I love Rich Hickey's speeches, and found this entertaining, but it seems pretty pedantic.

I mean, I guess there's a lot of people that don't know the difference in what he's saying.

`rm` is a tool. You don't tell `rm` to delete things and then get annoyed when it deletes your production database because it inferred incorrectly.

It does what you tell it. Like a hammer hits what you hit with it.

`claude` can be considered a version of `rm` that can do what `rm` does (and other things - including things you don't want). Nearly everyone using it is aware of that.

An employee is not a `tool`.

`claude` is closer to an employee. You tell it to do things. It costs you money. Sometimes you get what you wanted, sometimes you get something far better, sometimes you get literally nothing, other times you get disaster (more often with `claude` than with a good employee).

That's why they call it an `agent`, not a `tool`.

Employers don't throw up their hands and say, no thanks, I'll do everything myself with `tool`s. They say, I'll try to learn how to better manage employees which are useful to further my goals (along with tools - because both are useful).

Not every person runs a business. Maybe in the future most people won't be using AI at all. Some people definitely will.

I'm not sure why we needed to go on this pedantic ride.

When people say "AI is just a tool", I think they mostly know what they mean and we all do, too.