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See discussion on AWS's report here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677139


Yeah, maybe it would be nice to have a fast-track onboarding option for common goals: lose weight, finish homework or chores, etc.


I don’t think that “Claude Code” is relevant to this semantic grep tool.


bear in mind that Claude Code by default uses grep - if you watch you'll see if it's looking for something it doesn't know the name of, it flails around with different patterns. Try this tool, tell CC to take a look using ck --help and take it for a spin.

CC in my case likes it so much, it started using it to debug the repo rather than grep and suggesting its own additions


Note that it’s grep AND semantic - so Claude can start with a grep strategy and if it finds nothing can switch to semantic, and since it’s local and fast, it keeps in sync easily enough


How do you tell CC to use it? Just as an entry in Claude.md?


To start with just tell it- but yes Claude.md works too.

“We have a new grep semantic hybrid tool installed called ck - check it out using ck --help and take it for a spin”


Yes, this is it. When I'm experimenting, I'm happy to pay an extra $40 for the name-brand device that has 1000s of blog posts supporting it, since it's probably this community is going to help me be more successful and learn faster.

I would reconsider the choice when I have a commercial product that I have some scale of production, where a few bucks off the BOM is important.


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I think that AI will let us make better progress outside of our narrow expertise.

So entrepreneurial activities will be easier and more common. On the other hand, there will be relatively fewer opportunities for specialized consultants. Contractors and consultants should be able to solve bigger problems rather than working in narrow specialties.

Teams and companies should have fewer members, since fewer specialties are needed. So they will probably need more contractors to move things along when there is a lot of work to do.


Why wouldn’t AI handle the work of the contractors?


For the time being, AI doesn’t have good access to a lot of things: customers, information in 3rd party systems, etc. Even when we give access (with MCP, for example), current AI has trouble locating the right information to solve a problem.

So I still need an engineer to find out why the distributed system isn’t performing correctly, or to create a new component that is coherent with the rest of the existing UI. The difference is that any particular engineer will find more success tackling a wider range of goals.


Lots of people don't dare do things in production, even the ones with some other specialized technical experience.


Normally, Autopilot does not require your foot on the accelerator. Pressing the accelerator overrides it to make to car move ahead where the autopilot decided to stop. At the time, autopilot would always stop at an intersection, and the driver was supposed to move ahead when it is clear.


Just put in the prompt customization to model responses on Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide.

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to ..."


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