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imron

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About imron

http://www.imralsoftware.com/

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    Comment #49229551

    And what does this mean now that AI can write at 10x this speed again...

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    Comment #49021056

    Yes! An incredible tool. You'll rarely need to use it, but when you do it's invaluable.

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    Comment #48955585

    not 100% feature compatible but close enough in terms of capabilities that I use: codex, and grok build.

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    Comment #48944500

    I love opencode but it chews through memory on my 64gb MacBook Pro. Can’t have too many long running sessions because the memory use just slowly creeps up. It’s not about the termi…

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    Comment #48935828

    It makes a huge memory difference.

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    Comment #48805447

    Codex works great in opencode until it gets up to around 200k context. Then it starts doing things like: me: Can you implement the next thing OpenCode+Codex: Yep I'll do that next.…

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    Comment #48713103

    If you’re suggesting that the test favors those capable of arranging their thoughts and words before putting pen to paper then.... I’m not sure there’s a problem

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    Comment #48685937

    As someone with over 25 years experience in software engineering, 6 months ago I used to feel the same way ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389417 ). What changed: - Opus. …

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    Comment #48594603

    I think OP was rather suggesting that we have a guideline to avoid comments about whether something was written by AI or not. Without fail, every comment section will have posts by…

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    Comment #48558150

    > They're also saying that the AI market is worth roughly 10% of all global real estate. Why limit yourself to one planet? Space is infinite ;-)

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    Comment #48381375

    I love vanilla vim.

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    Comment #48332196

    The debugger doesn’t even come close

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    Comment #48321615

    All the good borland devs were poached by Microsoft. VC5 and 6 were the spiritual successors of the Turbo XXX family of IDEs.

  14. comment
    Comment #48263656

    Here's one that hit the frontpage recently: https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/

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    Comment #48200062

    Litigation

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    Comment #48175487

    > This requires using the extremely unintuitive `git rebase --onto A B C` invocation. Unintuitive yes, and I'm not going to disagree with you on UX, but it's not a particularly dif…

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    Comment #48175421

    > Not any more. `git add -p` FTW

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    Comment #48105467

    Large volumes of training data is a blessing and a curse, especially when you consider who wrote it.

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    Comment #47995229

    > Changing the default behavior for all of your users with no notification is pretty unforgivable How else is a poor programmer gonna hit their KPIs and get that promo?

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    Comment #47943263

    > Analyze if it's malware how exactly? By spending thousands and thousands of tokens of course :-)

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    Comment #47844852

    Can we get OpenCode support back as well?

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    Comment #47713680

    Any service that hosts git?

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    Comment #47713651

    > I do wonder, though, if it would have been designed differently if the whole “code forge” sort of application (or whatever GitHub and the like are called) was envisioned at the t…

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    Comment #47713604

    My biggest gripe with skills is that even clear and explicit instructions are regularly ignored - even when the skill is brief ( I’ll often see the agent saying it’s about to do so…

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    Comment #47702014

    4. Someone who wants to keep all their fingers, and not meet some kind of horrifying death.