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Building personal software with Claude

Nelson Elhage · 27 Jan 2025 · blog.nelhage.com

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  1. Also, current models, while impressive, still fall well short of expert human performance.
  2. Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
  3. Thus, code is cheaper than ever, but I suspect that insight and good architectural design and understanding, at least for now, will become more valuable than ever.