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The reason it works is because there's a difference between the model knowing something and the agent doing something. Claude will happily write giant untested functions even thoug…

I HATE this. I call it speculative coding. Claude often calls it "defensive" programming. It's easily my #1 LLM pet peeve. I have yet to figure out a reliable way to make this stop…

OP here. I don't know, in my experience Claude took "clean the kitchen before we make dinner" to heart in an astonishingly productive way. I haven't tried many other analogies thou…

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

My experience has been that yes, LLMs already know about TDD, OOP, etc., but they won't necessarily BEHAVE according to what they know unless you tell them. And of course, they "kn…

Good point! Will add a date.

Totally agree, although I'd maybe replace "knowledge" with "knowledge or behavior".

> Just because a piece of duplication costs something doesn’t automatically mean that the de-duplicated version costs less. It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes a de-duplica…

> One of the biggest benefits of duplication that the author fails to identify the locality of logic There are a lot of things in the post that I fail to identify. There are also s…

I like reading articles about programming but I don't really want to get more emails. I also prefer reading offline over reading on the screen. I figured there were probably other …

The rule is "after the player has guessed a door, open ALL the other doors except the door that was guessed plus one other door". I think your confusion is because if there are 100…

I personally don't see any reason why the type of test matters when doing TDD. As I see it you can do TDD with integration tests just as much as you can do TDD with unit tests. The…

Agreed. Although I think the reason why most freelancers sell staff aug work as opposed to what you might call "strategic project work" is that it's about 100X easier (at least in …

When I used to freelance I divided my marketing activities into two categories: "hunting" and "farming". Hunting tactics include things like responding to job board ads, reaching o…