Hello. My identify is Hoan Ton-That, and I’m hooked on Claude Code. I’m a lifelong programmer and the founder and former CEO of Clearview AI, the nation’s first main facial recognition firm that used AI, and the place I wrote the primary model of our software program myself.
After I began Clearview, it ended up touchdown on the front page of The New York Times in January 2020 with the headline “The Secretive Firm That Would possibly Finish Privateness as We Know It.” We had constructed a groundbreaking facial recognition know-how, which allowed legislation enforcement to go looking billions of public photographs simply by importing a photograph of a face. The know-how helped legislation enforcement remedy crimes involving kids, human trafficking, and monetary fraud.
The response to our new know-how raised considerations from privateness advocates and the general public. At the moment’s simultaneous worry and pleasure round AI coding instruments remind me of what I went by way of with Clearview, and what any new know-how goes by way of.
Two months in the past I began utilizing Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, and Cursor. I’m having essentially the most enjoyable I’ve ever had programming, and I can now construct software program that used to take months in a matter of days.