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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
My job is different from most developers these days. But I'm writing more code than I ever did as a developer. YMMV
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Just have your harness rules add types and run ty after every change. Models handle Python typing quite well these days.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
99% of coders don't need to generate anything novel.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
If there was ever a "magic prompt" this one comes close: Brainstorm N ways to do X. Sort by probability. Rather than your AI giving you the average response, it tends to sample wider from the input space. Then I can decid
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Interesting point. Outsource the outsourcers...
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Copilot was the best deal in AI tooling for a few weeks there. New pricing model changes that. I will still keep it around for autocompletion (for the rare times when I open up an editor).
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Odd, I train teams (at large companies) to use harnesses effectively. So some training does exist. I get the anti/skeptic sentiment. I've been called a lot of horrible things by a vocal contingent when they hear that I help train
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
If you give Copilot a file with a list of tasks to complete, it will try to churn through them (just like most other harness would do these days).
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Copilot was great when folks were semi-attempting write their own coffee and needed auto complete. There's a large (and growing!) contingent of people who don't write code these days. (Many don't even use the keyboard.)
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Biking is great. Find an excuse to do it. Two that have worked for me: Commuting and coaching the HS mountain bike team.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Recumbent...
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Isn't designing for machines "the way" these days? (Ducks...)
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
I'm curious. Do you have real world examples of when you want to do this?
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
They are just trolling you now
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Curious if this would help larger local models? Qwen 3.6 varieties of deepseek4?
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
If it has an android app, you probably can. The AI will most likely decompile the app and inject bits necessary to figure out reverse engineering. At least that's what happened when I created a Python sdk for my $500 video light.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
(Most) developers and computers users are inherently lazy. That's why we write programs. So the computer can do it for us.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
I'm not sure how many bugs type hinting in Python finds. But it is another guardrail that you are giving AI. When you have the AI use ty (and it runs almost instantaneously) after every edit, you are stacking the odds in you favor. The
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
My comment is the autocompletion to your prompt.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Lay it on. I love to collect other's anecdotes and see where they align (or disagree)
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
If you are using TDD with any recent model and even local models (qwen3.5+), you alleviate most of the issues mentioned. Note that: Writing code, then tests Is not equivalent to: Writing tests, then code
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
My anecdotal (sample size 1) experience is not consistent with this. I code fast. Refactor fast. My stuff doesn't break. But my methodology isn't the same as other's.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
AI's are really good with Python. Quick turnaround. Easy to read. Tons of training data/examples. Many of the same reasons we wrote Python before. Another benefit to using Python, is if you subscribe to writing/vibing a throw
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
The irony that this response has a very common LLMism...
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
AI accelerated two groups of folks. Beginners/naive and experts. This article only talks about beginners digging a hole for themselves. Doesn't mention the speedup that experts get. I'm my post 12 years as a corporate trainer
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Congrats from another contributor. I made a slicing plugin years ago that lets you create a layer that defines named rectangles. Each area under the rectangle is saved as an image.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
I think this goes to a broader point: developers aren't necessarily hired to write code. They're hired to be responsible for some part of the product. Introducing AI doesn't remove that responsibility. Folks tend to focus on
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
There are lots of man pages. This one doesn't mention Ctrl being minus 40. Not sure what the point is.
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
Would add my biggest tip to that: TDD. Most people omit it. There is a difference between: - write code, write tests And - write tests, write code Had another agentic (vibe) coding experience, which confirmed that for me. Creating an SDK fo
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by __mharrison__ 5mo ago
(disclaimer: not a doctor, sample size one) My friend with long Covid fatigue (and no taste since late 2020) saw good improvements from nicotine patches.

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