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There's an ongoing conversation among coding agent enthusiasts right now about the correct verb to use.

One of my favorite options is "directed" - "I directed this". It's not quite obvious enough for me to use it in comments on threads like this though.

I've also experimented with "We built" but that feels uncomfortably like anthropomorphizing the model.

One of the reasons I publish almost all of my prompts and transcripts is that I don't believe in gatekeeping this stuff and I want other people to be able to learn how to do what I can do. Here are the transcripts for me Denobox project, for example: https://github.com/simonw/denobox/tree/transcripts - you can view those with my new https://orphanhost.github.io/ tool like this: https://orphanhost.github.io/?simonw/denobox/transcripts/ses...



Thanks for sharing, I'll take a look!


I don't think it's wise to bend to those with FUD.

I don't say "my tablesaw and I built this table" I say "I built this table"


Based on your comment history it seems like you're making an assumption about my intentions here, but I'll bite anyway.

When you build a table, you use a tool as a means to an end, i.e. you use the tool to cut and shape, but you are fully in control and engaged in the process. When you prompt an LLM, you tell it what to do and it does something for you. How is that not the same as telling someone else to build the table for you? You don't say "I built the table", you say "I got someone else to build the table for me."

I think it's great that simonw responded with some information on his process, that definitely helps provide perspective on how he engaged with Claude to make these projects.




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