A nice dive into different ways of checking if a vowel is in a string. Make sure to read to the very end for the best answers.
A nice dive into different ways of checking if a vowel is in a string. Make sure to read to the very end for the best answers.
I would add to this: keep files small where possible. The agents won’t load above a certain size, and it’s simpler to have well defined files than for the agent to try to search through and file relevant parts.
I think sometimes people lose the scale of just how big a 10x improvement is. 10x is the difference between your mini-van and a record setting supersonic land jet. Imagine trying to drive your 10 minute commute down your city streets in a car that goes 600mph. Will you get to the other side of town in one tenth the time? No, because even a single 60 second stoplight will eat up your entire time budget. F1 cars slow down to mini-van speeds in basic turns. It turns out that most of any activity is not spent going at top speed.
This is why I’m still tepid on agentic pull requests. In my experience, agents still need a human in the loop to validate changes & unblock errors. PRs lengthen that loop, which slows you down (you now must check out a branch & build it to validate any changes).
Also my experience.
On code review:
You are not a USB stick
A great write-up of why remembering the content of a book, fiction or non-fiction, is not the point.
the most important parenting skill isn’t being perfect — it’s repair. When you inevitably lose your patience with your kid or handle something poorly, what matters most is going back and fixing it. Acknowledging what happened, taking responsibility, and reconnecting.
Sound familiar? Because that’s what good management is about too.(terriblesoftware.org.)
And not just management, but good relationships in general.
In my experience, these suggestions for how to best use Slack apply to Slack but also any other similar messaging platform.
Unlike some of the earlier posts, Going Public is a bit over the top about how wonderful Slack was.
One example: just because people didn’t complain about the rebranding for long doesn’t mean it was good. Just that it’s unimportant.
AI and money, like a shorter and less angry Zitron.
I wish more people were willing to separate the bubble from usefulness and other issues.
These models are trained on existing code. Who has been shoving emojis everywhere and writing rubbish and unnecessary comments for the last decade or two? They have much to answer for.
Interesting insight into the early development of Claude Code.
When Toad is released, it will be interesting to compare. My guess is that something that is potentially built with the help of agents but is way more hand crafted with deep terminal knowledge is going to blow away the Claude Code “vibe code me a markdown renderer” approach.
This is the first rule of strategy: strategy is contextual. A crucial insight, because often when leaders fail, it’s because they tried to apply a strategy that worked in one context, to a different one, without considering the difference. This is true when you change companies, and I think the reason why there is such a high failure rate for executive hires*. Ones I’ve watched fail came in with a playbook, usually including the org chart they wanted, and expended all the goodwill and capital in pursuit of that goal, whilst achieving very little.
Terrible name, but awesome tool for working with .docx files in a terminal.
“This quality – of flattery, reinforcement of established beliefs, intellectual passivity, and positive feedback at all costs – is also what irks me most about the behaviour of current models." - this is one of my biggest annoyances too. Lots of other really good content in this post.
These lessons from 9 years of tricky bugs are interesting. It’s a great idea to make notes on these – I wish I had done that over the last decade or two!