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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
I don't think that people who don't want to use these tools or clean old ways are incurious. But I think these developers should face the fact that those skills and those ways they are reticent to give up are more or less obviated
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Glad to hear this. I actually went down this path based off of guidance from multiple LLMs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.), so I wasn't sure if it was just some kind of weird hallucination they all had or if they were regurgitating a very sm
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Things are changing so fast and so chaotically with this technology. I'm also writing everything now using Claude code, and I've been thinking a lot about what this means for my work moving forward. One thing I've noticed, is
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
A missing link right now is automated high-quality code reviews. I would love an adversarial code review agent that has a persona oriented around all incoming code being slop, that leverages a wealth of knowledge (both manually written by
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Anthropic makes it kind of clear in all of their statements that they are not opposed to working with the surveillance state, with the military industrial complex, etc. Their central philosophy, it seems, is not incongruent with working wit
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
I have an agent system analyzing time series data periodically. What I've landed on is the tools themselves pre-process time series data, giving it more semantic meaning. AKA converting timestamps to human dates, additionally preproces
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Just Wispr Flow and a PTT key binding. It's very good for doing plans with Claude Code because I can just ramble and ramble. As long as I just convey the details of what I want over a sufficiently long string of text, it will work even
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
> People on here act like we don’t know if AI will be useful. And I’m sitting over here puzzled because of how fucking useful it is. Yes, it's very strange to read AI threads here because the general tone is so different than, say,
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
This is a funny point that you're making (for me, anyway), because prior to early December, probably 5% of the lines of code I wrote in a week were AI-generated by cursor. Then I started using Claude Code. Fast forward to today, I woul
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Yeah, if this is going to be a nuclear bomb for software developers, imagine what it's going to be like for people in customer service, account managers, etc.
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
I would say the vast majority of people in this thread don't believe that this is related to AI at all, other than as a pretext. It's kind of incredible.
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
This seems like a real coarse and not particularly accurate binary, but even if it were true, the thing about Claude Code and agentic coding like this is the cost of making a mistake or the cost of not being happy with a design and having t
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
I have. 3 is fine, 3.1 is good. But they are terribly slow. Quality is fine but the the only thing they have going for them is flash pricing. Their response performance sucks.
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Assuming these plans are based on Gemini, Google is doing these users a favor, frankly.
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by prescriptivist 7mo ago
Honestly? Yeah. I've been writing code for 25 years. A year ago my org brought cursor in and I was skeptical for a specific reason: it was good at breaking CI in weird ways and I keep the CI system running for my org. Constants not map
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
> there _might be_ new bits but nothing meaningful as far as I know If you didn't need backwards compatibility with older rubies you could use Ractors in lieu of forks and not have to IPC between the two and have cleaner communicati
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
I think fibers (or, rather, the Async library) in Ruby tends to be fetishized by junior Rails engineers who don't realize higher level thread coordination issues (connection pools, etc) equally apply to fibers. That said this could be
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
I used this in earnest yesterday on my Zillow saved listings. I prompted it to analyze the listings (I've got about 70 or so saved) and summarize the most recent price drops for each one and it mostly failed at the task. It gave the im
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
That's awesome and I have a few similar conversations with Claude. I wasn't quite an AI luddite a couple months ago, but close. I joined a new company recently that is all in on AI and I have a comically huge token budget so I jum
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
Agree. I'd add that a aha moment to skills is AI agents are pretty good at writing skills. Let's say you have developed an involved prompt that explains how to hit an API (possibly with the complexity of reading credentials from a
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
Skills have a lot of uses, but one in particular I like is replacing one off MCP server usage. You can use (or write) an MCP server for you CI system and then add the instructions to your AGENTS.md to query the CI MCP for build results for
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by prescriptivist 9mo ago
Another thing I'd suggest: look into and use non-coding AI tools that improve productivity. For example: Zoom meeting transcriptions and summaries or Granola. A lot of context is lost when you take manual notes in meetings. If you use
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
Unless there is not something I am seeing, people aren't racing to move to rural New England. Maybe it's retirees, red to blue state migrations, or remote workers. But I haven't seen a ton of evidence of that. People didn&#x2
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
There's something fundamentally strange about how prices have spiked and inventory has tightened since Covid. Where I live in rural New England, prices are up 50–100% in five years. And this is on pretty poor quality homes. Yes, low in
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
I mention mean-time to decision making and that's one of the rationales for the mcp. A skill could call a script that does the same thing -- but at that point aren't we just splitting hairs? We are both talking about automated rep
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
What boundaries does this 8GB etcd limit cut across? We've been using Tekton for years now but each pipeline exists in its own namespace and that namespace is deleted after each build. Presumably that kind of wholesale cleanup process
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
Most guides to wringing productivity out of these higher level Claude code abstractions suffer from conceptual and wall-of-text overload. Maybe it's unavoidable but it's tough to really dig into these things. One of the things tha
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
MCPs as a thin layer over existing APIs has lost utility. Custom MCPs for teams that reduces redundant thinking/token consumption and provides more useful context for the agent and decreases mean time to decision making is where MCPs s
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
It's fairly straightforward to build resilient, affordable and scalable pipelines with DAG orchestrators like tekton running in kubernetes. Tekton in particular has the benefit of being low level enough that it can just be plugged into
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by prescriptivist 10mo ago
I get the feeling that most people commenting here have only surface level experience with deploying k8s applications. I don't care for helm myself but it's less bad than a lot of other approaches like hand rolling manifests with

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