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by pjm331 9mo ago
It seems easier but in my experience building an internal agent it’s not actually easier long term just slow and error prone and you will find yourself trying to solve prompt and context problems for something that should be both reliable a
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by pjm331 10mo ago
Different people like different things
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by pjm331 10mo ago
IMO Those screencasts work because they are painstakingly planned toy projects from scratch Even without AI you cannot do a tight 10 minute video on legacy code unless you have done a lot of work ahead of time to map it out and then what’s
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by pjm331 10mo ago
I’m not clear what “just loading the project” even means here - if that’s how many tokens are consumed by system prompt plus Claude.md and MCP tools well that has nothing to do with the size of the project
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by pjm331 10mo ago
Can’t confirm or deny comparison with JS but I can second that it write decent elixir The only problem I’ve ever had was on maybe 3 total occasions it’s added a return statement, I assume because of the syntax similarity with ruby
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by pjm331 11mo ago
Hah I’m only on the cutting edge part time on the side so my experience has been more like - start thinking about the problem and then 2 or 3 days later new tools come out that solve it for me
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by pjm331 11mo ago
i think you have an error there about haiku pricing > For comparison, Sonnet 4.5 is $3/$15 and Haiku 4.5 is $4/$20. i think haiku should be $1/$5
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by pjm331 11mo ago
I’ve been surprised at the lack of discussion about sourcegraph’s Amp here which I’m pretty sure you’re referring to - it started a bit rough but these days I find that it’s really good
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by pjm331 11mo ago
Yes that was the one point in here where I thought to myself oh yeah I’m going to go implement that immediately
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by pjm331 11mo ago
You are maybe confusing caching and context windows. Caching is mainly about keeping inference costs down
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by pjm331 1y ago
the agent greps for the obvious term or terms, reads the resulting documents, discovers new terms to grep for, and the process repeats until its satisfied it has enough info to answer the question > You could expand grep queries with syn
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by pjm331 1y ago
Steve Yegge has a great story about Google HR doing an exercise with the eng hiring committee where they reviewed their own anonymized interview packets and they decided not to hire 40% of themselves.
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by pjm331 1y ago
> I have gone from using Claude Code all day long since the day it was launched to only using the separate Claude app. In my mind that is a nice balance of using it, but not too much, not too fast. I’m on a similar journey - I never used
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by pjm331 1y ago
Not to trivialize the work being done here but isn’t this as simple as a hook on edit and write tool calls that commits to git? I’m not sure I see the need for a whole app around this vs just the standard git workflow
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by pjm331 1y ago
yup was building it as a linear agent https://linear.app/developers/agents
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by pjm331 1y ago
Very cool! I’ve been building an internal tool at work that’s very similar but primarily focused on automatically triaging bugs and tech support issues, with MCP tools to query logs, search for errors in bugsnag, query the db etc. also usin
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by pjm331 1y ago
I think this is true about many different aspects of programming languages There are many things that ultimately come down to personal taste more than some sort of objective pros and cons list, as much as people will attempt to argue otherw
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by pjm331 1y ago
Made me think about John Wilkins' "philosophical language" which I first heard about in Neal Stephenson's book Quicksilver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Towards_a_Real_Charac... I'm su
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by pjm331 1y ago
Source graph amp is pretty good as well albeit lacking a lot of the polish and features of Claude code But I sometimes reach for it for code review in particular since it calls out to o3 via its “oracle” tool
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by pjm331 1y ago
FWIW you can run Claude code async via GitHub actions and have it work on issues that you @ mention it from - there’s even a slash command in Claude code that will automatically set up your repository with the GitHub action config to do thi
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by pjm331 1y ago
love the ability to add tools to the mcp server - would expect nothing less from emacs :) as a long time emacs user i've only recently started really writing my own elisp tools, but claude is pretty good at writing elisp so i've b
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by pjm331 1y ago
With the caveat that I have not spent a serious amount of time trying to get RAG to work - my brief attempt to use it via AWS knowledge base to compare it vs agentic search resulted in me sticking with agentic search (via Claude code SDK) M
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by pjm331 1y ago
I started on vim and hopping back and forth between my editor and my terminal is just some muscle memory that I cannot break - so I too have always run emacs in the terminal ever since I made the switch.
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by pjm331 1y ago
I've always thought this looks cool but then you realize the whole thing is driven by regexs on the "plain english" and I recoil in horror Given /^a nice new bike$/ do expect(bike).to be_shiny end
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by pjm331 1y ago
I've made a few attempts at manually doing this w/ mcp and took a brief look at "claude swarm" https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm - but in the short time I spent on it I wasn't having much
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by pjm331 1y ago
I love how I am learning about a new claude code feature in a comment on HN - nowhere to be found on their release notes https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/claude-code Thanks for the tip! I've been a
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by pjm331 1y ago
yeah i am left handed but learned to play a right handed guitar and I have often wished i had done it differently - maybe one of these days i'll pick up a lefty guitar and learn all over again
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by pjm331 1y ago
Ah that’s a good idea I’ll have to try that out
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by pjm331 1y ago
Yes I had a similar experience. the thing that tripped me up with git worktrees, which is maybe obvious in retrospect, is that they don’t include things that are not tracked by git - e.g. .env.development.local So starting a new worktree re
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by pjm331 1y ago
They are talking about the fact that you can run this npm tool without installing it - not running code agents

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