The best kind of programming is not when you get a lot done, but when you painstakingly spend extra time to arrive at something so simple and elegant that it ironically looks effortless and not worthy of any special regard.
This thread hits hard, ngl. Not what's being said, but whom it's coming from. I've been thinking it, but hoped that I'm wrong and people like Mario would exemplify the counterpoint.
Aforeposted meme aside, I think the new reality of building a viable business is: you need to offer something more tangible than software. A pass through a real barrier, like proprietary access to something, red tape, unique knowledge. Tech glue alone is a losing battle.
Opus just wrote me a script without using any of my coding, docs, and review procedures. I asked why, it said "I treated them as optional, even though it says _always_". This is in Claude Code. I don't think it ever did that in Pi via API. 🤔