lancekrogers

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by lancekrogers 1y ago
Fair point, COCOMO doesn’t tell you what a buyer will pay, it estimates what it would have cost a conventional team to build the same thing. I’m using it strictly as a proxy for engineering effort, not market price. The takeaway isn’t “I ma
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by lancekrogers 1y ago
I compared against recent employers codebases and the cocomo estimations where surprisingly close to the actual team size, timeline and cost. It's obviously not a perfect estimation, but it seems like the best model for comparing tool
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$1M per Week: My Seven-Week AI Development Sprint(blockhead.consulting)
2 points by lancekrogers 1y ago|6 comments
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by lancekrogers 1y ago
Why COCOMO? I wanted a repeatable way to quantify the productivity jump I’m getting from Claude Code (and to compare it with other AI tools I’m testing). The line-counter scc prints COCOMO “organic” estimates by default; at first the dollar
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by lancekrogers 1y ago
The problem is it will take years for the jobs to come back and a lot of people don't have years of liquidity. If every developer is now 10x more productive, most businesses will be able to downsize until they start to be outcompeted b
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by lancekrogers 1y ago
I've considered starting a handyman business if I truly can't find work in software again. I'd probably make more doing that than I've ever made from my actual job, the only difference would be I wouldn't have ener
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by lancekrogers 3y ago
I recently switched to lunarvim, it took a few weeks to port my neovim config over to lunarvim, but now it's perfect. My neovim config was a port from my .vimrc and was outdated, switching to lunarvim has been great. I've used th
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by lancekrogers 8y ago
It runs on mine ok as well, but the fingerprint scanner doesn't work
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by lancekrogers 8y ago
Yes