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oldnewthing

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About oldnewthing

Old, young developer. Stuff I worked on over the years: adCenter, Xbox Live, SQS, SNS, Sharepoint Online, Azure, GKE & Dataplex. Mostly just distributed systems stuff. Now workflows.

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    Not sure what value your comment added. Software engineering is also problem solving. Are you arguing it is not?

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    Hey, I agree with you. I and my team have the same existential worries. This was one reason why I bought my own subscriptions to Claude and Codex to learn and skill up. I have been…

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    I also have the following in ~/.bashrc export CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=64000 export MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=31999 export DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_…

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    If this helps, I rolled back to version 2.1.34. Here is the ~/.claude/settings.json blurb I added: "effortLevel": "high", "autoUpdatesChannel": "stable", "minimumVersion": "2.1.34"…

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    Show HN: Agent Instructions and Bootstrap Components

    Hello, We started using AI tools intensively about 1.5 years ago. Initially, we used Gemini and Claude for creating specifications, generating concept mocks and UI mocks. That was …

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    We were working on the data powering the Xbox console frontend for searches. For example, the metadata that powers a search like "romantic movie". The data was stored in Azure tabl…

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    Claude Code is very good; good enough that I upgraded to the Max plan this week. However, it has a long way to go. It's great at one-shotting (with iterations) most ideas. However,…

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    Created modfin.lyfbits.com. Wrote it to help me model and determine various types of investment scenarios. Continuing to work on it. Not strictly vibe-coded. I use a brainstorm -> …

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    I believe the reason for divesting from the registrar business had to do more with ICANN rules that require Google not both be a registry operator and a registrar. Google does have…

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    Paywalled article but ... IMO: 1) Software Engineers should follow structured processes and methods to solve problems. They might look different: state charts, sequence diagrams, f…

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    I tried porkbun. Really wanted it to work. Tried to transfer two domains to them from Google. For some reason, their payment system kept declining my perfectly fine Chase Visa card…

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    The 80386 System Software Writer’s Guide. http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/80386/231499-001_8...