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One of the things I’ve noticed talking to Claude, is that like, one of the reasons Claude seems so genius is because of it’s ability to keep right up with me, to talk about things I want to talk about that other people may not and follow me down rabbit holes.

And having a person that keeps right up with you makes it feel like they’re very intelligent, because of course they are, they seem like scarily as intelligent as you. Because they’re right next to you, maybe even a little ahead! (I think Travis Kalanick was experiencing this when he was talking about Vibe Physics.)

But the thing is, it was ultimately an extension of your ideas, without your prompts, the ideas don’t exist. It’s very library of babel esque.

And so I wonder if coding assistants have this general problem. If you’re a good developer following good practices, prompting informatively, it’s right next to you.

If you’re not so good and tend to not be able to express yourself clearly or develop solutions that are simple, it’s right there with you.