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Comment #48468374
Not sure what value your comment added. Software engineering is also problem solving. Are you arguing it is not?
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Comment #48437699
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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Comment #47740400
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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Comment #47740382
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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Comment #46666187
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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Comment #46522551
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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Comment #46443174
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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Comment #41617664
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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Comment #37231851
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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Comment #36874197
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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Comment #35234728
The 80386 System Software Writer’s Guide. http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/80386/231499-001_8...