No doubt the headline's claim is true, but Claude just wrote a working MCP serving up the last 10 years of my employer's work product. For $13 in api credits.
While technically capable of building it on my own, development is not my day job and there are enough dumb parts of the problem my p(success) hand-writing it would have been abysmal.
With rose-tinted glasses on, maybe LLM's exponentially expand the amount of software written and the net societal benefit of technology.
I think the responses to your comment show the whirlwind of 'wtf?' confronting any programmer contemplating front end development for the first time.
What you wrote is probably true (and the one "see how far you can get in react only" comment is probably a decent path, but the landscape is overwhelming.
The rule does not implement the ABC test from California. Indeed, the DOL has gone on at length about why it believes it cannot do that.
Unlike the Cal Supreme Court decision in Dynamex and the subsequent AB5 legislation, which _presumes_ a worker is an employee unless their work passes each prong of the ABC test, DOL still has the burden of proof under this rule.
Your biggest risk was actually the PRO Act, and it will never pass.
And if you have multiple clients who have limited control over how you do your work, you're a bona fide independent supplier anyway.
I hear you, and have been in similar situations with an extra zero on the figure.
At the end of the day, the value wasn't in the memo itself but rather in making the person who asked you for it look competent to their boss ("yes, this agenda item is covered, we are ready for the meeting").
I make no normative judgment on whether or not that is bullshit.
While technically capable of building it on my own, development is not my day job and there are enough dumb parts of the problem my p(success) hand-writing it would have been abysmal.
With rose-tinted glasses on, maybe LLM's exponentially expand the amount of software written and the net societal benefit of technology.