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My "favorite" aspect of the Slack web app, which might have been fixed, as I haven't seen it recently, is if you typed up -> r (I believe it's r) to open the emoji picker, typed a …

"For AI agents". I understand why everything needs to be marketed in this way, but it's just ... an easy-to-generate language for expressing charts. That's impressive! That's usefu…

Speculating here, but perhaps your coworker was too ambitious? In my opinion, you should start with AI-generated PRs that do small, linting refactors and then work up from there. I…

I'll add another use case for letting an AI go ham: many small, atomic refactors where the name of the game is never breaking anything. My personal OSS projects don't have the scal…

Folks that are interested in a way of doing work locally that doesn't suck, but which integrates LLMs, may be interested in [Barnum]( https://barnum-circus.github.io/ ). The TLDR i…

That's exactly the tradeoff I made with Barnum ( https://barnum-circus.github.io/ ). It's just not important to optimize the performance of the rust side for the reason you stated.…

Hey folks! This talk is about GraphQL in a world of fullstack, rich clients and about Isograph. The question it asks is: does GraphQL need to exist? Can we get its benefits without…

A simple task ("convert this file from JS to TS, here are the types of all imported things") is much more likely to continue to work with a nerfed model compared to a complicated t…

Yes, exactly! Check out https://github.com/barnum-circus/barnum/blob/master/demos/ba...

You may want to check out Barnum, which is a programming language/agent orchestration tool that makes it easy to build things like /loop, or Claude code routines. And you won't end…

If you want to feel like you're using a programming language when orchestrating agents, check out https://github.com/barnum-circus/barnum

You can lessen your dependence on the specific details of how /loop, code routines, etc. work by asking the LLM to do simpler tasks, and instead, having a proper workflow engine be…

I'm as nerdy as they come (my current project is the fourth compiler I've worked on), and I absolutely love this new way of working. There's a lot more time spent in discussion wit…

I agree. I think we simply don't have the tools yet to hold agents to that high architectural standard. It simply takes a lot of focused effort and berating and close comprehension…

I think what you're implying is that the agent ships unmaintainable slop. Certainly, if I don't pay attention and review the code line by line, it will ship slop. And even sometime…

The skill atrophy point strikes me as tenuous at best. Obviously, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I find myself able to work on projects of greater complexity than I would …

Some URLs, when displayed on the HN feed (in small text), include in the first path segment, such as GitHub. It would be an improvement to also see the second path segment, i.e. th…

I may be wrong on the details, but with URQL: - you don't have a normalized cache. You may not want one! But if you find yourself annoyed that modifying one entity in one location …

You may be interested in checking out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVGdErZuN4 , where I talk about the benefits of Relay. This isn't (currently) possible without GraphQL, so it…

Yeah, you can get a lot of features out of the same primitive. The primitive (called loadable fields, but you can think of it as a tool to specify a section of a query as loaded la…

I would encourage you to write an educated person's critique of GraphQL, because OP's article + https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/ etc. suck up all of the oxyg…

This is a genuinely accurate critique of GraphQL. We're missing some extremely table-stakes things, like generics, discriminated unions in inputs (and in particular, discriminated …

There's an informed critique of RSC, but no one is making it.

Incidentally, v0.5.0 of Isograph just came out! https://isograph.dev/blog/2025/12/14/isograph-0.5.0/ There are lots of DevEx wins in this release, such as the ability to create hav…