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by maccard 7mo ago
The server side is great. Sending a http request is… not
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by maccard 7mo ago
> Then I found out it was broken. I contributed a fix. The fix was ignored and there was never any release since November 2024. This seems like a pretty good reason to fork to me. > Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the
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by maccard 7mo ago
I think TeamCity is a better product, and I’d be happy to pay for it tbh!
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I wonder if C++ has some hairy concepts and syntax today https://tartanllama.xyz/posts/cpp-initialization-is-bonkers/
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by maccard 7mo ago
I don’t know what’s worse - in 2026 someone genuinely suggesting Jenkins as a viable GHA alternative, or me agreeing with that. Jenkins has possibly the worst user experience of any piece of software I’ve had to use in the last few years. I
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by maccard 7mo ago
We use GitHub actions and we have more build failures from actions than we do any other source.
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by maccard 7mo ago
If all I want is actual git, I’m pretty sure I could get much much more than 98.98% uptime. The value of GitHub is actions, issues, PRs. To me, if actions is down GitHub is down
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by maccard 7mo ago
87 hours a year is 1.5 hours a week. If that 1.5 hour window is when you need to use it it matters a hell of a lot more than if it’s 4am on a Sunday.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Yeah exactly - I don’t know how many calls he gets but it’s less than an amount to employ a full time person, but more than enough that it’s worth having someone to pick up a phone he can stay on the job.
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by maccard 7mo ago
No - £150/mo for the service. I asked him and he said they take the calls, write up notes and he handles the callbacks/etc himself. I don’t know if he’s “tested”, but he said he’s happy enough with the service. We don’t always hav
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by maccard 7mo ago
What’s your example for this? Because my experience in e comm is that targeted advertising is awful (I bought a lawnmower last week, Amazon knows I bought it. I am now getting ads for lawnmowers, suggested products for lawn mowers, rather t
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by maccard 7mo ago
I tried again this morning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487638 another hard failure that Claude code says passed.
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by maccard 7mo ago
And I’m wondering the same thing. The people replying to me are saying “your experience must be wrong/you must be doing something wrong” and then 1-2 threads later they say “well yeah it doesn’t do X but if I do Y and Z it works”, whic
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by maccard 7mo ago
I have a friend who runs a trade with an outsourced reception - they employ 3 full time people and the reception is about £150/mo for 9-5 manning of calls. He does the scheduling in the evenings. If we take OP’s post at face value, pre
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by maccard 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487638 Fresh prompt in a codebase with a claude.md I asked it to do a simple task. I've shared the prompt, plan, output in the linked gist.
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by maccard 7mo ago
I'm in claude code right now, with opus 4.6. Here [0] is my prompt, plan and result. When I prompted, it went spelunking in the parent folder for a bunch of stuff, which I interrupted and told it to focus on its current folder. It came
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by maccard 7mo ago
I’ve found copilot to generate worse code, and the editor integrations to be unusable (lets insert this block of code at the wrong place in the file for example), but overall for it to do the right thing enough that I can patch it. I’ve fou
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by maccard 7mo ago
In the first comment you’ll see that it didn’t compile, I prompted to fix it and eventually fixed it myself. When I asked it to proceed to the next task it blew away my fix and left it in a broken state.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> The real magic of LLMs comes when they iterate until completion until the code compiles and the test passes, and you don't even bother looking at it until then. If you read my post, you’d see that Claude code didn’t do that, I had
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by maccard 7mo ago
But when it doesn’t compile for me, I don’t claim it’s finished.
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by maccard 7mo ago
I mean, I don’t know how much less scope I can give it. The next step is writing the 5 lines of code I want it to write. I also clearly said I didn’t allow it one output, I gave it the compile error message, it changed a different line, I t
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I don’t know that it’s useful to assign blame here Oh - I’m blaming Claude not anyone else. I’ve tried again this evening and the same prompt (in the same directory on the same project) worked. > i don’t know if you’re using an anci
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by maccard 7mo ago
But they don’t 10x my output - they write some code for a problem I/you have already thought about. The hard part isn’t writing the code, it never has been. It’s always been solving and breaking down the problem.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> Legit this morning Claude was essentially unusable for me I could explicitly state things it should adjust and it wouldn't do it. Honestly, this is my experience. Every now and again it just completely self implodes and gives up,
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I will say, it’s not unusual for the initial output not to compile, We’ve gone from “I’m baffled at your experience” to well yeah it often fails” in two sentences here…
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by maccard 7mo ago
I am using Claude code. I didn’t explicitly tell it what the build command was (it’s dotnet build), and it didn’t ask. Thats not my fault. > I’ve observed Claude code is extremely good at making sure the code compiles My observation is t
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by maccard 7mo ago
Yes.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Sorry - I’m aware that rails/dotnet have these built into visual studio and co, but my point was about our custom internal things that are definitely not IDE integrated. > it comes down to ensuring time is invested in devex That’s a
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I have noticed some people I work with have more trouble, and my vague intuition is it happens when they give Claude too much autonomy What’s giving too much autonomy about “Please load settings.toml using a library and print out the n
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by maccard 7mo ago
Nope! https://github.com/xoofx/Tomlyn The code it needed to write was: var model = TomlSerializer.Deserialize<TomlTable>(toml)!; Which is in the readme of the repo. It could also have generated a class

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