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by breckenedge 1y ago
That too…
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by breckenedge 1y ago
How can you write an article about this and not mention that software development used to be radically different and better? I didn’t meet the first full-time designer in my career until 2013. If there were designers around, it wasn’t their
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by breckenedge 1y ago
No, Claude Code will automatically read CLAUDE.md. LLMs are still hit or miss at following specific instructions. If you have a linter, you can put a rule there and tell Claude to use the linter.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Make sure your project has a CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md. You can use Claude to help you come up with this. Use Claude to maintain a list of common, simple workflows and reference them in CLAUDE.md. It’s not great yet for large scale work
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by breckenedge 1y ago
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_...
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by breckenedge 1y ago
My guess is more gig jobs working for the agents and their masters.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
I suspect there’s also a lot of “keeping the candidate pipeline warm” in case there is suddenly an opening that needs to be filled.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Sort of. The super users will massively outcompete unskilled users. So while it does raise everyone’s abilities, it will be lopsided
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Yea, it shouldn't. However many PMs I've worked with over the last decade seem to think that development is the slowest part of the process -- that requirements need to be completely understood and designs completely buttoned up -
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Sounds like sculpture. Or “add lightness.” My brain works the same way.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
This precisely. They treat development (programming) as the slowest part of the process, but that has not been my experience since Figma came out. I’ve not seen agile done right since it arrived, we’re just doing waterfall with sprints.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Like software, requirements can never be perfect. Overly prescriptive requirements are a huge red flag to me that a PM/client/designer is doing an engineer’s work, or micromanaging.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Same! I've worked with a whole lot of PMs who think that we can’t start work on stuff until Design signs off on it because of this misconception that dev is slow.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Yes well I’d love to but every company I’ve worked at for the last half decade has worked this way.
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Ask HN: New Economics of Software Development Lifecycle
4 points by breckenedge 1y ago|11 comments
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by breckenedge 1y ago
What is up with Axios and reporting on this? Very lazy to take this guy at face value. From this article: "It's going to happen in a small amount of time — as little as a couple of years or less," Amodei says. Compare to a mo
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by breckenedge 1y ago
For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
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by breckenedge 1y ago
It’s not just gas. According to the article, it possibly started with a rocky core about 10x the size of the earth, and was in an ideal position far enough from the sun to accumulate an enormous amount of gas.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
> Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in that sense as they are local editors, and can not be in CI. I was doing this with Cursor and MCPs. Got about a full day of this before I was rate limited and dropped to the slowest, dumbest model
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Not the OP, but in my experience LLMs are still not quite there on guardrails. They might be for 25-50% of sessions, but it’ll vary wildly.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Set a budget. Get rate limited. Let the experience remind you how much time you’re actually wasting letting the model write good looking but buggy code, versus just writing code responsibly.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Embrace the coffee sweats
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by breckenedge 1y ago
They’ve been doing nothing for decades.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
That’s not necessarily a choice that the nursing home can make. Many families struggle with letting a loved one go. Up to a few years ago, I was meeting with an obviously struggling 101yo weekly, and the family refused hospice despite it be
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by breckenedge 1y ago
> And, of course, the “database per tenant” workflow is just starting James Edward Gray spoke about doing this at RailsConf in 2012. https://youtu.be/GRfJ9lni4QA?si=BoDI5gQ8GvM1PDhw
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Last time he said this (a few months ago) fully AI employees were only six months away. So, at this pace, fully AI employees are vaporware.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
That was the cost of running Claude Code for an agent-building-agents experiment I ran.
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by breckenedge 1y ago
I love the idea. Skeptical it will succeed but would be glad to be wrong. My most recent experiment cost $8/hr to run and it still needed a lot of handholding to produce anything useful. And anything that could be automated by AI that
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by breckenedge 1y ago
> These […] get better every day. They do, but I’ve seen a huge slowdown in “getting better” in the last year. I wonder if it’s my perception, or reality. Each model does better on benchmarks but I’m still experiencing at least a 50% fai
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by breckenedge 1y ago
Hmm that’s a clever way to get people’s chat history.

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