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I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I
by mikkupikku 9mo ago
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky.
For me personally, programming lost most of it's fun many years ago, but with claude code I'm having fun again. It's not the same, but for me personally, at this stage in my life, it's more enjoyable.
- Waterluvian 9mo agoNow that’s vibe coding.
- tartoran 9mo agoThat’s vibe coding while high. Probably terrible for assesing the results from Claude
- mikkupikku 9mo agoThe code works quite well, but I wouldn't inflict it on other humans. In my view, when you use a coding agent you're committing to forever maintaining that code with a coding agent. There are no human programmers participating in these projects.
- Waterluvian 9mo agoI think oftentimes in the absence of context, people will substitute their own, usually worst-case context. They imagine someone vibe coding safety critical software that flies airplanes. I think we much too often forget that the domain of software development has expanded its reach into literally everything and that we share a guild hall with all kinds: those who write deeply safety critical correct code, those who are hacking a blender, those who are just making their clerical task less repetitive, etc.
- jama211 9mo agoWell said, people online are so quick to criticise LLM usage because of possible security holes or what have you.I can assure you, when making something dumb for fun I wouldn’t have checked it for security holes when I was coding it either.
- dripdry45 9mo agoBallmer curve in full effect
- amelius 9mo agoExcept there is a well-known phenomenon among programmers that commencing to work requires more energy than working itself (*). Every time you chill out and come back to work, you will have to invest that extra bit of start-up energy. Which can be draining. (* probably has to do with reloading your working memory)
- tartoran 9mo agoContext switching tax.
- spacecadet 9mo agoFor some. I have never experienced this myself. All my energy goes into keeping unconsciously destructive people from sabotaging the effort.
- hxugufjfjf 9mo agoWhat do you mean by that? Can you clarify?
- jama211 9mo agoThey mean they feel intellectually superior to their peers and want to humble brag about it.
- spacecadet 9mo agoNo. Im the dumbest person in the room, mate. It means I have to deal with you all day. Sigh.
- jama211 9mo agoWell, at least one of those statements is probably true.
- keyle 9mo agoImagine the captain high while auto pilot is on... who's flying this thing!
- jondwillis 9mo agoIt’ll probably be fine. Mostly.
- dubeye 9mo agoI play piano, it' a cool game play loop
- stack_framer 9mo agoWow, this is a new low I did not expect to see. "Just get high and you'll be able to code with an LLM." Preceded by, "I know it's terrible." I'm wholly unwilling to relinquish my health and my morals to "AI" so I can "ship faster." What a pathetic existence that would be.
- coldtea 9mo agoWelcome to Taylorism. Not just for assembly line workers anymore.
- ramon156 9mo agoOne of the best programmers I know personally is constantly under the influence of marijuana. As "immature" as it may sound, she's still extremely aware of what she's doing and is able to work in an environment I would give up in after 2 weeks. The kind of environment that denies 1 day PTO for your birthday because of a deadline (hint, every week is a deadline). I do not smoke myself, but it made me realize how little I know regarding THC and CBD
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- klibertp 9mo ago> I do not smoke myself, but it made me realize how little I know regarding THC and CBD Long-term use causes the psychedelic part of THC effects to diminish over time. At some point, only a mild depressant effect remains - somewhat similar to chamomile. It does have some effect on intelligence and short-term memory, but if the alternative is to be too stressed to think at all, it might be better to just smoke. Obviously, if possible, psychotherapy or a prescription from a psychiatrist (or better yet, a change of environment) would be better (in the latter case, it depends on the prescribed drug, of course), but THC is not that bad an alternative where it's legal.
- mikkupikku 9mo agoI appreciate your honesty. For what it's worth, this is not a commercial endeavor and is all motivated entirely by scratching my own personal itches. I'm not being paid to do this.
- neom 9mo agoyeah that's how I do it too but careful with the blunt, yesterday I was working away, had some time while an agent swarm ran, took a "little break" and now ghostty looks like this: https://s.h4x.club/kpuGgD12 https://s.h4x.club/kpuGgD12 :|
- 0_____0 9mo agoI feel like we used to do so much more customization and theming of our desktop environments in the 2000s/2010s. I miss it, and therefore love this for you!
- neom 9mo agoI was totally obsessed with it, when I first got into linux as a kid in the late 90s, I spent forever and hours tweaking just my bashrc. I spent entirely too long on this stupid terminal, the media player and getting the rainbow thing to match up to the time of whatever was playing... oh well, had fun!
- jama211 9mo agoOh man, I’d love your config if you were willing to share, that looks sweet
- neom 9mo agoWell "little break" - I forked ghostty and re-wrote parts of it for Metal and a bunch of new uniforms and iChannels - so my config may not work for you, but here is everything config wise I have running right now in full: https://s.h4x.club/NQuG6pZN https://s.h4x.club/NQuG6pZN
- jama211 9mo agoOh wow I see, great effort either way, thanks
- djkivi 9mo ago20 years ago we had the Ballmer Peak. With AI you may have found the next thing!
- neomantra 9mo agoThat's precisely how I refactored dank-extract from dank-mcp and finally got dank-data to archive CT canna-data every Sunday at 4:20pm Pacific. [1] https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-extract https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-extract [2] https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-data https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-data
- dvfjsdhgfv 9mo agoMan you restored the original vibe in vibe coding. (In all seriousness though, it's probably not good for your health.)
- swat535 9mo agoProgramming stopped feeling fun for me once MBAs and bean counters took over. There's rarely time to write thoughtful code anymore. Even convincing management to invest in a sane architecture feels like an endless uphill battle. Engineer teams are nothing but an annoying expense on the balance sheet and the goal is to cram as many features, as quickly as possible to get the sale. That's exactly why I'm happy to use every tool available to get the work done efficiently. To this end, LLMs have been great for me, especially when dealing with large amounts of boilerplate code. Long gone the days of crafting artisan code.
- johnnyanmac 9mo agoIt's still fun for me. But a lot of my day right now isn't "coding". But playing the job market game to get stability back in life while juggling other part time work. Of course, I know the next layoff will come. So I simply want to use the next time of stability to make sure I can be that artisan the next time industry kicks me out. But baby steps for now.
- WD-42 9mo agoSounds like you need to find a better job.
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- DerArzt 9mo agoSometimes a job is a job.
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- jama211 9mo agoY’all were having fun? I always had fun making things, but the coding part was always a means to an end for me, and one that caused endless frustration at times. I never have to debug regex or write a single date format line by hand ever again, and I will never ever miss it. Every bit of coding that did anything other than give me meaningful progress on features on the thing I was actually trying to build, which at times was 80%+ of it, was always terrible.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo agoI can recommend a Steam Deck for gaming that can be easily interrupted and resumed. It also means that you can leave your "work" machine so that you can see when claude has finished.