IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Khane

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To add to that, as a separate post just to talk specifically about how Claude Code operates. It does things you never asked it to do. It needs access to a repo to work so it can pretend it needs to also write test harnesses and cases to check its own work and then refactor 2, 3, 10 fucking times for simple tasks you give it for the sake of "perfection". Its a huge waste of compute and I stopped using it altogether after about a month and instead stick to cowork because I can give it a task and it just performs that specific task.
 
Control

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I mean, as long as you're happy paying the price for what you're getting out of it, that seems reasonable enough. Isn't that how all businesses ultimately work? In my case (at least the one I outlined above), I could compare models by having them write the same thing and at different thinking levels. I could probably optimize by having opus outline, haiku research and do the initial pass, and then test the results using different models on the different review/audit passes. or I can let opus do it all and end up with around 150 articles/500k words for $50 that was going to evaporate anyway since I hadn't used my quota this week. Of course, if I optimized, I might be able to get double the output with a similar quality, but the work of optimizing has a cost too. Probably worth doing if you're going to run a content mill, not so much if you're just experimenting though.
 
Khane

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Control said:
I mean, as long as you're happy paying the price for what you're getting out of it, that seems reasonable enough. Isn't that how all businesses ultimately work? In my case (at least the one I outlined above), I could compare models by having them write the same thing and at different thinking levels. I could probably optimize by having opus outline, haiku research and do the initial pass, and then test the results using different models on the different review/audit passes. or I can let opus do it all and end up with around 150 articles/500k words for $50 that was going to evaporate anyway since I hadn't used my quota this week. Of course, if I optimized, I might be able to get double the output with a similar quality, but the work of optimizing has a cost too. Probably worth doing if you're going to run a content mill, not so much if you're just experimenting though.
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This is shortsighted, you're speaking in today's pricing terms. This is the point I am making.
 
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Khane said:
This is shortsighted, you're speaking in today's pricing terms. This is the point I am making.
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Well yeah, companies that are marrying themselves to arbitrarily priced workflows that they can't readily un-marry themselves from are playing with fire. Otoh, as I posted in the AI thread, locally ran Qwen today is better than 1-year old Claude, so advancement just has to outrun any looming price explosion. Risky proposition though of course.
 
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