Noah Glusenkamp
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Keep thinking, keep the vector of your current thought sharp
Coding and working with agents means reading and thinking about a lot of generated material. There's something about talking with an LLM turn after turn that grinds you down and makes you want to turn off your own brain and accept the last output. When you do, the quality starts diminishing almost immediately.
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Power tools
My day job as a software developer looks completely different than a year ago. When Anthropic's Claude Code got the Opus 4.5 model in November of 2025, it seemed to unlock the next level. If I were working in construction, two years ago I would have carried a toolbox of fine hand tools. Now I can rent a work truck loaded with every power tool a carpenter could dream of. You can still blow out the board you are drilling. Skill is needed. But the raw power when directed carefully is astonishing. I am multiples more productive at work. I have made exceptional progress on dozens of coding side-project ideas that would never have seen the light of day, because I could never have justified the time to even build a prototype. For a software person who is motivated by the end product and getting things done, agentic coding feels amazingly empowering.
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