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jbdamask

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About jbdamask

Learner / Builder. Went back to building after years as an exec.

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    Flowise was cool. I used to to help build an enterprise employee search tool with it a few years back. https://medium.com/better-programming/employee-search-with-o... The fact is, …

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    Building while vacationing

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    sure, but just look at that butter cow!

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    The bigger a system gets, the tougher it is to grok. I used to spend oodles of heartbeats writing explainers for managers and other engineers but rarely do that w/out AI now. I lik…

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    I can't tell if this thread is real or not. But, uh, I have All Clad pots and pans and still like them. The bottoms warped on a couple so I replaced them with other brands. In gene…

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    Comment #49135778

    Classic case of a CEO finally understanding why engineers are needed

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    Agentic Engineer: "How'd you solve the icing problem?" Vibe Coder: "Icing problem?"

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    Anyone else like llms.txt for architecture docs?

    I'm a fan of using the llms.txt pattern of progressive disclosure for internal app documentation. Agents just produce more consistent code with these. Two things I regularly use it…

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    Steve's mega-project this past year has been Gas Town. It's a way to manage umpteen coding agents doing your bidding. It allows humans to delegate more to AI while not sacrificing …

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    Feeling great. It’s never been faster to bring ideas to life. If anything, I need to look at nature more

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    Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195123 (March 2026, 136 comments) Several months ago I posted about my little proto-app, Now I Get It! that uses LLMs to translat…

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    One-liners to check for bad litellm and axios on your computer

    Search your drive (not mounts) for compromised versions of litellm and axios. Please comment if you see anything wrong or ways these can be improved! LiteLLM: find / \( -type d -na…

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    Nice job - I'm a fan. Makes it easy to get the big picture so I know where to dive in.