Tag: code
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Aesthetic Computing Consider “ascetic computing”: Here’s what “ascetic computing” means to me: Doing without things that compromise my personal standards or morals. Learning to live Fearlessly in the face of Missing Out. Resisting the Endless Pursuit of Shiny Things. … The goal is to live a (computing) life of principle, purpose, and focus. … Nothing…
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Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald’s AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20. From: The Spanish napkin Related to your interests Where AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ – 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of AI study of 505 G2000 execs…
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Using a custom CLAUDE_CODE_DIR does not work
I’ve tried to use a different $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR for several weeks now. This way, I can have partitioned off harnesses for real life stuff, versus code, versus experiments. It doesn’t work, however. Sometimes Claude obeys it, sometimes it doesn’t. This means the wrong permissions, memories, rules, and ways of operating get loaded and mixed in. You…
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI lalitm.com/post/buil… When I was working on something where I didn’t even know what I wanted, AI was somewhere between unhelpful and harmful. The architecture of the project was the clearest case: I spent weeks in the early days following AI down dead ends, exploring designs…
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Agents Don’t Know What Good Looks Like – And That’s a Design Constraint, Not a Bug
Summarized by AI on April 11th, 2026. Luca Mezzalira reacts to a fireside chat between Neal Ford and Sam Newman on agentic AI and software architecture. The core argument is that current AI agents are stuck between novice and advanced beginner on the Dreyfus Model of Knowledge Acquisition – they can follow and even adapt…
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Related to your interests, Tuesday
The Links Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 – More spending on tech, less on people. The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art – I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How…
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If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise? It’s no longer enough to just spend more time coding, or to be the first with a good idea. I think it’s going to become even more important to grow other aspects of running a…
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This is at big tech companies. Imagine how it is at but normal companies. Better or worse? 🔗 How good engineers write bad code at big companies
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Anthropic is building a PaaS.
Anthropic is building a PaaS. They’ve got isolated VM’s/containers, they’ve thought out support languages for the major languages. You can even write code in the browser…with the AI. And it checks your stuff into GitHub? Plus, of course, it runs your code for you, at least with Claude Skills. 🔗 Claude Code for web –…
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only half bad
A vision for a kinder post-AI meltdown. Also, speculation about where AI code generation will stick and not stick. 🔗 GenAI Predictions
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‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”‘
‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”’ Microsoft touts ‘Vibe Working’ in Office apps
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Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important.”
Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important.” // And: “most bad taste comes from inflexibility. I will always distrust engineers who justify decisions by saying ‘it’s best practice.’ No engineering decision is ‘best practice’ in all contexts! You have to make the right decision for…
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They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML
They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML: “Generating json as a better yaml Often the choice of format is not ours to make, and an application only accepts yaml. Not all is lost though, because yaml is a superset of json, so any tool that can produce json can be used to generate…
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No More Coders? You Still Need DevOps.
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How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow –
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Identify, solve, verify – “My job is to identify problems that can be solved with code, then solve them, then verify that the solution works and has actually addressed the problem.”
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The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers –
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Refactoring to understand and “vibe coding” – ”Code is not the most valuable artifact. Your understanding of the codebase is.”
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All hat, no cowboy – A bicycle for your hands: “Becoming a good programmer takes time, so does becoming an artist. What if all the people with ideas but no time or skills or persistence or real interest could participate and _turn their ideas into the thing?_Surely non-musicians have great ideas for songs that they…
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Cycle Time – Time spent figuring out this nuance is time spent not coding and getting your apps out the door and kicking in the product management feedback cycle. Still, good discussion of the nuances of the phrase.
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