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pjm331

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    Comment #49155023

    How’s that been going?

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    Comment #48958325

    Listen friend I’m also in the camp of LLMs are just math and data and don’t actually “have an idea” about anything but that doesn’t make them any less accurate/effective at generat…

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    Comment #48928171

    Yeah i have a similar setup at the harness level - a “devlog” at the end of every session about the experience developing, what could have been better, what was confusing And also …

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    Comment #48732014

    Nothing teaches you like maintaining something for a decade

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    Comment #48677994

    great game well done i could easily play this for far too long

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    Comment #48661426

    i have a vague memory of hunter s thompson talking about sitting down and typing out the great gatsby to see how it would feel to write a great american novel

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    Comment #48502631

    Yes I had a fun experience where it kept on timing out on a seemingly mundane task and it turned out I had written the ask in a way that was impossible to test

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    Comment #48495255

    and i `brew update && brew upgrade --greedy` every morning with my first cup of coffee because i like to live on the edge like that thanks for all your work!

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    Comment #48493235

    so i think the thing that everyone building these git alternatives is missing is a multi-repo story - unless the expectation is that everyone is going to start operating out of mon…

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    Comment #48461791

    i feel fairly certain everyone has some set of activities or tasks they feel this way about my wife and i have two non-overlapping sets haha you can imagine how that plays out

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    Comment #48388690

    https://pragprog.com/titles/lhelph/functional-web-developmen... don't let the title fool you - the first half of the book is just elixir over the past 8 years this is the book i've…

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    Comment #48294811

    > > "But pattern‑matching is not system understanding, and plausibility is not correctness." > Why not? Who says that? Who proved that system understanding is not just more complex…

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    Comment #48038645

    yeah this is one of the few AI-related products that I have seen that make sense to me but i also wonder to what extent this needs to be its own thing or if this is just something …

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    Comment #48027860

    sounds very familiar to what I ended up doing on my internal system - especially anything to do with search - much better to just sync everything to a DB and give the agent access …

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    Comment #47719210

    it's straightforward to spin up a custom MCP wrapper around any API with whatever access controls you want the only time i reach for official MCP is when they offer features that a…

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    Comment #47663273

    don't see it in the comments yet so: https://www.brain.fm/

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    Comment #47632326

    Yeah I’ve had a lot of success with agentic search against a database. The way I think of it, the main characteristic of agentic search is just that the agent can execute many type…

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    Comment #47580721

    the actual argument being made here: "Assign agents the biggest piece justifiable. I can summarize a product outcome or a feature in two lines. That’s what goes on the ticket. Let …

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    Comment #47550003

    I've had the same thought recently and this definitely is a thing that you can do - but there are also cases where you get dramatically better results if you put some more effort i…

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    Comment #47413067

    What is SCP

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    Comment #47386920

    Im sure that’s possible but my own working style is too chaotic for saving workspaces like that haha

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    Comment #47368980

    yeah the CTRL+D definitely gives me problems from time to time but thus far i have been too lazy to fix it

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    Comment #47368956

    "Software people are not alone in facing complexity. Physics deals with terribly complex objects even at the "fundamental" particle level. The physicist labors on, however, in a fi…

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    Comment #47368116

    here is my entire config hs.hotkey.bind({"ctrl"}, "D", function() hs.grid.show() end) i've tried all of the other fancy window managers and for me nothing has ever beat the ease of…

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    Comment #47343036

    The closest thing I have found that fits right now is just Linear or [insert your own project management tool with a good api here] and then you manage agents in many of the same w…