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harper

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About harper

Harper Reed

  harper.blog - my blog

  harper.lol - my website

  harper@modest.com - my email (email me!)
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/harper; my proof: https://keybase.io/harper/sigs/gC1DBHuRiae1my0f0LaXWQETcCQqDrQ-mxZ_Rd8zRvY ]

https://tkmx.odio.dev/user/harper

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    this was a fun project and has been super effective for helping me get shit done (or whatever is work these days). if helpful, here is the claude skill we made for this: https://gi…

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    Surprised no mention of futel

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    Comment #44333204

    nice name!

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    It was not a strong metaphor! Can't win them all. You are correct tho. I do think that we are approaching the point of "If it compiles, ship it"

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    Comment #43103029

    the prompts are generated from the planning steps. If you were to follow the prompts in the planning phase, you would get output that is clearly the "starting prompt" that is the f…

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    Comment #43103006

    Yea - i have had OK luck with the architect mode. but was using that as part of this (using deepseek for reasoning) and it good. but oh so slow. Ultimately, i would love to just us…

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    in my experience, there is quite a spectrum of legacy code. Legacy modern code would be anything from the last 5-10 years. Vintage Pioneer code (which i have both initialized, and …

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    the speed is way faster. I am a good programmer with more than 25 years of professional experience. The AI is a better programmer in every way. Why do it myself when i can outsourc…

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    I actually think it is going to be way worse than you are suggesting. I think that the LLM codegen is going to replace most if not all of software eng workflow and teams that we se…

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    fixed! thanks

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    i really wanted to use DSPy to generate prompts, but it wasn't quite as compatible with my workflow as i wanted. I love the idea tho - code instead of strings. i will dig in again.…

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    when it first was released i played with it - but haven't since. i should try again.

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    Comment #43102829

    I added it because of the apple prompts! I figured it is worth a try. The results are good, but i did not test it extensively

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    let me know how it works!

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    most of this is aider / codegen: Total tokens in: 26,729,994 Total tokens out: 1,553,284 Last month anthropic bill was $89.30 -- I want to program with a team, together. not a grou…

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    I will never part with my expensive kindle. Lolol. I read so many good books on it.

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    Nope. I would love to make something public using this tech. It is so magical.

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    Rarely. They are mostly bust fucking around. I will try to document the current one more. Fwiw, my recent blog is me trying to do this more

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    Comment #40026590

    this shouldn't be too hard

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    Comment #40026586

    would love to check it out

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    Comment #40026584

    i thought this far too late