wesselbindt

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by wesselbindt 7d ago
Fair point! This post is not a load bearing and accurate description of Claude's workings, it's satire.
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by wesselbindt 8d ago
> The way you test code cannot (and should not) be decoupled by the way in which you architect the code itself. I'm not sure I fully understand. In my view, it's pretty evident that tests should test behavior and not structure.
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by wesselbindt 10d ago
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing this very much! I wish I could read the entire chat, but I imagine there might be some NDA stuff in there if you talk abt real world experiences.
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by wesselbindt 14d ago
> Teams, em dash bla bla bla em dash have quietly bla bla bla. It's not this, it's _that_. I find it hard to read articles where the agentic writing is this obvious. It's a distraction from the message of the text, which I
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by wesselbindt 1mo ago
So, I get the idea of having a layer of abstraction between your tests and the system under test. You decouple _what_ is being done from _how_ it is done, which leads to robust, easily maintained, and even more re-usable test suites. I&#x27
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by wesselbindt 1mo ago
Literally everything except the media writing non-sensationalist headlines about science.
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by wesselbindt 1mo ago
> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? There's probably a lot wrong with the "coding was never the hard part" take, but this quote righ
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
Exactly, I feel the same way, and was surprised to see so few people pointing this out. Forest vs desert I guess.
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
Ok, thanks for explaining! Doesn't really explain how the wc eend expression _doesn't_ apply here (which would be hard to do, because it _does_ apply, since this is someone praising their own work, and it doesn't get more str
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
I don't see how Claude code being a widely used product is relevant to the person who orchestrated the Rust rewrite of bun saying that the orchestration of the Rust rewrite of bun went well. Wc eend is a widely used product as well, if
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
It was a commercial slogan for a toilet cleaning agent. An English equivalent would be "mr clean recommends you use mr clean". Today, it is used to point out when someone tells you they themselves delivered good work. Anytime you&
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
In Dutch there's a saying, "wij van wc eend adviseren wc eend", and it fits perfectly.
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by wesselbindt 2mo ago
They balance the budget?
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
It reveals the exact type of mindset that could produce an article like this. All they know is waterfall, so they see agentic coding and think: "you know what we need? More waterfall"
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
To create goodwill! Nefariously!
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
I'm nowhere near that level of experience, although I've done both as well. I'm more backend oriented. And my experience has been the opposite. When I ask for backend code, footgun after footgun appears on my screen. With fro
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
Would you describe yourself as more skilled at frontend engineering or at backend engineering?
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
I'm well aware of its context and original meaning, and I'm very happy to twist its meaning into something Kissinger would disagree with any chance I get.
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
You guessed wrong. As far as I know, there's no such lobby, and I find your suggestion of its existence to be antisemitic. But the pro Israel lobby is quite open and public. Aipac's spending, for example, is public knowledge, and
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
As the saying goes, it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. True in the 60s, still true today.
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
The idea of injecting more indeterminacy in pipelines is beyond me.
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
Artisanal astroturfing, using organic humans, used to be the norm. Could be that OP is an actual human doing astroturfing.
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by wesselbindt 3mo ago
Why?
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
> Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon. So, this choice is not super obvious to me. If it was called the moon race or whatever, I'd get it. But in this case it just feels like making up rules after
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
America won the space race? The only milestone where the US got there first was having boots on the moon. Every other milestone (first artificial satellite, first organism in space, first man in space, first woman, first spacewalk, first cr
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
Those are not arguments, those are assertions.
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
I feel like this argument always boils down to explicit vs implicit. It tastes the same as static vs dynamic typing. Personally, I fall well into the explicit camp. I like when I can know stuff about a function without having to read its bo
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
I've been in the situation a couple of times where we had full control over choosing the frontend framework. Every time we chose React, the main argument was hirability and the fact that the engineers in question were most proficient i
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
Seems like you dropped something: > Disclaimer: I maintain depsguard
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by wesselbindt 4mo ago
I was under the impression that anyone that uses the MTTR abbreviation knows enough to understand that you need to balance it with change failure rate, deploy frequency, and lead time.

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