neilkakkar

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AI Made Me Braver(neilkakkar.com)
2 points by neilkakkar 3mo ago|0 comments
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
I see what you mean - I have a setup-worktree script that does this, but I use the skill for knowing when to do bits and pieces. I would agree, if it were 100% deterministic script is much better.
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
I think you'd like this post I wrote: https://neilkakkar.com/agentic-debt.html , parts of why I think we wouldn't get automated away just yet. It might be true eventually - and when it does happen, I'm sure I
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
This is exactly why I use a custom skill - I can tell it what to focus on, I can give it a ill formatted blurb of why I'm making the changes, and it will format it nicely, and add more context based on the changes. Most of the time, th
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
OP here, I disagree, it's great to have a skill for cases where you have extra steps and want the agent to run some verification steps before making a PR. It's called making a PR, but it's not _just_ running the gh cli to mak
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
Hello! OP here, a lot of comments have this common theme of wondering if this is overloading / context switching / the brain thrashing. Helped me surface an important distinction on why it doesn't really happen for me. I thin
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How I'm Productive with Claude Code(neilkakkar.com)
281 points by neilkakkar 6mo ago|167 comments
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by neilkakkar 6mo ago
Interesting, I feel humans are a lot more likely to consolidate because it's easier to reason / maintain when there's one component vs two. Agree that it's _possible_ people don't do it, and things end up in a decay
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Agentic Debt(neilkakkar.com)
5 points by neilkakkar 6mo ago|2 comments
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How PostHog made feature flags faster and more reliable(posthog.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 3y ago|0 comments
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by neilkakkar 3y ago
I'm very confused, why is this so upvoted, someone mind explaining?
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Ask HN: Best tips and resources for a software eng learning product design
4 points by neilkakkar 4y ago|2 comments
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How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products)(posthog.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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by neilkakkar 5y ago
Asking because I see something that's a lot of mappings with zero context: Why/ for what is the Lambda-Cube useful?
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Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously(commoncog.com)
2 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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Mental Model on Fishing(bishfish.co.nz)
1 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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Intentionally Making Close Friends(neelnanda.io)
3 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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Winning Is for Losers(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Mechanics is not confusing(lesswrong.com)
9 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|2 comments
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Why PostHog is giving away 100x cloud usage for free(posthog.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple, Its Control over the iPhone, the Internet, and the Metaverse(matthewball.vc)
3 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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Derisk projects by the Risk Reduction Rate, not absolute risk(conversion-rate-experts.com)
3 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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Confirmation Bias in Action(putanumonit.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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What Bill Gurley Saw(commoncog.com)
2 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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Is Mood a Gift or a Skill?(seths.blog)
1 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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What Bill Gurley Saw(commoncog.com)
2 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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Baba Black Sheep(notboring.substack.com)
1 points by neilkakkar 6y ago|0 comments
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by neilkakkar 6y ago
Broadly: I agree Alex, that was my bad. Minutely: The fact that I couldn't game it means it isn't that vulnerable.
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by neilkakkar 6y ago
Noted, I was starting to submit way too much as a part of an experiment. That experiment failed miserably (and led to a shitlist addition). I don't submit things more than 4x now. What you see are the remnants of the experiment. At the
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by neilkakkar 6y ago
Partially, yes! - And partially about priorities. So, you're doing whatever sequence is better. It's a general case of the example you mention: With one permutation (yours), you can get everything done. With another permutation (r

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