They're for AI-B's, so relax

An overnight 120v charge gives me 35-45 miles for less than $2. This is sufficient for 80% of the travel we do, so we seldom tank up.

I have a 450 mile range in my PHEV Clarity when fully charged and tanked up.

Does one really need a pickup, though? I can rent one at the local Lowe's for cheap.

That is a classic corporate "vanity project" trap. Itâ(TM)s a common mistake: a company mistakes its captive audience (employees) for a test market, forgetting that internal tools need to solve a problem, not create a new chore.

I worked at a company that tried to force an internal social media site on us. The catch? They weren't a social media company. It never took off. It was a textbook example of why you should stick to your core competencies.

Did Alex Karp serve in the military? Of course not. He wants to make the rules for the little people only.

"I do not see where AI can come up with original problems to solve"

A lot of original ideas arise from fuzzy (or even erroneous) thinking...starting with a bad/incoherent hypothesis and then iteratively correcting and refining it until you get a solid result (or give up).

I think AI is going to struggle with that approach, though I see glimmerings of it when it tries to debug code.

Claude writes better documentation than I do. That includes user guides, about pages, commit text, release notes, and even its own instructions file.

AI concludes, "You know, COBOL isn't so bad, after all."

Any organization that imposes a blanket ban on AI tools will soon be left in the dust.

To use a tautology, AI is good at what AI is good for: documentation, research, incremential coding, performance/storage tradeoff evaluation.

It is not (yet) good at architecture design or efficiency, nor even following DRY principles. It is nonetheless really, really useful for what it does well.

Seldom does Claude ask clarifying questions of an ambiguous request. Sure, you should try to be specific, but sometimes statements can be interpreted differently than intended. In those cases, Claude just merrily chugs along making vast code changes on false assumptions.

I had similar experience. Eventually went back to Sonnet.

My one suggestion is to have the AI update the copilot-instructions.md file on its own after a session. This will help it keep things in memory. Too often I've caught Claude doing stupid things I told it not to do a few prompts back.

My God! You are so, so smart in a superficial shallow sort of way! Looking forward to your academic treatise that upends all of economics! The next Adam Smith, here on Slashdot, of all places!

I see a corollary where corporations enact mass layoffs in name of profits and efficiency, only to wonder why their customers no longer have the disposable income to buy their products.

I would say AI surprises me with its insight sometimes. Ask it for suggestions and you will often get good ones, with tradeoffs, pros and cons.

What it can't do is: requirements gathering, prioritizing, political wrangling, and managing expectations or scheduling.