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Paul Dix

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

You can get them into a loop and

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

where they'll work for hours grinding away at something, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Like if you have a performance optimization problem, for example, if you create a tool where you say you run this tool and these are the signals you look at, and they tell you whether or not you have improved or gotten worse,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And you give that to an agent and you just put it in a loop, it will just grind away at the problem until it either comes up with something good or it doesn't.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So at the end of a few hours or a night or whatever, you can look at it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

You can be like, okay, that's good.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And I would say the same is true for functionality.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I mean, I will say...

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

All of my experience is based on backend software development.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So I don't have front end software development experience in this.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I did actually over like the,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

holiday period do a side quest where I had to do some front end stuff.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And that was my first opportunity to use something like Playwright MCP to have Claude go through and hit the browser and try and fix things and stuff like that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And again, it worked insanely well.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I was shocked.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I had it porting a piece of UI code to try to make it native as some WASM app inside the database.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And again, like it did the whole thing and I'm just, but I'm not going to ship any of this code is the thing I did.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Like I have all this stuff where it's like, I feel like I can get things.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I can get a demoable prototype.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I can get what looks like working software, but I don't know how to cross over the line to get it to like something that we actually want to deliver.