rowanseymour

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by rowanseymour 1mo ago
Very impressive. Love the motion blur on stars as you move around and fascinating to toggle on asteroids to see how busy our solar system really is.
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by rowanseymour 2mo ago
I might try this but I've gotten so accustomed to talking to agents as I would a human - I worry that if I get accustomed to speaking coldly and directly to agents I'll find myself talking like that to people.
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by rowanseymour 2mo ago
I think that's something that has changed in the last 6 months. It used to be standard practice to let Claude scan everything once and describe your repo in the CLAUDE.md - the logic being you don't want to do that every time for
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by rowanseymour 2mo ago
Right now I feel like I'm getting so much value out of working daily with Fable, but I'd be embarrassed to share my sessions because they're pretty much how I would talk to a colleague. Spelling mistakes and half-baked though
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by rowanseymour 3mo ago
To be clear I don't want to detract from what you've made here. Agentic engineering done right does still require a lot time and attention IMO. But you've still got a challenge on your hands to demonstrate to potential adopte
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by rowanseymour 3mo ago
I think a challenge for a vibe coded library to gain adoption is if there is a lack of human time investment in its creation, how do we know there will be investment in its maintenance?
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by rowanseymour 3mo ago
I know plenty of women who have delayed starting a family and they were well aware of the increased risks.. as they struggled to meet the right person, establish themselves professionally etc. They were certainly not brainwashed.
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by rowanseymour 3mo ago
Maybe but those people are also having claude summarize their inbox and get nice little daily reports on things they might want to look into.
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by rowanseymour 3mo ago
We even find ourselves creating PRs in situations where the code is going to be merged immediately anyway, and tagging other devs, just so they have a convenient way to see what got merged and why. So people don't lose track of what is
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by rowanseymour 4mo ago
I'm back in the UK for a bit and one of the first things I notice besides the infuriating and pointless "Accept Cookies" popups on every webpage is that I can't view half the news about Palestine on Twitter/X withou
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by rowanseymour 4mo ago
To be clear I meant it's good to be small team on the assumption that we're all using AI... I honestly can't imagine not using AI in May 2026.
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by rowanseymour 4mo ago
Now feels like a very good time to be a small team of experienced developers who can largely work on stuff by themselves and not a corporation of hundreds of developers of varying abilities all now trying to show how much code they can gene
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by rowanseymour 4mo ago
I think one problem is that a lot of sleep doctors are essentially CPAP salespeople and they will just keep pushing that even if you protest that you don't feel any better. I got better answers from an ENT doc who did a Drug-Induced Sl
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by rowanseymour 5mo ago
IMO if you've got a use case that requires querying in so many ways that you need several indexes, then DynamoDB is probably the wrong choice. It excels at stuff like user specific histories that are well partitioned, read back in one
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by rowanseymour 5mo ago
So excited to play this but also sad that they didn't get the IP to use Kerbals. Not loving the cutesy baby kittens.. should have gone with a more serious animal like capybaras.
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by rowanseymour 6mo ago
Yup.. just started seeing OAuth errors in the desktop app. This is becoming an almost daily reminder of the risks of being locked into one AI platform.
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by rowanseymour 7mo ago
I totally get this and I also think it's now the case that making a PR of any significant complexity, for a project you're not a maintainer of, isn't necessarily giving that project anything of value. That project's main
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by rowanseymour 7mo ago
I don't buy this journey vs destination binary I keep hearing. I always considered myself lucky to be 44 and still writing code all day. I love the journey - the mental satisfaction of creating something complex yet elegant. The perfec
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by rowanseymour 8mo ago
Ah the daily HN get together for devs waiting for Github to resolve its issues.
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by rowanseymour 8mo ago
Aren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.
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by rowanseymour 9mo ago
As much as I'm enjoying all these articles about bad MacOS UI design.. people really be refusing to upgrade over this? I'm sitting here on Tahoe happily resizing windows all day (the cursor change lets you know you're grabbin
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by rowanseymour 9mo ago
In your opinion, if an American converts to Judaism, at what point does America cease to become their homeland?
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by rowanseymour 9mo ago
It's really not and I don't think it's worth arguing with you but.. Zionism is the establishment of a Jewish majority state.. which requires the expulsion of much of the existing non-Jewish population. That not the same as ot
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by rowanseymour 9mo ago
Trying to frame the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland as just "Jews trying to live in their own homeland".. isn't working in 2026 and nobody needs to read the thoughts of a man who saw Cecil Rhodes as a ki
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by rowanseymour 9mo ago
Yes I'm sure if the settlers who forced Amjad Masad's people into refugee camps were a different religion he'd be fine with it.
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by rowanseymour 10mo ago
What's the simplest replacement for mocking S3 in CI? We don't about performance or reliability.. it's just gotta act like S3.
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by rowanseymour 10mo ago
Israel continues to be shielded from the consequences of its actions.
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by rowanseymour 10mo ago
At analyzing and reproducing language.. words, code etc sure because at their core they are still statistical models of language. But there seems to be growing consensus that intelligence requires modeling more than words.
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by rowanseymour 10mo ago
Sabine Hossenfelder is really not convinced by this paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwzJ9PWjL0
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by rowanseymour 10mo ago
I saw that bit about concurrent use of http.Client and immediately panicked about all our code in production hammering away concurrently on a couple of client instances... and then saw the example and thought... why would you think you can

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