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5d ago
Why do we need to go to the Stone Age, maybe we go to Pre-cold war diversity of said windows? Or to Cold War stalemate with just a lot more actors? I think the cheapening of labour that AI is doing globally will be much more impactful on cu
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11d ago
Looks beautiful thank you! Looking at it though I keep thinking - would understand it better if it was factorio :-D
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11d ago
Hah absolutely, after of a very intense project I’ve undertaken with Claude agent teams for a few months now, I have caught myself using opus expressions, since they come to mind now naturally because that’s most of the text I’ve read since
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19d ago
Hah I think if a repo is “standard” enough that an agent can navigate it freely without any help or direction, maybe it’s not worth having altogether? Even fable _regularly_ stumbles as big repos or custom configurations, even for projects
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21d ago
Hmm that’s strange, in my experience it is the other way around - Claude is super diligent with infra and will _insist_ on double checking and trying everything for real before committing. When I was doing this myself I would read the docs
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1mo ago
But isn’t “writing a linter for contracts” the thing we need and probably would solve? Coding agents are great because they have compilers, linters, test cases etc to ground themselves in. With tools like OKF I’m sure most knowledge work wo
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1mo ago
You are right - and this has been the case for me before, but unfortunately human resource constraints are not something most orgs optimise for, including my current one. I would love to spend more time and talk to the people with their iss
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1mo ago
Hah, I guess we are not far away from the “Avogadro Corp” future - and that book was written just _before_ LLM, chatgpt and the attention is all you need paper :) That author had quite the insight
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1mo ago
I’m not convinced tbh, a lot of my colleagues messages are “x broken” or “I do y” … no context whatsoever, and then I have to coax their context for making these decisions. Since people started using Claude now I get full context of everyth
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1mo ago
Don’t coworking spaces solve some of the issues? I am one of these people that hates working from home and loves going to the office - the chat with colleagues, the exercise of bicycling to the office and back, the context switching between
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1mo ago
Tel-aviv is honestly incredibly impressive, I’ve been there and the place is amazing - that it was just a sand dune and without the Arab oil wealth still managed to make this land into an amazing place to live… Don’t think anyone is faultin
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1mo ago
Everyone is always a squatter on someone else’s land, for millennia now. The question is how do you deal with it. Israel “dealing” with its “Palestinian problem” by taking a book out of nazis and Ottoman Empire is both ironic and incredibly
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1mo ago
She is leading some orgs in rural India, targeting empowering and helping women and has seen countless examples of Europeans / Americans coming over with noble ideas, making a mess, leaving, and sometimes things getting worse not bette
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1mo ago
Honestly, I’ve stopped caring about code readability for a few months now. I want the code readable _to the agent_ not so much to me. I don’t trust it with code anyway - every feature needs comprehensive test, and then a live deploy on a re
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1mo ago
Hmm just shared this with someone who works in this space in India, they got angry. > It doesn’t work for 3rd world contaminants. > White people have been making these for years. Doesn’t work > We need hard TDS removal also And the
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1mo ago
Surprisingly enough I’ve encountered both kinds - people who don’t care a lot and despise any “mandatory commit rules”, and people who care _too much_ spending company time making their commits “perfect” which then nobody reads. I think it’
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1mo ago
Actually I think it is the other way around - since very few people would ever read commit histories - maybe if something really bad happened and we need to trace the audit trail ~once a month or something per team. But LLMs can traverse th
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2mo ago
It’s not equal amount of time though. You don’t need to support all the other customers, and you also have the exact apis and their usage. Telling Claude to “reimplement” something is vastly more achievable than trying to spec and research
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3mo ago
Yeah but depends how you use it - with superpowers and it’s prevalence of splitting things into smaller focused subagents - this could seriously reduce costs … I wish my company gave me more options than just using Claude to test these thin
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3mo ago
Getting on and off fable this week has been quite interesting. For my personal work stream (big terraform monorepo, hundreds of states) I’ve using mostly superpowers to do heavy / quality work. But with fable, I tried just telling it w
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3mo ago
I’ve found that Claude is really good at picking up tone of voice in prompts / queries. If I go “find issues in this code” it will hallucinate some, but if I say “can you check the recent change, there might be some things that introdu
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3mo ago
Ha! It’s silly easy for me to bum in the “premium” tier - the highest one my employer is able to select for me. With proper skills and validations, it’s quite easy for me to spin out a Claude instance and keep it running in the background f
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3mo ago
Yeah but I think going back to hand writing bespoke code is not coming back, the genie is out of the bottle. But we could build much better tooling around keeping the agents honest. The problems you are describing are absolutely real and I
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3mo ago
I just eat double portion at dinner, and then nibble on snacks before bed - I haven’t had breakfast in decades, then since I moved to India, with the carby nature of the food it was hard to stay in shape with 2 meals, so I decided to try an
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3mo ago
Exactly - I had switched to a one meal per day setup and have been mostly following it for a few years. Then after a routine “heart health” check all my indicators were super out of whack - the doctors thought I was on my deathbed - but I a
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4mo ago
Sad they didn’t finish it. The later books seemed like they were written “to be movies/series” with less political stuff and more visuals / speculative sci-fi. Plus the story has an actual half decent conclusion. To me the plight
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4mo ago
I really liked reading through the Mars trilogy. It imagined a world where AI is used for fluent effortless translation - local languages get a renaissance since now you _dont_ need a lengua Franca, everyone just speaks what they like the m
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5mo ago
This article kind of misses the point - of course everyone’s average day is … average. But locals don’t spend all of their days like this, sometimes (once a week/month/year) they would do something fun, or they want to. You asking
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5mo ago
But isn’t AI doing the same thing to project management as to coding? PMs can now cross reference and organize tickets with just a few keystrokes. Organisational knowledge, business knowledge, design systems and patterns, etc all of it is e
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5mo ago
Thanks for the recommendations - I’m also big fan of 3blue1brown and PBS science, but as a recent dad am on lookout for content for my son to watch when he comes of that age - he’s just 1month now, hopefully by that time AI has not enshitty
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