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No, I'm quite confident that I'm very strong in these languages. Certainly not world-class but I write very good code and I know well-written code when I see it. If you'd like some…

Yeah, I have no idea what the consensus definition of the term is, and I suppose I can't say for sure what OP meant. I haven't used Cursor. My understanding was that it exercises I…

That's not my experience. I agree that a project of any real size takes quite a bit longer than a week. But it's composed of lots of, well, week or two long subprojects. And if the…

This doesn't sound right to me. If someone who were expert in JS looked at a relatively simple C++ program, I think they could reasonably well tell if the quality of code were good…

Yes. This was the key thing I learned that let me set the agents loose on larger tasks. Before I started iterating on specs with them, I mostly had them doing very small scale, ref…

Interesting. What would make the workflow "agentic" in your mind? The AI implementing the task fully autonomously, never getting any human feedback? To me "agentic" in this context…

:-) I feel you. Perhaps I should have ended my post with "Would you like me to construct a good prompt for your planning agent?" to really drive us into the uncanny valley? (My wri…

Agreed. In the domains where I'm an expert, it's a nice productivity boost. In the domains where I'm not, it's transformative. As a complete aside from the question of productivity…

You are welcome to use whatever definition of "small/medium/large" you like. Like you, 1-2 weeks is also far from the largest project I've worked on. I don't think that's particula…

Great idea! That's actually the very next improvement I was planning on making to my coding flow: building a sub agent that is purely designed to study the codebase and create a st…

Yep. I have plenty of experience in languages that use C-style syntax, enough to easily understand code written in other languages that occur nearby in the syntactical family tree.…

How can I tell? Yes, the code looks quite a bit more polished. I'm not expert enough in JS to, e.g., know the cleanest method to inspect and modify the DOM, but I can look at code …

I've never had a job where writing Javascript has been the primary language (so far it's been C++/Java/Golang). The JS Chrome Extension is a fun side project. Using Augment in a wo…

I use Augment with Claud Opus 4.5 every day at my job. I barely ever write code by hand anymore. I don't blindly accept the code that it writes, I iterate with it. We review code a…

A datapoint for you to consider. I recently started taking Naltrexone, which is an opioid antagonist used to treat alcohol abuse. It reduces your body's endorphin response, making …

This matches my experience exactly. #3 is the one I've found most surprising, and it can work outside the context of just analyzing your own code. For example I found a case where …

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I have some extra if you'd like one. Let me know how to get it to you and I will.

fastdebug is a good tip, thanks for sharing!

This is a niche case, but I spent months trying to upgrade one of our services from one LTS version to the next (I forget which). We encountered a weird bug where services running …

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