ianmarcinkowski

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by ianmarcinkowski 20d ago
Basically how I feel, but I use the low-powered API models like Sonnet. I feel more energized and focused on the bigger picture than getting stuck on stupid implementation of micro-problems. I think the muscle memory of doing those tiny pr
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by ianmarcinkowski 20d ago
I would pay a few actors (mostly Star Trek TNG cast) money for a license to their voice. I don't know how the next generation of beloved actors comes about and how we don't descend into a pit of neverending photocopies of things p
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by ianmarcinkowski 22d ago
The AI-maximalist on my team does a lot of work to setup fancy loops and burn tokens like crazy. It feels a lot like guitar players who get all these fancy pedals and forget that they can plug a nice guitar into a nice amp and it actually
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by ianmarcinkowski 23d ago
I'm also stubborn. I clone multiple copies of the repo. I'm currently at two at my job right now, because I was trying to vibe-code an E2E test suite. I'm probably missing something that people see as a huge advantage of ha
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by ianmarcinkowski 23d ago
My ai-maximalist coworker spent a day last week getting Claude setup with work trees. He asked me how I did it and I said "I just clone the repo a second time and run claude's CLI in a new terminal window." His mind was blow
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by ianmarcinkowski 24d ago
I used it with opencode to build an admin UI for a React slideshow presentation app I use to do presentations. It worked pretty well on a 64GB Mac M3 Pro and took 1-2 hours.
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
We were forced to merge 2 HUGE PRs this week because of a customer deadline. It didn't need to be this way, but our AI maximalist team member went full toxenmaxxing and we had 92 frontend files and 40ish backend. Untestable, touched ne
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
I've worked with my teammate to see why this is suboptimal and negotiated a lot of concessions. I didn't re-review the code before we pushed it to staging for QA to test over the weekend... I'm worried about what I'll
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
Maybe these larger models are better at producing concise, internally-consistent, non-polluting (of the wider codebase) features. I just spent 3 days reviewing the code of a vibe coding maximalist at work. They needed to touch 96 front-end
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
I'm totally willing to believe that new orders of magnitude of software complexity are going to be possible with this kind of engineering. And also, my company brings in a lot of revenue off of 200k lines of code. My old startup brou
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
An AI maximalist on my team put up 2 pull requests with ~120-140 changed files this week. If they spent $200 on tokens to achieve this, we spent $2500-3500 in human salary and opportunity cost reviewing it.
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by ianmarcinkowski 1mo ago
I suspect that we will end up with a social convention or understanding around reputation that is tied to whether someone pushes slop on other people. If I need to pass on some AI slop, retyping and copy-editing works well to validate whet
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by ianmarcinkowski 2mo ago
La dee da! I have convinced myself to donate a kidney to someone I don't know, and also gain clout!
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by ianmarcinkowski 2mo ago
I no have a few esp32s sitting around. I no wonder what else I could use these for?
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by ianmarcinkowski 2mo ago
I have similar feelings. I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? Normal people have very little say over the politicians that govern the
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
Canadian here. My exposure to this topic is mostly: - News coverage about how extremely hot it has become in north/central Europe - News coverage/comments about heat-related deaths in Europe - People suddenly discovering wet bu
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
I find it unintentionally hilarious to see our weather reporting channel (Weather Network in Canada) constantly ringing the "extreme weather warning" bell! They manage to have an alert or warning at least every week. In the wint
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
So sad, such a lack of fortitude. Canadian here. Window air conditioning units work in any fully-openable window. They are $150CAD. Portable air conditioners work in almost every configuration of openable window. They are $250-500CAD. It t
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
Such a scold-y attitude. Window air conditioning units work in any fully-openable window. They are $150CAD. Portable air conditioners work in almost every configuration of openable window. They are $250-500CAD. It does take time, but it
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
I'm building a new feature into our product this week. We each get a $20/mo Claude subscription. My 5-hour context high water mark is ~75% and weekly is ~%15. I ... tell it exactly what I know needs to be done and then ... read
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by ianmarcinkowski 3mo ago
Coworker seriously asked "since we're generating most of our code now, who is actually reading all of the code?" We're at a small company, but the urge to trust The Oracle is almost spiritual with some people IMHO. I re
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by ianmarcinkowski 4mo ago
You-know-it-when-you-see-it might be a good boundary. It's different for everyone, surely. Personally I find the Protect The Children charity workers and anti-abortion protesters in large city squares to be right on the line of "m
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by ianmarcinkowski 4mo ago
I started using a self-hosted RSS reader (which is how I found your article) with curated lists of things. I used to read Google Chrome's feed articles but they are a trash fire of bullshit now. Next, I'm going to try search index
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by ianmarcinkowski 4mo ago
For me, they just never did anything useful. I have light switches that work nicely. If voice transcription + LLMs + conversational AI had been good in 2017 I might have used my google home speaker, but the quality of the interactions was
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by ianmarcinkowski 4mo ago
My journey. Raw PHP + SQL Queries -> Python + server-side rendered HTML -> Ruby/Python APIs + ugly JS frontends -> Python + EmberJS (remember that?!) -> Go/Ruby/Python/I don't care anymore + React. My p
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by ianmarcinkowski 4mo ago
My low value comment. This feels directionally correct to me. The problems I've been struggling with in my dev job for the past 6 months have been 80% maintenance/legacy code interfering with new feature development. Some of our d