lacymorrow

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   by lacymorrow 4mo ago

   Seen this pattern repeatedly building a shell plugin with Claude. It defaults to writing everything from first principles rather than reaching for existing tools. 200 lines of custom YAML parsing when a one-liner would do. Adding "alwa
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   by lacymorrow 4mo ago

   The strongest signal I have seen for whether AI actually reduces maintenance cost is whether the developer treats AI output as a first draft or a final artifact. When I use AI tools on existing codebases - understanding unfamiliar modules,
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   by lacymorrow 4mo ago

   One thing I'd add from building a shell plugin that routes natural language to agents: the detection heuristic matters way more than flag conventions. We spent a lot of time on when to run something as a shell command vs send it to an
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   Lacy Shell – Talk to your terminal. Commands run, questions go to AI(github.com)

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