asadjb

5 months agodiscuss

I tried out Codex over the past few days. It's good, and the one feature that I really liked was the ability to review the diff inside the app and leave inline comments. No more referring to code by file name and line number, or saying "change this variable inside this function."

But I like using Amp Code more. So I built review-for-agent: a local web UI that shows your uncommitted changes as a diff, lets you leave inline comments, and exports a structured Markdown file you can paste straight back into your agent's chat.

It's a single Go binary that runs locally and works with any agent.

asadjb

6 months agodiscuss

Unfortunately I have started to feel that using AI to code - even with a well designed spec, ends up with code that; in the authors words, looks like

> [Agents write] units of changes that look good in isolation.

I have only been using agents for coding end-to-end for a few months now, but I think I've started to realise why the output doesn't feel that great to me.

Like you said; "it's my job" to create a well designed code base.

Without writing the code myself however, without feeling the rough edges of the abstractions I've written, without getting a sense of how things should change to make the code better architected, I just don't know how to make it better.

I've always worked in smaller increments, creating the small piece I know I need and then building on top of that. That process highlights the rough edges, the inconsistent abstractions, and that leads to a better codebase.

AI (it seems) decides on a direction and then writes 100s of LOC at one. It doesn't need to build abstractions because it can write the same piece of code a thousand times without caring.

I write one function at a time, and as soon I try to use it in a different context I realise a better abstraction. The AI just writes another function with 90% similar code.

asadjb

6 months agodiscuss

I've been an oh-my-zsh user for many years now, being very happy with the very small set of features I use from it. Previously I could never think of trying to figure out how to replicate the features I need without the other features from oh-my-zsh, which does make the shell noticeably slower.

Just now, after reading this article, I used Claude code and have removed the OMZ config within 5 minutes. Here's my prompt - maybe others could find it useful. I ran this from `~/.oh-my-zsh`.

``` Here's my zsh config - I'd like to remove oh-my-zsh and replace the provided functionality with just raw zsh. i use starship for my prompt so i don't need any help there.

  can you explore the oh-my-zsh codebae and see what it would take to replicate the features it currently provides me in the shell?

  my zsh config below:

  export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"
  ZSH_THEME=""
  DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"
  plugins=(direnv fzf)
  source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

--- CLAUDE RESPONSE --- Minimal Raw Zsh Replacement

  Since you use starship and have DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE=true, you can skip prompt and title-related code. Here's what you'd need:

  # Completions
  autoload -Uz compinit
  compinit

  zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
  zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'  # case insensitive

  # History
  HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
  HISTSIZE=50000
  SAVEHIST=10000
  setopt extended_history hist_expire_dups_first hist_ignore_dups
  setopt hist_ignore_space hist_verify share_history

  # Directory navigation
  setopt auto_cd auto_pushd pushd_ignore_dups pushdminus

  # Key bindings (emacs mode)
  bindkey -e
  bindkey '^[[H' beginning-of-line      # Home
  bindkey '^[[F' end-of-line            # End
  bindkey '^[[1;5C' forward-word        # Ctrl-Right
  bindkey '^[[1;5D' backward-word       # Ctrl-Left
  bindkey '^[[3~' delete-char           # Delete

  # Colors
  autoload -Uz colors && colors
  export CLICOLOR=1  # macOS ls colors

  # Plugins replacement
  eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"
  eval "$(fzf --zsh)"

```

Granted I've only done this like 5 minutes ago and might be missing functionality I'll realise later, but a quick few checks give me hope I have all the functionality I want.

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