John Turner

this is why a lot of companies are rolling out gateways that let you do per-user rate limits

ffs

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I’ve been making Claude do a pass before PR to delete any test that exercises behavior that is guaranteed by the language, framework, or third party, and it‘s helped a lot.

Hey everyone when someone says something like “I won’t hire you if you bring iced coffee to a job interview!” you can just like, ignore that person.

I’m certainly not averse to using AI to help with domestic logistics, but if I ever told my family I wanted to “start the morning aligned,” I’d hope my kids would tell their teachers that everything wasn’t ok at home and I’d be forced to get help.

Well played

Most of my greenfield stuff starts with some version of doing C4 diagrams to solidify my mental model before ever touching a coding agent.

Increasingly I just don’t let LLMs write prose. I already had a rule that anything where my voice was meaningful—email, docs—would be completely written by me and possibly LLM edited, but increasingly that’s applying in more mechanical places like code comments.

i don't mind people using agents to create PRs, but please at least write the description and replies yourself 🙏

attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you.

A certain subset of folks on this site are about to discover y’all’d’ve, and I‘m very excited for them.

I developed mild RSI in one of my hands as a jazz guitar major, so jazz RSI is definitely a thing.

I’m not averse to a good language debate, and I’m certainly not neutral, but I feel like a lot of the Go discourse is some form of “omg, I can’t believe Go lets you <thing that no one would ever actually do>”.

I want these too, but I think an AI agent would be content with getting served a markdown file with curl commands to run.

I used to mostly abide this, but the past few weeks PR stacks have muddled the picture a bit. It’s really easy to get Claude to orchestrate a large scale change, break that change up into PRs, and then stack them for easy linkage.

With LLMs becoming increasingly good at using repo information for research, knowing how to keep your commit history easy to read is an underrated skill.

github when I rebase my 28-tall PR stack

Certainly the most dangerous I’ve ever done. I missed a decimal point on an amplitude value on my C For Audio class’ “making a sine wave” assignment, which I was testing with earbuds. One of the more unpleasant experiences of my life.

Somewhat tangential to the point of the thread, but this is why I always push back on the idea of giving new grad and junior engineer candidates systems design interviews. There are other reasons too, but the likelihood that they would have studied or experienced it beyond interview prep is low.

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Oh, you wanna come over? Cool. Just give me three business days to clean my house until it looks like no one has ever lived here.

This makes me curious if, at some point, the debate will be build vs buy vs customize instead of just the first two. That’s always been an option, but the carry cost of a fork has historically been high and tedious in many companies.

Power chords on bass don’t sound THAT bad. This is a bit mellow dramatic.

I was very much on the “nurture“ side of the nature/nurture debate, and believed—quite erroneously, I came to find out—that parents who said things like “they were always like that” were underestimating their role in who their child became personality wise. My eldest disabused me of that one.

hanging out with drunk SREs will make you think twice about the internet

I haven’t been professionally artistic in a while, so what do I know, but by the time you can use the word “inundated,” I think it’s time to just take the L and move on.

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Genesis of the Daleks, 1975

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There’s only one person I trust to run for Senate in Maine: the extraordinary AI actress Tilly Norwood.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

This is just vibes, but on name alone J-space feels like it has the potential to do one of those leaps from science to popular pseudoscience, like “quantum manifestation“

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

A number of the responses here are basically asking, "on what basis can you term the United States a success?" and I'm glad you asked, because I wrote about exactly that four years ago. acoup.blog/2022/07/08/c...

Time for the yearly reading of my favorite @bretdevereaux.bsky.social post acoup.blog/2021/07/02/c...

I have no intention of checking the veracity of this result. I have every intention of slipping “I’m Gumby, dammit!” into regular conversation as a reference.