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alxndr
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About alxndr
Web front-end specialist looking for a job with an ethically-aligned company
http://eleven-twelve.net
http://github.com/alxndr
http://drwxrxrx.bsky.social
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Comment #48944612
But not one of the cranks being behind the chainring… interesting
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Comment #48926717
Thanks, it makes me chuckle too. It also serves as an indicator of how much it's adhering to what I've laid out in the file, sorta like how Van Halen's rider specified a bowl of M&…
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Comment #48926658
Ha, good catch, thank you. I must have been thinking of "inflammable"...
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Comment #48914928
I'm more irked by the sentence-structure patterns it continually uses... here's my list: https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/3d099dbf86da9/claude...
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Comment #48914881
Punctuation lover here, and it's really disappointing that my use of em-dashes is now considered an AI tell... Even though I use them differently from how LLMs do, the distinction …
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Comment #48909653
IIRC I experienced this confusion the most when reading commit messages and documentation authored by Claude in my repos. Now that I've managed to convince it to stop using first-p…
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Comment #48908655
...or we call it an overused catch-phrase.
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Comment #48908304
I did something like this in my global `CLAUDE.md`... https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude... > It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Ge…
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Comment #48361843
500 error when requesting the individual Job Description pages... ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/ HTTP/2 200 ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/job/5128202007/ HTTP…
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Comment #48361185
Location: Oakland, California Remote: Yes (or hybrid/on-site in San Francisco or East Bay) Willing to relocate: no thanks Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Elixir, Pyth…
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Comment #48172443
Darkly funny that Pangram 3.3.1 thinks "100% of this text is AI generated"
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Comment #48046076
I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik
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Comment #48015952
As a member of that group of 1300+, I'm wondering if there's something specific you're looking for which no one has addressed?
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Comment #47958531
"The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it" —William H. Whyte
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Comment #47956835
I have been trying to convince Claude to use "Claude" instead of first-person pronouns, and only recently have gotten it to say stuff like "Claude'll go ahead and take care of that…
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Comment #47657857
This is the approach I’m taking, along with being much more verbose than my normal style with comments in the code and commit messages (including snippets of the prompts/insights t…
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Comment #47656536
> […] the knowledge base isn’t just for research. It’s a context engineering system. You’re building the exact input your LLM needs to do useful work. > […] there’s a real differen…
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Comment #47616858
Noticed that and was wondering, thanks for the explanation. Does this imply that human-people need to go “vouch” for the flagged comments to bring them back into HM’s good graces?
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Comment #47608532
I think if you treat it like a coworker who you respect, it will speak to you like a coworker who respects you, but will still make some idiotic mistakes...
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Comment #47384825
Yesterday it was showing a hint in the corner to use "/btw" but when I first tried it I got this same error. About ten minutes later (?) I noticed it was still showing the same hin…
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Comment #46348350
FWIW archive.org has a lot of live music as well
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Comment #46348156
Is this synonymous with AI-assisted coding now??
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Comment #46149440
IMHO they’re starting off harder this year!
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Comment #45325303
Isn’t this already (slowly) happening?