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Lean into Your Agentic Coder's Mistakes(benhouston3d.com)
1 points by bhouston 2y ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Speaking as a Canadian, China is no friend of Canada: You need to put things in perspective here. I am no fan of China but we have to turn away from the US. US tariffs are expected to cut our GDP by 3% / $63B [1], enter us into a
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by bhouston 2y ago
suraci wrote: > There're only few countries with full sovereignty in this world, and Canada is not one of them This sounds like the start of a discussion premised on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Sco
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by bhouston 2y ago
> There are strategic reasons why you may not want to help increase the manufacturing base of a national "competitor" From what I can tell, the US is repositioning itself as a national "competitor" to Canada. Thus ba
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by bhouston 2y ago
> I don't trust China to produce good-quality cars at the moment (although I expect I'll have eaten my words in ten years' time), but if most of the world gets on fine without American cars, I'm sure the Canadians wil
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by bhouston 2y ago
When the US annexes or gains new territory it generally doesn't give them federal representation for a while. Alaska was acquired in 1884, but didn't get "statehood" until 1959. Hawaii was annexed in 1900, but didn&#x27
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by bhouston 2y ago
If the US is going to tariff heavily Canada for made up reasons [1], Canada should negotiate a more free trade agreement with China. Not completely open, but significantly more open than it is now - and encourage bilateral exchanges to mak
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by bhouston 2y ago
There are resource limits.
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Stop Writing Code for Humans: Agentic Coding Best Practices(benhouston3d.com)
2 points by bhouston 2y ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 2y ago
I absolutely love my MacBook Air M3 15”. Of course I’d love it to be faster but I’ll probably upgrade to an M5 or M6 at this point as the marginal improvement isn’t sufficient to warrant upgrading this soon after purchase.
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by bhouston 2y ago
Agentic coders (e.g. aider, Claude-code, mycoder, codebuff, etc.) use a lot more tokens, but they write whole features for you and debug your code.
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by bhouston 2y ago
Altman's claim and NVIDIA's consumer launch supply problems may be related - OpenAI may be eating up the GPU supply...
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by bhouston 2y ago
they do have coding benchmarks, I summarized them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197955
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by bhouston 2y ago
A bit better at coding than ChatGPT 4o but not better than o3-mini - there is a chart near the bottom of the page that is easy to overlook: - ChatGPT 4.5 on AWS Bench verified: 38.0% - ChatGPT 4o on AWS Bench verified: 30.7% - OpenAI o3-min
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by bhouston 2y ago
This guy says he is Aleph Null: http://richard-parkins.free.nf/
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by bhouston 2y ago
Whoa. That is insane. I will have to try it out to see why it is so much more expensive.
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by bhouston 2y ago
Does this argument apply to claude-code and aider? Or just tools I write? Does your argument apply to all software libraries/products?
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by bhouston 2y ago
Okay I have token caching and token costing implemented in a PR. Will go live tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by bhouston 2y ago
Okay I have token caching annd token costing implemented in a PR. Will go live tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by bhouston 2y ago
Claude I find is significantly better at coding that OpenAI tech, especially in agentic tool using workflows.
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by bhouston 2y ago
I really should have just checked out the code twice locally or once per auto coder.
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by bhouston 2y ago
There is always room for more tools. How many database exist? Front end frameworks? Languages? Backend frameworks? Analytics packages? To think that in this space there is only one solution and all others are just outright failures or n
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by bhouston 2y ago
It actually works with bun, pnpm, yarn, etc - any standard Node package manager. I use pnpm personally and that is evident in the repo setup itself, but npm is sort of the standard so I put in that in the docs, rather than mentioning a long
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by bhouston 2y ago
On average I've been spending $25 a day on Claude credits once this was up and fully running. That is cheaper than hiring another developer in just about any country and it greatly boosts my productivity.
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by bhouston 2y ago
The issue is I am working on non-public projects so it is harder to share. But I have a mono-repo that has 8 packages in the packages/* folder and it is all managed by pnpm. I had two sessions going locally in two separate terminal w
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by bhouston 2y ago
Auto-coders, which is what I call this tech, are great but they screw up complex tasks, so you need to be able to step in when they are screwing one up. I view it as a team of junior devs. This will probably change at some point, but they
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by bhouston 2y ago
I had it fix a bug recently in the medium sized tanstack mono repo. Transcript here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178222
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by bhouston 2y ago
I will have a look! Thx!
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by bhouston 2y ago
Aider is python. Claude code is closed source and this is open source and typescript.
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by bhouston 2y ago
I will be launching a version of this on GitHub as an app to help open source developers. So open source is also going to get a boost.

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