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by dnh44 4mo ago
Yeah that makes sense. People will be often more polite when they realise there is a real human on the other side. But I was referring more to the initial use of strong words coming from frustration. Just because you deal with it well doesn
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by dnh44 4mo ago
I’m developing three codebases right now where all of the code is written by AI (Swift, Python, Rust) and the Rust codebase requires the least pruning and has the fewest wtf moments.
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by dnh44 4mo ago
I feel really bad for the sense of entitlement a lot of open source devs have to deal with. Imagine building something for free as a hobby then having to deal a mob of angry people who have never paid you whenever you do something they don’
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Show HN: A seed prompt that bootstraps a custom knowledge-base system(github.com)
2 points by dnh44 4mo ago|1 comments
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by dnh44 4mo ago
To be honest Copilot really stinks and is really far from the sharp edge of what is possible these days.
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by dnh44 4mo ago
I regularly get codex to do multi hour tasks with a single prompts I don't think thats a big deal anymore. But you don't want a single agent doing all the work. The root agent needs to delegate the work to sub agents. For example,
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by dnh44 4mo ago
thanks for the tip will check it out!
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Ask HN: Best/Easiest way to host Rust with PostgreSQL?
3 points by dnh44 5mo ago|2 comments
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by dnh44 1y ago
you don't think kids should play sports? that seems like an unusual view and am kind of curious why you would think that.
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by dnh44 1y ago
If you make iOS apps you can also set up an Xcode Cloud pipeline so the result gets pushed to your phone via TestFlight.
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by dnh44 1y ago
I've actually connected Claude Code to XcodeBuildMCP and it will actually run the iOS app in a simulator and test the new code by scrolling and clicking on it. It's pretty cool to watch it find its mistake and fix it. Eventually w
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by dnh44 1y ago
>How does "I ask an LLM to convert my prompt to Markdown if it's above some unspecified threshold" help get to that output faster? Honestly it's just a hunch that asking the LLM to create formatted text forces the LLM
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by dnh44 1y ago
>All the prompting advice the author gave is just a means of getting to this output prompt faster. Yeah that's exactly it. Instead of modifying my prompt repeatedly myself until I get a good result I now use an LLM to create a promp
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by dnh44 1y ago
>Do they cite any hard facts? Any actual science? Real statistics? I guess I could do those things, but I'd rather work on my game. I only posted that because the person I responded too was struggling with getting nonsense responses
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by dnh44 1y ago
I suppose I'd define smaller as the LLM only having to read/write from/to less than 3 or 4 files to complete the task? I try to keep file sizes as small as possible so the LLM's don't get confused by unnecessary con
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by dnh44 1y ago
I give Opus a detailed plan then Opus organises the work and gives GPT-5 targeted instructions. Opus then might make minor edits to GPT-5's code. They sort of pair program together.
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by dnh44 1y ago
>Why create prompts by LLM at all? Presumably you have to start with inputting what you want to happen, so why pass it through two LLMs instead of one? The reason for doing this is that I can transform 10 - 30 lines of my instructions, a
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by dnh44 1y ago
Thanks for the reminder! It’s very likely I read that post as a teenager.
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by dnh44 1y ago
I always liked Stardock; if had to use Windows I'd definitely just get all their UI mods out of the nostalgia factor.
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by dnh44 1y ago
Yeah it is a bit isn't it
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by dnh44 1y ago
I loved OS/2 but I also remember the dreaded single input queue... but it didn't stop me using it until about 2000 when I realised it was time to move on.
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by dnh44 1y ago
>I thought these tools are so great, so awesome, that even without much experience they will help you? I never made that claim, I don't think it's generally true, but I do think it can be true for some people. Regarding the stu
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by dnh44 1y ago
I think that in that study all but one of the devs had hardly any experience with using AI tools.
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by dnh44 1y ago
I find that X and Discord are more useful than HN for trying to keep up to date. Which is a shame I think but it is what it is.
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by dnh44 1y ago
One side effect of writing most of my code with an llm for the past six months is that I'm so much better at reading code I didn't write. It's also forced me to split my code up in smaller more modular files to make it easier
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by dnh44 1y ago
These are some of the things I do to try and get good results: - I prime the context of the LLM with any extra rules or instructions I want it to follow. - I also prime the context with every single file it needs to see in order to be able
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by dnh44 1y ago
I'm of the same opinion as the op and I'm programming in Rust(api) and Swift(client) right now. I entered a vibe coded game hackathon a few months back and in a little over a week I was at 25k lines of code across both the client
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by dnh44 1y ago
I use a program called RepoPrompt to do it. The dev has a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVnXzmZweg&t
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by dnh44 1y ago
You're not pushing them hard enough if you're not seeing a vast difference between 4o and Opus. Or possibly they're equivalent in the field you're working in but I suspect it's the former.
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by dnh44 1y ago
Last summer I came back to software after about 12 years away and I pretty much had an identical experience to you with using AI as a helper to come back. I've now spent the last 6 months coding as much as I can in between consulting g

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