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Claude’s prompt heavily pushes it towards grep. We have an internal cross repo semantic search mcp and to get Claude to consistently use it a skill and prompting was not enough. A …

It's just you. Something about your comment seems AI-generated. See how that works?

I ask it to write a markdown file describing how it should go about performing the task. Then have it read the file next time. Works well for things like creating tests for control…

I worry that because generative AI is based on what already exists and is already popular anything new will have lower adoption that it otherwise would. Even if it's an exciting de…

As for reasons, in the US it's probably related somehow to trying to get in good with the current administration.

The genre of random internet commentary by people who’ve played a video game and thought about a subject for 5 minutes after skimming an article vs actual professional who has read…

The counterpoint is that if you don’t adopt a framework you end up with a “framework” you built yourselves that people outside your team don’t understand, is generally poorly docum…

The words you're looking for aren't conservative or reactionary they are bigoted and asshole. Best software engineer I've ever worked with is a woman, the rest had exactly the same…

Can't you, and shouldn't you, just add appropriate comment / annotation to tell the linter to ignore the next line? That way you make it clear to others reading the code that you k…

The answer is in the article.

How do you square this with your advice to use S3? Apple bad but AWS ok?

Lombard Street?

+1 That's a great book.

Their comment history supports that hypothesis.

A good definition of power is from Hannah Arendt, it's "the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action". If you can do this you have power because you can't coerce everyone …

If wishes were horses beggars would ride.

For what possible reason are you asking that question of anyone?

This sounds like bill discounting, as described in 1874 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_...

See lb504's answer.

Saving time by not punctuating your comment?

At least none of the top level comments are claiming the invisible hand would solve this if only there were fewer regulations. Better enforcement and more regulations seem from exp…

This post angers some people. These people will explode next week as reading the Sparta and Fremen series will show.

Chili pepper consumption in higher in countries with universal health care?

“Treat your users as you would a class of pre-school children. If they’re all screaming for a snack you don’t necessarily give them one, perhaps a healthy lunch would be better for…

"there simply must be more to the story" === "it's in conflict with what I want to believe"