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I'm curious how that works - are you actually hand writing specs with RFC level detail yourself completely or is it more of an LLM assisted effort? It seems like writing a comprehe…

I have tried prompting it out and providing strong guidelines in my AGENTS.md against it, but I still get _way_ too many useless "explain the code" style comments no matter how muc…

I find well described but concise acceptance criteria does a good job of anchoring the llm to the correct output. Also have them take screenshots of any UI work and respond to the …

I wonder if slight grammar incorrectness (like not capitalizing your sentences or using abbreviations) is going to start becoming a signal of authenticity for people subconsciously…

That was the exception, the norm was definitely just a page that said, "Your browser does not support flash"

Artist radios almost inevitably become a mix of songs I’ve listened to the most that have even the faintest crossover with the artist genre. It’s very, very frustrating and my bigg…

The rest of the world, presumably

I find the "self loathing american on the internet" act to be about as performative as putting a pink ribbon on your social media avatar after a shooting. It's not introspective in…

I know there’s a ton of resources out there for this sort of thing but is there any particular sites/books that stood out to you while learning?

Only on HN will your customers not only tolerate your product once you’ve reached market saturation and started enshittifying it, they’ll write you a whole guide on how to do it!

Do LLM's not benefit from the abstractions higher level languages like Javascript/node offer? Perhaps I'm speaking out of depth because I haven't done a lot of Golang, but I've alw…

All of those things are smells imo, you should be very weary of any code output from a task that causes that much thrashing to occur. In most cases it’s better to rewind or reset a…

Its a lot less odd when you remember that he's running an AI company himself.

Are you telling me that my home assistant enabled humidity sensors in my garden that trigger the arduino hose valve could just be replaced by a watering can??

It’s not X it’s Y is one of the most obvious LLM writing patterns. Especially the heavily punctuated sentence structure.

I'm on FB primarily because my local buy-nothing group is on it, so I am logging in multiple times a day. I'm so used to this slop it's pretty funny at this point, but as is the ca…

I guess you're right - getting your podcast big enough that it becomes a necessary checkbox for book/media tours is a skill. You're correct that he brings absolutely nothing to the…

I can't think of an interviewer who interjects their viewpoint more and tries to get his guest to acknowledge/agree to his typically shallow level analysis than Lex. The only redee…

Helping out with a freelance project I built 15 years ago. It didn’t end on the best of terms, but the relationship has since been repaired (and I’m much better at managing my time…

What problem is it even solving? Keeping my car straight so I can be less attentive on the road? I get it in the context of driverless but find it nothing but annoying as a driver.…

Of course I use code generation. Why would that be mutually exclusive from AI usage? Claude will take full advantage of it with proper instruction.

As most are

In my experience AI is pretty good at performance optimizations as long as you know what to ask for. Can't speak to firmware code or complex cryptography but my hunch is if it's in…

I dunno, when you've made about 10,000 clay pots its kinda nice to skip to the end result, you're probably not going to learn a ton with clay pot #10,001. You can probably come up …

If you're using a code coverage tool to identify the branches its hitting in the code, you at least have a guarantee that it is testing the code its writing tests for as long as yo…