I am a software developer with over 25 years of professional experience and have been working with coding agents for quite some time starting with AutoGPT and now using Claude Code almost 24/7 orchestrated via Task Master to automatically spin up new instances working on a multi layer project.

You are absolutely right. A large portion are influencers (I would estimate around 95% of those you see on YouTube and forums) that are full of hype. I think most are not affiliated with Anthropic or any vendor, they are just trying to sell a course, ebook or some "get rich with AI" scheme.

What I appreciate about Claude Code:

- Since it is a terminal/CLI tool it can be run headlessly from cron jobs or scripts. This makes it easy to automate.

- I appreciate the predictable pricing model. A flat monthly fee gives me access to Claude Sonnet and Opus 4 in five-hour sessions each with its own usage limit that resets at the start of a new session. There is a fair use policy of around 50 sessions per month, but I haven’t hit that yet. I deliberately run only one instance at a time as I prefer to use it responsibly unlike some of the "vibe" influencers who seem to push it to the limit.

That's it. Despite being a CLI based tool, Claude Code is remarkably out of the box for what it offers.

That said, no coding agent I have encountered can fully ingest a large inconsistent legacy codebase especially one with mixed architectures that accumulated over years. This limitation is mainly due to context size constraints, but I expect this to improve as context windows grow.

From what I remember he used Deluxe Paint and the color cycle feature to change the color palette around.

I'm pretty sure he used a pre-release version of Graphicraft, running on a pre-release Kickstart and AmigaDOS (so early that it predated Workbench).

Thanks. It seems you're right. I started with the first Deluxe Paint myself back then and always incorrectly thought he used it based on the videos I saw.

Lately I often have trouble finding the date/time a youtube video was posted. Sometimes I find it when I open the description box, but not always.

They are both prototype-based languages influenced by Self.

That is similar to how I see it. The currently accepted physics may just be at a local minima, but not at the global minima.

The same thing happened to me and I'm still sick of it. I lost a lot of emails from the beginning of my career. I found out when I finally got around to backing up my old stuff. There are still a lot of emails that I wish I still had. I know it is / was a free service, but still.

Same here. With prices rising everywhere and a salary of ~40k euros before taxes (which is normal in IT in many EU countries if you don't work for big tech) I hardly have room for another subscription. People here are too quick to say "what is $10 on a $80/hour salary?"

I was planning to do this myself. Thanks for the article. I am ok with the code dump :D

Right now I am using nginx with the image_filter module + caching to do this.

You can always try something like this: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

It may not work for VST plugins with certain DRMs though.

Update: I see that bepzi was 1 hour ahead of me. I did not see it when I refreshed the page, only after I replied.

I know about "Het zal me aan mijn reet roesten", but I usually use "het zal me een worst wezen" which is similar to what they say in Germany.