I would like to say publicly that I am the author of my work. Not Claude, not Codex, nor Cursor. Me. I spend my limited amount of priceless time focused on the work. And you bet I will use any tool that will allow me to accomplish as much as possible, given the fact that my time is priceless but the world behaves as if it’s priced at whatever the hourly rate is. So, I generate code by the metric ton.
I do. But that does not make Claude the author of anything. I am the author. I think, I test, I hope, I give up, I pay the price of the sedentary lifestyle my need to earn money pushes me towards constantly, and which I have to fight, spending even more amounts of my priceless limited amount of time. Not Claude.
Claude is a brand name. LLMs are generators of next likely token. Agents use recursive reflection to keep generating from one prompt. We had code reflection based code generation, automated testing, code analysis, auto complete and text expanders since forever. LLM powered auto reflexive generation makes these bundled up in one Tool, that is also much faster.
I am the one doing the work. Sure, with Claude, the brand name owned by Anthropic, a corporation that sells me access to this tool branded as Claude, I accelerate the thinking loops. Instead of having to spend weeks reading up on configuring cloud services, I can iterate in 48h to a state of the art setup and pray I did not skip anything obvious, or a week and sleep confidently. Depends on me, to discern which of the two is better for the situation.
I am writing this to say that it’s about time to stop crediting the computer for doing it’s useful tool part. The modesty of saying “Actually Claude bla bla” is starting to be corrosive, by shifting responsibility. Because if it’s great, I am modest and credit the machine for generating perfect code, and if it sucks I am being facetious and blame the machine for generating shitty code. Nobody can intuitively know which is it, except the author. So credit, both ways, goes to the author, not to the tool.
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