alt Hacker NewsSeveral. Yesterday a friend with no prior coding experience or knowledge showed me an app he initially built to help him study for public administration job positions. The exams for this positions are public (spain), but the tools are scarce, expensive or he did not like. So he used lovable, then switched to web gemini and claude, then paid claude. He now has +130 very active users on an initial free tier, while he figures out. The app is on github, runs on vercel with supabase, react, tailwind, bun... he has no idea what he is doing. I even installed claude code for him, got him an ssh key so he can do it locally, etc.
Another: claude code cracked for me some software that was calling a home that did not exist anymore via headless ghidra.
Another: I am a teacher, and qualifications and feedback is very very time consuming, specially in loose workflows with several sources and tools that are not connected. During class presentations I take loose notes. Now I have a local folder where I drop my 1 student list, with names and emails, 2 my loose notes, and 3 a qualification & feedback sheet model; then claude creates a sheet per student, formats and copies the feedback to the right sheet cell, waits for my corrections, then sends everything to their school emails. Much easier, much less time consuming.
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> Now I have a local folder where I drop my 1 student list, with names and emails, 2 my loose notes, and 3 a qualification & feedback sheet model; then claude creates a sheet per student, formats and copies the feedback to the right sheet cell, waits for my corrections, then sends everything to their school emails
Yikes! Is this legal in your country?
So you're sending your students private data to Anthropic?
That said, I am very critical of AI, I align with voices and reports calling for AI companies to give back, as they took much, and for AI as public infrastructure, to an extent. I see datacenters as probably inevitably future public infrastructure, with a public model that could resemble that of electricity etc (in spain) or more public (less private). I am wary of the actual and future ecological and social impact of datacenter building and other problems AI is or will create. It is difficult to negate its usefulness, though: it is like having several very fast assistants with expert knowledge on several fields, that just get better every month. We will see.