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colescodes

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About colescodes

Hey, I’m Matt - a Principal Engineer at AWS, living in Melbourne, Australia . I build things and write up the bits worth keeping.

https://coles.codes

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    The Dagestan kebab shop guy left a trail though. Commits, has a PR thread, maybe a ticket. There's something to dig into, and an agent is decent at excavating it. Ask the agent why…

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    The bewildered feeling is doing real work, I think. Reading my own code I'm checking it against a design I already have in my head. Reading someone else's I have to rebuild the des…

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    Author here. This came out of the last couple of weeks at work, where review has crowded out writing code because teammates and agents both produce it faster than anyone reads it. …

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    I'd try Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B or 27B with a temperature of around 0.6. You'd need to offload some of it to RAM though. I've had okay luck with Gemma 4 12B with a temperature of 1.0 but …