its crazy to me people think all ai coding is the same slop as it was in 2024. In the hands of someone who knows what good code looks like, it’s an amazing tool. Opus4.6 writes code i would have written, just faster. It also thinks a lot faster. Watching it think through and debug complex issues is amazing. It’s exactly how i would have thought through an issue to debug it: it adds tests, debug printfs, and runs tests until it’s fixed. I recently saw it sit through and fix a bug in a streaming zerocopy llm markdown parser im working on for dave, it was amazing. The only people who think agentic engineering is dumb in 2026 are the people who still think ai coding is copy and pasting things into chatgpt
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I also like to hear it as someone who wasn’t a professional dev before. It gives me more confidence, although I would still get a pro pair of eyes before launching something serious.
@elsat is doing impressive stuff as a non professional dev. Its not as easy to merge their code as a professional dev since the maintainer has to do a lot more due diligence, but he’s getting better every day
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Benking yesterday
Totally feel you! It’s wild how far AI coding has come, it’s like having a partner who thinks exactly like you, but faster and tireless. Opus4.6 isn’t just a tool, it’s a teammate. Watching it debug and fix stuff is honestly inspiring, makes me want to level up my own code too!
Definitely feels like a teammate, a good one. Not perfect, but really good
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#asknostr Did my 8th-grade education just cut through a massive amount of tech bro lobbster marketing fluff better than most analysts do? 🤷 (This note took me 2hrs to type out) After careful consideration I guess the reality is im a loser and ill have to wait for the "company approved versions" of openclaw agents sold/offered by google and everyone else instead of blaze my own path. My 8th grade education understands none of what I've just read over the last 2 days... other than having a bot spend your money on your behalf, like ordering me doordash snacks at 330am, basically breaks eveey ToS for every app there is and is easily traceable to ban/revoke my access to everyday apps and services because of how agents currently accomplish those tasks. Openclaw agents ain't shit, still can't order me doordash, pay my bills, etc by themselves. They can write code, etc just as any other Ai can, but with some personalisation so it's good at this or that. Openclaw is another fad that will soon pass for regular people like me and you from having no actual real world utility while laws, policies, and while regulations are in place holding it back preventing agents from doing real word things so the current power structures remain in place. Much like why bitcoin isn't accepted at has stations today. The physical world operates to slow to allow such speed of an agent. This gap creates a control layer where the companies with the fastest agents can manipulate markets or prices before a regular person even realizes what happened. Personally, I do not want to spend 408 hours deciphering complex GitHub repositories, etc etc just to get a bot to order a burrito that shows up at my door, and most likely gets me punished by doordash, a bank, government agency, etc for doing it. Most apps...DoorDash, Uber, Banking, etc etc have strict no-bot policies. If an unapproved script logs into my account, their security systems in place flag it as a hack. I risk losing my account. It's not 2007 anymore... Google, Apple, Amazon, etc aren't going to let a random open-source lobster bypass their billing dollar ecosystem. Nobody is opening the door for a Trojan Horse that will crush them. They don't want a lobster logging in because, If a bot can log in, a hacker’s bot can log in and they want you in the app looking at their ads and not bypassing the UI. Most of the people posting about autonomous agents are spending 10 hours of troubleshooting for 10 seconds of "Look, it posted on nostr!" For a regular person, the return on investment for that effort, is currently zero. What starts as an open frontier almost always gets fenced off by the people who own the land. In this case, the OS and the servers. This will be sold back to us while being used against us. The new industry standard for 2026. Instead of a free lobster script, everyone will likely pay $20 - $50 a month for a Pro version of a Google or Apple openclaw agent. It only only work because Google made a deal with otjer companies. Effectively acting as toll booths. If current AI knows what you ask it. An Agent knows what you do... It knows you’re broke on Tuesday because it saw your bank balance. ​It knows you’re depressed at 3:30 AM because it’s ordering comfort snacks. ​They aren't just selling your data anymore...they are selling Intelligence at Scale. They'll use your habits to predict exactly when to show you an ad for a high-interest loan or a new credit card right when the agent sees your "Bills" folder is looking heavy, or worse... If a company agent is managing your life, it’s also policing it. Governments and corporations are already looking at openclaw agents being used as a way to monitor behavior. If an agent sees suspicious financial activity, like you trying to move money into an unapproved bitcoin wallet, it doesn't just help you... it flags you and reports you automatically. I'm open for conversation on this subject.
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Allison yesterday
I have no idea how to code, but need to learn. What AI(s) would you recommend using?
There is an old saying that applies: "a fool with a tool is still a fool". Claude and Codex are fantastic, doesn't mean they are perfect. These are new tools that need to be learned and used properly like all others before. For me this is a moment in history similar to when Turbo Pascal made it easy and fun for anyone to compile executables, and later released Delphi Pascal which made it simple and easy to create GUI apps. It was exactly the same comments back then: "Unless you use VIM and GCC, that is not a real coding"