I’ve been dwelling on how to properly judge on recent AI improvements since December (Ralph Loop).
I’ve been using AI since text-davinci-002, when Elon was already at OPENAI and I was writing the first marketing copies with it.
In 2023 I already posted about how to utilize AI to practically have an always-on rubber-duck debugging partner. [https://jw.hn/leveraging-ai]
After I’ve been using a lot of Aider with different models for small changes, as well to teach me stuff and to write snippets.
I’m not a SWE by trade, but I’ve been coding for approximately 10 years now. Back in the days for fun on the side and the last 2-3 years on the side. AI greatly helped me to learn and understand concept. I was excited.
I was a tiny bit late on the Claude Code hype, but don’t you worry I’ve catched up. On