Most of the time what we call listening is just our way of waiting for our turn. Paraphrasing some smart person.
A different smart person once taught me that the most interesting and effective conversation is one where you speak only using questions. If you're curious then questions are natural, if you want to argue, then questions are a masterfully manipulative form...
In the 90s we had people talking like this about The Internet. They're all over on FB now, with a detour in between to say stuff like "my isp can track me!?"
I may be reading too deeply but it sounds like you haven't even tried it. You should! Its really hard to live without it, once you feel it in your fingers.
In this very comment section an earlier post claimed the opposite (that specifically grain fermentation did not produce the big M), and sounded just as knowlegable and plausible to the lay-ear.
I have a few codes pro keys, in heavy refactoring on a large codebase I can blow through one account's weekly limit in a day. Its no longer about the limit though - a full day for $20ish is awesome - it is imo just better at everything than claude was.
Its everywhere. I worked with a micro-manager CTO who farmed code review out to claude, which of course, when instructed to find issues with my code, did so.
The first time i asked it about some code in a busy monorepo and it said "oh bob asked me to do this last week when he was doing X, it works like Y and you can integrate it with your stuff like Z, would you like to update the spec now?"... I had some happy feelings. I dont know how they do it without clobbering the context, but it's great.
That is just nuts! Not in my dreams will claude yolo commands into my system.
What are we even talking about? I think life itself grants us the right to get high or pet wild animals or swim the atlantic or sudo rm-rf... Or yes-and-accept-edits at 3AM with a 50 hour uptime (yes guilty) but then we don't get to complain that it's dangerous. We surely were warned.