Haha, love it.
An inspirational story for sure!
A very interesting insight about AI coding. It gets at the theory building part of programming, which is much harder to do when just supervising an AI in my experience. On the other hand, I am so much faster that it's hard not to use AI for coding. Interested to see what they come up with!
But I actually found a use case where the agentic approach adds incredible value: internal tooling and visualization.
I was debugging some feature in the core, and had some code to jump a JSON diagnostic structure with a lot of info. Looking at this directly was getting to be a pain, so I wanted to write a UI for it.
Claude handled this task almost perfectly for <$5. I wrote up a description of the JSON schema, and a description of how that should map to a view, added some styling directions, and let er rip. In one afternoon, I go the UI built for me when I was doing dishes.
So I built the tool and went back to debugging and made a ton of progress using it. It's ok if I don't have a full internalization of the visualization architecture. It's basically a complex software "jig" that the AI built for me. I can build new ones as necessary.
A very interesting revelation.
Its a pity because it shows that there’s just so much more money by not catering to tens like ours
exidy•15h ago
I do wonder how BK will continue in a world that's increasingly dominated by GitHub and and other integrated solutions, but I hope as long as there's a market for quality tools, BK will survive and thrive.
kawsper•5h ago
It was the bill I was the happiest to pay.
We used Knapsack Pro to efficiently parallelise our Ruby test suite.
Today, I still use Buildkite, but now I build golden images (with packer) and deploy them with terraform.