Is that supposed to be a snark? Do better. I prefer that we didn't miss the boat on caring for each other, not shooting each other constantly, and generally not feeling we're better than anybody else, and the need to point it out on HN.
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After a few rounds of using it, I already know a few things I didn't before: I suck at right-to-left breaking putts, I baby uphill putts too much, and getting out of bunkers consistently is not good enough if I can't sink the occasional save. So I know what to practice now.
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It takes a bit of hand holding and multiple loops to get things right sometimes, but even with that, it's pretty damn good. I don't usually walk away from it, I actively monitor what it's doing, peek in on the sub-agents, and interject when it goes down a wrong path or writes messy code. But more often than not, it goes like this:
- Point at a GH issue or briefly describe the task
- Either ask it to come up with a plan, or just go straight to implementation
- When done, run *multiple* code review loops with several dedicated code review agents - one for idiomatic Rails code, one for maintainabilty, one for security, and others as needed
I've been using this approach on a side project, and even though it's only nights an weekends, it's probably the most robust, well-tested and polished solo project I've ever built. All those little nice-to-have and good-to-great things that normally fall by the wayside if you only have nights and weekends - all included now.
And the funny thing is - I feel coding with AI like this gets me in the zone more than hand-coding. I suspect it's the absence of all those pesky rabbit holes that tend to be thrown up by any non-trivial code base and tool chain which can easily distract us from thinking about the problem domain and instead solving problems of our tools. Claude deals with all that almost as a side effect. So while it does its thing, I read through it's self-talk while thinking along about the task at hand, intervening if I disagree, but I stay at the higher level of abstraction, more or less. Only when the task is basically done do I dive a level deeper into code organisation, maintainability, security, edge cases, etc. etc.
Needless to say that very good test coverage is essential to this approach.
Now, I'm very ambiguous about the AI bubble, I believe very firmly that it is one, but for coding specifically, it's a paradigm shift, and I hope it's here to stay.
> There’s just this minimal translation required between what I’m thinking and what I type
That's really the essence of Ruby for me.
Sadly, I have seen this in almost every startup led by founders without an engineering background I've ever been a part of.
In my personal experience, this is often caused by overeager sales team promising the world for the next deal, only to fob it off to the engineering team who now "urgently" need to build "features" and "work hard" to make it happen. This is when your intrinsically motivated engineers start looking for the exit.
I suspect this is a typo, but it really should be a thing :)
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http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/time-to-end-irela...
> The average rental value of a two-bed apartment in the city centre at €2,000 per month, less a management fee, would equate to the apartment being occupied for just 120 nights of the year through Airbnb.
> Investors have confirmed that if correctly managed, the income can be double that of a long-term rental.
(AirBnB disagrees [2])
As much as I like the idea of AirBnB, their impact on the housing market in any given city needs to be considered. Unfortunately the article doesn't mention that at all, focussing solely on tourism.
[1] http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property... [2] http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/airbnb-insists...
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