The paper that started all of this is called “Attention Is All You Need.” That’s the 2017 Google paper that gave us the transformer, which gave us GPT, which gave us Claude Code, which gave us the glorious mess I’m about to confess to.
And the joke that keeps rattling around in my head is this: the thing that makes the models work is attention. And the thing I’m fresh out of is attention. Mine. The human kind.
From a certain point of view, there are two kinds of people in the world: builders and not-builders. This isn’t judgment—it’s observation. Some people consume. Others create. Builders can’t help it.
I’ve been exploring the intersection of AI and content creation lately, and I wanted to share my experience using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 AI assistant within the Zed editor to streamline my blogging workflow.
Let’s talk about AI pair programming - not the hypothetical future version, but what we have right now in 2024. I’ve spent the last year working extensively with AI coding assistants, and I have some thoughts to share.