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ghshephard

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About ghshephard

I'm an SRE. My day mostly consists of wrangling Hashicorp Nomad, Consul, Vault with lots of Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.

In past lives I was a Data Engineer, Systems Engineer (IPv6 Mesh Networks) and Network Engineer.

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    Comment #49174094

    I'm guessing my brain has been permanently warped by working in a hashistack environment for the last 5+ years. All of these KV pairs are always either in a consul (bog-standard co…

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    Comment #49115840

    That's not on the shared page - do you have the system prompt?

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    Comment #49105668

    It also doesn't have copy-paste buffers, which makes me sad. Relies on OSC52 support / system clipboards - and when you are 3 emulators / tunnels deep into a connection - rarely wo…

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    Comment #49090121

    I'll confess to using `uv` almost every day for the last year+ - and I've never used anything other than `uv pip install` for package management. Is there any compelling reason not…

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    Comment #49013260

    "tcp" can take roughly 3-4 weeks of heads-down dedicated study to have some reasonable familiarity with. Same is true with most of the other concepts. Being able to speak with expe…

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    Comment #48939895

    Because the value obtained from doing so is unlikely to exceed the cost of the lawsuits if they were ever caught doing so.

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    Comment #48679009

    M3 Ultra w/512 GB was released 1 year ago for $9500. I bought one (with a friend's Apple Employee Discount) and originally had a bit of buyer's remorse, because performance was les…

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    Comment #48576958

    The Different Model approach is where from tasks to task - I can switch from Opus 4.8, GPT 5.5 and (very often) composer 2 at 1/10th the cost. It's not perfect, btw - to some degre…

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    Comment #48565619

    With the one caveat that it does not (yet) support copy/paste buffers or copying from the scroll back buffer. It’s also adamant that you use a mouse to select/copy - anything more …

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    Comment #48564709

    You absolutely don't. I use all three products. My preference is Claude Code for my personal project. The one at work is kind of sandboxed off - but does have the benefit of an MCP…

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    Comment #48564684

    It's a solid question - and to some degree what https://programbench.com/ tries to measure. Some of the issues (off the top of my head): - Note - that my "product" was about 3,000 …

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    Comment #48564628

    You nailed it - in fact, most of Anthropic's early revenue came from Cursor - much of claude code programming components is essentially a feature copy of Cursor, so it makes sense …

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    Comment #48564546

    Oh- this is super intriguing - can you share the highlight elements of Warp Terminal that make it feel so useful to you?

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    Comment #48563705

    I think many of the people who have become "AI Pilled" (I'll include myself here) had it happen in the last 3 months. Even over the Christmas break, when the Wiggums loop got so mu…

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    Comment #48560745

    I think the argument for Cursor is that it's the dominant tool that enterprises are using for coding, so the theory is Cursor wins that as the "model agnostic", it has a phenomenal…

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    Comment #48560665

    I think all of the cues that you just described are in the plan. For example - I might (real world example from this morning): "Create a script that installs hashicorp vault and co…

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    Comment #48560533

    As someone who has spent the last 10+ years working in Tmux - but is entirely comfortable on Mac, Windows and Linux desktop environments - here are the key reasons why the terminal…

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    Comment #48559714

    I use cursor 8+ hours/day at work, and have full (and effectively unlimited) access to Claude Code and Codex - tools which I also use personally. I suspect that your "constant popu…

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    Comment #48499102

    Worst case it gets access to gmail. And Github. And the Internet. I'm increasingly appreciating the importance of a physical finger-press on Yubikey to trigger the FIDO2 + OIDC Aut…

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    Comment #48468043

    Depends no the Enterprise - obviously - in the bay area - 0% of the tech companies care in the slightest. And I'm willing to wager But - these $3k-$5k/month/engineer bills are goin…

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    Comment #48453213

    See: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/how-openai-board-is-structu... for the OpenAI Structure. 1) In order to fund research - this stuff costs 10s of billions of dollars - everyone…

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    Comment #48453148

    I do a lot of code bisecting with Claude Code - and it spends hours running experiments - looking at experiment results, making guesses as to what to try next for an experiment - u…

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    Comment #48450600

    I think people are continuing to view these systems as pure LLMs - when that ship sailed 6+ months ago. Between being able to review memory, using agent harnesses and sub agents an…

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    Comment #48117589

    Just realize that Gwynne Shotwell is the driver for 99% of the day-day at SpaceX and you can ignore everything else.

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    Comment #48056311

    You are getting a bit of grief down thread- but this is cool as all get out. The best use of these systems would be to combine the various procedures: First, and foremost - don't l…