Discussion
kylecazar: Find one thing you want to explore or research/visualize and go very, very deep with it... with Claude Code, it's just a tool after all. Then write a long blog post about it (yourself).You probably aren't addicted to CC, I suspect you are just hopping from idea to idea too quickly because these new tools allow for it.
moomin: I’m doing a bunch of deeply horrible ops stuff at the moment, and the ability for Claude to write the worst python script in the world and tell me which machines aren’t configured the way I think is invaluable.
simonw: I know dozens of people who are in a similar state right now, following the November 2025 moment when Claude Code (and Codex) got really good.I wouldn't worry about it just yet - this is all very novel, and there's a lot of excitement involved in figuring out what it can do and trying different things.If you're still addicted to it in three months time I'd start to be concerned.For the moment though you're building a valuable mental model of how to use it and what it can do. That's not wasted time.
evilhackerdude: you're fine. have you made any sankey charts? nsfw: https://seidt.quest/s/aella/i am waiting for someone to surpass the original steam engine sankey diagram: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.p...
w4yai: what. did. I. just. witness.
evilhackerdude: great question. data source: https://aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-gangbangthe diagram is calculated with d3-sankey & rendered with imgui. you can stretch that window however you want—ok, enough.edit: the original steam-engine sankey diagram created a far stronger emotional reaction in me. the aella chart is just more modern, i guess?
zof3: Your mental model point is very true. We all had to learn how to google at some point — explaining how to use these tools to someone outside the bubble feels like explaining how googling works to someone. Much of it is intuitive understanding from experience.My question would be how much we think the processes will change as the models do. Much advice from two years ago is no longer relevant or realistic. Where do we think it will go next?Does anyone have a really good way to explain to their relatives and friends how using an agent is different from simply using Google? Just saying ‘fundamentally different’ doesn’t go very far; the best I’ve found is sitting down and giving a demonstration.It’s also difficult to explain the enormous gap between frontier models and the free ones many people are accustomed to using. Is there a tangible comparison to a normie real-life ‘thing’ that anyone has used successfully?
jdelsman: I have about six or seven backlogs full of tech debt, bugs, and other various enhancements that every team _wants_ to do, but we either don’t have the bandwidth or know-how to do right now.I spend a lot of time at my org doing one of the following things:1. figuring out how to onboard engineers and bootstrap them to do their own work to draw down their backlogs2. show the team cool ideas to spark their interest or bring them from “I’m never using this useless crap AI” to “oh, wow, I never thought of that… fires up a terminal and creates own cool thing”3. creating a backlog of other things people want to automate but never wrote down/thought through that Claude can do in short order for immediate value
lopatin: Without it you likely would have been in the same quagmire, but just slower?It could have taken you years to realize that "oh I'm just exploring stuff and have no output".Set an ambitious goal that is achievable using Claude Code, and focus on delivering it. Even if it doesn't turn out to be a hit, the experience of releasing it and using AI to accelerate it, will be a talking point to your 10-year-older self.
Lerc: Exploring ideas is a form of learning,I'm not sure if I will look back on my life and think that I know too much and didn't produce enough widgets.
lowsong: Listen, If you truly want help you've made the first step by realising what's wrong, but you won't get help here.This community is obsessively pro-AI. Asking here is the equivalent of asking the guy who has sat at the slot machine next to you for the past three hours if he thinks you have a gambling problem. Of course he's going to say "no" or try to justify it, to do otherwise would be to admit to himself that he has a problem.I don't have advice for you, other than to look up what gambling, drug, or alcohol addicts do. The path to recovery for all addiction is long and painful, but it can be done. Good luck.
ahsisjb: > Much of it is intuitive understanding from experience.You’re mistaking domain expertise with tool expertise. You can’t teach a non dev how to use an LLM effectively for dev without teaching them to be an experienced dev. Once you have that knowledge, LLMs aren’t that hard to use.
crop_rotation: I view Claude code same as how I used to use Jetbrains IDEs. I mean yes they are not same but even when I first learned of Pycharm pro and it's features I had this urge to make a lot of random idea apps. The landscape has changed but the solution is same. Prefer spending your time on things that give you long term happiness in any way.
dimitri-vs: The problem is it's not limited to code. I have Claude Code maintaining my Obsidian Vault, managing my Home Assistant setup via SSH, helping me buy life insurance and file my taxes and and manage my home orchard and...
crop_rotation: Unless you are buying life insurance and filing taxes daily this seems like a good thing.
