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> So I don't think advanced AI that can help debug and maintain software will stay out of the reach of most people for very long. But then what stops the upstream tools from doing …

As a maintainer of a devtool which has strived to make itself easily forkable and modifiable, I can see the allure of this line of thinking but I think it's sadly too idealistic. E…

Have to plug the original Swiss Table talk by Matt Kulukundis: https://youtu.be/ncHmEUmJZf4?si=YRl2pDvdGZgd2ROq Excellent talk which explains the concepts really clearly and concis…

I agree with the actual principle I think this article is trying to put across (don't give up on technical quality too early by dismissing it as "perfection") but I strongly disagr…

I do want to clarify my point of view since there does seem to be some interpretation which I didn't entirely anticipate (wholly my mistake): 1. I'm not claiming that every interac…

I also wrote recently [1] about Exponential Search [2] which is another algorithm if you need to repeatedly binary search in an array where the elements you're searching are themse…

> How many of 500 tests were actually reviewed/tested and found good? Essentially ~all of the tests were found to be useful but in a more "smoke test" capacity i.e. they provided g…

> It's a huge mistake to start building with Claude without mapping out a project in detail first, by hand. I agree with you in theory but in my opinion, it doesn't work so well wh…

> With so much waste and not a single example of the "brilliant at giving you the right answer to a specific technical question" In my opinion, "giving me a better understanding fo…

> https://sqlitebrowser.org/ sqlitebrowser.org is cool but it's not the sort of developer tools I'm talking about. As I clarify in the side notes, I'm looking for a formatter, lint…

When I refer to "extracting sources from the SQLite codebase" a big part of that was indeed referring to compiling Lemon and executing it against a custom implementation of parse.y…

I'm very well aware of parse.y, if you look into the syntaqlite code, you'd find it's a critical part of how the whole "source extraction" mentioned in the article works [1] To be …