Syntaf

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by Syntaf 3mo ago
6.x feels much more efficient with respect to token usage to be fair. I picked up superpowers back when it first started gaining traction; the first iteration felt like an “oh shit” moment for me, then the sheen quickly wore off. Higher spe
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
We switched our very large Django monolith codebase over to ty — the trick for us was generating stubs for Django models and having tooling keep those stubs in sync with the actual models. Went from type checking taking ~10 minutes in CI to
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
I imagine Kernel development is quite difficult, as might be designing infrastructure that can handle 10K+ RPS. I don't quite understand why you're being so passive aggressive, this isn't reddit; I'm not interested in be
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
Lol truly. A short list of just a few things that haunt my dreams: Distributions, American/European waterfalls, Carried interest, Management fees, and basically every single detail about Master feeder fund economics
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
It was never about the code. After spending the last 5 years building software for venture capital and private equity, this blog post really resonates with me. Writing code is by and far the _easiest_ part of my job; understanding the finan
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
Tested this out on a 5x max plan, turns out I spun up 62 Opus 4.8 1M sub-agents for my dynamic workflow and maxed out my ~5hr cap in..... 18 minutes? Oops, but probably good to know that this is not a cheap feature -- next time I'll ha
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by Syntaf 4mo ago
Additionally each city often has their own fares they impose, restrictions / etc
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by Syntaf 5mo ago
"Make no mistakes"
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
Np! I also love using `/loop` at work on combination with a PR maintenance skill, helps me push up changes initially and have a session automatically monitor + fixup a branch to get it passing before I review it myself and then later s
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
Self-edit: a couple thousand session hours is probably hyperbolic; it's likely closer to a thousand after discussing usage with another user in a separate thread. Maybe a better metric: Across work + personal I have 1,000+ sessions in
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
In my OP I mention this is aggregated across both work + personal, so the comparison of just 8 hour workdays 5 days a week isn't accurate. Running some `/stats` on my work computer shows for the last 30 days: * Sessions: 341 * Act
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
I probably use a couple thousand session hours monthly between work & personal; very pleased with the results I get. But I’m not necessarily oozing about it online — vocal minority and all.
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
I put in probably thousands of Claude session hours a month, aggregated across work + personal. I must be missing something or supremely lucky because I feel like I’ve never hit these “stupid” moments. If I do, it’s probably because I forgo
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by Syntaf 6mo ago
I’ve been a full stack developer for 10+ years now and I completely disagree. Modern models like Opus / Gemini 3 are great coding companions; they are perfectly capable of building clean code given the right context and prompt. At the
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by Syntaf 7mo ago
Not to mention their language server + type checker `ty` is incredible. We moved our extremely large python codebase over from MyPy and it's an absolute game changer. It's so fast in fact that we just added `ty check` to our pre-c
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Ask HN: Has AI changed how your approach software architecture and design?
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by Syntaf 1y ago
Anecdotally I'm using the superpowers[1] skills and am absolutely blown away by the quality increase. Working on a large python codebase shared by ~200 engineers for context, and have never been more stoked on claude code ouput. [1] h
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by Syntaf 1y ago
Agreed, as a software engineer of ~8 years now Mac is actually my _preferred_ environment -- I find it an extremely productive OS for development whether I'm working on full stack or Unity game dev in my free time.
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by Syntaf 1y ago
I feel like it's more often a result of suffering from success that leads to these situations, rather than a lack of foresight to begin with. For example I work on a python codebase shared by 300+ engineers for a popular unicorn. Typin
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by Syntaf 1y ago
This resonates with me this so much. I feel like half the comments in this thread are missing the value typing, but maybe they've never had the misfortune of working with hundreds of other developers on a project with no defined contra
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by Syntaf 1y ago
The podcasts feature is primarily why I love NLM! I try starting my morning with learning, lately having a podcast to listen to while I start my day has been awesome.
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by Syntaf 1y ago
Yep 100% agreed here. I run a member management platform[1] for small clubs which generally use PP to fundraise and collect member dues. Works perfectly well for us, we don't handle any PI or CC details and clubs can connect their PP a
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by Syntaf 1y ago
I had a period of time at my last job where the product org was so dysfunctional engineers did in fact run out of work. Initially I didn’t mind it because my team focused on technical debt, but it pretty quickly turned sour. Having to scrap
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by Syntaf 1y ago
I allowed Claude to debug an ingress rule issue on my cluster last week for a membership platform I run. Not really the same since Claude didn’t deploy anything — but I WAS surprised at how well it tracked down the ingress issue to a cron j
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by Syntaf 1y ago
Attribution revenue is what I would consider the gold standard for these types of services. It makes sense on paper, if the service helps confirm legitimate reviews for you and convinces you to purchase said product, they should receive att
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by Syntaf 1y ago
For one, the trees used here are mostly the desert variety that can withstand the hash conditions of our summers and infrequent waterings [1] -- they're actually quite beautiful too! Secondly, LV is one of the most water efficient citi
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by Syntaf 1y ago
Many of the trees planted here can handle the harsh climate of Las Vegas summers and infrequent watering [1], not even mentioning that we recycle nearly 40% of our water and are amongst one of (if not the most) water efficient cities in the
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by Syntaf 2y ago
I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1]. We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership manageme
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by Syntaf 2y ago
This is especially true for the older frameworks like rails. Half the answers are for rails 2.0 and the other half tell you to just “install this gem” which monkey patches some part of the framework that has long since been deprecated/
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by Syntaf 2y ago
Really cool visualization and neat to learn about lazy enumeration! Excuse me while I go back through my code and make sure I’m using lazy enumeration wherever I’m iterating over large collections….

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