Stefano Baghino

Stefano Baghino

@stefano.baghino.me

Software Engineer

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A programmer had two problems. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll multitask!” They now have five new problems, and doesn't remember what the original problems were all about in the first place.

I exhausted Claude Code's ability to withstand a design discussion and after yet another question the little guy just started writing code while in planning mode. 😂

I ended my prompt with 'Critique and find shortcomings' — mostly to keep the agent honest. Turns out it was also an unexpected test of my ability to take feedback without taking it personally. Adding it to my standard prompts.

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Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity, Amazon .com, Signal all down (just 3 services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes, the whole world feels it indeed

My favorite thing about LLMs is that when it tries to fast-talk its way through an issue and I ask for facts, figures, and proof, I know I won’t have to manage an ego on the other side. In other news, if I disappear right after the singularity, you know what happened.

The whole thread is worth a read. I really appreciate @charity.wtf’s perspective on RTO and fully-remote teams.

Charity Majors@charity.wtf

I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

In the interest of making everyone unnecessarily miserable, I created a recursive meta-acronym: Abbreviations, Acronyms and AAAs. I’ll have a committee debate on whether the “and” should be part of it. For additional confusion, you can also refer to it as A3s and possibly make it mutually recursive.

As an external observer, one thing that always positively impressed me of the culture I sense from the Go community is a relentless desire for responsive tooling, which I really appreciate.

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

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