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by alxndr 1mo ago
Reminds me of “sorry this is so long, I didn’t have time to make it short” (variously attributed, but the original may be Blaise Pascal)
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by alxndr 3mo ago
But not one of the cranks being behind the chainring… interesting
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by alxndr 3mo ago
Thanks, it makes me chuckle too. It also serves as an indicator of how much it's adhering to what I've laid out in the file, sorta like how Van Halen's rider specified a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed — if t
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by alxndr 3mo ago
Ha, good catch, thank you. I must have been thinking of "inflammable"...
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by alxndr 3mo ago
I'm more irked by the sentence-structure patterns it continually uses... here's my list: https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/3d099dbf86da9/claude...
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by alxndr 3mo ago
Punctuation lover here, and it's really disappointing that my use of em-dashes is now considered an AI tell... Even though I use them differently from how LLMs do, the distinction is subtle unless you're a grammar nerd.
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by alxndr 3mo ago
IIRC I experienced this confusion the most when reading commit messages and documentation authored by Claude in my repos. Now that I've managed to convince it to stop using first-person pronouns, I haven't gotten tripped up by its
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by alxndr 3mo ago
...or we call it an overused catch-phrase.
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by alxndr 3mo ago
I did something like this in my global `CLAUDE.md`... https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude... > It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Generative AI uses fir
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by alxndr 4mo ago
500 error when requesting the individual Job Description pages... ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/ HTTP/2 200 ⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/job/5128202007/
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by alxndr 4mo ago
Location: Oakland, California Remote: Yes (or hybrid/on-site in San Francisco or East Bay) Willing to relocate: no thanks Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Elixir, Python, Ruby Resume: https://alxndr.github.io&#x
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by alxndr 5mo ago
Darkly funny that Pangram 3.3.1 thinks "100% of this text is AI generated"
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by alxndr 5mo ago
I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik
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by alxndr 5mo ago
As a member of that group of 1300+, I'm wondering if there's something specific you're looking for which no one has addressed?
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by alxndr 5mo ago
"The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it" —William H. Whyte
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by alxndr 5mo ago
I have been trying to convince Claude to use "Claude" instead of first-person pronouns, and only recently have gotten it to say stuff like "Claude'll go ahead and take care of that now", but it's very inconsist
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by alxndr 6mo ago
This is the approach I’m taking, along with being much more verbose than my normal style with comments in the code and commit messages (including snippets of the prompts/insights that inspired the change).
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by alxndr 6mo ago
> […] the knowledge base isn’t just for research. It’s a context engineering system. You’re building the exact input your LLM needs to do useful work. > […] there’s a real difference between prompting “help me write a design doc for a
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Your File System Is Already A Graph Database(rumproarious.com)
186 points by alxndr 6mo ago|75 comments
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by alxndr 6mo ago
Noticed that and was wondering, thanks for the explanation. Does this imply that human-people need to go “vouch” for the flagged comments to bring them back into HM’s good graces?
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by alxndr 6mo ago
I think if you treat it like a coworker who you respect, it will speak to you like a coworker who respects you, but will still make some idiotic mistakes...
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by alxndr 7mo ago
Yesterday it was showing a hint in the corner to use "/btw" but when I first tried it I got this same error. About ten minutes later (?) I noticed it was still showing the same hint in the corner, so I tried it again and it w
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by alxndr 9mo ago
FWIW archive.org has a lot of live music as well
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by alxndr 9mo ago
Is this synonymous with AI-assisted coding now??
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by alxndr 10mo ago
IMHO they’re starting off harder this year!
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by alxndr 1y ago
Isn’t this already (slowly) happening?
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by alxndr 2y ago
That’s not how defamation laws work.
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by alxndr 2y ago
Counterpoint: DARE didn’t scare me away from drugs at all, and in fact taught me how to do the more common ones and what “street names” to ask for at an age where I wasn’t otherwise being exposed to that knowledge.
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by alxndr 2y ago
In the first decade of this millennium, writing JS was a pretty frustrating, and JQuery papered over a lot of the nastiness.
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by alxndr 3y ago
https://alxndr.blog infrequent posts, tech-focused mostly, sometimes about human languages or nerdy jokes...

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