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jpitz··on The Test
Counterpoint: the person who understands how do to a task without the tool often winds up being the more capable user of the tool.
jpitz··on Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair
Just like nobody asked for an iPhone.

Innovators gonna innovate. 99 times out 100 they miss the mark. Telling people not to innovate though?

jpitz··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
Assuming that it's intentional, what's the motivation?
jpitz··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
You're right.

It isn't the average bound, it is the upper and lower bound stated together ( as long as thats the same function )

jpitz··on Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
there are absolutely pitches that an arbitrary piano cannot be tuned to. it is also non-trivial to tune a piano.
jpitz··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
Yeah but there's a formal term for average time complexity, Theta
jpitz··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
This _IS_ the U.S. Government.
jpitz··on Where .env Went Wrong
Why should HN pay for a questionable service when it already gets crowdsourced results for free?
jpitz··on Where .env Went Wrong
If 1Password hadn't jumped the subscription model shark, I'd be all over that. Any chance you'd entertain supporting bitwarden?
jpitz··on Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI
This is an incredible resource for someone trying to prep for an audit. Thank you!
jpitz··on Claude Cookbook
I don't think that is controversial.

My system CLAUDE.MD spells out my preferences in stack and architecture, and how I expect the agent to interact with me.

I have it generate a summary doc in large repos so it doesn't need to slurp in the world to review a PR or work on a corner of it.

jpitz··on Harness Engineering
This is interesting. I'd already had a conversation with my harness ( pi ) about incorporating continuous improvement. This is a great deal better than what I came up with.
jpitz··on Guide to data tools landscape for developers
Apache Avro has 2 encodings: binary AND json.
jpitz··on Command Line Interface Guidelines
That's useful, although I don't know if I will enable it for generally or specifically for git.
jpitz··on Command Line Interface Guidelines
I'm bothered by it because whatever git command that I'm executing will put its output in a pager and when I quit the pager it's not there anymore. I want the output on the screen when I start typing the next command. Oh my God, this is such a frustrating pattern.
jpitz··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Immigration enforcement doesn't sound controversial, but murder should.
jpitz··on A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes
That solves many of those problems, although it rather introduces a big gravity well to escape from when replication is complete.
jpitz··on Libre Barcode Project
I did exactly that ( bitmap ) for a retail application back in ~2000. It was just a couple of constants for the stop and start sigils plus an array of bits for the digits....it was a quick work.
jpitz··on From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap
"Plan to throw one away. You will anyway."
jpitz··on Waymo Premier
Not to mention how hostile Phoenix can be to walking.
jpitz··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Nothing says "I don't care about neurodivergence" more than someone complaining when I build tools and processes to help me interact with the world better.
jpitz··on 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
I'm not sure how meaningful it is to adopt some of the controls from HITRUST without any of the consequences.
jpitz··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
I'm gonna push the responsibility up a level in the ladder:

A competent adult using a tool ought to understand the inherent pitfalls of using that tool.

Chainsaws are dangerous, in obvious and non obvious ways. The tool can operate as designed and still amputate your foot.

jpitz··on Laws of Software Engineering
I think that if you continue along the logical progression of the parent poster, then maybe the smaller units of functionality would be represented by simple ranges of lines of text. Given that, deleting a single button would ideally mean a single contiguous deletion from a file, versus deleting many disparate lines.
jpitz··on Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
A decade or more of people copy-pasting rote solutions from StackOverflow only supports the notion that many people will forego comprehension to foster the illusion of competent productivity.

This ain't an AI problem, it's a people problem that's getting amplified by AI.

jpitz··on Just-bash: Bash for Agents
Just curious: why wouldn't you attack this with a jail?
jpitz··on Sandwich Bill of Materials
When the tokens are nice and lean.
jpitz··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Acting without due process is oppression.
jpitz··on Days since last GitHub incident
$Work pays for GitHub, so the implicit solution offered is "take my money and make your service reliable"
jpitz··on The future of Terraform CDK
The providers for tofu are by design the same as for terraform.

Also, for large providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc - these are often largely authored by the hyperscaler themselves, for better or worse.

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