jbeninger

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by jbeninger 10d ago
It's possible I invented skills before they were common. I've always had some instructions in agents.md that are something like "when working with typescript, read prompts/conventions.ts.md, when working with our fooBar
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by jbeninger 10d ago
I'd be worried the standard wouldn't include my favourite carplay feature, where it plays the same song from my phone on startup no matter how I configure it.
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by jbeninger 10d ago
That's not a generator tell when used judiciously. It's a genuinely useful construction that's been poisoned by overgeneration.
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by jbeninger 14d ago
Lose anonymity and bring back key-signing parties. Maybe you can't guarantee that everything is human-generated, but at least you know the chain of trust that leads to the human that signed off. Yes, I'm aware of the irony of crea
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by jbeninger 17d ago
As someone who spends way too much time searching for the best abstractions, absolutely this is still true. I often have a long back and forth with codex to explore the problem space and settle on the best abstractions. Occasionally it will
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by jbeninger 18d ago
Also, attacking good naming and structure belies their claim of knowing anything about dev at all. If you can't tell the quality difference between a well-structured program and spaghetti code consisting of single-letter variables, yo
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by jbeninger 2mo ago
This analogy is one of the best I've seen. It's going to live in my head a long time, I think.
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by jbeninger 2mo ago
Just want to "me too" this. I have two weeks a year where I unplug completely from my daily work and it often results in a new project or skill that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise
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by jbeninger 3mo ago
Glad I could help. I've been trying to use coding agents more than makes sense this year to get a feel for the tech. There's no good set of guidelines yet and everything feels like secret knowledge. If you're using a coding a
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by jbeninger 3mo ago
But... it shouldn't. People are arguing that a bad abstraction is better than none at all. Badly-implemented abstraction is the same. If you hit code that is duplicated organically a dozen times, you don't make it a baker's
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by jbeninger 3mo ago
The gold standard is code samples. I've got 1000-line convention documents with very simple rules like "Early returns on a single line". Llms sometimes ignore these or misinterpret them in unusual ways. But if I tell it &quo
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by jbeninger 4mo ago
Having worked with LLMs, you absolutely can golf most (>50%) lines of code out of existence. I regularly do, because it picks the wrong abstractions and sticks with them.
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by jbeninger 5mo ago
I think that AGI will make heavy use of LLMs. It's not a straight path, but a component. To compare with the human brain, have you ever been so drunk you don't remember the night, but you're told afterwards you had coherent c
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by jbeninger 7mo ago
What a weird thing to say.
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by jbeninger 7mo ago
I mean, it's not actually autocomplete. But it serves the same role. I know approximately what I want to type, maybe some of the details like argument-order are a bit foggy. When I see the code I recognize it as my own and don'
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by jbeninger 7mo ago
Hah. I don't work with (coding) people, so thankfully I don't have that problem
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by jbeninger 7mo ago
I've been through a few cycles of using LLMs and my current usage does scratch the itch. It doesn't feel like I've lost anything. The trick is I'm still programming. I name classes and functions. I define the directo
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by jbeninger 7mo ago
I've found small features helps. If I ask the ai "do this", I wait 10 minutes for it to be finished, then another 30 understanding what was written Instead, I start out broad. "I'm thinking of this feature. Let&#x27
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by jbeninger 9mo ago
I'm in the JS ecosystem pretty regularly and "restrictive with no benefit" is the right description. I use JSON5 now when I have to, which greatly reduces the restrictions. I already have a build step so throwing in a JSON5
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by jbeninger 9mo ago
I do a lot of local dev using docker. I've taken to adding an image just for agents and using that to make modifications. Agents can install or run anything they need without touching my actual machine. I can also limit what they can r
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by jbeninger 11mo ago
I think the point though is it's not a "story". It's a fundamental shift. The shift is subtle and doesn't lend itself to sensationalism. Entire countries have built their clout on fossil fuels. Wars have been fough
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I was with you up to "I do not give a shit" What font has been more tested for quick pass-through of data than the default system fonts? To me, this simply screams "This is the main body. You can find your information here&q
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by jbeninger 1y ago
That looks really promising. It checks a lot of the boxes I already had in mind for such a system, like being able to continue a thread without exposing the whole thing to untrusted parties
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I think we're still missing an "open social" closed social network. Something like old-Facebook where you can post to an intimate audience of friends and family, and your feed isn't stuffed full of ads and influencers. J
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Same here. I was surprised at everyone here who prefers the more-complicated-but-arguably-more-intuitive lexical sort. Naive alphabetical sorts break some expectations, but don't produce any weird edge cases. I wonder if there's
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by jbeninger 1y ago
This is about input, not visual frame rate. 20 ui ticks per second? For anything but gaming I'm probably good.
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by jbeninger 1y ago
That is a great insight. Often the thought that breaks through developer block for me is "<sigh> fine , I guess I can't do it that way"
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by jbeninger 1y ago
It depends. I had an LLM whip up a JavaScript function "theThursdayAfterNextSunday" JavaScript isn't my primary language and date functions are always a pain. But I know enough to review and test the code quickly. It doesn&#
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by jbeninger 1y ago
The thing about being left handed is your hand will naturally drag across the fresh ink of a fountain pen.
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I bought mine from therealreal.com. I got a lot more ring than I'd normally be able to afford, and it's an elegant design you don't see everywhere. Check with the recipient beforehand, of course. You're not the one who h

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