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by ericol 6mo ago
Stop hooks are a world of pain. I recently went on a deep dive about them with sonnet / opus. I wanted to detect if a file or an analysis was the result of the last turn and act upon that. From my experience, 2 things stand out by look
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by ericol 6mo ago
if "git versioned" means the .md files themselves, I'm sold. I am actually processing files using a git based workflow in order to tell claude what to look at. I'll definitely give this a spin.
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by ericol 6mo ago
Books _are_ expensive. This article only looks at the monetary side of it. The cost goes beyond the price tag. Books take up space, and that space compounds as you keep acquiring them. It's space you can't use for anything else, d
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by ericol 6mo ago
> I don't know if you're giving this as something you've actually given Claude, but I don't think it's a good way of using Claude. That wasn't the full prompt, I trimmed it for clarity, but I agree with ever
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by ericol 6mo ago
You are being downvoted but I actually agree with your statement.
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by ericol 6mo ago
Matches what I am experiencing. Makes incredible stupid mistakes. The weird stuff is yesterday I asked it to test and report back on a 30+ commit branch for a PR and it did that flawlessly.
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by ericol 6mo ago
I did some work yesterday with Opus and found it amazing. Today we are almost on non-speaking terms. I'm asking it to do some simple stuff and he's making incredible stupid mistakes: This is the third time that I have to ask
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Tell HN: Another Monday, Another Claude Outage
6 points by ericol 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ericol 6mo ago
This looks dangerously close to cmux but with a narrower focus (Just Claude code) BTW, the claude app kind supports this with the /remote-control command, and that was what made me move away from cmux (I still have to start the session
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by ericol 7mo ago
It's not exactly that...
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by ericol 7mo ago
The future is not evenly distributed. I tried to search for it, but even the 2 documents that superseded the one from around the time my daughter was at school at not available. I mean, the site doesn't even have a valid secure certifi
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by ericol 7mo ago
When my eldest daughter was in high school (~2010, Argentina) there was a provincial policy where if every single student had a result below a certain score in a test, the scores had to be re assessed against the maximum result. The resulti
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by ericol 7mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710
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by ericol 7mo ago
> human intuition driving the exploration This, a thousand times this. For me, what AI brings is augmented humans. Just as we don't calculate on paper anymore, what is the reason of doing things by hand when a machine in X times bet
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by ericol 7mo ago
I regularly (Say, once a month) do a comparison of results across all Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. Just for reasons, not that I want to see if there's any benefit in changing. It's not "fair" in that I pay for Claude [1]
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by ericol 8mo ago
I've had more than a few instances of this over the past 2 years, and my reply is exactly the above. "What you are doing is against Github's TOS"
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by ericol 8mo ago
He definitely was paying attention. He had to pause for a second there, arrested by the realization, and was one of the reasons I got an "Exceeds expectations" in one of my KRAs.
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by ericol 8mo ago
> The long-term effect is less clear. If we generate more code, faster, does that reduce cost or just increase the surface area we need to maintain, test, secure, and reason about later? My take is that the focus is mostly oriented towar
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by ericol 8mo ago
> Having the LLM write down a skill representing the lessons from the struggle you just had to get something done is more typical (I hope) and quite different from what they're referring to Just as of last week I had Claude build me
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by ericol 9mo ago
I recently had to create a MySQL shim for upgrading a large PHP codebase that currently is running in version 5.6 (Don't ask) The way I aimed at it (Yes, I know there are already existing shims, but I felt more comfortable vibe coding
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by ericol 10mo ago
This applies to many different things, depending on the pair of languages you are using. In Spanish the closes approximation would be "ni mal ni bien" (Not bad not wrong) but I understand the Chinese expression has a strong lean o
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by ericol 10mo ago
> Read, huge IBM services implementation projects that the company bungled more often than not Well this is _not_ what they wanted to sell in that talk. But the implementation shown was über vanilla, and once I got home the documentation
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by ericol 10mo ago
> Watson was intended to solve fuzzy optimization problems. > Unfortunately, the way it solved fuzzy was 'engineer the problem to fit Watson, then engineer the output to be usable.' I'm going to review my understanding
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by ericol 10mo ago
I had no idea about what Watson was initially meant to solve. I do remember they tried to sell it - at least in the meeting I went - as a general purpose chatbot. I did try briefly to understand how to use it, but the documentation was horr
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by ericol 10mo ago
> Ok, so does anyone remember 'Watson'? It was the chatgpt before chatgpt. they built it in house I do. I remember going to a chat once where they wanted to get people on-board in using it. It was 90 minutes of hot air. They &q
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by ericol 10mo ago
That's not a fucking triangle. (It's Friday night people it's a joke and I have no idea what the article is talking about just looked at the picture)
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by ericol 11mo ago
Even thought the doc _might_ be AI generated, that repo is Addy Osmani's. Of Addy Osmani fame. I seriously doubt he went to Gemini and told it "Give me a list of 30 identifiable issues when agentic coding, and tips to solve them&q
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by ericol 11mo ago
So we come with a system prompt?
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by ericol 1y ago
As a side note, i hate posts where they go on and on and use 3 pages to go to the point. You know what I'm doing? I'm using AI to chase to the point and extract the relevant (For me) info.
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by ericol 1y ago
> read something spit out by the equivalent of a lexical bingo machine because you were too lazy to write it yourself. Ha! That's a very clever spot on insult. Most LLMs would probably be seriously offended by this would thy be rati

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