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Professional Software Builder. AI skeptic and practitioner.
In a Turing-test kind of mood so if you DM me, make it count. Don’t ask for my personal information.
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Makes me glad to grind my own beans…
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It would take 2 days to read all the documents and try to figure out the alleged right way to ask about this stupid API error, even though I am a paying customer! ARRGGH!!!
#Google #DX #DontYouWantPeopleToUseYourAPIs
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And your help options are clearly meant to scare people from asking for help because they are monstrously complicated!! #Google #Help #HorribleDX
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What feature is that? I need to check for myself!!
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Try out Cline - more streamlined than Cursor IMO. Cursor « indexes » your files with embeddings but it’s still not that good at working with existing projects for refactoring
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Try using Claude Projects
from with Claude Desktop with the new filesystem MCP extension that lets Claude read and write files - it’s kind of like reverse Cursor or Cline but with your subscription
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Try perplexity for that use the pro search they use Claude sonnet for complex queries
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They introduced this new style feature and they keep flipping me to « concis » style which at least stops all the apologies. But maybe you need to pick a different style or make your own
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Try adding a custom instruction:PRESERVE all existing comments; only add comments to explain WHY the code needs to be there; use a 5 WHYs approach until it’s clearly explained