Post #637784
2026-03-07 08:47 UTC
I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
I keep telling people that I'm excited for the LLM tools that are tuned for specific tasks; Claude Code is clearly one of them. I still don't get paid to do anything that it is good for, but this post is a good summary of the situation.
https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/
Replies (3)
-
@sushee@ohai.social 2026-03-07 09:18
@vaurora oh that's a nice article right up my alley 😂
-
@ginabythebay@hachyderm.io 2026-03-07 11:14
@vaurora “we are both guys who type for money” ha!
-
@Avner@anticapitalist.party 2026-05-02 23:27
@vaurora interesting article! Personally I don't view myself as an artist or a mercenary–or someone who gets paid to type, for that matter. I am a software *engineer* and taking responsibility for what you're building is part of that distinction IMO. I do agree that these conversations and choices were easier when LLMs were obviously unfit for generating code. But producing feasibly working code as fast as possible isn't actually what a software engineer's job entails.