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If you can’t think up enough coding projects to keep an agent busy in the background that’s a skill issue on your side.

by theptip 3mo ago

lionkor 3mo ago
I am aware this is likely sarcasm, but in case it isn't, what do you gain from doing side projects this way?
- theptip 3mo ago
  No sarcasm, I am completely serious. I don’t have time for much leisure coding these days. I do have time to kick off a few tasks in the morning to progress my many side projects. Nothing public / oss, just code that I find useful/interesting like home automation, content pipelines, games, etc. There are a bunch of cases where remote control from iOS onto a Mac Mini is simply nicer than using iOS Claude Code sandboxes. It’s the same pattern as you (hopefully) apply at $dayjob. If you are not defining a /goal and letting your agent crank you are not making full use of the models’ capabilities.
  - lionkor 3mo ago
    Well I am fully of the opinion that LLMs can help in software programming, it's not something that I feel provides any value unless it has a human in the loop. The overhead of having to figure out if the agent did a good job, if the agent is actually done or not, and if the thing it built is shit or not, is worth simply avoiding by having a human in the loop. So I wouldn't agree that the agent should be cranking out code all the time, in fact that seems more like a waste of resources compared to the work it creates. But I do understand home automation software can be very one-off and simple. But then again, a properly programmed home automation suite doesn't need a SOTA model to modify it, I think.
  - troupo 3mo ago
    On all projects I've run any of the models they: - infinitely duplicate any and all code, helpers and components - infinitely duplicate CSS (because they duplicate components) - continuously write code like "read the entire db into memory and run a filter function on retrieved data" - continuously write code like "call db with multiple queries for each element in a list" - etc. etc. Why the hell would I ever want to run them unsupervised?
    - horizonwingtech 3mo ago
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If you can’t think up enough coding projects to keep an agent busy in the background that’s a skill issue on your side.

by theptip 3mo ago

If you can’t think up enough coding projects to keep an agent busy in the background that’s a skill issue on your side.

lionkor 3mo ago

I am aware this is likely sarcasm, but in case it isn't, what do you gain from doing side projects this way?

theptip 3mo ago
No sarcasm, I am completely serious. I don’t have time for much leisure coding these days. I do have time to kick off a few tasks in the morning to progress my many side projects. Nothing public / oss, just code that I find useful/interesting like home automation, content pipelines, games, etc. There are a bunch of cases where remote control from iOS onto a Mac Mini is simply nicer than using iOS Claude Code sandboxes. It’s the same pattern as you (hopefully) apply at $dayjob. If you are not defining a /goal and letting your agent crank you are not making full use of the models’ capabilities.
- lionkor 3mo ago
  Well I am fully of the opinion that LLMs can help in software programming, it's not something that I feel provides any value unless it has a human in the loop. The overhead of having to figure out if the agent did a good job, if the agent is actually done or not, and if the thing it built is shit or not, is worth simply avoiding by having a human in the loop. So I wouldn't agree that the agent should be cranking out code all the time, in fact that seems more like a waste of resources compared to the work it creates. But I do understand home automation software can be very one-off and simple. But then again, a properly programmed home automation suite doesn't need a SOTA model to modify it, I think.
- troupo 3mo ago
  On all projects I've run any of the models they: - infinitely duplicate any and all code, helpers and components - infinitely duplicate CSS (because they duplicate components) - continuously write code like "read the entire db into memory and run a filter function on retrieved data" - continuously write code like "call db with multiple queries for each element in a list" - etc. etc. Why the hell would I ever want to run them unsupervised?
  - horizonwingtech 3mo ago
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