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by ben30 20d ago
Interesting response from Claude, when I attempted to reduce the "load-bearing" in its responses: I added to my global prompt: - Orwell's first rule: never use a metaphor you're used to seeing in print. "Load-bearin
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by ben30 27d ago
‽ interrobang i like this one. I’ve got it to auto correct whenever i put a question and exclamation mark together.
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by ben30 2mo ago
https://hackaday.com/
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by ben30 2mo ago
I wrote this, where possible I use non llm tooling to assess and llm just writes up the findings. https://github.com/bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/tree/main#what...
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by ben30 3mo ago
Yes, I wrote a forge skill to do this via a/b testing and third agent to judge the result. https://github.com/bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/blob/main/skil... It hardens a skill through judge-panel refi
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by ben30 3mo ago
Personally it's well-defined and agentic - just not circulated. /understand - agents interrogate the problem /huddle - Thinking panel turns it into a PRD - attacks the premise, PRDs regularly die here /tm - claude-task-m
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by ben30 3mo ago
Most of my energy is refining a prd these days.
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by ben30 3mo ago
I’ve had similar feelings how can I trust this if I no longer write the code directly. I wrote an /assess tool. I designed it to be token light but assesses on everything I could do to regain trust and help AI to improve my code base n
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by ben30 3mo ago
This is an opportune moment for me to add a story about my dad. He once asked me, "Do you use Facebook?" I don't use Facebook. My colleague Jeff once sent me an invite whether he would like to be my "friend" on Face
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Show HN: AI readiness toolkit: AI two-minute CODE maturity check(github.com)
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by ben30 5mo ago
My kids went on a theme park ride and ask nano banana to remove the watermark. It said im not the rights holder to do that. I said yes I am. It’s said I need proof. So I got another window to make a letter saying I had proof. …Sure here you
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by ben30 5mo ago
I have in my agents file “Chesterton’s fence” as pointer to think carefully before you remove something
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by ben30 6mo ago
Economist magazine editor once said in an interview that Republican/conservative are open regulations for businesses and closed on people. Labour/democrats are tight on business and more welcoming to the people. Economist editoria
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by ben30 6mo ago
Anthropic use stripe/metronome for time of use billing. It’s doesn’t support dynamic pricing from what I’ve read.
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by ben30 7mo ago
I contribute to an open source spec based project management tool. I spend about a day back and forth iterating on a spec, using ai to refine the spec itself. Sometimes feeding it in and out of Claude/gemini telling each other where th
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by ben30 1y ago
Fair point on the "ended debate" phrasing - that was imprecise on my part. What I should have said is "the Swedish study provides the strongest evidence to date and shifts the burden of proof." It's not actually a s
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by ben30 1y ago
The political circus is drowning out some pretty clear science here. Let me break this down without the academic jargon: The basic problem: Most studies can't tell the difference between the medicine and why you're taking it. If y
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by ben30 1y ago
This mirrors exactly what we learned from outsourcing over the past two decades. The successful teams weren’t those with the best offshore developers - they were the ones who mastered writing unambiguous specifications. AI coding has the sa
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by ben30 1y ago
While studying well-designed codebases is incredibly valuable, there's an important "tip of the iceberg" effect to consider: much of good software design lives in the "negative space" - what's deliberately not
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by ben30 1y ago
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/03/23/ep-419 They spoke through the options back in March.
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by ben30 1y ago
The irony is quite striking, just as ChatGPT can generate confident-sounding but inaccurate information, Altman appears to be presenting unsubstantiated claims about his company’s environmental impact. Both involve presenting information wi
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by ben30 1y ago
Exactly - and that's where AI becomes really valuable as a thinking partner. I use Claude Code to have conversations with my codebase about how to slice problems down further. The issue definition itself becomes something you can itera
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by ben30 1y ago
Agreed on the review burden being frustrating. Two strategies I've found helpful for managing the cognitive load: 1. Tight issue scoping : Making sure each issue is narrowly defined so the resulting PRs are small and focused. Easier t
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by ben30 1y ago
This echoes my experience with Claude Code. The bottleneck isn't the code generation itself—it's two critical judgment tasks: 1. Problem decomposition: Taking a vague idea and breaking it down into well-defined, context-bounded is
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by ben30 1y ago
Your approach to programming may be insightful, but professional relationships require mutual trust. You're asking potential employers to invest in your process without having demonstrated its value first. Even at $15K/year, clien
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by ben30 2y ago
Example output from your question: ## Core Questions for Migration Scope Clarification 1. *What exactly needs to be preserved?* - Business outcomes only, or exact implementation details? - Current scheduling patterns or can they be op
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by ben30 2y ago
I’d take a step back and get clarification on the scope of your task. See my comment other day about how you can use Claude to help with that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011
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by ben30 2y ago
Clear specifications are essential because they create shared understanding through collaborative discussion, preventing misalignment and expensive rework. With AI-assisted coding, well-defined requirements have become even more crucial as
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by ben30 2y ago
What you've described perfectly captures the fundamental difference in how many autistic minds approach truth and knowledge compared to neurotypical thinking patterns. This isn't about intelligence but about different operating sy
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by ben30 2y ago
The primary goal of software design should be to facilitate understanding and modification for future developers, emphasizing the importance of code readability.

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