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jimbobimbo

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jimbobimbo··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
Thank you, well put! Bots reviewing code written by bots is a self licking ice cream cone.
jimbobimbo··on Plan mode is dead
I use similar approach, but use gpt to review plan written by opus.
jimbobimbo··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
I have a picture of my car in street view photo made by Bing. Sold the car long ago, nice keepsake.
jimbobimbo··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Behind the scenes is unbearable.
jimbobimbo··on I hate you Microsoft
Alternative headline: my university had bought a (cheaper?) plan which doesn't tick all necessary boxes.
jimbobimbo··on How to write an effective software design document
My problem recently is to have people read design docs I'm writing.
jimbobimbo··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
The most surprising part, however, is that when one model slops this into a plan, another model somehow is able to interpret it correctly enough to produce code to spec.
jimbobimbo··on The revolt of the reader
I see this at work. People are "writing" specs and design proposals with bots. This is noticeable and is a huge turn off. I don't have issues with using bots to aid research, but I'm not reading the doc you slopped together.
jimbobimbo··on Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
"Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда."
jimbobimbo··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
My instructions for agents have "find a synonym to 'resolve'". Otherwise I havea bunch of Resolver classes with every other method called ResolveThis or ResolveThat.
jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
It is very efficient until it's not. When it's not, it sucks. You don't have to have full on diabetes to experience the suck.
jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
My story is: I had a really bad crash after eating a chocolate, which never happened before. That prompted the bloodwork, which shown that A1c was not where it's supposed to be.

I bought CGM myself, without any doctor's input. Didn't know they exist before reading some selfhelp book which my wife found.

Echoing another poster, it's eye opening how some of the foods you'd never think of, are spiking glucose levels.

Overall, after both me and my wife adjusted diet, much better energy through the day, no crashes.

jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
That's what I thought too, until I got my last bloodwork results and started wearing one of the OTC continuous glucose monitors.

That device helped a lot to switch diet habits.

jimbobimbo··on The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode
To be fair, the guy on the picture doesn't even look like Jim Carrey, so...
jimbobimbo··on When I reject AI code even if it works
This is the way. I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan and provide feedback; repeat this multiple times until gpt is either satisfied or starts to nitpick on unimportant stuff. Then sanity check the plan myself and have gpt implement it.

Each implementation is also reviewed by me before merging to master. I complete PRs only when I'm satisfied with the implementation, my feedback is addressed, and I fully understand what is going on. Agents are the replacement for typing and productivity multipliers.

I have big picture view of the product, each plan implements only a part of it, scoped to avoid merging unreviwed slop. Probably slower, but result is much better.

jimbobimbo··on Kirkland Roundabouts
The new 85th St & I-405 interchange is horrible. I took it twice and both times it's too stressful and takes much longer to get off 405.
jimbobimbo··on The Future of Email
As a fastmail user I'm glad there was no announcement. Every time a company starts telling me about some bright future, this usually means my user experience is about to sink.
jimbobimbo··on A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
Why would this even be in the chat? Showing recent transactions is a basic functionality of a bank.
jimbobimbo··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I asked Claude to describe an app I was working on and it managed to describe the purpose of the app by looking only at implementation, no relevant docs in the repo. This was truly oh shit moment and I'm using AI assistance on that app since then.
jimbobimbo··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
>I kinda just expect it to be all “AWS” trust.

This would be very unwise from security standpoint. Internal access to customer stuff is granular and made hard for internal staff to gain, to minimize chances of screw up intentional or not.

jimbobimbo··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Managed identity is enabled via that endpoint, for example.
jimbobimbo··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
When things must be shipped quickly, shit breaks and corners are cut; large orgs are full of disfunction. Not sure if such insight was worth of setting your own career on fire.
jimbobimbo··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
The irony! My router died literally an hour ago, and I was on bestbuy to buy a new one. Over 5g connection. That was probably the worst shopping experience I had in a while...
jimbobimbo··on The future of version control
Seriously! I have too many years of software development experience, but I use Visual Studio UX to handle pretty much all git operations. And always merge.

I have better things to do in my life than "internalizing" anything that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

jimbobimbo··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
Rebase is easy and not terrifying. Here's a 1k word article on how to do it correctly.

Or just do a merge and move on with your life.

jimbobimbo··on Eat Real Food
"Once those additional vaccines are off the "routine" schedule, they'll be pulled by the suppliers, because it eliminates exemption from lawsuits"

Why is this bad? From one of the threads - "There IS scrutiny on vaccines, by the scientific and medical community - your "scrutiny" (as presumably neither a PhD in a relevant field or MD) is not valuable or relevant. There is decades of research that says that currently recommended vaccines are safe and effective."

OK, then there won't be grounds for lawsuits or lawsuits will be easily dismissed.

"you can be sure there'll be a bunch of crackpot right-wingers trying to prove each one is "bad" and they'll disappear sooner or later" - This logic can be applied to literally any product, be it a medicine, a vaccine, or any consumer good. Somehow pharma companies are able to sell any other drug without going into bankruptcy.

jimbobimbo··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
It is true. Withdrawals from SSRIs are no joke and can take a long time.
jimbobimbo··on Revisiting Interface Segregation in Go
"But accepting the full S3Client here ties UploadReport to an interface that’s too broad. A fake must implement all the methods just to satisfy it."

In NET, one would simply mock one or two methods required by the implementation under the test. If I'm using Moq, then one would set it up in strict mode, to avoid surprises if unit under test starts calling something it didn't before.

jimbobimbo··on The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
That's exactly it. What happens in a private branch is an implementation detail and reflects personal work style. Policing that is counterproductive.
jimbobimbo··on The AI Job Title Decoder Ring
"Forward Deployed Engineer" is a bodyshop with LLM.
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