bobjordan

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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Yes, I normally draft spec docs in the office at my desk, this is true. However, when I have the spec ready for implementation with clear "beads", I can reasonably plan to leave my office and work from my phone. Its not at a poin
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
They make it easy to spin up parallel agents. Managing them efficiently through a shared tmux instance isn't banned anywhere in the TOS, AFAIK. I'd worry more about it if I had to use multiple accounts or something using round-the
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Here is my view after putting in my 10,000+ hours learning to code pre-llm days, while also building a pretty complex design + contract manufacturing company, with a lot of processes in place for that to happen. If you have a bunch of human
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Thanks. I just mentioned elsewhere, right now I spend $200 on claude code 20x plan + $200 on openAI's similar plan, per month. I probably have a few more small conveniences that cost ~$10-$20 a few places, like an obsidian vault synch
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Personally, I spend $200 on claude code 20x plan + $200 on openAI's similar plan, per month. So, yeah, I spend $400 per month. I buy and use both because they have different and complimentary strengths. I have only very rarely almost r
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
I spec out everything in excruciating detail with spec docs. Then I actually read them. Finally, we create granular tasks called "beads" (see https://github.com/steveyegge/beads ). The beads allows us to creat
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Instead of sitting in my office for 12 hours working with 20 open terminals (exactly what I have open right now on my machine). I can take my kids to Disneyland (I live in Southern California and it's nearby) and work on my iphone talk
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Not yet, but I can tell you that producing "good" code is another layer altogether. I have custom linters, code standardization docs, custom prompts, strictly enforced test architecture (enforced by the custom linters in pre-commi
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Here is what I have my openclaw agent setup to do in my wsl environment on my 22 core development workstation in my office: #1) I can chat with the openclaw agent (his name is "Patch") through a telegram chat, and Patch can spawn
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
These kind of posts are why I check HN pretty much every day for 15+ yrs now. Hard to believe I've missed this one. Glad I caught it this time! This posts reminds me to stay humble and avoid jumping to conclusions without analysis.
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by bobjordan 8mo ago
Process and plumbing become very important when using ai for coding. Yes, you need good prompts. But as the code base gets more complex, you also need to spend significant time developing test guides, standardization documents, custom linte
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
Great question, I let Claude help answer this...see below: The key differences are: 1. Static vs Runtime Analysis
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
Linters...custom made pre-commit linters which are aligned with your code base needs. The agents are great at creating these linters and then forevermore it can help feedback and guide them. My key repo now has "audit_logging_linter, a
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
To use it effectively, I spend a long time producing FSD (functional specification documents) to exhaustively plan out new features or architecture changes. I'll pass those docs back and forth between gemini, codex/chatgpt-pro, an
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
I havent tried gas town yet. I have a pretty good multi-agent workflow by just using beads directly along with thoughtfully produced prompts.
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
yeah, I generally view the install script (for both this and almost everything else now since it's trivial with claude code) and then ensure I have a sane install for my system needs. But, I'm on the latest beads 0.47.1 and what I
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
Not sure you’ve actually tried using it, but beads has been an absolute game changer for my projects. “Game changer” is even underselling it.
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by bobjordan 9mo ago
I do similar except I log into my office workstation and avoid the extra fees. I detailed my setup in an x post here https://x.com/bobjordanjr/status/1999967260887421130?s=20 and the TLDR is: 1.Install Tailscale o
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by bobjordan 10mo ago
The way I'm keeping up with it (or deluding myself into believing I am keeping up with it) is by maintaining rigorous testing and test standards. I have used LLMs to assist me building C firmware for some hardware projects. But the sca
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by bobjordan 10mo ago
I’ve been a fan of this philosophy since the Intercooler.js days. In fact, our legacy customer portal at bomquote.com still runs on Intercooler. I spent the last year building a new version using the "modern" version of that stack
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by bobjordan 10mo ago
I went through similar song and dance using a paid Gemini code assist “standard” level subscription. I finally got Gemini 3 working in my terminal in my repository. I assigned it a task that Claude code Opus 4.5 would quickly knock out, and
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by bobjordan 10mo ago
Man, I definitely feel this, being in the international trade business operating an export contract manufacturing company from China, with USA based customers. I can’t think of many shittier businesses to be in this year, lol. Actually it’s
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by bobjordan 11mo ago
I tried to use go in a project 6-7 years ago and was kind of shocked by needing to fetch packages directly from source control with a real absence of built in versioning. That turned me off and I went back to python. I gather that now ther
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by bobjordan 11mo ago
I most align with libertarian ideals. However, I lived in China full time for 10 years and traveled to many different countries too. I can’t think of even one place I’ve visited where it would have been risk-free to openly criticize the cur
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by bobjordan 1y ago
This is one reason why as I’ve entered my 50’s, I’ve decided to take every advantage of modern medicine including hormone management and performance enhancing drugs. I started three years ago at 47 and now I’m living my best life at 50, in
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by bobjordan 1y ago
Lower temperatures increase PV max voltage output, not lower it. Conversely, when solar panel temperature increases, voltage decreases. So the headline specs/outputs assume to be valid at a particular temperature. As the temperature of
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by bobjordan 1y ago
Coding with AI is just a different kind of work than what those of us that coded before AI are used to doing. But, reading and understanding the code AI produces is required for anything complex. I had an inventory control app that I starte
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by bobjordan 1y ago
I can’t help but call out that o1-pro was great, it rarely took more than five minutes and I was almost never dissatisfied with the results per the wait. I happily paid for o1-pro the entire time it was available. Now, o3-pro is a relative
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by bobjordan 1y ago
Thank you for sharing your deep experience. It's a valid perspective, especially from an expert in the world of testing. You're right to call out the need for vigilance and to place the burden of proof on those of us who advocate
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by bobjordan 1y ago
I see where you're coming from, and I appreciate your perspective. The "con artist" analogy is plausible, for the fear of inauthenticity this technology creates. However, I’d like to offer a different view from someone who ha

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