I’ve spent twenty years in open source, with stops at Cloudera, Puppet, Docker, and more. The common thread was always the same question: how do you make a tool that makes a person more capable, not more dependent? A chainsaw makes you more capable if you respect it and learn to use it well. It takes your hand off if you don’t. Claude can do the same. Instead of taking off your hand, it will just wipe out your business.
I also own a former gold mine in the Sierra foothills, outside a California gold rush town called Murphys. I’m building a house on it. Learning as I go. Welding, wiring, framing, digging. The property has numerous air shafts and two mine entrances that I know about. We once found a box labeled DYNAMITE that turned out to be road flares. I think about that box a lot.
Sourdough baker, old red truck tinkerer, ongoing adversary of the deer who think my fruit trees belong to them. I split my time between San Francisco and the property, and I’m finding that the overlap between software and building things out of wood and concrete is bigger than you’d think.