i have been floated

the life and times of brad root

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My biggest gripe about Claude Code is launching it, asking it to do something, forgetting to hit shift+tab for auto-accept, walking away expecting it to do a bunch of coding for me while I am brushing my teeth, and then coming back to see it asking me to accept some edits early in the process and it didn’t do anything while I brushed my teeth… I’m sure I can just tell it to turn auto-accept on by default somehow. I use git, I’m not scared of edits, do your worst!

i really just think the future is unknowable and that's why i generally just go with assuming everything will be fine. there was a point in history where it was unthinkable that you could 'work from home', and before that a point in history where having a job that wasn't some sort of grueling physical labor was similarly unimaginable. The technology that has already revolutionized our lives hasn't even been around that long, we're so new at this that most people still don't understand what social media really is doing to humanity–it will be the historians 50 years from now that sort it out. Part of the reason so many people can't see a good ending to this story is because none of this has happened before, just like 100% of literally everything that has ever happened to humanity. too many people think we've got it all figured out and that someone is in control, but none of any of this is on purpose, and still, things only really get better in the long run, because they have to. unless humanity is really meant to go out in one big ritualistic suicide after inventing AGI and not being able to cope with our redundancy, i don't know. but that doesn't seem likely to me. i think we'll all be food service workers, like literally every single one of us will be involved in food prep in some way, and there will be universal basic income, before humanity will allow itself to wipe itself out. there's a lot of power/inertia in the continual mass hysteria that is the collective hubris of mankind.

like you ever meet a person who makes every bad decision but still comes out on top every time, that's humanity as a whole, i just don't think it has ever been wise to bet against humanity, i don't understand why being pessimistic about humanity's prospects has gotten to be so in vogue. maybe it was a russian internet psyop to try to make everyone else miserable, they created /r/2meirl4meirl and it's just spiraled out from there and now we have AI doomerism