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functional programming taught us this decades ago. State is the root of all evil. If the outcome of my interaction with the interface (e.g. tap a place on the screen) is a function of not just where i…

diabolical

I think one of the main examples that i saw in a swyx article a while back is that using the sort of ALL CAPS and *IMPORTANT* language that works decently with claude will actually detune the codex mo…

it is very hard for me to take seriously any system that is not proven for shipping production code in complex codebases that have been around for a while. I've been down the "don't rea…

software engineering is still software engineering. just because you don't type out the characters doesn't mean you're not designing systems and thinking critically and leveraging your …

there is the theoretical "how the world should be" and there is the practical "what's working today" - decry the latter and wait around for the former at your peril

I don’t think anyone serious would recommend it for serious production systems. I respect the Ralph technique as a fascinating learning exercise in understanding llm context windows and how to squeeze…

there are hundreds of useful resources, including many linked in the article itself

the note about the crypto token was intended to “okay this is now hype slop and it’s time to move on”

I read it. i agree this is out of touch. Not because the things its saying are wrong, but because the things its saying have been true for almost a year now. They are not "getting worse" the…

engineers always want to re write from scratch and it never works. a tale as old as time - my second job out of college back in like 2016, I landed at the tail end of a 3-month feature-freeze refactor…

i had the privilege of working w/ some incredible eng leaders at my previous gig - they were very good at working both upwards and downwards to execute against the "50/50" rule - h…

the people yearn for refactoring

I think the key here is “if X then Y syntax” - this seems to be quite effective at piercing through the “probably ignore this” system message by highlighting WHEN a given instruction is “highly releva…

agree - i've had claude one-shot this for me at least 10 times at this point cause i'm too lazy to lug whatever code around. literally made a new one this morning

For the record I do think the AI community tries to unnecessarily reinvent the wheel on crap all the time. sure, readme.md is a great place to put content. But there's things I'd put in a re…

> If I tell them exactly how to build something the work needed to review the resulting changes is a whole lot less taxing. Totally matches my experience- the act of planning the work, defining wha…

would "wrote" be more appropriate than "shipped"?

there is a portion in the article where I talk about how our hadoop refactor completely failed

I have had a user story and a research plan and only realized deep in the implementation that a fundamental detail about how the code works was missing (specifically, that types and sdks are generated…