CurleighBraces

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by CurleighBraces 4d ago
I feel it's more nuanced than this, at least for now. It's true to say anyone can build software, but that doesn't make the software good and it's not true to say that's specifically reliant on taste. As an example
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by CurleighBraces 2mo ago
I vibe coded a couple of maze related kids games. Never thought about doing a whole maze related micro-site, but I like the concept! If anyone's looking for something to entertain the kids ( 2-6 years old ) for 5-10 mins with, links b
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by CurleighBraces 2mo ago
This reply makes me think that my original post also comes across as overly dismissive of reasonable debate around code changes. As you've stated, years of development has made me expect a certain level of discourse as people will ine
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Ask HN: Are you emotionally attached to AI code?
3 points by CurleighBraces 2mo ago|6 comments
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by CurleighBraces 6mo ago
Makes a lot of sense :) thanks for the update. I'll try to remember to creepy stalk you for updates as the device sounds great!
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by CurleighBraces 6mo ago
Did you have any luck with the power issues on the new board?
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
Not sure if it's just my age but pair programming seems to have a different meaning these days. It used to mean that two developers would literally sit next to each other, one would type and one would review as the person typed, then t
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
That's now how it works though is it? ignoring agents Junior dev working on feature X Junior dev makes a lot of commits and creates PR Senior dev reviews code, spots problems a,b,c but has reviewed all the code at this point. Feature X
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
Because I don't review everything between changes, there might be 10 small commits I review and state I am happy with, then I might prompt the agent to perform some small refactors after the review, I don't want the diff to show m
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
If you haven't read the first blog post it's pretty good at explaining the concepts. https://blog.buenzli.dev/announcing-development-on-flirt/ The demo is particularly good if you can get past ( by the author
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
It doesn't. The difference is that we as humans are held accountable for our non-determinism. The consequences of our actions have real world implications on our lives.
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
Heh, agree it sounds absurd doesn't it. I would imagine instead companies will end up sleeping walking into this scenario until catastrophy hits.
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
Has anyone got any insights into what hiring software engineers looks like these days? As someone currently with a job and not hiring it is hard to imagine. Has there been any sort of paradigm shift in coding interviews? Is LLM use expecte
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by CurleighBraces 7mo ago
I loved the section about trying to fight against a system that isn't deterministic. LLMs because of their nature require constant hand-holding by humans, unless business are willing to make them entirely accountable for the systems&#x
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
The README is really annoying. You used to be able to tell so easily what was a good well looked after repo by viewing the effort and detail that had gone into the README. Now it's too easy to slop up a README.
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
There's limits to AGENTS.md too, a junior will start to understand the concepts/rationale and design decisions and be able to apply that knowledge to future problems, the LLM will not. It's way too literally in its thinking.
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I find talking to LLMs both amazing and frustrating, a computer that can understand my plain text ramblings is incredible, but it's inability to learn is frustrating. A good example, with junior developers I create thorough specs first
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
It’s easy to overlook what I think is the real value of these “home-built” tools. We can now produce products and apps that are tailored to our own preferred ways of working. Regardless of the cost of generating them (which can be as low as
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
lol this might have been a mistake, this is the most players it's ever had on it....
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I fear you'll be very disappointed :joy: It doesn't work on mobile, and unless you played it back in the day the feedback from my friends who I've introduced it too, is that it's got quite the learning curve. https:&#x2
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
Ah, sorry, that wasn't the point I was trying to make. I think ultimately I've succumbed to the fact that writing code is no longer a primary aspect of my job. Reading/reviewing and being accountable for code that something e
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
Let's put it this way, I don't think AI will take my job/career away until company owners are also prepared to also let it handle being on-call. I still very accountable for the code produced. I basically have two modes 1. &q
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I've paid, but I am usually quick to adopt/trial things like this. I think for me it's a case of fear of being left behind rather than missing out. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and the last six months has blo
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I think DHH said it best recently when he stated "I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers"
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I agree with your statement and perhaps my example is bad/too specific in this case. Once I started working this way however, I found myself starting to adapt to it. It's not unusual now to find myself with at least a couple of si
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I feel there's two contradicting statements in this post. > Is there evidence that agentic coding works? Yes plenty, tons, and growing every single day, people are producing code and tooling that works for them and is providing them
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
Yeah if you've not used codex/agent tooling yet it's a paradigm shift in the way of working, and once you get it it's very very difficult to go back to the copy-pasta technique. There's obviously a whole heap of hyp
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
Me and the wife have so many discussions about this :) We have a lot of "shrinkage" in our house, that I am convinced is more due to both of us uhh "growing" rather than the clothes shrinking ;) You can imagine, it'
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
I may be missing your intent, but this feels like a misread of what I was describing. I wasn’t swapping human connection for LLMs. These workflows already existed; I’ve simply used newer tools to make them better aligned to my needs and mor
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by CurleighBraces 8mo ago
Just uses the Telegram provided long polling API, nothing fancy at all.

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