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by d_watt 1mo ago
Shared caches stopped working years back, to close a security hole. They're redownloaded per domain now. https://dev.to/rstacruz/public-cdns-arent-useful-anymore-2b6...
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by d_watt 7mo ago
It took 20 years for computers to "add" to the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
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by d_watt 8mo ago
I think one of the interesting things here is that AI doesn't need to be able build B2B SaaS to kill it. So much of the overhead of B2B SaaS companies is thinking about multitenancy, intergrating with many auth providers and mapping th
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by d_watt 8mo ago
Regarding the meta experiment of using LLMs to transpile to a different language, how did you feel about the outcome / process, and would you do the same process again in the future? I've had some moments recently for my own proje
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by d_watt 8mo ago
Once we had a slowdown in our application that went unadressed for a couple of months. Using git bisect to binary search across a bunch of different commits and run a perf test, every commit being a "good" historical commit allowe
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by d_watt 9mo ago
I’ve been using some time off to explore the space and related projects StereoCrafter and GeometryCrafter are fascinating. Applying this to video adds a temporal consistency angle that makes it way harder and compute intensive, but I’ve “sp
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by d_watt 10mo ago
Looks like after the AI automation rush last year, the leaderboard has been removed. Makes sense, a little sad that it was needed though.
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Using Devcontainers to Fix Coding Agent's Foibles(dylanwatt.com)
1 points by d_watt 1y ago|1 comments
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by d_watt 1y ago
I've released a templatized local development setup using devcontainers that I've crafted over the last year, that I use on all projects now. This post explains the why and links to the project.
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by d_watt 1y ago
It's potentially the opposite. If you instrument a codebase with documentation and configuration for AI agents to work well in it, then in a year, that agent will be able to do that same work just as well (or better with model progress
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by d_watt 1y ago
They're not directly solving the same problem. MCP is for exposing tools, such as reading files. a2a is for agents to talk to other agents to collaborate. MCP servers can expose tools that are agents, but don't have to, and usuall
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by d_watt 1y ago
Perhaps naive to say, but I think there was the briefest moment where your status updates started with "is", feeds were chronological, and photos and links weren't pushed over text, that it was not an adversarial actor to one
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by d_watt 1y ago
After converting many of my projects, and helping a couple startups tool their codebases and teams for using AI agents better, these 5 things are what I now do on every codebase I work on.
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Essentials for getting the most from Coding Agents(dylanwatt.com)
1 points by d_watt 1y ago|1 comments
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by d_watt 1y ago
What do you think the "mistake" is here? It seems like you're pointing out a consequence, not a counter argument.
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by d_watt 1y ago
I'd think this would work, as the 4 tools listed are about retrieving information to give agents more context of correct providers and modules. Given terragrunt works with terraform directly, I'd think that it would help with it a
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by d_watt 1y ago
Aider is definitely in the same camp. Last time I checked, they weren't optimizing for the full "agent infinitely looping until completion" usecase, and didn't have MCP support. But it's 100% the same class of tool
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by d_watt 1y ago
It totally is! I bias a bit to wanting the agent to be a pluggable component into a flow I own, rather than a platform in a box. It'll be interesting to see where the different value props/use cases of a Delvin/v0 vs a Codex
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by d_watt 1y ago
I personally find figuring out what the product should be is the fun part. There still a need for architecting a plan, but the actual act of writing code isn't what gives me personal joy, it's the building of something new. I unde
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by d_watt 1y ago
Claude max plan has Claude code bundled into the price. $100/month isn't cheap, but the RoI is there for me personally.
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by d_watt 1y ago
The way Claude Code is going is exactly what I want out of a agentic coding tool with this "unix toolish" philosophy. I've been using Claude code since the initial public preview release, and have seen the direction over time
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by d_watt 2y ago
That's the point of the experiment I'm doing, what it takes to get these things to be able to generate all the code, and I'm just directing. I literally have not written a line of code. The AI agent configures the build syste
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by d_watt 2y ago
I wonder how much it's self fulfilling, where the developers of the agents are tuning their prompts / tool calls to sonnet.
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by d_watt 2y ago
I'm about 50kloc into a project making a react native app / golang backend for recipes with grocery lists, collaborative editing, household sharing, so a complex data model and runtime. Purely from the experiment of "what&#x2
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by d_watt 2y ago
It's always been a thing with modes of encapsulating knowledge. The printing press caused the freezing of language, sometimes in a weird place* Where great documentation was make or break for a open source project for the last 10 years
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AI Rekindled My Joy of Coding(dylanwatt.com)
2 points by d_watt 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Relativistic – Open Data Platform Using Terraform and Kubernetes(docs.relativistic.io)
3 points by d_watt 2y ago|0 comments
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by d_watt 2y ago
Looks super interesting. Any positioning thoughts on this vs https://jitsu.com ?
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by d_watt 2y ago
I mean, having a web, worker, cache, db, and search as separate things doesn't seem that crazy? While of course you can often get away with just a web with sqlite, pretty much any company of scale I've been at maintain those all a
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by d_watt 2y ago
I think this is mostly because that's out of scope of responsibility of docker, and docker compose (for the most part) is only a local dev tool without prod concerns. For deploying docker containers to production, and how to manage sec

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