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Salesman "recommends" you to continue wasting more tokens and on top of that, he "recommends" you to use only recursive loops with the latest and greatest models.

Finally he also "recommends" that you do not look at the code, or even understand it.

His "recommendations" are designed to get you to spend even more tokens and get you hooked on the Opus / Fable slot machine in order to extract as much money as possible from your wallets.

News at 10.

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I'm waiting for the next headline that's about a codebase that existed for 10+ years and then the agents came.

Now, the codebase is managed by agents and, while the company has the source, it's as if they bought it from a vendor and pay the vendor for changes. The vendor of their own system is the AI company selling them tokens.

To be fair I think Cherny is high on his own supply, not cynically trying to sell us something. He is absolutely stoked that Claude Code is an overengineered piece of junk he doesn't understand.

Boris Cherny is most definitely the kind of guy who sniffs his own farts.

He can be informative to listen to, as long as you keep that in mind.