ljm

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by ljm 2mo ago
I'm failing to understand what is so impressive. The credits at the start are off centre, biased to the right hand side. The prose that follows is fully centred, so it hangs to the left of the actor names, and it has a little bit of ri
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by ljm 2mo ago
Nothing ever improves in the tech scene... it just decays until someone challenges it. Funnily enough CF has redesigned its navigation several times in the past year, just like GitLab used to do. Shuffling the UI like a deck of cards is pre
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by ljm 2mo ago
The announcement reads like it's generated by AI. I opened it looking for a punch list of selling points but there was nothing. I figured it was just Cloudflare trying to do Cowork. The readme I generated for an agent I put on top of p
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by ljm 2mo ago
Bring back FastCGI, enable the setting in Apache to list a directory, and point the agent to your cgi-bin directory full of all your tools. Calling the bin without any input provides the help text or the interface to the tool. You can proba
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by ljm 2mo ago
It's still too early stage for me. Anthropic needs to mature for a little longer before they're enlightened enough to understand my kafka-based event sourcing model for cross-agent orchestration. Kafka, protobuf, functional domain
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by ljm 2mo ago
Probably see it as the easy way out because actually bringing about change in a culture that is already entrenched is hard work and they don't have the mettle for it. Or don't trust the org to be on board with it. Easier to just d
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by ljm 2mo ago
At risk of sounding like a grump, once I started at a company where almost everyone is partnered up and has kids, and almost everyone basically has nothing to talk about except their partners and kids, I had the perfect incentive to stay aw
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by ljm 2mo ago
I'm amused by Claude developing its own corporate jargon which, while clearly pulled from the corpus of human language, is quite distinct from the bullshit traded over the boardroom table. I've had trouble unpacking some of the co
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by ljm 3mo ago
Of course I have. If I see ghostty constantly consuming the most energy and helping reduce my battery life to barely 2 or 3 hours, the first thing I'm going to do is switch terminal to see if I can improve that situation. The built in
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by ljm 3mo ago
> bun was vibe coded by a single dude without any open source community involvement. I think even this is largely beside the point. The acquisition of any project by Big Capital (whether tech or VC) is usually a killing blow.
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by ljm 3mo ago
I never knew that running an interactive program in my terminal would absolutely rinse my CPU and battery but that's what Claude, OpenCode and Ghostty have colluded to achieve. Even when the laptop is asleep overnight it's practic
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by ljm 3mo ago
How does that work out in terms of usage? I imagine that, unless you're on the highest tier subscription or have a no expense spared approach to agentic coding, then you're going to hit a wall pretty fast.
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by ljm 3mo ago
It's very strange to vibe code a project and feel both a lack of emotional investment but also the cognitive overhead of steering an AI. The process of iteration, or the feedback loop, typically allows space to try things out and exper
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by ljm 3mo ago
Anthropic's suite of products have practically zero cohesion across each other. I've said it some time before. There is no clear product vision or overarching roadmap in terms of users and UX, it is just vaguely connected things b
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by ljm 3mo ago
I figured pi itself would be the best harness because it's barebones and you make it what you want. omp is to pi what doom is to emacs is what lazyvim is to neovim.
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by ljm 3mo ago
Purely anecdotally the one persistent issue I have with LLMs writing code is that they are absolutely paranoid and add a load of indirection and defensive crap and even if you prompt to avoid that it will often require manual steering to re
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by ljm 3mo ago
> Pi is meant for people who know what they are doing How many people genuinely know what they're doing when the value prop of Pi is basically to vibe code it to your taste? The entire point of vibe coding being that you don't
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by ljm 3mo ago
Nothing in (AGENTS|CLAUDE).md, no Cursor style rules. Just some skills for Jira/Confluence, CI, and Playwright. Haven't bothered doing any extra customisation in Claude Code or Codex as I don't really trust those things to ap
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by ljm 4mo ago
Needed to pay my bills. It tided me over for a short while.
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by ljm 4mo ago
Waiting for the next gig. This was before I learned that sometimes it's better to take the hit and walk away.
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by ljm 4mo ago
I've struggled with this, even encountering people who basically say "if AI can do it why do I need to spend any more time?" It was disappointing hearing someone tank their own prospect of career growth like that.
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by ljm 4mo ago
They'll frame it as not wanting to waste anybody's time by submitting you as a candidate if you're already mid-flight on other positions, but they can still figure that out without having specifics on the actual company, role
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by ljm 4mo ago
I had a really weird power-trip interview once, and it was the CEO who was joined by a contractor who was ostensibly the technical lead for the project. There was nobody in engineering who worked full-time on the job, everybody was contract
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by ljm 5mo ago
It kind of is though. Someone else will say "why are you sourcing results from an Israeli company?" and another will say "why are you sourcing results from a Chinese company?" and another one yet will say "why are y
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by ljm 5mo ago
What are the challenges of doing that when so much of the internet has turned itself into SEO slop to fit Google's algorithms? I imagine there is still a whole load of stuff out there on the internet that Google would never surface bec
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by ljm 5mo ago
Go is really easy to read and write, even if Go's philosophy means that some of that feels clunky because it's less featureful than other languages. It makes up for it with a comprehensive stlib that makes it trivial to build se
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by ljm 5mo ago
We switched to 'software engineer' to encapsulate that, I think. You can receive requirements and churn out code or you can go up a level and think about the solution. Go another level up and think about the problem. Another level
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by ljm 5mo ago
npm's immaturity is arguably demonstrated by the fact it is always catching up. Please correct me if I'm wrong but signed packages are still impractical in NPM which is why supply chain attacks still work by editing existing versi
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by ljm 5mo ago
The community decided it's too much effort to vet code before publishing it so here we are. (I'm not being stupid, even ten years ago there were arguments on HN about whether you should audit your dependencies) I landed on the &#x
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by ljm 5mo ago
So when do we call out NPM as an easy supply chain vector and also Microsoft's ownership of NPM and their prioritisation of AI at any cost. NPM is the windows of package managers right now.

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