fibonachos

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by fibonachos 2mo ago
This feels like a good place for tighter integration between editors and agents. The editor could notify the agent of user authored changes.
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by fibonachos 2mo ago
What’s interesting is that it maps well to how my brain actually works. My chain of thought is very non-linear. Maybe even a little chaotic, going off on tangents before returning to the main thread as it were. This has always made written
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by fibonachos 2mo ago
I’ve started learning into the various AI-isms in my prompts. Most recently, em dashes to chain related information in a single sentence. “Something something main point — but also pay attention to this related thing — finish main point.” A
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by fibonachos 2mo ago
I had a similar situation where someone had their email client configured with my address in the reply-to header. We shared a first initial, last name, and isp… also happened to be my email address. His email was firsnamelastname, or someth
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by fibonachos 2mo ago
The insurance requirement isn’t uncommon where I am (California). Though I would avoid whatever plan they are pushing. I got mine through my existing insurance provider and it worked out to ~$15 per month IIRC.
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by fibonachos 3mo ago
Same here. Little side projects and convenience tooling for $day_job that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten built for lack of time. Doesn’t need to be perfect, beautiful code for an audience of one. It just needs to work.
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by fibonachos 3mo ago
Perhaps solution was the wrong word for me to use here. It was intended to encompass the implementation details (abstractions, architecture, observability, etc)… All the decisions the engineers would normally make during planning and execut
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by fibonachos 3mo ago
Responding to my own comment to add that I think this moment favors the curious and passionate. None of what I wrote above is a complaint. I’m having more fun now than I have in a long time.
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by fibonachos 3mo ago
My personal experience: writing code has always been the easy part. AI does most of that now. Understanding the problem and the existing system well enough to design the right solution, even with AI assistance, is a higher cognitive load. I
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by fibonachos 7mo ago
Overnight oats have been my go to lunch and pre workout meal for a couple years now. 75g 0% Greek Yogurt, 75g Almond Milk, 10g Maple Syrup, 8g ISOpure unflavored protein powder, 8g PBfit powdered peanut butter, Salt to taste. Whisk everythi
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by fibonachos 7mo ago
One specific example that comes to mind is developer tooling in the form of bash scripts. Sure, I can write it myself, but I do this so infrequently that there is a cost for the context switch and ramp up. This, and similar dev ex things th
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by fibonachos 7mo ago
I’m still a couple decades off from “senior”, but I have already reached a point where most day to day driving feels like a chore. If/When Waymo finally arrives in my smallish Bay Area city I can see myself using it a quite a bit. Hope
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by fibonachos 8mo ago
re: your last bullet. This has been very effective in my experience. “See class foo for example implementation “
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by fibonachos 8mo ago
I should clarify. I do very little greenfield development, even outside of work. So my understanding of vibe coding being good for this use case is largely rooted in the relayed experience of others.
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by fibonachos 8mo ago
Multiline autocomplete is still the biggest productivity boost for me. This works well in a familiar codebase with reasonably consistent patterns. After that it’s the “ask” capability when I need to get oriented in unfamiliar and/or po
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by fibonachos 11mo ago
This has been saving me a lot of time as well in a decade old code base. I can paste a stack trace and provide additional relevant context, then ask the LLM to do a first pass debug. From that I usually get a list of file+lines to manually
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by fibonachos 1y ago
> free heat that we couldn’t control I understand the appeal of free. It’s the idea of someone else controlling it that gives me anxiety.
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by fibonachos 1y ago
The multi-line autocomplete feels like the right middle ground (for me) when working in an existing code base with well established patterns. Adding new functionality is mostly a matter of scaffolding, commenting as I go, typing the first f
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by fibonachos 1y ago
Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
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by fibonachos 1y ago
That little grill got me through many years of apartment living where I couldn’t have a propane grill.
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by fibonachos 1y ago
This is basically where I’m at. It’s mostly become a utility.
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by fibonachos 2y ago
There was (mockingbird?) near my home in the 90s who did a solid imitation of the multi- tone aftermarket car alarm that was common around that time. I recall being annoyed by it at the time since it often happened in the early morning hour
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by fibonachos 2y ago
My wife’s 2015 Honda has a similar setup for the climate controls. One morning the windshield fogged up after a few minutes of driving when the cabin was warming up on a cold day. Not being my daily driver, I had to look low on the dash to
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by fibonachos 2y ago
> He lets them all go to voice mail, so nothing about his behavior encourages them to keep calling. Yet they keep coming My pet theory is that scammers are harvesting voice samples from voicemail greeting for the purpose of training a vo
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by fibonachos 2y ago
It took longer than I would like to admit to realize it was time to leave WoW for good. A few increasingly long breaks, followed by brief periods of trying to “fall back in love” with it. It wasn’t so much that I got burned out on the game.
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by fibonachos 2y ago
I have tried a few times to taper off Venlafaxine with no success. Looking back I think the problem was twofold: I tried to do it too quickly (1-2 months), and expected things to somehow be different despite having made no other changes (li
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by fibonachos 2y ago
I filled out a contact form some months ago asking how I, as an individual, can purchase an individual subscription. After some back and forth they coul only offer to connect me with their sales team. No thanks. Provide a low friction subsc
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by fibonachos 2y ago
Broken coffee machine? That’s a SEV0. Declare an incident.
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by fibonachos 2y ago
Someone recently joined my team (mid size SaaS) from a FAANG, and the couple times I asked about their time at said FAANG they quickly steered the conversation elsewhere. I took the hint. I get the sense that they would mostly rather forget
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by fibonachos 2y ago
I’m in my late forties and sprained my back/hip pretty badly right at the start of COVID. A year later I was having trouble descending stairs and starting to develop knee pain on the same side of my body. So I began a fairly rigorous r

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