tom_m

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by tom_m 9mo ago
Windsurf got worse. Cursor got worse. Everything got worse. Claude Code was simply never good lol. They should have quit while they were ahead.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
They are getting worse. I don't know why but people keep tweaking and touching them and probably maybe I think it's that they want to make them work for a ton of different models and tools. There's some I use I wish I could j
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Nah, I think Opus is fantastic but not Claude Code. Their models are way better.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
That's the entire reason I don't use Claude's models. I don't want to use Claude Code. I want to use their models, just not their crappy software.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
There will be a need. Don't worry. Most people still haven't figured out how to properly read and interpret instructions. So they build things incorrectly - with or without AI Seriously. The bar is that low. When people say "
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by tom_m 10mo ago
It depends. What a narrow minded article, sigh. Bring on the vibe coding! Let's just be mindless.
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by tom_m 10mo ago
Yes. It is a bubble. Also a useful tool...but 100% a bubble. There's going to unfortunately be a bunch of folks caught by it.
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by tom_m 10mo ago
Yes because having a deadline means you aren't set up for quality code...and codebases that are years old are no good. Of course. Sounds like a flavor of the month JavaScript developer. Or the mentality anyway. I know nothing of the au
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by tom_m 10mo ago
Satire.
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by tom_m 11mo ago
It was already viable pricing before. You have to remember this is for business use. Many companies will pay 20% on top of an engineer's salary to have them be 200% as effective. Right? I am truthfully surprised they dropped pricing. T
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by tom_m 1y ago
Problem isn't finding someone who can code and write code that works and is even good. Problem is finding someone who cares, is motivated, gets along with others, understands what they are building, is a good communicator, and doesn&#x
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by tom_m 1y ago
Nah, they don't look at the data. They just try random things and see what works. That's why there's now the whole skills thing. They are all just variations of ideas to manage context basically. LLMs are very simply text in
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by tom_m 1y ago
100% - but this has always been true. Some people have always lived into the code before understanding. Now it's probably an even slippier slope. It's like you don't know how to ski and you're going down a really steep h
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by tom_m 1y ago
I love how AI is surfacing problems that have been present all along. People are beginning to spend more time thinking about what's actually important when building a software product. My hope is that people keep the dialogue going bec
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by tom_m 1y ago
This does help, yes. Todo lists are important. They also reinforce order of operations.
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by tom_m 1y ago
You don't want to discard prior information though. That's the problem with small context windows. Humans don't forget the original request as they ask for more information or go about a long task. Humans may forget parts of
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by tom_m 1y ago
Very very clear, unambiguous, prompts and agent rules. Use strong language like "must" and "critical" and "never" etc. I would also try working on smaller sections of a large codebase at a time too if things ar
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by tom_m 1y ago
Exactly. If you know how the whole thing works end to end, AI makes you incredibly dangerous. Anyone who specializes or never really learned how everything works is at a huge disadvantage. However. There's also good news. AI is also an
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by tom_m 1y ago
I think this is an important distinction too. It's not skill level or how fast you can code something. It's attitude. How you work with others. How you communicate (at all? Because many people don't raise their hand for help
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by tom_m 1y ago
Haha hacker news is a funny place
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by tom_m 1y ago
Didn't they do or prove that with messages on Reddit?
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by tom_m 1y ago
No, some of that is horrible advice even at a healthy functional organization. You don't want to break rules silently, defiantly, or row in the opposite direction. Leadership should be establishing cultural and communication norms. So
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by tom_m 1y ago
Even the node author came out and said the concurrency design there was wrong and switched to golang. Libuv is cool and all, but doesn't handle everything and you still have a bottleneck, poor isolation, and the single threaded event l
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by tom_m 1y ago
Ah well you know, the kids want new stuff. They don't actually care about getting work done.
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by tom_m 1y ago
Go tooling is among the best out there. You ever see npm?
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by tom_m 1y ago
They started there, but it now is compiled by go itself.
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by tom_m 1y ago
ROFL really?
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by tom_m 1y ago
Not only is it really good, it's even better for AI.
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by tom_m 1y ago
It's incredibly good.
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by tom_m 1y ago
AI wouldn't be responsible for any breakthroughs, a human using AI is. They are the ones prompting and guiding and in control. AI doesn't care about our cancer. It doesn't have cancer.

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