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PrimalPower
·أمس·discuss
I've concluded the only way to avoid workarounds it to reduce my own screen time. I stopped having a tablet myself. Got off the Iphone too.

I still need some smartphone for work. Got the smallest one possible so at least games aren't really fun.
PrimalPower
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
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PrimalPower
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
agreed, ultimately claude is faster than an expert K8s in my org at finding things. kubectl has a lot of commands and things to cross-reference. AI Agents handle it like a champ.

That being said, Claude is dumb. I've seen it over-complicate diagnosing things - even though it's initial theory was correct.

I am convinced a good harness can solve this.

Outside of the k8s operating model, I don't see the point of becoming a wiz at the CLI. I learn by practice and I atrophy if i do not practice, there's no world where I will get enough practice to do it on my own anymore.

I compensate by trying to either move up or down the stack depending on the problem.
PrimalPower
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
baby steps
PrimalPower
·قبل 29 يومًا·discuss
Exactly game theory is that is that everyone make more as a "Senior" or "Mid-Level" in a wealthy/successful org over a "Staff" or "Senior" at a poorer one with less customers.

Of course, game theory implies "infinite games" and of course the real world doesn't operate like that.

And large bureaucratic orgs collapse under their own weight, and the enshittification is the norm despite the number of paying customers.
PrimalPower
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I love Twilight Princess because of this dichotomy. Yes it has all the flaws you have mentioned, but it also suggests at what a Zelda game could look like in an era where people thought that the Zelda series was Nintendo's competitor to games like Shadow of Colossus, ICO, Drakengard, Legend of Kain of the era.

Ultimately, Nintendo realized that that's not the way they want to take the IP. They wanted game-play to feel timeless and take a priority, and the narrative to take a backseat.

It's was definitely the right choice and revived the IP, but despite it's technical excellence and dynamic game-play I can not get into the latest entries.

It's a shame you did not like Spirit Tracks. I found the puzzles to actually be interesting and the boss battles to be the most exhilarating in the series - with a good soundtrack to boot.
PrimalPower
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
There’s plenty of vegetarians due to ethical or cultural reasons that never acquired the taste for traditional plant based foods and are looking for a more substantial, protein heavy alternative.

Is it niche? Yes, but vegetarians were always niche.

While the late 2010s fixated on “protein” and “macros” - allowing products like Beyond or Soylent to shine.

Much of the health discourse around the 2020s has focused on quality of the ingredients and “processed foods”. So naturally Beyond is caught on the crossfire.

Is there a future where this stuff is proven to be better for you in the short and long term? I sure hope so. But there’s way too many unknowns right now and it’s expensive to boot.
PrimalPower
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Garbage in garbage out as they say. I will be the first to admit that Claude enables me to do certain things that I simply could not do before without investing a significant amount of time and energy.

At the same time, the amount of anti-patterns the LLM generates is higher than I am able to manage. No Claude.md and Skills.md have not fixed the issue.

Building a production grade system using Claude has been a fools errand for me. Whatever time/energy i save by not writing code - I end up paying back when I read code that I did not write and fixing anti-patterns left and right.

I rationalized by a bit - deflecting by saying this is AI's code not mine. But no - this is my code and it's bad.
PrimalPower
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Yea, it's not not necessarily that the LLM itself is better at customer support than a human.

But i've found that it's just good enough that support and teams can handle addressing the systematic problems while the LLM deals with operational overhead.
PrimalPower
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Guess who also benefits from well structured, clean, modular, well documented, and concise code?

Computers and LLMs!
PrimalPower
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I've been a JetBrains suscriber for a while, because at the time I saw that I preferred the UI experience over Jetbrains to VSCode. The IDE is well built, they have a better product/user experience team driving and coordinating those changes.

I cannot stand VSCode - even if I configure it to my liking I am unable to make it look or feel the way that makes me feel at home.

I cancelled my subscription a week ago. Yes I still dislike VSCode. But the same product Jetbrains has honed has struggled to integrate with AI agents as well.

I've played with some combination of picking vim/emacs with Claude CLI. I find navigating code a little bit slower since I have trouble building the muscle memory. I've always been big at using my mouse to jump around the file tree.

Configuring LSPs for these text editors and getting things to "just work" takes a little bit more time. I don't know what special sauce is in IntelliJ but for the supported languages, but it took a while for me to be okay with LSPs compared to IntelliJ.

But LLMs and Agents remove a need for a lot of the the advanced IDE features and I've found it better to return back to just treating everything like a text buffer again and using specialized tools to fill in the gaps that were missing with the loss of IntelliJ
PrimalPower
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I don't need lower level than go. I just really like Rust' type system and error handling and I want it in a compiled language.

Zero Cost abstractions and it's memory model is fascinating - but isn't particularly useful for the part of the tech stack I work on.