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Giving Claude Eyes: The Case for Visual-First Mobile Automation(themobileagent.substack.com)
1 points by jampa 9mo ago|0 comments
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Product and design are the new bottlenecks(jampa.dev)
73 points by jampa 9mo ago|68 comments
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by jampa 9mo ago
I am using API mode, and it's clear that there are times when the Claude model just gives up. And it is very noticeable because the model just does the most dumb things possible. "You have a bug in line 23." "Oh yes, thi
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by jampa 9mo ago
There are already some great responses, but I want to add that one effective way to coach senior employees is to give them responsibilities one level above their current role and then provide feedback. For engineers aiming to move into mana
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by jampa 9mo ago
I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly. Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows,
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by jampa 9mo ago
I usually agree with this. But I am using the same workflows and skills that were a breeze for Claude, but are causing it to run in cycles and require intervention. This is not the same thing as a "omg vibes are off", it's re
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by jampa 9mo ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone feel that they nerfed Claude Opus? It's screwing up even in very simple rebases. I got a bug where a value wasn't being retrieved correctly, and Claude's solution was to create an endpoint
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Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager(jampa.dev)
577 points by jampa 9mo ago|139 comments
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by jampa 9mo ago
I imagine they're building this system with the goal of extracting user demographics (age, sex, income) from chat conversations to improve advertising monetization. This seems to be a side project of their goal and a good way to calibr
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by jampa 10mo ago
After years of lurking, I made some posts this year here. Here is what my Google Analytics and Substack traffic from HN shows: 51% US 5% United Kingdom 4% Germany 3% Australia, Canada, India The rest are primarily European countries, with S
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by jampa 10mo ago
I've used it in some repos. It doesn't catch all code review issues, especially around product requirements and logic simplification, and occasionally produces irrelevant comments (suggesting a temporary model downgrade). But it&#
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Using LLM as a writing assistant (without the slop)(jampa.dev)
2 points by jampa 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jampa 10mo ago
I wrote about this recently. You need to prompt better if you don't want AI to flatten your original tone into corporate speak: https://jampauchoa.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai-without-th... TL;DR: Ask for a line
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by jampa 11mo ago
I recently got a Samsung device for testing, and the experience was terrible. It took three hours to get the device into a usable state. First, it essentially forces you to create both a Samsung account and a Google account, with numerous s
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by jampa 11mo ago
While I think there's significant AI "offloading" in writing, the article's methodology relies on "AI-detectors," which reads like PR for Pangram. I don't need to explain why AI detectors are mostly bullsh
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by jampa 11mo ago
Me neither, but I remember that when searching for hotels and Airbnbs, I only filter for hotels that are 8+/10 domestically and 9+/10 internationally, which filters out many of the hotels that have those kinds of issues (and score
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by jampa 11mo ago
In the beginning of Android / iOS, just installing an app and registering was enough for the company to get your device's MAC address and thus your indoor location with accurate precision. They could access your Wi-Fi network&#x27
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by jampa 11mo ago
I've worked as an EM at four different companies, from large enterprises to small startups, and I think "the role of engineering manager" is a myth. Your role varies wildly from one company to another. In every company I&#x27
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by jampa 11mo ago
I used them. Compression is an issue in other protocols (sending via WhatsApp, for example). Another benefit is that photos sent by Airdrop get automatically backed up. It also works well in areas with poor internet connectivity. For exampl
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by jampa 11mo ago
There are few examples of this as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1fqjaxy/contex...
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by jampa 11mo ago
Apple seems to be running out of steam. Xiaomi, "the Apple clone," is now releasing cars and XR devices. Meanwhile, it has been a while since Apple released a new product line. The last one was the Apple Vision Pro. With Apple Int
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by jampa 1y ago
I think OpenAI is screwed long-term, and their leadership knows it. Their most significant advantage was their employees, most of whom have now left for other companies. They're getting boxed in across every segment where they were pre
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AI-assisted writing (without the Slop)(jampa.dev)
2 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
LLMs are architected to aim toward the center of the bell curve of their training data. You shouldn't expect them to produce innovative ideas, but the upside is they also won't produce terrible ones. The same applies to design. Mo
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by jampa 1y ago
Not a benchmark per se, but there is a "Not x, but y" Slop Leaderboard: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1lv2t7n/not_x_b...
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by jampa 1y ago
I don't understand why people advocate so strongly for `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. Setting up "permissions.allow" in `.claude/settings.local.json` takes minimal time. Claude even lets you configure this while appro
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by jampa 1y ago
>Edit: perhaps 12 angry men was good enough at the time. I recently watched it for the first time, and it was one of the best movies I've seen. I can't believe how invested I was, even though the plot was so simple.
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by jampa 1y ago
I think this is great. A problem with huge codebases is that CLAUDE.md files become bloated with niche workflows like CI and E2E testing. Combined with MCPs, this pollutes the context window and eventually degrades performance. You get the
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by jampa 1y ago
Removed the video because a bug in Substack causes the space bar to play the video instead of scrolling down. Sorry for the unintentional jumpscare.
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by jampa 1y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. This is the vanilla Substack layout. EDIT: Removed the video because a bug in Substack causes the space bar to play the video instead of scrolling down. Sorry for the unintentional jumpscare.

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