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missed by jerry on 2025 may 28
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no he's the real catturd (i checked)
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Like yeah, my bluesky lists are a bunch of "AI shill!!!" but I am mostly making the argument to constrain these tools to people with a track record of developing good, effective systems in order to make them better, rather than strapping a V12 onto a motorbike and aiming Bob at the nearest wall
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Yeah, I think this at least *helps*, and some of the places I’m actively interested in pushing on those at work right now is, as mentioned in a footnote, in the “combine that with AST-based codemods”. Real potential, not least for “this is so large it would be intactable any other way” migrations.
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Tools like Cursor encourage you to write auto-included markdown docs when certain files are touched, and I wonder if that isn't the evolutionary move we're likely to see as this stuff embeds itself isn't to encourage (or automate the recording of) that stuff to ease the next iteration.
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In my own and older projects, I find a lot of value in the understand-and-make-changes loop but one thing it really reveals to me a lot of the time is that I just did a terrible job of recording what I was thinking and why I did things, and inferring from roughly nothing goes poorly.
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Absolutely. I find myself in a role where, when I write code, I tend to be clean-sheeting for other teams to pick up, and that's definitely where I see the biggest wins. "Here's a substantially completed project, with comprehensive tests and documentation" going over to close-to-maintenance groups.
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cursed thought: bring back application servers
(don't though)
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It's also, I think, an argument for (deep sigh. deeper sigh) microservices so you don't have to haul in an entire project to see the edge of its bounded context
(I am a Microservices Hater so this pains me to say)
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Intuitively I think this is the place where Claude Code and similar have potential. They are expensive. They are very expensive. But they'll let you play with the whole thing
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You *can* do it; Gemini's "import code" will chow down on a very large chunk of code with a high hit rate. But Google also doesn't care if you max out context, whereas something like Cursor limits you (in the regular paid plan) to 120K
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wyatt. lewd
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yeah but those shitty spearmint candies, man.
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...do you ever do spearmint stick
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it's June, Aaron.
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@unlikelywords.bsky.social has a solution for that
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my favorite kind of summer: hostile
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this is untrue. we should not, because we're better, more moral, and just frankly more attractive people
but, you know. I get it
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fired from your own little startuppy after an A round? how much of a sweat crust must you be
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I love creating future anthropology
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I know they have no intention to add new non-country flags but an ohio-earth emoji seems like it should be on the table
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🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
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NOT THE POINT
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you're gonna learn something and it's going to hurt!
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is it??
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theophite, mr false catturd, I want you to know two things.
- I learned something today.
- you are both going to hell.
thank you for your attention in this matter.
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sobbing right now
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why did you just insert this into my thinking loaf
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I'm struggling to put at least one of these in a presentation for my job
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nothing would make Elon Musk more mad
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his last words (sob) were "hi fighting, I'm da-ha-haaaaa-aaaddddddd..." (weeping)
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I'll just let you know, *I* have been posting bangers
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I envy the joy of your next two to twenty minutes
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i'm sorry, did you mean
call gluhum
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how do you operate a phone
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the one percEd
wait that sounds really bad