I enjoy using Claude, but sometimes I feel like a child on Sesame Street the way it talks to me. "Great question!"

Fuck off, Claude, I'm British and I'm not 6 years old.

When it starts showing negativity - especially snark - in its responses, or entertains something West coast Democrats would balk at even discussing, then I'd think you could drop it in London in 1991 and trick people. Otherwise, I'm sure some exasperated cabbie would give it a swim in the Thames after 15 minutes of chat.

That's like asking HN if they buy Christmas CDs at Tesco. This is a very self-selecting group of people. I know people who buy off of iTunes, who don't use Spotify, who've never heard of Bandcamp, who still listen to the radio… there are people beyond your little bubble. It's a big old world.

Are you in management?

That attitude might be the reason why the places you've worked would be under threat. The places I've worked would also be under threat, because several of my colleagues had that attitude, and this is why red teaming works.

- copy the dependencies' tests into your own tests

- copy the code in to your codebase as a library using the same review process you would for code from your own team

- treat updates to the library in the same way you would for updates to your own code

Apparently, this extra work will now not be a problem, because we have AI making us 10x more efficient. To be honest, even without AI, we should've been doing this from the start, even if I understand why we haven't. The excuses are starting to wear thin though.

It was not bad faith, whatever that is, and it was not a straw man.

Try to remain calm and not make personal remarks.

All perl programmers should be wishing for ponies, that's definitely less narrow minded.

I understand that you could not keep the child till you were paid (kidnapping and ransom shouldn't be a business plan!), but you could refuse them future service until they paid.