ChicagoDave

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by ChicagoDave 7d ago
And yet not one person laughed when I saw it. It was not a good movie.
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32nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition(ifcomp.org)
1 points by ChicagoDave 15d ago|0 comments
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by ChicagoDave 16d ago
I stopped using chromium browsers years ago. After this move, not sure why anyone would. If I can’t install an ad/malware blocker, I’m not using your browser.
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by ChicagoDave 22d ago
I would be framing my comments around enterprise architecture. For one off websites, cheaper on digital ocean is always the winner.
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by ChicagoDave 24d ago
I have a software architecture and engineering harness that was first constructed from session summaries in ChatGPT and Claude web. Then Claude desktop, then Claude Code. It’s private and I charge for it and I am always looking at the list
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by ChicagoDave 28d ago
The technical solution isn’t the skill issue I’m pointing towards. It’s the business modeling skill that most developers lack, so they skip it and believe an ERD will magically cover all invariants.
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by ChicagoDave 28d ago
This is exactly how tightly coupled, unmaintainable software is constructed. By picking the tools before understanding the model and building bespoke architecture. You pick the tools that the business model requires. It might be a relationa
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by ChicagoDave 29d ago
I wouldn’t push someone else’s code into a Musk-owned repository.
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
The original universal healthcare plans were promoted by the GOP until Hillary got involved and it became a political football.
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
I went down this road six months ago with tool called Lantern though specifically for writing text adventure games. I had it working and then realized that no matter how hard I put walls up between my artistic abilities and the llm was impo
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
The human genome is essentially a billion-year-old quantum engineering document that we can read but can’t “yet” write. Asimov’s positronic brain was the conceptual framework with the wrong formula.
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Chord Writer IDE – A new interactive fiction platform(sharpee.net)
2 points by ChicagoDave 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
I’ll pass on using a platform owned by a white nationalist who’s betrayed his daughter, openly admitted attempting to rig elections, raided our government of life saving appropriations, destroyed public records, stolen social security data,
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
We get to block them. They may exist but they’re invisible. The bots and trolls and agents on X are always on your front porch.
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
80% are bots, 10% trolls, and 5% foreign agents. I’ll take Bluesky over that every day.
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
Finishing up the IDE (Chord Writer) for my new Interactive Fiction modeling language (Chord) for web+parser based games. https://sharpee.net/ https://sharpee.plover.net/
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
There is a half truth to code being the easier part. In order to reduce the complexity of eventually coding something, you use modeling and code probes to validate the business model and then write the code. This has been around since the d
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
The interactive fiction community seems to have a subset of hardcore anti AI hobbyists. Partly at stolen artistic IP, but also the coding half of text adventures is viewed as art just as much as the story and writing. I’ve selected a path w
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/07/harness-en... https://loiane.com/2026/04/harne
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by ChicagoDave 1mo ago
There’s a small group of established architects talking about harness engineering, but I’m not sure anyone is actually listening to them. And those same architects are quietly extracting real productivity from GenAI. And even this write up
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
I work on my MacBook in direct terminal sessions or in a container with no safeguards. I save the container for well-planned units of work that can easily be repeated and validated on a branch. I use direct sessions when I expect and the pl
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
GitHub is fine. The thing that’s changed is that we’re unlikely to need large teams anymore. Merging code will be easier and if planned properly (using AI planning skills), the work can be broken up with clear boundaries.
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
Domains should own their data and some data objects can be split between domains. Data first is fine for simple systems, but lead to chaos for complex systems.
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
I’ve been postulating that knowledge of old school principles like Method One along with test driven development and domain-driven design are the external factors allowing a subset of teams to succeed. Absent those skills, the agile movemen
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Chord Version 1 – A new IF modeling language for parser web games(sharpee.plover.net)
2 points by ChicagoDave 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
That study…I would have agreed with the group at that time. Up until December, I was vocally skeptical that GenAI could be used for anything more complex than a “departmental” app. Opus and similar models completely invalidated that skeptic
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
These people keep citing that survey from 2025. That kills all arguments from the article instantly. December 2025 through today GenAI has become massively better. I’ve built things with Claude in contracted spans of time that would have be
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
I discovered Visual Basic 1.0 from his back page Info World column. Still have the manuals and floppy disks.
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
It adheres to the full scope of skills, agents, and my custom gates. I’d hate Claude without it. https://devarch.ai/ .
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by ChicagoDave 2mo ago
I think domain specific harnesses are already surpassing generic harnesses. I also think software development is its own domain. My harness is a Claude Code plugin with its own brainstorming, adr, and planning skills with associated review

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