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by boredtofears 8mo ago
If you're using a code coverage tool to identify the branches its hitting in the code, you at least have a guarantee that it is testing the code its writing tests for as long as you check the assertions. I could be codifying bugs with
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Also funny because there are many product categories on amazon where if its not above 4.5 its probably shit
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
I used a static analysis code coverage tool to guarantee it was checking the logic, but I did not verify the logic checking myself. The biggest risk is that I have no way of knowing that I codified actual bugs with tests, but if that's
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
You should read my other comment - I did check that the test was actually checking the logic, so I guess I did some level of review with it.
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
To be honest, I didn't really think about the goals of the projects at all. I'm not even sure if a CONTRIBUTING.md existed. I just needed a particular feature for something I was working and it felt like "being a good OSS cit
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Yes, the first hour or so was spent fidgeting with test creation. It started out doing it's usual whacky behavior like checking the existence of a method and calling that a "pass", creating a mock object that mocked the retur
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Here's an example: I recently inherited an over decade old web project full of EOL'd libraries and OS packages that desperately needed to be modernized. Within 3 hours I had a working test suite with 80% code coverage on core busi
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
That sounds more like confirmation that greptile is being included in a lot agentic coding loops than anything
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Yeah, I kinda stopped involving myself in other people's OSS projects a while ago for that reason. If I have an itch to scratch, I just use my fork. It usually feels like my itch isn't theirs and I always feel like I'm imposi
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Reading the various comments in the CircleMUD source is a bit of a treat: https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
Did you get anything workable out of it? How much money did you end up burning? (If you don't mind me asking)
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
This article makes a lot of definitive claims about capabilities of different models that don't align with my experience with them. Its hard to take any claim serious without completely understanding the state of the context when the b
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by boredtofears 9mo ago
These anecdotes feel so worthless. I notice almost no difference between the two and get generally high quality results from either. This is also a worthless anecdote. I'm guessing what kind of codebase you are working in matters a lot
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by boredtofears 10mo ago
Care to share the prompt? Sounds useful!
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by boredtofears 10mo ago
I've spent a heck of a lot more time grinding leetcode than I have working on take-home projects. I always enjoyed doing take-home's because I could really spend time on it and make it something worth showing off - if anything it
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by boredtofears 10mo ago
It would be nice to see an actual example of what a good claude.md that implements all of these recommendations looks like.
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
A creep is going to be a creep with or without this advice.
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
I think this is right. Continue to connect with humans and try to evaluate their actions in good faith. Don’t be a creep but don’t skip life either. Unfortunately if someone chooses to interpret your words or actions in an uncharitable way
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
> or the most part, sexy never left, and statistics bear this out. OnlyFans brings in enormous amount of revenue, even after an expensive, failed attempt to be not-just-a-porn-site. Hypersexualized gacha games are pulling in tens of mill
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
Do you have any idea why they (seemingly randomly) will drop the ball on some system prompt instructions in longer sessions?
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
I had DDG set as my default for years and found myself resorting back to google so often I had to finally admit to myself their results were inferior even to the diminished google result. I just didn’t seem to get the result you’re claiming
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
> Both DuckDuckGo and Kagi are, purely focused on result quality in 2025 far better than Google currently I wish this was true
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
Maybe, but this isn’t one of the ways it does.
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
> For instance you’re probably iterating over those six plans and inserting them individually in the DB. Another approach would’ve been to accumulate all of them in memory then build and perform a single query. That’s not something peopl
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
I have to spend 3 days working on someone else's "narratives that are more fun to apply their creativity to" all the time, even when my intuition and experience tells me it isn't a good idea. Sometimes my intuition is wr
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by boredtofears 11mo ago
Both 4k and 120hz were very noticeable improvements imo.
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by boredtofears 1y ago
Of course you did - thanks, huge fan!
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by boredtofears 1y ago
Is there an easy way to get a whole codebase into GPT 5 Pro? It's nice with claude to be able to say "examine the current project in the working directory" although maybe that's actually doing less than I think it is.
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by boredtofears 1y ago
I like the best of both worlds approach of asking Claude to refine a spec with me (specifically instructing it to ask me questions) and then summarize an implementation or design plan (this might be a two step process if the feature is big
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by boredtofears 1y ago
I've never worked at a place where I have any shortage of work to do. Usually the roadmap is several years out.

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