HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

brightstep

no profile record

comments

brightstep
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Totally agree about the chat interface. I like to say it’s “infinitely powerful and infinitely confusing.” A dangerous combination. And, arguing with myself, I think it’s fair to say the code is AN object of our attention, if not THE object. A common metaphor being applied to agentic coding is the invention of power tools. If AI is the drill, and the goal is a house, then the code is the framing.
brightstep
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> A tool is not meant to be the object of our attention; rather the tool should reveal the true object of our attention (the thing the tool acts upon), rather than obscuring it

I think this is true of AI agents. What is the object of our engineering attention? Applications, features, defect resolution. Not code.
brightstep
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
They have a monolith but struggle with individual subsystem failures bringing down the whole thing. Sounds like they would benefit from Elixir’s isolated, fail-fast architecture.
brightstep
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
It's not possible to get the autocomplete unless the function/method you're calling takes a union. Many libraries can't do that because they need to be flexible in what they receive. So yeah, you can define a union, but editors don't have the context to know your union applies to the call.
brightstep
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
In some cases you can use it to define string arguments to an external library. Maybe table names to an ORM or a well-known file path. This helps because you get autocomplete from typing `MyEnum.` and seeing options, even though the external function takes a plain string.