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dashdotme··on Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern
As you get better with the pattern, you can do much more while maintaining the quality.
dashdotme··on Python developers are embracing type hints
Are there really productive projects which rely on types as a proofing system? I've always thought it added too much complexity to the code, but I'd love to see it working well somewhere. I love the idea of correctness by design.
dashdotme··on Vibe code is legacy code
> Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment.

This feels like less of a win for the customers though. They're paying money and exposing their data insecurely, all for a product that maybe does what it's trying to do.

> Now he's hiring a developer to shore it up.

This is going to be way harder than it sounds...

I'm all for AI as a reference or productivity/learning aid, but the results without a human in the loop quickly get horrific.

dashdotme··on What Makes NixOS Different (and Why It's Better)
Thanks for the heads up - had misremembered my own title.
dashdotme··on The uv build back end is now stable
Good thing to highlight. I'm not sure I'd bet on the game plan, but uv is an incredibly useful tool which I also wouldn't have bet on. Hopefully Simonw is right, and Astral can maintain as is.