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by searls 1y ago
Man, Anthropic's service quality has just been a dumpster fire since July. Embarrassed I ever recommended people pony up for a 20x Max plan. The fact they've admitted that Claude Code got dumber for an entire month and didn't
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by searls 1y ago
The answer is that we're making it right now. AI didn't speed me up at all until agents got good enough, which was April/May of this year. Just today I built a shovelware CLI that exports iMessage archives into a standalone w
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by searls 1y ago
Does it? On iPadOS 26 and even with Silent Mode disabled I still can't hear anything.
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by searls 1y ago
Yeah this is a great comment and moves it forward. Will incorporate this into my personalization stanza. I agree, I think one reason this strategy has not helped me with Claude Code is that it just leads to endless spinning. Not just tool c
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by searls 1y ago
Yeah, I've been griping about LLM overconfidence for years, as somebody who is racked with self-doubt and second-guessing. On one hand, my own low opinion of myself made me a terrible mentor and manager, because having a similarly zero
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by searls 1y ago
I had a very similar thought (which I removed from the final draft) Yesterday without searching this prompt was able to speculate that my query about static vars on Swift actors was a sign of an underlying compiler bug. Turns out, it WAS a
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by searls 1y ago
I appreciate that Orta linked to my "Full-breadth Developers" post here, for two reasons: 1. I am vain and having people link to my stuff fills the void in my broken soul 2. He REALLY put in the legwork to document in a concrete w
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by searls 1y ago
Wrote this up today after failing to find a good guide for it online. Hope someone finds it useful!
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by searls 1y ago
I don't know about you, but I've been trying to crack the nut on why some developers take to gen-AI coding tools so immediately and others bounce off them. Increasingly, this pattern has emerged among the people in my orbit. Curio
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These 4 code snippets won WWDC(justin.searls.co)
3 points by searls 1y ago|0 comments
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by searls 1y ago
Yeah, and then you just wind up feeling exhausted AND unsatisfied with where you wind up. You are exactly who I posted this for. 100% of my positive experiences with agent coding are when I don't have reason to care about the intrinsic
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by searls 1y ago
Gist an example of what you mean? My experience with very large prompts and exacting custom instructions has been drastically eroded "intelligence"
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by searls 1y ago
Yes, this is exactly why the "planning" approach never seems to work for me. Like every ounce of planning I do with the LLM it becomes a pound stupider at implementation time
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by searls 1y ago
Yeah, I could completely see this. Reminds me of the "Slow Internet vs No Internet" oatmeal comic
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by searls 1y ago
LLMs in their current incarnation will not, but there's nothing inherently preventing them from learning. Contexts are getting large enough that having a sidecar database living with each project or individual as a sort of corpus of &q
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by searls 1y ago
I do this too and it drives me nuts. It's very obvious to me (and perhaps anyone without an incentive to maximize the accept rate) that the diff view really struggles. If you leave a large diff, copilot and cursor will both get confuse
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by searls 1y ago
Whenever I land on the front page, I check the comments and brace for HN coming and telling me how stupid I am and lighting me aflame in front of my peers. But sometimes if I manage to nail the right headline, nobody reads my post and just
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Why Agents Are Bad Pair Programmers(justin.searls.co)
5 points by searls 1y ago|1 comments
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by searls 1y ago
It's possible that this post will only make sense to people with "real" pair programming experience, but when you compare the UX of trying to code with an agent, it's actually emblematic of several of the hallmark traits
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by searls 1y ago
Worried this was about the static site generator. Weirdly relieved.
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by searls 1y ago
For anyone who's ducked out of Rails World over the last decade (or two), I devoted my final conference talk last year to the topic of One-Person Framework with a real-world case study of how Rails 7+ specifically helps developers buil
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by searls 2y ago
I changed my to a write-only relationship with social media a couple years ago and I'm building an app called POSSE Party to help others do the same thing https://posseparty.com/
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by searls 2y ago
I seem to observe that people drawn to rust are into systems programming and people drawn to rust are into minimal services programming and any attempts at building a batteries-included CRUD framework are so against the grain of the communi
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by searls 2y ago
As someone who co-founded one of the most successful Ruby on Rails consultancies in the world: building CRUD apps is a _fantastic_ business. There are two types of complexity: essential and incidental. Sometimes, a straightforward CRUD app
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by searls 2y ago
As somebody whose dad died last night, this one hits hard.
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by searls 2y ago
I was tickled to scroll down and see my own stupid avatar. Claimed my profile and wrote a note. Thank you so much to everyone in the Ruby community. I spoke at conferences around the world for 13 years, made a ton of friends, and officially
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by searls 2y ago
If I was building a competing expense system, the pricing slider would show how $5/user/month compared to how many dollars in rewards you (as the business owner) would be giving away by using a card issued by a "free" Sa
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by searls 2y ago
As the author, I can answer this: because I believe there is such a thing as "enough money." And I'm personally at a point where the decision in my mind is not between "build a great product that makes less money" v
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Three Simple Rules for Using My Large Language Model(justin.searls.co)
4 points by searls 2y ago|0 comments
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by searls 3y ago
This is a huge reason why I still use StandardJS and—shifting back to Ruby—why I rejected the countless requests for implementing line-length or any other metrics analysis rules for Standard Ruby ( https://github.com/standard

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