It’s a brave new world.

I recall hearing similar sentiments from linux sysadmins regarding cloud infrastructure. In many respects they were and continue to be correct. In other respects, the world doesn’t care about the loss in understanding as long as things work “well enough” for the cogs of society to keep turning.

For those who do care (and have the aptitude) to understand things deeper there is always work to be had when “well enough” stops being good enough and someone has to unravel the “RDS queries are taking too long” problems that crop up as a result.

What an awful position to take. Tech used to be about becoming more accessible to people! now we have a magical assistant to make computers do what you want with natural language, and your desire is gate keeping that so only programmers can use it to write software for themselves?

I am using many many many things that I don't understand. Cars, public transport, etc...

I review and test the end product, not every tiny step along the way. If the LLM uses some command line tools I have never heard of to create a model I can verify, why should I learn a tool that is completely irrelevant to my core expertise?

I think a lot of non programmers use Claude.

I mean if you don't care code, you are essentially a product manager who gives instructions to your programmers (whether humans or intelligent agents).

Then if you use the created product, you are at best a test engineer if not just an ordinary user.

I think in the era of AI, people get tools they want in an expensive way. Rather than finding an existing tool, they ask an intelligent agent to parrot one, which guarantees no safety, security, efficiency, and accuracy. Yet, being able to use Claude makes them feel smart and productive (in parroting wheels).

Might be more secure to get a real laptop and treat Claude as any other human worker. I.e. apply all the normal sysadmin tools that manage laptops for people to manage the laptop for Claude

A VM hosted by someone else. Somethig on your personal notebook or the proxmox server in your garage is still too risky.

Vantablack pattern?

> I also do click through at times without reading everything, but I like to stay in control

Respectfully I'm not sure you totally know what you want. If you're already clicking through without actually reading, it's not really better than reading the specific things Claude Code thinks are important for you to weigh in on.

I'll look into them, thanks..