inbox, write code, migrate blog posts from one system to another, clean up my computer...

It's not perfect perfect, but I'm having fun and I know I'm getting a lot of things done that I would not have dared to try previously.

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falloutx 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So people shouldn't say their opinion because your opinion says its the future? Is all future good? I don't think a great hacker would struggle to organise their desktop or they will waste their team's time with AI generated deck but no one can stop others from using it.

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alfalfasprout 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN. Yes, there are security risks and all but honestly this is the future. It's a great amplifier for hackers and people who want to get stuff done.

TBH this comment essentially reads as "other commenters are dumb, this is the future b/c I said so, get in line".

No, this doesn't need to be the future. There's major implications to using AI like this and many operations are high risk. Many operations benefit greatly from a human in the loop. There's massive security/privacy/legal/financial risks.

	▲	zurfer 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I certainly don't think people on HN are dumb, I'm surprised that the sentiment towards this is just talking so much about the downside and not the upside. And look I do agree that humans should be the one responsible for the things they prompt and automate. What I understand is that you let this lose in a folder and so backups and audits are possible.

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keybored 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Yes, there are security risks and all but honestly this is the future.

That’s it? There are security risks but The Future? On the one hand I am giving it access to my computer. On the other hand I have routine computer tasks for it to help with?

Could these “positive” comments at least make an effort? It’s all FOMO and “I have anecdotes and you are willfully blind if you disagree”.

	▲	gist 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The issue here with the negativity is that it appears to ignore the potential tremendous upside and tends to discuss the downside and in a way that appears to make as if it's lurking everywhere and will be a problem for everyone. Also trying to frame it as protecting vulnerable people who have no clue about security and will be taken advantage of. Or 'well this must be good for Anthropic they will use the info to train the model'. It's similar to the privacy issue assuming everyone cares about their privacy and preventing their ISP from using the data to target ads there are many people who simply don't care about that at all.

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gist 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN.

Very generally I suspect there are many coders on HN who have a love hate relationship with a tool (claude code) that has and will certainly make many (but not all) of them less valuable given the amount of work it can do with even less than ideal input.

This could be a result of the type of coding that they do (ie results of using claude code) vs. say what I can and have done with it (for what I do for a living).

The difference perhaps is that my livlihood isn't based on doing coding for others (so it's a total win with no downside) and it's based on what it can do for me which has been nothing short of phemomenal.

For example I was downvoted for this comment a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932641

Just one reply (others are interesting also):

"HN is all about content that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity, so if you are admitting you have lost the desire to learn, then that could be triggering the backlash."

(HN is about many things and knowing how others think does have a purpose especially when there is a seismic shift that is going on and saying that I have lost the desire to learn (we are talking about 'awk' here is clearly absurd...)).