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If every commit has full ai conversation baggage, and you feed that history back to an ai… aren’t you wildly inflating context with stuff that may or may not matter? How does this …

pretty much every day I feel that tickling of “what the hell did I just do?” but I don’t care. I put 15 years into my tech career. I am good at building software, and I will not le…

yeah, at a local pizza/taproom place. they share tips with cooks, works out to ~$35/hr. I'm not expecting it to replace a tech salary, but it helps offset the savings burn (which w…

yeah! it's pretty cool when I start doing something that used to be difficult and now it's just... not. weird how long your old form sticks with you in your head like that.

> untreated ADD causing repeated failures, repeated failures causing depression realized this one about myself earlier this year, it really helped to boil it down to something besi…

I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to p…

I just recently decided to replace iterm2 with wezterm when I started moving macbook over to nix. iterm2 is about the only one that didn’t work well for this, since you can’t sourc…

Completely agree, I hate the “hackathon” for so many reasons, guess I’ll vent here too. All of this from the perspective of one frustrated software engineer in web tech. First of a…

Maybe, maybe not, it’s hard to tell from articles like this from OSS projects what is generally going on, especially with corporate work. There is no such rhetoric at $job, but als…

> […] and then ask about a list of foo Not OP, but this is the part that I take issue with. I want to forget what tools are there and have the LLM figure out on its own which tool …

I’ll give it a fair go, but how is it not going to have the same problem of _maybe_ using MCP tools? The same problem of trying to add to your prompt “only answer if you are 100% c…

> Though you have to watch out for folks that are using the AI to answer your questions. Heh I do think that happened once (that I was aware of), but it was on a topic I knew a lot…

That is a really neat interview format, the lightning round of varying themes of common tasks! This right here proves to me you are a good interviewer: > I'm not worried about whet…

> […] and then having a conversation about what is done, reasoning, etc. Isn’t this where it would likely unravel? The interviewer will know what the interesting parts of the exerc…

Oh shoot, yes I did! Thank you stranger

Already a very neat project, but it would be really interesting to: 1. Display a progress bar for the memory limit being reached 2. Feed that progress back to the model I would be …

Already a very neat project, but it would be really interesting to: 1. Display a progress bar for the memory limit being reached 2. Feed that progress back to the model I would be …

Yes, I have read novels. I don’t think blog posts and novels compare at all.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WON!

> In my opinion the answer is honestly pretty simple: blogs and RSS feeds. This point is made very often, and I do believe it was true for many people, but I honestly didn’t care a…