The writing style is similar to the other articles by the same author. He has been doing this for years. I have no idea what your problem with the actual content is.
I've been reading these since the .NET 5 performance improvements blogpost. Again, the content is ever-sharp but the style is so full of claudisms it's next to unbearable to read. I'm not anti-AI by any means, I just find it annoying, that's it really.
Agree. A whole tree of comments agreeing with you is not appearing on this post because that's how HN works.
I loathe LLM prose, no matter who posts it. It earns a quick cmd+w.
My prizes for spending the internet points to say this are the joy of resisting normalization of illiteracy and a tacit camaraderie with the hundreds of others who agree but won't comment or upvote.
Could use the shorthand of 85%, 10%, and 5% as the way to divide the workload; 850/1000 computes, 100/1000, and 50/1000. Brute sprint, clean up & revaluation runs, then checksum and presentation.
Claude has a jagged UX if you support non-devs. The surfaces before today in the desktop app were:
Chat, cowork, Claude code.
Inside Claude code you’ve got cloud environments and local.
Let’s say as a normal desktop user you wanted to just automate something normal in your work, going to a website (maybe some internal app at your company) getting some data. Depending on what surface you used this will either not work, not work well (cowork), or work quite well but possibly be blocked because of bot controls (local Claude code) or again not work (cloud Claude code)
It was nuts. You can clearly tell these were different teams and products mashed into the same app. Super confusing for non technical users. Hopefully it’s a little better today
I would argue they need 1 product owner for the app surface so I can’t see their org structure so clearly. Those jagged edges and users hitting blocks depending on what section of the app they were in are design failures, I know how a computer works and when using the Claude app it wasn’t always clear to me what the right combo of things to press to get my desired outcomes.
Yeah I don't disagree, ChatGPT/Claude both could really stand a UI/UX pass (and a perf pass for Firefox's sake lol). I was more expressing the perennial fear of power user features being jettisoned in favor of the lowest common denominator.
For me it’s still jagged, but chatgpt never had the weird “cowork” abstraction with the Linux machine.
I don’t talk to non-technical users that use the chatGPT app for work so I’m not sure if that’s been a positive change for them, but I would imagine if that was put in place for Claude it would be better for them. Chat is instant answers, different model, faster; work is more detailed, thinks more, has access to all the tools. This is what I see the users doing, but there is a third mode they use (deep research, exhaustively find me the right answer to a crucial question) that is underserved right now.
All of this is moot to me as a dev, I use terminal, herdr, pi… so I don’t see the jagged edges myself. But regular users do
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