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This is phenomenal. I know everyone is asking for their pet feature in this thread, but I would really like to see this in split keyboard format. They are much more comfortable to …

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And to be specific, the METR study was using the Cursor harness with Claude Sonnet 3.5/3.7, along with other models of that era of the participant’s choosing. Which is ancient at t…

And the comment you’re replying to, which is entirely a reasonable opinion, was flagged, proving their point. I’ve been here for 18 years and similarly alienated by the cynicism he…

I don’t think this is entirely wrong, in that there is a ‘class thing’ about riding the bus, but it’s more practicality than a class marker for a lot of people. - In SF you can eit…

I’m all for standardization but you could just use this argument to keep any suboptimal status quo in place. XML is good enough and a standard. SOAP is good enough and a standard. …

That seems a bit reductive. Even with humans, there’s a range of interpretations and ways that something can be built or a task completed. Engineers remember stuff so you don’t hav…

I don’t really buy that Claude Design will remove all the complexity around design. Vibe-coded apps using Claude look simpler because they are simpler. They’re not a gigantic produ…

Goody | Remote | $150–250K + equity and benefits | US and Canada | Full-time I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. We're building a gifting product that every busine…

> What’s become more fun is building the infrastructure that makes the agents effective. Solving new problems is a thing engineers get to do constantly, whereas building an agent i…

If you save 3 hours building something with agentic engineering and that PR sits in review for the same 30 hours or whatever it would have spent sitting in review if you handwrote …

Goody | Remote | $150–250K + equity and benefits | North/South America | Full-time I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. We're building a gifting product that every …

An intuition for what people like. Inherently subjective, but you can still approximate ‘more or less tasteful’ by how many people respond well to it.

That is exactly the type of awesome app that can now be built. I edited my comment to clarify that the grocery app and $5/month app are separate examples, but I think your example …

Yes, that’s a possibility! And for app types that have a limited ceiling of how much value they can provide, that will definitely be a thing as an AI app can saturate all of that v…

Everyone who has built software knows that the hardest parts involve making complex, tricky decisions with tradeoffs. Let’s say you make a grocery list app. Now you have to make de…

There’s a difference between abstracting away the network layer and not understanding the business logic. What we are talking about with AI slop is not understanding the business l…

This is not hype-chasing. AI is a key part of software engineering now. For this to be absent from Xcode would be an existential risk for the future of the product.

TUI is easy to train on, but hard to use for users. Part of the reason it’s easier to have LLMs use a bunch of Unix tools for us is that their text interface is tedious and hard to…

Goody | Remote | $150–250K + equity and benefits | North/South America | Full-time I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. We're building a gifting product that every …

Is Postgres fast enough for job processing these days? We do hundreds of millions of jobs now and even years ago when our volume was a fraction of that, we got a huge performance b…

Not an academic, but I used LaTeX for years and it doesn’t feel like what future of publishing should use. It’s finicky and takes so much markup to do simple things. A lab manager …

This is a great option if you work outdoors a lot. As a designer though, I couldn’t get used to the “dusty” appearance of the nano texture (and yes, contrast loss – glossy displays…

Yeah, I think designing a system for the LLM to check its own work will replace prompt engineering in key LLM techniques (though, it itself is a form of prompt engineering, but mor…

That’s not the point of this. This was an exercise to measure the strengths and weaknesses of current LLMs in operating a company and managing operations, and the video game was ju…