The awe induced when standing in front of a brand new, kitted out x95 frame with all its drawers full and that special shade of IBM blue on everything is definitely something. Pull out the HMC and just think about how many decades of R&D and experience and tears went into the entire system.
* brainstorm all the ideas, get Claude to write docs + code for all them, and then throw away the code
* ask it to develop architecture and design principles based on the contents of those docs
* get it to write a concise config spec doc that incorporates all the features, respects the architecture and design as appropriate
* iterate over that for a while until I get it into a state I like
* ask it to write an implementation plan for the config spec
* babysit it as I ask it to implement phase by phase of the implementation plan while adhering to the config spec
It’s a bit slower to than what I’d hoped originally, but it’s a lot better in terms of end result and gives me more opportunity to verify tests, tweak implementation, briefly segue or explore enhancements, etc.
A great comment, but your brief mention of fetchmail brought back a flood of memories of .fetchmailrc’s and watching dots on screen as I downloaded my mail from POP3 servers over all sorts of horrible baud rate modems, before I sensibly switched to sending and retrieving my email via UUCP.
