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Being a 1.5-10x Developer(build.ms)
1 points by mergesort 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Teaching Computer(build.ms)
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by mergesort 6mo ago
And here I've been using Maybelline for nothing!
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Sorry, when I say I think I have a balanced take on AI what I mean is that I do my best to weigh both the pros and cons of this technology as opposed to a more extreme behavior like spending all day chatting with LLMs or posting all day on
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Hey there! I'm not sure I have a universally applicable answer, but I can do my best to map out some things about my process and flow that hopefully help a bit and answer your question. - I've had an iPhone for half my life (I&#x2
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Hey there, post author here. I think if you read deeper into my blog post history you’ll see that I have a reasonably balanced take on AI. I generally think this will be a very important technology so I teach the subject to make sure people
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Heya, post author here. I just want to say that I actually agree with your surprise. In the piece what I’m trying to articulate is not that this can go on forever, but that I’m genuinely surprised we’ve made it a year and they continue to s
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Heya, post author here. I would say I’m not trying to be apologetic for the idea that software quality is diminishing, especially cause I became an indie developer because I care about quality. When I say “it doesn’t matter” I mean more i
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Heya, post author here. I think I was just wrong about this assertion. I got into a discussion with a copyright lawyer over on Bluesky[^1] after I wrote this and came away reasonably convinced that this wouldn’t be a valid example of a clea
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Hey there, author of the post here. I actually agree with this! That is in fact why I used the word maybe — my comment really was meant to be more speculative than definitive.
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by mergesort 6mo ago
Hey there, author of the post here! I actually wrote this piece myself on my phone while I was out for a walk this morning. It was initially meant to be a quick note more than a full blog post —- whereas Coding As A Creative Expression took
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The Claude Code Leak(build.ms)
200 points by mergesort 6mo ago|181 comments
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Workslop(build.ms)
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by mergesort 9mo ago
To be honest that's most of my pitch for Codex in the blog post. Codex works great without any configuration, and amazingly with. If you want to spend less time configuring then maybe Codex is the right agentic system for you. I don&#x
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by mergesort 9mo ago
I've only skimmed it since I'm between Christmas and a longer vacation that starts in 24 hours, but this actually looks really neat! I'll definitely take a closer look to at these skills in depth — but this is exactly the kin
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by mergesort 9mo ago
You raise a couple of really good questions! 1. I find Claude Code's handling of the context window to be pretty poor, and one of the reasons why I use it for smaller things versus multi-hour coding sessions. I'm not sure what dar
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Thank you so much! That’s very kind of you to say. :)
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Hey there, article author here! I spent a lot of time writing up a comment that talks through my process so I'll just lazy link it here if that's ok. [^1] But the truth is I do build real production features all the time! That jus
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by mergesort 9mo ago
That does sound like a good article! Sadly I've never written it and probably won't because I think a lot of that stuff doesn't provide as much value as people assume — which is why my personal conclusion in the post is to ju
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by mergesort 9mo ago
So I will state upfront that my current experience is not the most common team dynamic because I'm an indie developer [^1]. But I've worked at many companies — as small as 2 and as large as Twitter — so I am very familiar with the
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Hey there, post author here. I do actually generate days worth of code in minutes and weeks worth of code in hours (not minutes) — but didn't really cover them because this post was more conceptual than specifically covering a tactic o
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by mergesort 9mo ago
So I definitely understand where you're coming from, but let me provide a little bit of context. The workshops are 3-4 hours and we do spend a lot of time discussing how things work in reality vs. how they work in the context of the wo
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Hey Jose, author here! That's a great call out. I write predominantly in Swift and for a long time Claude was the only usable option. But sometime around GPT-5 OpenAI's models got much better at Swift, so the choice started becomi
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Heya, author of the post here. That's a good call out because it's probably a lot! And now that you mention it, that's also one failure case for why some people look at AI and go "this just isn't very good at coding
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by mergesort 9mo ago
No problem at all! I read it as a bit pithy, but I didn’t think it was particularly mean spirited. If you check out my writing on build.ms and fabisevi.ch you’ll see that the majority of it is meant to be evergreen observations of a concept
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Heya, author here! I do agree with you that this is a big downside, but I don’t know if this is the primary reason. In my experience teaching people, most people don’t actually know much at the time they make this decision. They’ve heard ab
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Heya, I’m the author of the post! To be clear I have AI write probably 95% of my code these days, but I review every line of code that AI writes to make sure it meets my high standards. The same rules I’ve always had still apply — to quote
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by mergesort 9mo ago
As the author of the post I think it was a nice quick post to share my perspective of a behavior I’ve been seeing across many (but not all) developers recently, but I’m always open to feedback for how to improve my writing! And as I mention
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Heya, author of the post here! I think you're right in everything you've said, but I want to note that the programming language comparison was meant to be metaphorical more than literal. Everything is changing so fast (as I mentio
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by mergesort 9mo ago
Heya, author here! I completely agree with you — and why the post is titled Codex vs. Claude Code (Today). I also have this very specific disclaimer in the second paragraph to note that this post is a reflection of a moment in time. :D >

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