StealthyCoder

I was commanded to start using AI at work, and it is a version of Claude CLI.

First thoughts

Firstly I thought, let me just try it. I am not sure what it can and cannot do. I was unsure of what I should use it for, and then came a use case in mind.

MacOS sucks

OSX or MacOS or whatever you call it, sucks for development. Even more so when you have some sort of SSL intercepting corporate policy tool in there. All, and I mean all, CLI tools fail to work and every time you solve it, then a simple upgrade will make it all broken again. So I decided the first task the AI could assist me in is getting a Dockerfile ready to go with all the tools I want/need. Of course I asked it to make it cozy, use Rose Pine everywhere it could in terms of palette and colorschemes and it did so quite well I must say.

I currently have a nice minimal and cozy Docker container running with all the tools and I can finally run all the things I needed to run.

Conclusion

I think the current setup is still far removed from a fully functional hard to discern from a real human artificial intelligence. It still hallucinates stuff, makes stuff up and so on, but in terms of getting jump started or rubber ducking stuff it is quite amazing tool. Back in the day you had cookie cutter, apparently it still exists, which tried to make it so you could easily start new projects and have a template by which it should be generated/seeded.

Now though with AI you can get even more easily started and have it do things you know you could do given the time but it can do it for you way faster.

One thing I must mention is the fact I burned through 23 million tokens just for this small project. So token usage gets quite high quite fast I must say.