jasonswett

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by jasonswett 4mo ago
The reason it works is because there's a difference between the model knowing something and the agent doing something. Claude will happily write giant untested functions even though it "knows" that short functions are eas
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by jasonswett 4mo ago
I HATE this. I call it speculative coding. Claude often calls it "defensive" programming. It's easily my #1 LLM pet peeve. I have yet to figure out a reliable way to make this stop happening.
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by jasonswett 4mo ago
OP here. I don't know, in my experience Claude took "clean the kitchen before we make dinner" to heart in an astonishingly productive way. I haven't tried many other analogies though.
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by jasonswett 4mo ago
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
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by jasonswett 4mo ago
My experience has been that yes, LLMs already know about TDD, OOP, etc., but they won't necessarily BEHAVE according to what they know unless you tell them. And of course, they "know" a lot of things that conflict with each o
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by jasonswett 4mo ago
Good point! Will add a date.
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Improving on Sandi Metz's Gear Class from Poodr(saturnci.com)
3 points by jasonswett 6mo ago|0 comments
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What Is Docker?(saturnci.com)
1 points by jasonswett 1y ago|0 comments
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Programming principles as memes(codewithjason.com)
2 points by jasonswett 2y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 3y ago
Totally agree, although I'd maybe replace "knowledge" with "knowledge or behavior".
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by jasonswett 3y ago
> Just because a piece of duplication costs something doesn’t automatically mean that the de-duplicated version costs less. It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes a de-duplication unavoidably results in code that’s so generalized th
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by jasonswett 3y ago
> One of the biggest benefits of duplication that the author fails to identify the locality of logic There are a lot of things in the post that I fail to identify. There are also some things I wrote there that I no longer completely agre
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by jasonswett 3y ago
I like reading articles about programming but I don't really want to get more emails. I also prefer reading offline over reading on the screen. I figured there were probably other people like me so I decided to start a snail mail progr
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by jasonswett 4y ago
The rule is "after the player has guessed a door, open ALL the other doors except the door that was guessed plus one other door". I think your confusion is because if there are 100 doors then the rule is self-evident. But when the
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by jasonswett 5y ago
I personally don't see any reason why the type of test matters when doing TDD. As I see it you can do TDD with integration tests just as much as you can do TDD with unit tests. The only difference to me is that the work involved might
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by jasonswett 5y ago
Agreed. Although I think the reason why most freelancers sell staff aug work as opposed to what you might call "strategic project work" is that it's about 100X easier (at least in my experience) to find staff aug work.
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by jasonswett 5y ago
When I used to freelance I divided my marketing activities into two categories: "hunting" and "farming". Hunting tactics include things like responding to job board ads, reaching out to people you know to see if they can
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I make sure I understand a feature before building it(codewithjason.com)
2 points by jasonswett 6y ago|0 comments
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Intro to Logical Arguments for Programmers(codewithjason.com)
3 points by jasonswett 6y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 6y ago
What about London?
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How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk(codewithjason.com)
5 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application to AWS(codewithjason.com)
1 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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Suite Magic: run your whole Rails test suite as fast as your slowest single test(codewithjason.com)
1 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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Examples of pointless types of RSpec tests(codewithjason.com)
1 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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My experience speaking at 7 tech conferences in 9 months(codewithjason.com)
1 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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My advice to brand new freelance programmers and aspiring freelance programmers(jasonswett.net)
2 points by jasonswett 7y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 8y ago
I think my estimate was a little on the high side. I've tempered my opinion since then (and I've edited that part out of the post). I don't think 9 out of 10 developers are incompetent.
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How to Make Your Organization Attractive to Engineering Talent(codewithjason.com)
7 points by jasonswett 8y ago|6 comments
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RSpec Mocks and Stubs in Plain English(codewithjason.com)
1 points by jasonswett 8y ago|0 comments
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Unlike Real Debt, Technical Debt Is Unavoidable(codewithjason.com)
3 points by jasonswett 8y ago|0 comments

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