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Re: Small programming tricks

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Post by elendilm » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #239

elendilm wrote: post #89

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People in academia generally doesn't code much. So I am not surprised. LLM's have not affected us in the slightest when it comes to coding. Maybe we write a snippet, post it for llm to scrutinize, and usually LLMs spout bullshit and wrong suggestions and after enough verbal abuse it points to some issues with the code. But I don't get this delegation to LLM's for your entire coding. I hope everyone delegates to LLM :…

so are you a time traveller from like, 2023 or something?

You must be from 2029. How is the cost and technical debt looking over there?

Here in 2026, we are trying hard to reduce those. Here economics still punishes us for bad decisions. In 2026, some of us use LLMs as a tool and not as the brain.

Re: Small programming tricks

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Post by Squeeeez » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

kittikitti wrote: post #269

TeMPOraL wrote: post #131

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So say people so afraid of LLMs they don't even use them :). The rest of us picks a level between "approve some" and "YOLO" depending on how much they worry about having to clean up the workspace afterwards. Encouraging using the repo and some dedicated per-session storage, while discouraging changes to global state (like installing packages system-wide) reduces cleanup problem to "every now and then `rm -rf` some ag…

The last time I did this, the AI was markedly worse and it took a few days of development time to undo it. Then Claude blamed me for it when asking about the root cause in a retrospective.

Welll... If you lend $100 to a hobo, would you really blame them when they run away with it?

Re: Small programming tricks

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Post by ChickeNES » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #190

ellieh wrote: post #117

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(hi! I work on atuin!) yes, it's improved a lot in the last couple of years! what in particular bothered you?

Not the parent commenter, but I also tried it a year or two ago and my recollection is that I had a similar experience. I have a really long history file that dates back like a decade and if remembering correctly I tried to import it, and it made using my shell very laggy so I ended up removing it. I'm not 100% positive that I'm remembering the exact way that I started experiencing the lag though, so if I have time t…

I think it was a combo of this + completely screwing my muscle memory haha. I'd give it another shot...but tbh, these days claude/codex are more my command line than bash/zsh.

Re: Small programming tricks

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Post by ChickeNES » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

ellieh wrote: post #194

saghm wrote: post #190

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Not the parent commenter, but I also tried it a year or two ago and my recollection is that I had a similar experience. I have a really long history file that dates back like a decade and if remembering correctly I tried to import it, and it made using my shell very laggy so I ended up removing it. I'm not 100% positive that I'm remembering the exact way that I started experiencing the lag though, so if I have time t…

Ahh yes, we’ve done a lot of performance optimisation since then. We regularly test on >1m records and have no issues Make sure you’re using the daemon (the install script will handle this) and you should be good to go Very happy to help if you have any problems. Ellie at Atuin dot sh

I'm curious, is using the daemon with my own frontend a supported use case? Because I had a thought...while as I mentioned above I don't use the CLI much anymore...my agents do, and having that history in a sql db would be mighty useful...