Comment by ang_cire
7 hours ago
Yes, I am literally inundated by cool new tools I've built that I never would have before.
I'm literally building a black-box client + server emulator for one of my favorite old MMOs, remotely, from a coffe shop in SF as I type this, on my laptop at home via Claude remote-control.
Insane.
My homelab has many fancy new things like a self-hosted gym app and many more metrics and dashboards in my home assistant instance, both of which I use on a daily basis. It also now runs a linux VM that is an always-on agent workspace, and various emulators & decompilers and their MCPs. I, like apparently everyone else, am also reverse engineering games and mashing them up for my own personal enjoyment. I've modded a few games for fun. I've done a security and utilization audit of my server and saved hundreds of dollars in server upgrades I would have bought if I didn't have AI identifying waste and optimizing things. I could have done all of those things before but I didn't, because of how annoying it is to have to dive so deep into the weeds to do small things.
People who have the technical skills and free time for these hobbies, and aren't having the times of their lives right now, are missing out.
100%.
Abstaining from using LLMs isn't doing anything to actually oppose them, it's just denying yourself the stuff you could produce with them.
The game RE stuff is also NUTS right now; the kind of stuff you can do in terms of porting, modding, emulating, etc, is a whole new frontier in personal game ownership.
Like, if you have a copy of a game downloaded, you can prevent it being taken away now. Including by devs turning off remote servers.
Well, Claude is building it. You are building it in the same sense that my manager was building the software I worked on at my last job.
Yes, Claude is building it for me, and now I have the tool to use forever. Point being that there are now many more tools being made, which is contrary to the message of the article linked.
That all aside, it's hilarious you apparently don't think managers or architects are actually contributors to sw dev.