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For version control, people should just use fossil. https://fossil-scm.org/ No server infra needed. Issues/Wiki/Discussions all built-in. Customizable web interface. Adapter to exp…

You're beating a dead horse here buddy. Show me a social platform that is not complete bullshit. You can't. I do agree with it, LinkedIn is bullshit. But c'mon, this is all the web…

Today's marketing decisions are tomorrow's deprecations.

A businesss decision would be great. What would suck would be a marketing decision.

I think this boilerplate thing got lost in translation some time ago. We dislike _the presence_ of boilerplate, not the time spent writing it. If another thing writes it for you, i…

It is very likely that agent tooling will get better at doing asynchronous things and being aware of the user interacting in parallel, without git, and probably within a single ses…

> Markdown Lacks the Structure You Need The problem is, I always need more structure. Give me some YAML and time and I'll make hell (not a metaphor, I'll concoct hell itself on it)…

You're right. It's all about solving problems. Maybe we need a word that, when applied to mathematical concepts, describes how simple, easy to understand and generally useful a sol…

It's funny because I'm evaluating LLMs for just this specific case (covering tests) right now, and it does that a lot. I say "we need 100% coverage on that critical file". It runs …

> "Take a look at those tests!" A math module that is not tested for division by zero. Classical LLM development. The suite is mostly happy paths, which is consistent with what I'v…

We had upstarts in the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s and the 2010s. Some game, some website, some social network, some mobile app that blew up. We had many. Not funded by billions. So, w…

On Windows, it behaves like a malware. Suddenly flashing command prompt windows when you interact with it. Not very nice (also, lazy, since you don't need to do that flashing if yo…

Instead of tools for humans, and a separate set of tools for machines, we should just make tools for humans+machines. The agent should look at my README.md, not a custom human-like…

If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business. Local models are a different thing than those cloud-based assistants and…

You mean generally? Yes, sure. As long as sloppy concatenated micro-messages don't end up in the main branch, I'm game.

Squashing works great for bisecting. I like rebasing! It works great for bisecting, reverting (squash messes that up), almost everything. It just doesn't play well with micro commi…

I prefer working with the one commit per PR philosophy, linear history and every commit buildable, so I always force push (to the PR branch, but never to master). Been doing it for…

It works quite well for me. I don't use it as inspiration. It's like I said: code that is not reviewed yet. It takes the idea of 50 juniors working for you one step ahead. I manage…

What Í'm doing a lot is vibe coding and stashing. Not even a public branch, just git stash the whole thing the LLM writes. Also, I stack the stash. When I vibe code, I pop it, let …

Reviving a dead PHP bytecode vm for embedded systems: https://github.com/alganet/PHL --- Bootstrapping from an x86 image that is mostly source text (based on live-bootstrap): https…

In situations like this is better to ask the agent to write a short document about how to run the project. Then you read it and delete useless parts. Then you ask the agent to foll…

Windows Task Manager is already gamified. You find the process you want to kill, then it starts jumping around and you can't click it. You try to find it by typing, but there are 2…

"Not made here syndrome" might actually not be a syndrome.

"too big, please break it into smaller self-contained PRs" [ Close with comment ]

"behave in a human way" is a vague reference to a more specific, non-psychological idea that I presented earlier. I just explained that to you. Either we discuss this in terms of t…