pjm331

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by pjm331 3mo ago
i have a vague memory of hunter s thompson talking about sitting down and typing out the great gatsby to see how it would feel to write a great american novel
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by pjm331 4mo ago
Yes I had a fun experience where it kept on timing out on a seemingly mundane task and it turned out I had written the ask in a way that was impossible to test
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by pjm331 4mo ago
and i `brew update && brew upgrade --greedy` every morning with my first cup of coffee because i like to live on the edge like that thanks for all your work!
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by pjm331 4mo ago
so i think the thing that everyone building these git alternatives is missing is a multi-repo story - unless the expectation is that everyone is going to start operating out of monorepos i've settled on all of this context attached to
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by pjm331 4mo ago
i feel fairly certain everyone has some set of activities or tasks they feel this way about my wife and i have two non-overlapping sets haha you can imagine how that plays out
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by pjm331 4mo ago
https://pragprog.com/titles/lhelph/functional-web-developmen... don't let the title fool you - the first half of the book is just elixir over the past 8 years this is the book i've used to ramp back up o
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by pjm331 4mo ago
> > "But pattern‑matching is not system understanding, and plausibility is not correctness." > Why not? Who says that? Who proved that system understanding is not just more complex pattern matching? I'm not in the ca
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by pjm331 5mo ago
yeah this is one of the few AI-related products that I have seen that make sense to me but i also wonder to what extent this needs to be its own thing or if this is just something that it looks like we need but really people just need to sh
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by pjm331 5mo ago
sounds very familiar to what I ended up doing on my internal system - especially anything to do with search - much better to just sync everything to a DB and give the agent access to the DB
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by pjm331 6mo ago
it's straightforward to spin up a custom MCP wrapper around any API with whatever access controls you want the only time i reach for official MCP is when they offer features that are not available via API - and this annoys me to no end
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by pjm331 6mo ago
don't see it in the comments yet so: https://www.brain.fm/
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by pjm331 6mo ago
Yeah I’ve had a lot of success with agentic search against a database. The way I think of it, the main characteristic of agentic search is just that the agent can execute many types of adhoc queries It’s not about a file system As I underst
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by pjm331 6mo ago
the actual argument being made here: "Assign agents the biggest piece justifiable. I can summarize a product outcome or a feature in two lines. That’s what goes on the ticket. Let the agents figure out subtasks when the work is ready f
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by pjm331 6mo ago
I've had the same thought recently and this definitely is a thing that you can do - but there are also cases where you get dramatically better results if you put some more effort into your setup. e.g. spend time creating a skill about
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by pjm331 6mo ago
What is SCP
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by pjm331 7mo ago
Im sure that’s possible but my own working style is too chaotic for saving workspaces like that haha
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by pjm331 7mo ago
yeah the CTRL+D definitely gives me problems from time to time but thus far i have been too lazy to fix it
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by pjm331 7mo ago
"Software people are not alone in facing complexity. Physics deals with terribly complex objects even at the "fundamental" particle level. The physicist labors on, however, in a firm faith that there are unifying principles t
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by pjm331 7mo ago
here is my entire config hs.hotkey.bind({"ctrl"}, "D", function() hs.grid.show() end) i've tried all of the other fancy window managers and for me nothing has ever beat the ease of use of just (1)
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by pjm331 7mo ago
The closest thing I have found that fits right now is just Linear or [insert your own project management tool with a good api here] and then you manage agents in many of the same ways we’ve been managing human engineers for the past decade
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by pjm331 7mo ago
My bet is that the last item is what we’ll end up leaning heavily on - feels like the path of least resistance Throw in some simulated user interactions in a staging environment with a bunch of agents acting like customers a la StrongDM so
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by pjm331 7mo ago
as much as you or i may be against it, inevitably AI coding will move away from human review and toward more automated means measuring program correctness this was already happening even before AI - human review is limited, linting is limit
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by pjm331 8mo ago
The sci fi version of the alignment problem is about AI agents having their own motives The real world alignment problem is humans using AI to do bad stuff The latter problem is very real
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by pjm331 8mo ago
It’s funny because on one end of the spectrum you have non dev vibe coders for whom every log is noise On the other end are the hardcore user orchestrating a bunch of agents, not sitting there watching one run, so they don’t care about thes
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by pjm331 8mo ago
I’ve had a fantastic experience building out an internal AI agent service using elixir and phoenix - after only dabbling with it in side projects for almost a decade OTP fits agents like a glove.
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by pjm331 8mo ago
You don’t need to implement every api endpoint as a tool you can just say - this is the aws cli tool it takes one string as an argument and that string is an aws cli command No difference between that and using the bash tool - except you ca
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by pjm331 8mo ago
> Re: security, I think I need to make an AI credential broker/system. The only way to securely use agents is to never give them access to a credential at all. So the only way to have the agent run a command which requires credentia
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by pjm331 8mo ago
I have this theory that with LLMs getting better at writing code our current open source model (relatively few large projects that everyone contributes to, relatively rare to maintain your own fork) will invert and it will be easier and mor
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by pjm331 8mo ago
Gas town is the cackling mad laughter emitting from someone who knows they are being both insane and prescient simultaneously. Today, it is insane. But I fully expect to be hearing about a very serious thing in the near future about which p
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by pjm331 8mo ago
I feel like you can get 80% of the benefits and none of the risks with just accept edits mode and some whitelisted bash commands for running tests, etc.

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