I started tinkering with Claude Code and I’ve found it to be an excellent rubber duck. You know, like the rubber duck you have on your monitor that you talk to and explain your code and ponder the meaning of it all?

Claude is like the rubber duck but you can get a response back that will almost always be helpful. It might not be the right answer but I have yet to find a case where it doesn’t put me on the right track to the answer I need. And sometimes I even ask Claude to implement something for me, say, a method for checking if a point is inside a wedge.

Is AI going to make us all irrelevant? Hardly. It’s going to make some of us really good at what we do. Potentially more productive too. Don’t buy into the hype. Take the scientific approach. Test the waters. See what it can do and where the edges start to fray. I am very satisfied with Claude Code. Your mileage may vary. Find one that works for you.

I thought I might try a series of posts on Fridays this year. Maybe not every Friday, but as we used to say… a post will be here on A Friday.

Lots of things going on lately, chief among them is I started a new job. Really happy I did and you can hit up my LinkedIn profile if you’re curious where I went, whether I’m happy about the move, or if we’re hiring. (here’s a hint: I’m very happy about I love the new gig)

I’ll make the first one brief. I’m not really sure what I’ll cover in these posts yet. I could cover some technical bits (like how I’m ramping up at work – doing bug fixes by first creating end-to-end tests that confirm the bug, and implementing the fix!) or I could talk about some social agenda bits that are going on around the Pacific North West (you should consider supporting Hope Link). I could talk about hobbies I don’t have enough time to do such as painting, brewing, … or guitar. Or I might even cover a video game or two (the new Pokemon for Switch is just great btw).

I’ll leave it here for now. The exercise is to just get posts going.

I finally signed up for guitar lessons. I’ve been playing Rocksmith for about a year and that’s fun but I haven’t been consistent and I haven’t noticed a steady improvement. So I decided to augment my Rocksmith time with some lessons… and hopefully lessons will drive me to play more on my guitar. 10k hours here I come!

Just had my wisdom teeth removed. I was done about 30 minutes ago. I’m happy the anesthesia isn’t too bad for me. Very groggy but holding up just fine.

Time to relax and play some video games!

Posts have been pretty light lately. I’ve taken up some work at my new gig and it involves writing iOS apps in Objective-C. I found a fantastic book at my local Half Price books that got me rolling called Objective-C Programming by the Big Nerd Ranch group.

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