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If you're worried about piercing corporate veils, you're probably not trying to get your lil' side project off the ground.

What are you having it do?

I don't want my Claude to sound "natural". Claude is a robot and it should do behave like a robot. It should do what it's told. Nothing more and nothing less.

I could do this before too. The way I work is that I just write some functions, fully annotated, in whatever language the project is in, with a comment on what I expect the code to do, and an empty return. Then get an LLM to fill in the functions.

Helps me think about the problem, like your post mentioned, but I don't have to pay a tax on converting a prototyping language to a different language.

My biggest issue with these type of posts is that they never answer the "why". Hell, they don't even ask the "why".

> The more modular your code, the more agents you can run

OK, but why would I want to run more agents? So I can be more productive? What does this productivity lead to? And are we actually being more productive? Take a look at Bun's repo on GitHub which seems to be fully automated. Well over 5000 PRs open.

What's the use? How can we justify these 5000 PRs? Over the past years, software has become considerably more shit. Are these 5000 PRs improving the quality of software?

Is the end-user reaping the rewards? Are they getting better software, cheaper?

The answer to all of those is going to be "no".

And let's take Uber for example. They have many teams, and many more times the services. Has ride hailing become cheaper? No. Has it become more efficient? No.

Nothing is getting better, but at least we're all off worse!

For me personally, the goal of a take-home was always to see how the candidate walks through code, discusses code, and how well they take feedback.

This is why I'd ask candidates for previously written code they were proud of, rather than telling them to code something trivial.

Oh you wouldn't know them. They ... uh... go to a different school.

> AI companies would do well to realize that civil disobedience is a thing.

Civil disobedience? In this economy?

Wow, it's using NATS! I used NATS extensively 10+ years ago, and I'm happy to hear it's still around. Our infrastructure had hiccups across our fleet of machines, but one part that always remained up and running without complaining on some dinky machine was NATS. Well, that and Redis. No complaints ever.

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!

Right, so if it's happening already, nothing is going to change. Four days a week it is!

You're right. We need to bring back protracted violent strikes by unions and socialists!

Reading the code? Who has the time.

Aah, I am sure the chickens of vibe coded origin, will never come to roost.

You could make this same post and replace any component with Wayland. At the end of the day the Linux community will continuously set the Linux Desktop back by N years. The most obvious case of this is Linus Tech Tips trying Linux to replace Windows for gaming, getting lost in what distro to pick, and then being flamed online for choosing the "wrong" distro. It's impossible for anyone without the time and curiosity to choose a Linux distro, and then to stick with it. My only "hope" for the year of The Linux Desktop is SteamOS, since that will have a commercial force driving adoption and removing the need for consumers to make a choice entirely.

I made some chocolates for my wife, it was a pretty fun project overall and a lot easier (if messier) than I thought it would be. Can highly recommend if you ever want to make an original present!

I've been struggling quite a bit the past year or two, coming to terms with a new reality that vibe coding is here to stay. After some introspection, I feel like the problem is tied to losing my identity more than anything else, and that it doesn't have to be that way. Anyway, I wrote about it here. I hope someone who struggles with the same issue finds this helpful.

Even if I would've bought Nvidia, Bitcoin, or whatever stock... who is to say I would've had the balls to hold it all the way to whatever they're at today. I probably would've ended up like the guy who spent 10,000 bitcoin on a pizza.

Yo dawg, I heard you like virtualisation so we put virtual servers inside of your virtual servers.

It sounds like that relationship was not supposed to be salvaged to begin with. ChatGPT perhaps prolonged your friend's suffering, who ended up moving on in the end. Perhaps unnecessarily delayed.

What does it matter? Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Edit: cursory search shows a flat/falling trend.[0]

[0]https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...

I used custom elements extensively in 2014 when support was not as widespread. I think it's a beautiful, elegant solution and I'm still a little bit bitter that React became as big as it was. Now everything "has" to be a SPA because developers want to use React, whereas most users would actually be better served with good 'ol HTML with some custom elements where needed.

I traveled often between Jakarta and Japan in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The real breath of fresh air for me was literally the fresh air back in Japan. After running around for a week through Jakarta, I would inevitably develop a deep cough and a clogged nose. That said, the people, the food, and as someone else pointed out the nightlife is amazing.

An established founder makes claims X is the new frontier. X receives hundreds of millions in funding. Other less established founders claim they are working on X too. VCs suffering from terminal FOMO pump billions more into X. X becomes the next frontier. The previous frontiers are promptly forgotten about.

Sidenote, but I love that in a GitHub issue discussing banning the use of LLMs, the GitHub interface asks if there's anything I'd like to fix with CoPilot.

It's all cURL.

I love the argument that Managed DBs cost a lot, but they're supposedly safer. Meanwhile people can't figure out the IAM permission models so they give the entire world access with root:root.

Good taste, is what I like and advocate for. Bad taste, is the opposite.

This is no longer true. With the advance of "cashless" systems that were heavily pushed and promoted by the government, cash payments have dropped significantly![0] Cashless payments now sit near 50%, up from 16% 10 years ago.

[0]https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2025/0331_001.html

Personally, I would absolutely not mind it if Python made type annotations required.

People argue self-hosting is insecure, then open up their AWS RDS instance to the whole world because they can't figure out their IAM settings.