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CodeShmode··on Agentic Coding Is a Trap
The point not to YOLO in vibe coded slop. It's that with agentic generation you can prove out concepts, features and technical approaches first because it's low cost. Once you have something working you can work on getting alignment.

And yes you should completely grok what you're finally committing, making sure it's fully tested. What it enables is lots of fast experimentation before settling on your final change.

https://www.google.com/search?q=software+spike

CodeShmode··on Agentic Coding Is a Trap
Or you can have a conversation with an agent to build up a requirements/plan spec, asking it to analyse existing code patterns. When it seems like the agent has a good understanding of what needs to be done and how. Ask it to implement, keeping changes as a local spike.

Ask the agent questions about all the other teams' code, reaching out to them for questions it can't answer or clarification. With agent capabilities atm this is rare or can be done fairly async: "please confirm these things".

Maybe realise your code architecture is completely wrong. Manually code up some new abstractions that fit better, write the learnings into the spec plan. Strip out any implementation that largely doesn't fit your updated abstractions. Ask the agent to migrate the code to the new structure.

Repeat until spike is operational and you're happy with the abstractions used

Chat with the agent to create a Design Doc for the approach in the spike. Create a single JIRA ticket for "Productionise CodeShmode's spike". Get reviews and feedback from stakeholders.

Integrate feedback into your spike, or even the original spec document and regenerate the whole thing.

So much of the ritual you've outlined here is overhead from working in a large org where roles are siloed. When one person is empowered to do more then the actual work per person goes down and the overhead becomes the dominant. But that overhead isn't needed anymore because one person can now do many people's work.

I've whipped up spikes in a few days that would've been a month of work across a team multiple DDs and approvals. In the past this wasn't feasible so we would need to justify what those people would work on. Now you can whip it up, show a working demo and ask "should we productionise this"

CodeShmode··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
The tax dollars can go to programs that support normal folk, when the vast majority of tax collected will not come from normal folk.
CodeShmode··on Affinity Studio now free
Canva proper is freemium, yet they continuously add more free features
CodeShmode··on Affinity Studio now free
The issue being they don’t give everything away for free?
CodeShmode··on Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload
The timer would not need to be onboard the spinning flywheel, it could be on an observing quasite orbiting higher. When it's time to launch it could shine a control laser at the flywheel, which is used to time the triggering of a cutting laser at the right position to slice the payload off at the correct angle.

One timer could be used to launch multiple flywheel payloads over time

CodeShmode··on Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
They're forced to execute their options, not sell their shares.
CodeShmode··on Laser attack blinds autonomous vehicles, deleting pedestrians and confusing cars
There would be a lot of evidence of what happened after though
CodeShmode··on The Ethereum merge is done
> Their influence still can override the mining process that’s supposed to be the final word on transactions.

Any attempted tampering would be highly visible and why would anyone with control of that much ETH risk loss of trust in their valuable asset?

CodeShmode··on Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
If someone wants to kill themselves and is physically able I very much doubt that going through the legal process would be the easy way out.
CodeShmode··on I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
The web was the killer app built on the infrastructure of the internet. The blockchain ecosystem is still building it's infrastructure.
CodeShmode··on I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
There are many ways to launder money.
CodeShmode··on I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
I'm surprised Kleros is missing from this list
CodeShmode··on Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for?
> regular people don't want to manage their keys

They don't have to, but they can if they want to.

CodeShmode··on We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
How is that any better than telling git to ignore them? Esp when they're tightly coupled translations
CodeShmode··on Electric vehicle battery capable of 98% charge in less than ten minutes
He scales the kW/h hour down to five minutes to make kW/5min.
CodeShmode··on The Shaming-Industrial Complex
> Decades of constant failure from supposedly elite people in every possible field have lead to a reaction where people just don’t trust them no matter what they claim.

That’s a big claim to make without offering any examples.

CodeShmode··on New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
I've heard someone say the pain from inserting an IUD was so great they backed out halfway through the procedure.
CodeShmode··on Birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year
You just need to know that you took your own pill
CodeShmode··on A Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well in Texas
I guess the argument would be that it has a greater impact on the profitability of intermittent energy sources as it can stabilize the grid by soaking up cheap off-peak power. Not sure if I buy it either.
CodeShmode··on A Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well in Texas
Whether or not they pay a carbon price for burning the gas, it's still better for it to be productive in the process.
CodeShmode··on NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
"For every other species"
CodeShmode··on A Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well in Texas
The amount of gas to too small to be economical to transport away from the well.
CodeShmode··on We do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one
> but not oppose enough to use force? I think that's just as useless as people saying they're sending "thoughts and prayers".

All the weapons, sanctions and money are good as "thoughts and prayers"? Isn't the Ukraine military running primarily on donated Javelin and stringer missiles atm?

CodeShmode··on Education Department Forgives $415M of For-Profit College Debt
"Things were awful for me and they should be awful for you too"?
CodeShmode··on Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?
Some data for the opposite:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/12/1044553...

"If you actually isolate virus from people who are getting a secondary infection after being vaccinated, that virus is less good at infecting cells,"

"all 37 case patients for whom data were available regarding the source of infection, the suspected source was an unvaccinated person."

CodeShmode··on Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?
> similar amounts of virus in vaccinated people

Yeah right, gonna have to see a reference for that. Is it 'some vaccinated people have been found with equivalent amounts of virus' or 'on average they have the same amount of virus'. Because they're vastly different scenarios.

CodeShmode··on Private keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificate might have been leaked
There are so many half truths in your arguments it would take far too long to refute them all. It’s hard to believe you’re not acting in bad faith, either that or completely indulging your confirmation biases.
CodeShmode··on U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks
There were plenty of media outlets that doubted the WMD story. There’s no widespread collision between media and government.
CodeShmode··on Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)
I'm not sure the points you've raised demonstrate that there are many New York teachers that should be fired that have not been. The link from the74million.com focuses more on teachers that were successfully let go.

New York city is also one of the most expensive states to live in so any financial comparison would need to be relative to cost of living.

Which is besides the point that perhaps teachers should be remunerated well.

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