Another comment noted over 100,000 USD passing through an associated wallet. I don't know how much work went into this but my hunch is it has paid off pretty good even compared to legit tech work.
Me too. But did you see them on their first day using it or their thousandth?
(Also you don't need to be that old. Less than 10 years ago I watched a doctor breeze through some clinical system while I was crawling along constantly referring to the manual)
Knowing what Claude Code is and why you might want it actually is domain knowledge which the op's friend does not have. Your idea of the average person might be biased if you work and socialise with people who have this kind of expertise.
> Your idea of the average person might be biased if you work and socialise with people who have this kind of expertise.
I just said I've seen multiple people struggle installing Steam...
The point is that it's something objectively easy. Once they find (in this case, given by me) the correct instructions and follow through, they can easily do it by themselves again. It's quite different from what are traditionally considered "expertise": for example, even if you followed a master's painting process, stroke by stroke, tomorrow you still don't know how to paint.
Building common apps were more akin to "painting," now it's "installing Steam."
> The point is that it's something objectively easy. Once they find (in this case, given by me) the correct instructions and follow through, they can easily do it by themselves again.
This is true of most things in life. It is very easy to make compost, it is very easy to grow carrots, it is very easy to graft an apple tree onto rootstock, it's very easy to hang a door and it's also very easy to replace the break pads on your car.
Once you've done it, that is. And once you know what tools you need. And how to use those tools. And that you actually have those tools.
Codex, Zed, the like are all tools that you need to know exist and you need to have and you need to know how to use. It's the same thing as a wrench, a break bleeding kit, or some graft tape.
You are assuming that the hypothetical friend has been isolated from any kind of technology from the last few decades. The friend can, presumably, use search engines and the very same chip chipities to get the very rudimentary domain knowledge going.
I'm genuinely a bit floored reading the comments here, but I guess my idea of the average HN commenter's ability to talk to non-technical folks about technical topics is biased because I work and socialize with lots of people who don't have technical expertise (thankfully along with other technical folks who also have lots of experience talking to the former group). Many of them don't even know what Claude is, let alone Claude Code.
I don't think this is true. Certainly not in Britain.
I went to 3 weddings last summer and each one had a joke in a speech about using ChatGPT to write it and everyone laughed. 68yo father of the bride is a retired plumber and even he's cracking jokes about AI.
Yeah it's a true HN bubble moment. I've got non-technical people in my company (a tech company, where the majority of the employees are engineers) who have absolutely no idea what any of the agentic coding nonsense is, their only exposure to this stuff is Gemini in Google's office apps.
To them this is all just "AI" whether it comes from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google - hell they probably don't even know what an LLM is in the first place, yet alone which company provides what tooling. And these are people whose day-to-day involves talking to at least 1 dev a day, so you would imagine some of the knowledge would materialize via osmosis at the very least.
So was mine, but time saved driving didn't justify the amount of maintenance I would have had to do on my car/sanity with 5 min in car + 2 hours on a coach vs 50 minutes fighting interstate traffic + paying for parking.
A lot of people buy phones as conventional status symbols rather than for nerd points. My massive generalisation is hn values doing something interesting with the hardware.
Exactly. I'm talking about the green bubble vs blue bubble social nonsense that causes people to spend >$1k on a device that they use for talk, text, and basic media functions. It's essentially jewelry, nothing to do with nerddom.
For example? Because usually, people who say this have something in their mind about which they should rightfully be ashamed. Like people who want other people to have lesser rights.
Anything class, caste, race, gender, etc. clustered can draw fire if they aggravate group harmony and conformity enough to someone.
For example, I currently deal with the knife and gun collector crowd, hunting fans, weed guys, even genz sneaker aficionados bring the ire of various classes or camps that are more dominant at workplaces.
This seems like valet parking-like but drivers keep their keys. Possibly solving the untrustworthy valet problem, but unlikely to be price-competitve with the cheap off-site parking firms that usually get mentioned in the consumer problems columns.
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