IMO it's one of those things where rebase is at first less intuitive but once you get it is a lot simpler & easier to reason about. In contrast merging at first seems more straightforward but is actually less so.
that's not a value judgement in either direction, both initially simpler and longterm simpler have their merits.
I remember once hearing an interview with cEvin Key where he described Dwayne Goettel as someone who would have probably turned out to be Aphex Twin had he not died, given the era of it all. And that made me take another look at Aphex twin, and appreciate his work.
I've been adjacent to this field for a while, so take this for what it is. My understanding that the developing a system that can accurately identify a specific form or sub-form of cancer to a degree equal or better than a human is doable now. However, developing a system that can generalize to many forms of cancer is not.
Why does this matter? Because procurement in the medical world is a pain in the ass. And no medical center wants to be dealing with 32 different startups each selling their own specific cancer detection tool.
I've been noticing it's more on par with sonnet these days. I don't know if that means Opus is getting more efficient, sonnet getting less efficient, or perhaps Opus is getting to the answer fast enough to overcome the higher token spend.
I find my sweet spot is using the Claude web app as a rubber duck as well as feeding it snippets of code and letting it help me refine the specific thing I'm doing.
When I use Claude Code I find that it *can* add a tremendous amount of ability due to its ability to see my entire codebase at once, but the issue is that if I'm doing something where seeing my entire codebase would help that it blasts through my quota too fast. And if I'm tightly scoping it, it's just as easy & faster for me to use the website.
Because of this I've shifted back to the website. I find that I get more done faster that way.
I've had similar experiences but I've been able to start using Claude Code for larger projects by doing some refactoring with the goal of making the codebase understandable by just looking at the interfaces. This along with instructions to prefer looking at the interface for a module unless working directly on the implementation of the module seems to allow further progress to be made within session limits.
By "the website" do you mean you're copy pasting, or are you using the code system where Anthropic clones your code from GitHub and interacts with it in a VM/container for you.
Just pasting code snippets, and occasionally an entire file or two into the main claude.com site. I usually already know what I want and need, but just want to speed up the process on how to get there, and perhaps I missed something in the process.
Aider is pretty good way to automate that. You can use it with Claude models. It lets you be completely precise down to a single file, and sit in chat/code/review loop - but it does a lot of the chores, like generating commit messages etc while saving you the copy paste effort.
My observation over the last 10-15 years here has been this is partially true. But what's more true is the Overton window has shifted. To use your example, the things that would come out of their mouths, especially Elon, has taken a decidedly right wing turn over time. So keep in mind you're also seeing people who have largely stayed the same discussing a culture that largely has not.
My PCP actually recommended holding off until later in the 50s for this reason. There's not currently a booster so his suggestion was to play the odds & delay a bit in order to get longer protection in my elderly years.
that's not a value judgement in either direction, both initially simpler and longterm simpler have their merits.
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