I’ve been using diagrams a lot lately. My team currently owns a wide surface area, so there is a lot of mental context churn as we bounce between parts of the system. HTML diagrams, or artifacts in the Claude desktop…
Apply TV + two HomePod Mini’s is precisely my setup. I wanted a TV in my living room without it dominating the space. The only practical location was over the fireplace, so I went with a “frame” TV. It’s not a home…
It’s worked for me with multiple strays, one of whom is no longer a stray. The other one who hangs around is still quite feral, but he has grown less skittish over time.
In my late 20s and early 30s I would frequently join my coworkers outside while they took a smoke break. I would generally try to stay at the periphery or upwind when possible. Over time, I found myself having…
My newest cat started as a stray. Cautious around humans, but not feral. He was hanging around a lot, so of course I started giving him food because I’m a sucker that way. He disappeared for a couple months, then showed…
This feels like a good place for tighter integration between editors and agents. The editor could notify the agent of user authored changes.
What’s interesting is that it maps well to how my brain actually works. My chain of thought is very non-linear. Maybe even a little chaotic, going off on tangents before returning to the main thread as it were. This has…
I’ve started learning into the various AI-isms in my prompts. Most recently, em dashes to chain related information in a single sentence. “Something something main point — but also pay attention to this related thing —…
I had a similar situation where someone had their email client configured with my address in the reply-to header. We shared a first initial, last name, and isp… also happened to be my email address. His email was…
The insurance requirement isn’t uncommon where I am (California). Though I would avoid whatever plan they are pushing. I got mine through my existing insurance provider and it worked out to ~$15 per month IIRC.
Same here. Little side projects and convenience tooling for $day_job that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten built for lack of time. Doesn’t need to be perfect, beautiful code for an audience of one. It just needs to work.
Perhaps solution was the wrong word for me to use here. It was intended to encompass the implementation details (abstractions, architecture, observability, etc)… All the decisions the engineers would normally make…
Responding to my own comment to add that I think this moment favors the curious and passionate. None of what I wrote above is a complaint. I’m having more fun now than I have in a long time.
My personal experience: writing code has always been the easy part. AI does most of that now. Understanding the problem and the existing system well enough to design the right solution, even with AI assistance, is a…
Overnight oats have been my go to lunch and pre workout meal for a couple years now. 75g 0% Greek Yogurt, 75g Almond Milk, 10g Maple Syrup, 8g ISOpure unflavored protein powder, 8g PBfit powdered peanut butter, Salt to…
One specific example that comes to mind is developer tooling in the form of bash scripts. Sure, I can write it myself, but I do this so infrequently that there is a cost for the context switch and ramp up. This, and…
I’m still a couple decades off from “senior”, but I have already reached a point where most day to day driving feels like a chore. If/When Waymo finally arrives in my smallish Bay Area city I can see myself using it a…
re: your last bullet. This has been very effective in my experience. “See class foo for example implementation “
I should clarify. I do very little greenfield development, even outside of work. So my understanding of vibe coding being good for this use case is largely rooted in the relayed experience of others.
Multiline autocomplete is still the biggest productivity boost for me. This works well in a familiar codebase with reasonably consistent patterns. After that it’s the “ask” capability when I need to get oriented in…
This has been saving me a lot of time as well in a decade old code base. I can paste a stack trace and provide additional relevant context, then ask the LLM to do a first pass debug. From that I usually get a list of…
> free heat that we couldn’t control I understand the appeal of free. It’s the idea of someone else controlling it that gives me anxiety.
The multi-line autocomplete feels like the right middle ground (for me) when working in an existing code base with well established patterns. Adding new functionality is mostly a matter of scaffolding, commenting as I…
Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
That little grill got me through many years of apartment living where I couldn’t have a propane grill.
I’ve been using diagrams a lot lately. My team currently owns a wide surface area, so there is a lot of mental context churn as we bounce between parts of the system. HTML diagrams, or artifacts in the Claude desktop…
Apply TV + two HomePod Mini’s is precisely my setup. I wanted a TV in my living room without it dominating the space. The only practical location was over the fireplace, so I went with a “frame” TV. It’s not a home…
It’s worked for me with multiple strays, one of whom is no longer a stray. The other one who hangs around is still quite feral, but he has grown less skittish over time.
In my late 20s and early 30s I would frequently join my coworkers outside while they took a smoke break. I would generally try to stay at the periphery or upwind when possible. Over time, I found myself having…
My newest cat started as a stray. Cautious around humans, but not feral. He was hanging around a lot, so of course I started giving him food because I’m a sucker that way. He disappeared for a couple months, then showed…
This feels like a good place for tighter integration between editors and agents. The editor could notify the agent of user authored changes.
What’s interesting is that it maps well to how my brain actually works. My chain of thought is very non-linear. Maybe even a little chaotic, going off on tangents before returning to the main thread as it were. This has…
I’ve started learning into the various AI-isms in my prompts. Most recently, em dashes to chain related information in a single sentence. “Something something main point — but also pay attention to this related thing —…
I had a similar situation where someone had their email client configured with my address in the reply-to header. We shared a first initial, last name, and isp… also happened to be my email address. His email was…
The insurance requirement isn’t uncommon where I am (California). Though I would avoid whatever plan they are pushing. I got mine through my existing insurance provider and it worked out to ~$15 per month IIRC.
Same here. Little side projects and convenience tooling for $day_job that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten built for lack of time. Doesn’t need to be perfect, beautiful code for an audience of one. It just needs to work.
Perhaps solution was the wrong word for me to use here. It was intended to encompass the implementation details (abstractions, architecture, observability, etc)… All the decisions the engineers would normally make…
Responding to my own comment to add that I think this moment favors the curious and passionate. None of what I wrote above is a complaint. I’m having more fun now than I have in a long time.
My personal experience: writing code has always been the easy part. AI does most of that now. Understanding the problem and the existing system well enough to design the right solution, even with AI assistance, is a…
Overnight oats have been my go to lunch and pre workout meal for a couple years now. 75g 0% Greek Yogurt, 75g Almond Milk, 10g Maple Syrup, 8g ISOpure unflavored protein powder, 8g PBfit powdered peanut butter, Salt to…
One specific example that comes to mind is developer tooling in the form of bash scripts. Sure, I can write it myself, but I do this so infrequently that there is a cost for the context switch and ramp up. This, and…
I’m still a couple decades off from “senior”, but I have already reached a point where most day to day driving feels like a chore. If/When Waymo finally arrives in my smallish Bay Area city I can see myself using it a…
re: your last bullet. This has been very effective in my experience. “See class foo for example implementation “
I should clarify. I do very little greenfield development, even outside of work. So my understanding of vibe coding being good for this use case is largely rooted in the relayed experience of others.
Multiline autocomplete is still the biggest productivity boost for me. This works well in a familiar codebase with reasonably consistent patterns. After that it’s the “ask” capability when I need to get oriented in…
This has been saving me a lot of time as well in a decade old code base. I can paste a stack trace and provide additional relevant context, then ask the LLM to do a first pass debug. From that I usually get a list of…
> free heat that we couldn’t control I understand the appeal of free. It’s the idea of someone else controlling it that gives me anxiety.
The multi-line autocomplete feels like the right middle ground (for me) when working in an existing code base with well established patterns. Adding new functionality is mostly a matter of scaffolding, commenting as I…
Same here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
That little grill got me through many years of apartment living where I couldn’t have a propane grill.