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by zingar 6mo ago
Experience doesn’t leave me with any confidence that the long term memory will be useful for long. Our agentic code bases are a few months old, wait a few years for those comments to get out of date and then see how much it helps.
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by zingar 6mo ago
Actually good naming does plenty to explain the why. And because it’s part of the code it might actually be updated when it stops being true.
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by zingar 6mo ago
I wrote this an hour ago and it seems that Claude might not understand it as frustration: > change the code!!!! The previous comment was NOT ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION!!!!!!! Add to the {implementation}!!!!! This IS controlled BY CODE. *YOU*
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by zingar 6mo ago
That definition moves the goalposts almost by definition, people only stopped thinking that chess demonstrated intelligence when computers started doing it.
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by zingar 6mo ago
Something something powers go to definition… is this an implementation of an LSP server? Or a subset of what’s needed to implement LSP? A formerly proprietary alternative to LSP?
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by zingar 6mo ago
Love the concept that I can glean from the opening paragraph. Very interested. Not going to upgrade to a Medium premium plan to read it. Unfortunately using Medium seems to be a choice to compete with every other Medium article that month f
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by zingar 6mo ago
Misleading title, the article has zero content on outages. This is purely positive content about what they are doing with AI-powered bug detection.
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by zingar 7mo ago
What is the appeal of swift for this project? Is it just what you know?
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by zingar 7mo ago
Would you mind elaborating on the superiority you perceive?
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by zingar 7mo ago
One of the possible outcomes of this journey is that “LLMs can never do X”. Another is that X is easier than we thought.
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by zingar 7mo ago
Turning a hard problem into a series of problems we know how to solve is a huge part of problem solving and absolutely does result in novel research findings all the time. Standard problem*5 + standard solutions + standard techniques for de
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by zingar 7mo ago
No that’s not it. Opencode is a pure terminal app, your interaction is by typing prompts and slash commands. You can also script prompts to it. There are probably IDE plugins that feed prompts or context in based on your interaction with th
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by zingar 7mo ago
My question was based on seeing courts springing up all over London recently.
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by zingar 7mo ago
Can anyone explain to me why this sport is so popular that it’s taking over prime locations in expensive cities?
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by zingar 7mo ago
Geez there should be a big warning on the tin about this. They’re so neatly integrated with copilot that I assumed (and told others) that they had all the privacy guarantees of copilot :(
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by zingar 7mo ago
This is exactly me considering what I might have leaked to god knows who via grok. I was hyped by opencode but now I’m thinking of alternatives. A huge red flag… at best irresponsible?
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by zingar 7mo ago
You can access anthropic models with subscription pricing via a copilot license.
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by zingar 7mo ago
Aren’t those in-editor tools? Opencode is a CLI
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by zingar 7mo ago
Anecdotal pros and one annoyance: - GH copilot API is a first class citizen with access to multiple providers’ models at a very good price with a pro plan - no terminal flicker - it seems really good with subagents - I can’t see any termin
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by zingar 7mo ago
Maybe. It might also have nothing to do with ill-conceived attempts at evaluation. I sometimes suggest teams work in steps that small (usually because they don't have the experience to handle something bigger) and it has nothing to do
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by zingar 7mo ago
I have so many thoughts: Depending on the reality, either that company doesn't understand agile very well, or you didn't understand the importance of the small steps. A plan is not made agile by being split into many small sequent
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by zingar 7mo ago
Great point! We’ve been shifting quality left in human teams for decades now, and there’s still territory there that few (no?) teams have explored. AI is probably where that unexplored terrain becomes worthwhile to explore.
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by zingar 7mo ago
This is a profound point but is review really the problem or is it the handoff that crosses boundaries (me to others, our team to other team, our org to outside our org)?
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by zingar 7mo ago
Interesting point about not moving out of the medium. I don’t think this is terribly important but you could say that the airplane completely moves from the medium of wheels on the ground into the less dense medium of air.
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by zingar 7mo ago
Ha ha, we were taught to keep our optimist bathtubs halfway out of the water when sailing downwind back then. I mostly joke but no one called that flying :).
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by zingar 7mo ago
It’s possible to manage the quarterly expectations by saying “we can improve metric X by 10% in a quarter”. It’s often possible to find an improvement that you’re very confident of making very quickly. Depending on how backwards the company
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by zingar 7mo ago
Comparing the same work done between agile and waterfall I can accept your experience of what sounds like an org with unusually effective long term planning. However the value of agile is in the learning you do along the way that helps you
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by zingar 7mo ago
Reviews are vital for 80% of the programmers I work with but I happily trust the other 20% to manage risk, know when merging is safe without review, and know how to identify and fix problems quickly. With or without pairing. The flip side i
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by zingar 7mo ago
I love me some hulls out of the water but I have a quibble with the term “flying” when there’s still something in the water and taking everything out of the water is dangerous, even of it is only a tiny fraction of the boat… have hydrofoils
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by zingar 7mo ago
Prescient!

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