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by redhale 10mo ago
Agree, but it looks like the "Quiet Mode" toggle hides them.
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by redhale 10mo ago
Luckily that's what's happening here, just at a company level. Plenty of companies are remote only or remote friendly. Hopefully people who prefer remote work can leave here and find work at one of those companies, and maybe peopl
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by redhale 10mo ago
Congrats on your work ethic. But consider that this may simply not be the case for every working adult on earth, and may not even be true for every working adult in your company. Not everyone is like you. I am, but I know people (some of wh
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by redhale 10mo ago
I see your point. But I guess this is a good example of default assumptions. When I read a personal blog, unless I see words like "objectively", or see explicit arguments stating that others should/must do X, I by default rea
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by redhale 11mo ago
On literally every project I've seen that enforces a % threshold, that % threshold has directly led to bad quality tests. This is more true the higher the % is, with the worst being 100%. You can argue that it _shouldn't_ be this
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by redhale 11mo ago
In my opinion, the openings to pair are harder to find when remote. In person, it's usually easy to see when a junior is struggling, and pull up a chair. That same junior, in a remote environment, might not proactively ask for help. An
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by redhale 11mo ago
I agree. I think, at least for me, it's because I know my colleagues know my overall capability, so admitting I don't know a specific thing isn't a big deal because I've already proven I'm capable of overcoming any
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by redhale 11mo ago
You've brought in "require" from nowhere. Neither the parent comment nor OP's article mentioned _requiring_ in-office attendance for everyone on earth. Many people make this leap, so I don't mean to single you out.
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by redhale 11mo ago
I literally laughed out loud when I got to this line > Do it right the first time So easy, why didn't I think of that!? /s Reminds me of the mental health meme of telling depressed people to just be happier instead. I don'
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by redhale 11mo ago
My immediate hesitance with a tool like this (which sounds awesome) is that I don't actually trust tools like Claude Code unless I have them running in a git directory where I can see exactly what changed, and easily revert when needed
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by redhale 11mo ago
> 3. This effect is _significantly_ stronger than putting info about available API/cli into CLAUDE.md. What? Why? > unlike cli tools or APIs you don't have to constantly remind it what MCPs it has available I think I'm
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by redhale 11mo ago
> The process takes around ten minutes And here's one of the primary issues. It's possible to create good docs with an agentic workflow, but it takes time (could be up to several hours depending on the repo size) and a ton of t
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by redhale 11mo ago
Love this! Many of my favorite stickers come from here: https://github.com/mkrl/misbrands (and some of it's forks). Vim/Vscode still gets the best reactions.
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by redhale 11mo ago
Respectfully disagree. Why is the current level of language abstraction the ideal one for learning, which must be preserved? Why not C? Why not COBOL? Why not assembly? Why not binary? My hypothesis is that we can and will adapt to experien
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by redhale 11mo ago
I agree that this is annoying, but you answered your own question about why this is the way it is. > You * Google* “how to fix a Git conflict”, and every result ... is ... * "SEO-stuffed* filler drowning ... the answer. Mate, you&
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by redhale 11mo ago
I don't quite follow your meaning. Are you referring to an MCP registry of some kind, that the agent would operate itself to discover and install new tools? I would say that is a separate concern from the tool form factor itself. Also,
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by redhale 11mo ago
An I losing my mind? I feel like we're making things harder for ourselves. My mantra is: just use CLI tools. Or maybe "CLI tools are all you need"? "--help" mechanics are already built in so the agent can discover w
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by redhale 11mo ago
Fair point. It might be worth adding a more direct call-out to posts like this one. Many may not go as far as reading the Bio page. That may be on them technically speaking, but still. In any case, thank you for writing and sharing your con
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by redhale 11mo ago
Yes. Setting aside the specific merits of the argument, this blog post should really have a disclaimer somewhere that the author works for Confluent, a major managed Kafka service provider. Perhaps that makes him an expert on this topic, bu
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by redhale 11mo ago
You are conflating two different things. There are "vibe coding" tools like Lovable that let you build a prototype-level app with no coding experience. They're easy and fun, but I probably wouldn't want a novice (or anyo
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by redhale 1y ago
What happened? I'm a Max subscriber and I'd like to know what to look out for!
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by redhale 1y ago
This is a cool idea! But my question is: why not just use HTML+CSS? This is what I do, and it works amazingly well in my experience. LLMs are really good at HTML, and they can generate a clickable prototype in a few seconds. And the benefit
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by redhale 1y ago
Ok, fair enough. My fault for assuming. I'm not sure who you've met who fits the criteria of being by rule not creative or productive if they choose not to dedicate time outside of work to coding (not that they have done _literall
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by redhale 1y ago
Your view is quite myopic. And frankly, "if they don't they certainly will not be productive and probably not creative" is rude and insulting to many of your colleagues. I'm going to assume you are young and inexperience
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by redhale 1y ago
Yes, you are using the tools wrong. These tools are _hard_ to use well. Very hard. Deceptively hard. So hard that smart engineers bounce off of them believing them to be all smoke and hype. But if you study the emerging patterns, experiment
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by redhale 1y ago
FCIS is the best simple pattern I have come across for keeping a codebase easily understood and testable over several years. You can combine it with other patterns, or even just use it for one small area of an application that is otherwise
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by redhale 1y ago
I have used Claude Code heavily, and I've been forced to use Gemini CLI heavily (for a particular client project). Of all my issues with Gemini CLI (and there are many), this addresses none of them. This is a fascinating product manage
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by redhale 1y ago
I don't disagree with you, and I don't think this is anything nearing a catastrophic or fatal mistake. It's just kind of sloppy, I guess? Let me just say: I'm nitpicking what I think is overall an incredible tool and a g
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by redhale 1y ago
Looking through the issues tagged "documentation" provides many examples ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=label%3Ad... ). It's so common they have an issue template for "Missi
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by redhale 1y ago
I always find it hilarious and painfully ironic that Anthropic can't even keep Claude Code's docs up to date. I don't know how much to read into it, but it is a modern marvel of process failure. The team is obviously doing a

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