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by breckenedge 6d ago
Yea I definitely keep engineering skills and org skills separate.
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by breckenedge 9d ago
My approach is different. Skills I write mostly use Python to save on the agent needing to run its own loops. I use these loops to monitor the CI build and PR approvals rather than having the agent poll, and even Opus gets the commands wron
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by breckenedge 23d ago
Those terms became way too ambiguous to actually mean anything. Every team does it different.
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by breckenedge 24d ago
Yes, and not just code. It’ll be Gnosticism all over again.
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by breckenedge 27d ago
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by breckenedge 1mo ago
I get it doesn’t appeal to you. Why do you think it shouldn’t appeal to anyone?
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by breckenedge 1mo ago
Service area is still miniscule.
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by breckenedge 2mo ago
Yes, I fetch Jira tickets and epics via API call in the reviewer’s action. Both Codex and Claude can then reference it. Source is public here: https://github.com/BiggerPockets/.github/blob/main/.github&#x
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by breckenedge 2mo ago
Like a junior engineer, I find the models to be too ambitious and unable to steer themselves at a high level yet. What I’ve done to address this is prompting the model to break down its plans into more atomic steps. For whatever reason, the
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
Programming is human. Obviously there will be cultures (and cults) that spring up and die down all the time. I probably pissed off a few colleagues over the years by rejecting their arguments because they were “appeals to authority” that I
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
Oracle overcommitted on behalf of OpenAI, taking on debt to meet their obligations. Not that healthy companies are not also doing ridiculous layoffs, but in this case, Oracle does have to do some drastic things to get out of this tailspin.
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
Fyi the homepage is too small for my mobile browser (chrome, iPhone 15 pro) and appears to not support scrolling
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
It’s amazing how often I’ve discussed this from the perspective of “binary search”: you gotta make big jumps before you do narrow jumps. Same for being stuck in local maxima: getting out of that requires big changes, not small-step optimiza
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
References Claude 4.7 … written June 8 … ok cool can stop reading.
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by breckenedge 3mo ago
Link to the editorial: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Mi...
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AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection(hai.stanford.edu)
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by breckenedge 4mo ago
I agree with this take for experienced and capable engineering teams. Three times over the last three years, I have told my senior engineers to skip code review, and nothing catastrophic happened, and recovery from bugs was rapid. Three tim
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by breckenedge 4mo ago
Yes. Probably not free, but yea, whatever it costs to keep the agents running to keep the lights on.
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by breckenedge 4mo ago
Nice, might give managed agents a try now.
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by breckenedge 4mo ago
See also: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
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by breckenedge 6mo ago
Uses AI and two researchers. Give me a break…
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by breckenedge 6mo ago
Wait these guys made Natural Selection? Damn that was a hot mod.
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313750
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
Four years ago I was a reluctant maintainer of a Cloudflare workers setup. At the time, my thoughts were “Cloudflare is not my app, yet because of these workers, it’s performing business logic, which doesn’t feel right. I want Cloudflare to
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
I use Claude Code on a 900kloc Rails/JS monolith and it’s still pretty pleasant. However if it wasn’t already structured well, I could see that being a worse experience.
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing. We do the same thing at BiggerPockets but via Cloudflare workers to do the proxying.
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
Claude does this, at least on an iPhone. They added Code to the app about a month ago. I used it to get a Pebble Watch project started.
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by breckenedge 9mo ago
Sandi’s books and conference talks are excellent. My faves: https://www.poodr.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU
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by breckenedge 10mo ago
There’s really nothing in the article that speaks to savings due to “AI” per se, and the timeline really doesn’t work out. I suspect this is just another executive wanting to jump on claiming “we’re AI now!”
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by breckenedge 10mo ago
> with average compensation – including employee-related taxes and pension contributions – rising by 60% over the past three year > Average compensation for each employee has jumped from $126,000 (£96,000) in 2022 to $203,000 today, K

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