I've been doing this more and more over the past year, but I just write on plain white paper and throw it away after the stack on my desk gets too big.

Like the author, I don't seem to ever need to read my old notes. Instead, it works wonders as a mental bucket of sorts and I've found paper to be extremely powerful for this. I tried doing this on a Surface Pro, for example, but it was significantly less enjoyable or effective.

Now with LLMs helping me write code, planning ahead on paper is even more useful.

I work in Python as well and find Claude quite poor at writing proper tests, might be using it wrong. Just last week, I asked Opus to create a small integration test (with pre-existing examples) and it tried to create a 200-line file with 20 tests I didn't ask for.

I am not sure why, but it kept trying to do that, although I made several attempts.

Ended up writing it on my own, very odd. This was in Cursor, however.

I resonate with the phrase: "You never learn to ask good questions"

I think there's an unfinished journey whenever I hear such a story. Like someone who learns just enough about music that they "feel like" Bach is better than Taylor Swift, but then never move to the other side to use their newly acquired competence to understand what's nice about Taylor Swift's music as well.

E.g. a great designer will be able to design houses in very different styles, because they can understand what gives each of those styles its own specific beauty.

There's a lot to say about this, but I think your coffee friend never passed the snob-like point, which is a point I think most people reach when they learn just enough about something and that makes them feel superior. But if you keep going, then you start to understand what makes Italian coffee great as well, for example.

Wrt to coffee, I speak from experience, after going through very expensive equipment, I have learned to enjoy very different styles of roasts, coffees, etc. I still have preferences, I'm just far less judgmental.

Applies to most of my hobbies, I've seen this trajectory very often.

unexpected AI W. Congratulations on the new job!

> The "hey if you squint this thing it looks like religion for the non-religious" perspective is just one I've heard countless times

To be fair, we shouldn't bundle Augustine and Thomas Aquinas with John MacArthur and Joel Osteen. Meaning that some religious thought is more philosophically robust than other religious thought.

What makes an artificial mind greater than ours?

Do you assume that someone will stumble into creating a person, but with unlimited memory and computational power?

Otherwise, if we are able to create this person using our knowledge, we will most certainly be able to augment humans with those capabilities.

I mean, it all depends on how one defines "high quality context".

This never occurred to me, but it is a brilliant take.

can you say more? how do you do it?

We mostly have dotnet services in k8s, using Rider (IDE) and Telepresence for remote debugging. Having observability (OpenTelemetry) is also really useful.

See ninkendo’s comment. They are doing it with the same tools we are.