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by jes5199 11mo ago
I find that ChatGPT’s Codex reviews - which can also be set up to happen automatically on all PRs - seem smarter than Copilot’s, and make fewer mistakes. But these things change fast, maybe Copilot caught up and I didn’t notice
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by jes5199 11mo ago
can it read code review comments? I've been finding that having claude write code but letting codex review PRs is a productive workflow, claude code is capable of reading the feedback left in comments and is pretty good at following th
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by jes5199 11mo ago
yesss, and OpenAI tried this first when they were going to do a “GPT store”. But REST APIs tend to be complicated because they’re supporting apps. MCP, when it works, is very simple functions in practice it seems like command line tools wor
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by jes5199 11mo ago
increasingly, the automated systems have access to the original ticket or bug report, and maybe even the conversation while implementation is happening. They can record the “why”
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by jes5199 11mo ago
I think that’s a tooling problem. Maybe we do end up running a lot more versions of things in the future. If we believe that code has gotten cheaper, it should be easier to do so.
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by jes5199 11mo ago
I love it when I have a tool that’s “done” but the software I work on in my career is never, ever done. It’s almost like there’s two different things we call “software”. there are tools like, idk, “curl” where you can use and old version an
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by jes5199 11mo ago
for now yes absolutely. but I’m already hearing rumblings that some people are having luck letting multiple agents edit the same directory simultaneously instead of putting changes through PR merge hell. It just needs coordinations tools, s
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by jes5199 11mo ago
I could imagine that in ten years git will feel strangely slow and ceremonial. Why not just continuously work and continuously deploy live-edited software
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by jes5199 11mo ago
I just remembered, in those days, there was an alias called `ubygems` so you could pass `-rubygems` (ie, `-r` with `ubygems` as the argument) on the command line as if it was a first-class feature it's so typical of ruby culture "
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by jes5199 11mo ago
it’s an america thing
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by jes5199 1y ago
huh okay, so, prediction: similar to how interpreted code eventually was given JIT so that it could be as fast as compiled code, eventually the LLMs will build libs of disposable helper functions as they work, which will look a lot like “wr
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by jes5199 1y ago
yeah why would anyone want to run code on a website
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by jes5199 1y ago
no, emulated vim motions annoy me because they’re always slightly wrong, especially for the interesting stuff like multi-line selections. Or, worse, I’ve got stuff in my muscle memory from the `surround.vim` plugin that isn’t emulated. Easi
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by jes5199 1y ago
I used vim for decades and the sensation is that I can hold the code in my hands and manipulate it directly. Other editors feel like I’m wearing thick gloves, can’t move correctly. but it’s like learning to play the piano, it only feels nat
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by jes5199 1y ago
huh, my current ranking is: 1. claude code CLI, generally works, great tool use 2. codex on the web, feels REALLY smart, but can’t use tools 3. codex CLI, still smarter than claude but less situational awareness 4. codex via iphone app, bug
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by jes5199 1y ago
they build them but they’re mostly not running them, utilization numbers keep falling. It’s either a central-planning failure or some kind of hedge
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by jes5199 1y ago
ohh so basically an ESP32 can be a keyboard… can _two_ ESP32s be two hands of a single keyboard?
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by jes5199 1y ago
codex can actually do useful reviews on pull requests, as of the last few weeks
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by jes5199 1y ago
does DNA/RNA keep state other than the position of the read head?
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by jes5199 1y ago
our relationship to computation got weird when we moved to digital computers. Like, I don’t think anyone was saying “life is like millions of slide-rules solving logarithms in parallel”. but now that computers are de-materialized, they can
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by jes5199 1y ago
and yet my M1 manages to drain the battery in suspend mode in just a few hours
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by jes5199 1y ago
yeah but then you have to start imagining the earth orbiting the sun by climbing over and under it each year
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by jes5199 1y ago
hell Windows shows ads now on regular computers with nothing installed
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by jes5199 1y ago
well, that’s horrifying! I appreciate the update though
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by jes5199 1y ago
I don't know what it's like now, but GitHub's internal merge queue circa 2017 was a nightmare . Every PR required you to set aside a full day of babysitting to get it getting merged/deployed - there were too many nondet
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by jes5199 1y ago
probably more than 95% of early internet projects failed, it took like a decade before people really started to have intuitions about what it was good for. It’s easy to imagine that we’re going to make the AI analog of paypal or amazon, but
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by jes5199 1y ago
if you have a static analysis tool that gives a list of problems to fix, and something like a unit test suite that makes sure nothing got badly broken due to a sloppy edit, then yes. If you don’t have these things, you’ll accumulate mistake
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by jes5199 1y ago
ads really aren’t all that lucrative, though, they’re just simple. I worked for a company that was trying to figure out an alternative to ad revenue (we failed) and our people did some research and the average internet user ends up being sh
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by jes5199 1y ago
things backed by Claude Sonnet can get a little further out than Copilot can, and when it’s in agent mode _sometimes_ it will do things like read the library source code to understand the API, or google for the docs but the principle is the
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by jes5199 1y ago
maybe, but I find that it makes it much faster to do things that _I already know how to do_, and can only slowly, ploddingly get me to places that I don't already have a strong mental model for, as I have to discover mistakes the hard

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