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This was happening even on the `stable` branch with 4.7 I managed to get claude to create a recovery script to un-brick sessions, YMMV https://gist.github.com/robertfw/993dbe8643c4…

OpenAI was doing this back with GPT2, saying it was too dangerous to release

I was in this camp as well until recently, in the last 2-3 weeks I've been seeing problems that I wasn't seeing before, largely in line with the issues highlighted in the ticket (o…

how utterly disconnected from reality you are

`uv` has per-package overrides, I imagine there may be similar in other managers

Yeah, the moment I saw this I knew this article was not going to be very useful. Getting claude to follow your guidance files consistently is a bit maddening.

I really don't get this sentiment. The only sets that I think didn't contribute like this were the bionicle stuff. Getting a few more unique parts with a set gives you more options…

I wonder if it's just: compact earlier, so there's less to compact, and more remaining context that can be used to create a more effective continuation

I've been using a `/feedback ...` command with claude code where I give it either positive or negative feedback about some action it just did, and it'll look through the session to…

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/lego-large-creative-brick...

I was already programming when I got into mindstorms (so very happy that my high school had an "Industrial Control Technologies" class), but the jump in complexity and the thrill o…

I still have my mindstorms controller + sensors, I wonder how much effort it would be to get everything up and running again

I feel like the special parts have eased off, it was pretty bad with the bionicle stuff (which ironically are apparently what saved lego from financial difficulties), but I'd say a…

I do think that the "model" form of something recognizable (thinking mostly about the Star Wars kits here) does lend itself to kits that sit on the shelf, but no one is forcing you…

there are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop is a considerable expense

and if your pre-commit runs fast (thank you, ruff), you can set this up as a post-edit hook in claude code

I feel like this talk by John Hughes showed that there is real value in this approach with production systems of varying levels of complexity, with two different examples of using …

You could already do these things before, you just spent much more time twiddling your thumbs waiting for lock files to be resolved

Slow doesn't really begin to do justice, I'd have to wait for >5 minutes for pipenv to finish figuring out our lock file. uv does it in less than a second.

I don't know, I tend to agree. I feel like the number of times I've been thrown off by an out of date comment for code that could have probably been refactored to be clearer, outwe…

comments for me are a code smell: - like all documentation, they are prone to code rot (going out of date) - ideally code should be obvious; if you need a comment to explain it, pe…

KDE won me over for the simple fact that it's highly configurable, and that configuration is all driven out of one UI tool. Gnome drove me nuts with molding it into the shape I wan…

my development workflow with python often boils down to repeatedly running `pytest --ff --pdb -x`... - run my tests, running any previous failures first - drop into the debugger wh…

I've had similar cases where the fix to the test was.. delete the test. Ah, if only I'd realized that little hack earlier in my career!

Making it work can be a hacky, tech debt laden implementation. Making it right involves refactoring/rewriting with an eye towards maintainability, testability, etc etc