codebolt

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by codebolt 1mo ago
For an MCP used to look up data in any kind of dataset, just having a single tool that accepts an OData Query string has worked well for me.
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by codebolt 2mo ago
Preferably, it would ask for help to see the image and only engineer its own workaround if that was not an option. There could also very well be something in the prompt that would cause it not to do so. Opus 4.8 is usually good at asking fo
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by codebolt 2mo ago
As a dev with three decades experience writing code, I use it for stuff I know all about all the time. And these days, the majority of the time it is more correct than I would've been without a few iterations of trial and error.
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by codebolt 4mo ago
The correct thing to do in this scenario is to create a new random login alias on your Microsoft account, make it the primary login alias, and disable login for the all other e-mails tied to the account.
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by codebolt 4mo ago
I'm skeptical of letting agents run free like this. Even Opus makes decisions I don't always agree with. And I quickly lose my mental model of how the code is evolving. I get more enjoyment and better results when the coding proce
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by codebolt 4mo ago
Using Mistral or more SOTA models?
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by codebolt 4mo ago
China has cheap coal powered electricity and leaders that make things happen. Europe has beaureaucrats that only love talking, high taxes and expensive energy.
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by codebolt 4mo ago
Same here. Step 1 is usually a research doc where I simply describe the task and tell it to research the relevant parts of the codebase. This gets refined to a high-level plan, which gets distilled to a detailed step-by-step implementation
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by codebolt 4mo ago
My agentic workflow probably differs somewhat from the majority of others here, but I can positively guarantee you that both the quality and quantity of my output is significantly higher than it has ever been, in my 20-something years of wr
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by codebolt 5mo ago
I'm with you all the way here. I derive zero pleasure from simply typing out the code once the spec is clear. Having a fast forward button to skip that phase is a pure win in my book.
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by codebolt 5mo ago
I'd call that irresponsible use. One of the principles I try to stick by is to never offload any major decisionmaking to the LLM without oversight. Because some percentage of the decisions it makes are going to be wrongful (and more of
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by codebolt 5mo ago
Not what I do. I'll reformulate the ticket description so that the purpose and as many details as possible about the solution are made clear from the start. Then I tell Opus to go and research the relevant parts of the codebase and wha
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by codebolt 5mo ago
Just out of curiosity, what type of systems are you working on? What type of features did you implement on your 100k LOC week?
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by codebolt 5mo ago
There are many ways to use an LLM to generate a piece of software. I base most of my projects these days around sets of Markdown files where I use AI first to research, then plan and finally track the progress of implementation (which I do
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by codebolt 5mo ago
Anyone test it out for generating 2D art for games? Getting nano banana to generate consistent sprite sheets was seemingly impossible last time i tried a few months ago.
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by codebolt 5mo ago
Debugging and local testing is the main remaining use case of IDEs. Especially so for mobile apps where you need to manage one or more emulators.
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by codebolt 5mo ago
At some point I think I'd prefer to deploy my own model in Azure or AWS and simply bring the endpoint to the coding harness.
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by codebolt 6mo ago
As a AI-aware software engineer currently creating systems that integrate with LLM provider APIs for my company- who also has no idea what an eval is or how a data scientist thinks about RAG. I honestly don't see what value a data scie
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by codebolt 6mo ago
Your view of what is happening in the neural net of an LLM is too simplistic. They likely aren't subject to any constraints that humans aren't also in the regard you are describing. What I do know to be true is that they have inte
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by codebolt 6mo ago
Opus 4.6 has a 200k context limit in Copilot. Could be the issue.
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by codebolt 6mo ago
There must be a mechanism to rate the person submitting the PR. Anyone that wants to submit code to a well-known repo would first need to build a demonstrable history of making high-quality contributions to lesser known projects. I'm n
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by codebolt 6mo ago
Just because somebody has a bunch of power tools doesn't mean I'd ask them to build my house.
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by codebolt 6mo ago
The difference between having a non-technical person and someone who is capable of understanding the code being generated and the systems running it is immense, and will continue to be so over the foreseeable future.
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by codebolt 6mo ago
It's easy to imagine but there's still a vast amount of innovation and development that has to happen before something like that becomes realistic. At that point the whole system of capitalism would need to be reconsidered. Not go
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by codebolt 6mo ago
I use the restore checkpoint/fork conversation feature in GitHub Copilot heavily because of this. Most of the time it's better to just rewind than to salvage something that's gone off track.
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by codebolt 6mo ago
Any given system will still need people around to steer the AI and ensure the thing gets built and maintained responsibly. I'm working on a small team of in-house devs at a financial company, and not worried about my future at all. As
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by codebolt 7mo ago
One issue is that developers have been trained for the past few decades to look for solutions to problems online by just dumping a few relevant keywords into Google. But to get the most out of AI you should really be prompting as if you wer
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by codebolt 7mo ago
Where are you encountering all this slop code? At my work we use LLMs heavily and I don't see this issue. Maybe I'm just lucky that my colleagues all have Uni degrees in CS and at least a few years experience.
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by codebolt 7mo ago
That's why I'm very careful about how the context is constructed. I make sure all the relevant files are loaded with the prompt, including the project file so it can see the directory structure. Also keep a brief summary of the ap
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by codebolt 7mo ago
That's a fair point, my code is likely to have some warts that an experienced Android/Kotlin dev would wince at. All I know is that the app has a structure that makes an overall sense to me, with my 15+ years of experience as a pr

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