defatigable

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by defatigable 20d ago
Ironically your comment has strengthened my belief that aphantasia is real and that I have it. :-) The possibility of visualizing an apple with any of the details you describe is completely alien to me. Like, not "I can conceptualize s
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by defatigable 8mo ago
No, I'm quite confident that I'm very strong in these languages. Certainly not world-class but I write very good code and I know well-written code when I see it. If you'd like some evidence, I literally just flipped a feature
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Yeah, I have no idea what the consensus definition of the term is, and I suppose I can't say for sure what OP meant. I haven't used Cursor. My understanding was that it exercises IDE functions but does not execute arbitrary shell
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by defatigable 8mo ago
That's not my experience. I agree that a project of any real size takes quite a bit longer than a week. But it's composed of lots of, well, week or two long subprojects. And if the AI coding tool is condensing week long projects i
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by defatigable 8mo ago
This doesn't sound right to me. If someone who were expert in JS looked at a relatively simple C++ program, I think they could reasonably well tell if the quality of code were good or not. They wouldn't be able to, e.g., detect bu
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Yes. This was the key thing I learned that let me set the agents loose on larger tasks. Before I started iterating on specs with them, I mostly had them doing very small scale, refactor-this-function style tasks. The other advice I've
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Interesting. What would make the workflow "agentic" in your mind? The AI implementing the task fully autonomously, never getting any human feedback? To me "agentic" in this context essentially that the LLM has the abilit
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by defatigable 8mo ago
:-) I feel you. Perhaps I should have ended my post with "Would you like me to construct a good prompt for your planning agent?" to really drive us into the uncanny valley? (My writing style is very dry and to the point, you may h
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Agreed. In the domains where I'm an expert, it's a nice productivity boost. In the domains where I'm not, it's transformative. As a complete aside from the question of productivity, these coding tools have reawakened a l
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by defatigable 8mo ago
You are welcome to use whatever definition of "small/medium/large" you like. Like you, 1-2 weeks is also far from the largest project I've worked on. I don't think that's particularly relevant to the point
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Great idea! That's actually the very next improvement I was planning on making to my coding flow: building a sub agent that is purely designed to study the codebase and create a structured implementation plan. Every large project I wor
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by defatigable 8mo ago
Yep. I have plenty of experience in languages that use C-style syntax, enough to easily understand code written in other languages that occur nearby in the syntactical family tree. I'm not steeped in JS enough to know the weird gotchas
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by defatigable 8mo ago
How can I tell? Yes, the code looks quite a bit more polished. I'm not expert enough in JS to, e.g., know the cleanest method to inspect and modify the DOM, but I can look at code that does and tell if the approach it's using is s
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by defatigable 8mo ago
I've never had a job where writing Javascript has been the primary language (so far it's been C++/Java/Golang). The JS Chrome Extension is a fun side project. Using Augment in a work context, I'm primarily using it
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by defatigable 8mo ago
I use Augment with Claud Opus 4.5 every day at my job. I barely ever write code by hand anymore. I don't blindly accept the code that it writes, I iterate with it. We review code at my work. I have absolutely found a lot of benefit fro
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by defatigable 8mo ago
A datapoint for you to consider. I recently started taking Naltrexone, which is an opioid antagonist used to treat alcohol abuse. It reduces your body's endorphin response, making alcohol less pleasant. I wouldn't call myself alco
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by defatigable 1y ago
This matches my experience exactly. #3 is the one I've found most surprising, and it can work outside the context of just analyzing your own code. For example I found a case where an automated system we use started failing due to synta
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by defatigable 3y ago
sure thing, enjoy!
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by defatigable 3y ago
i emailed you one
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by defatigable 3y ago
emailed you with a code
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by defatigable 3y ago
emailed you with one
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by defatigable 3y ago
emailed you with one
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by defatigable 3y ago
I have some extra if you'd like one. Let me know how to get it to you and I will.
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by defatigable 3y ago
fastdebug is a good tip, thanks for sharing!
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by defatigable 3y ago
This is a niche case, but I spent months trying to upgrade one of our services from one LTS version to the next (I forget which). We encountered a weird bug where services running on the latest JRE would mysteriously corrupt fields when des
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by defatigable 3y ago
Done
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by defatigable 3y ago
Of course, I messaged you at your profile email address.
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by defatigable 3y ago
Not OP, but I have an extra - I emailed it to you.
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by defatigable 3y ago
I've got a few extra, happy to send you one. What's the easiest way?
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by defatigable 3y ago
Great writeup, I didn't really understand what was going on with CRTP (and what c++23 had to do with it) until I read this.

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