alt Hacker NewsI go to meetups and enjoy myself so much; 80% of people are showing how to install 800000000 MCPs on their 92gb macbook pros, new RAG memory, n8n agent flows, super special prompting techniques, secret sauces, killer .md files, special vscode setups and after that they still are not productive vs just vanilla claude code in a git repos. You get people saying 'look I only have to ask xyz... and it does it! magic' ; then you just type in vanilla CC 'do xyz' and it does exactly the same thing, often faster.
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That perfectly ties with my experience. Just direct prompts, with limited setup and limited context seem to work better or just as well as complex custom GPTs. There are not just diminishing, but inverting returns to complexity in GPTs
No, no, you misunderstand, that's still massive productivity improvement compared to them being on their own with their own incompetence and refusal to learn how to code properly
This was always the case. People obsessing over keyboards, window managers, emacs setups... always optimizing around the edges of the problem, but this is all taking an incredible amount of their time versus working on real problems.