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New comment by crassus_ed in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

crassus_ed — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:07:37 +0000

"Claude Code as a Daily Driver", which was also used to generate this article..

Also, how is "Explore, then plan, then code" considered "beyond the basics"?

Consume fewer tokens and increase efficiency

crassus_ed — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/token-efficiency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244793

Points: 1

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My bar on software is too high

crassus_ed — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/my-bar-is-too-high/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157991

Points: 2

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New comment by crassus_ed in "Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance"

crassus_ed — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:31:03 +0000

I have heaps of experience with Stencil and it works great until a certain size indeed. It is a great way to ship web components quickly.

Coding agents will allow us to write plain JS way more quickly but it still takes a bit more time by humans to read compared to reading something that was written with in a framework.

Until the day that I don't have to do reviews of my AI generated code, or some sort of pseudocode abstraction layer becomes available, I think there is still a place for frameworks and libraries to create web components like Stencil.

New comment by crassus_ed in "AI has fixed my productivity"

crassus_ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:18:59 +0000

Right, so it's for accountability instead. Have you considered generating stories or tasks from the notes in that case?

Still I think it's better to discuss "action points" in that case and give a clear owner to those points. This always helps me to understand who's accountable and what actions actually need follow up.

New comment by crassus_ed in "AI has fixed my productivity"

crassus_ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:05:14 +0000

>Now the transcript happens in the background, a summary lands in my Obsidian vault automatically, and I can actually be present in the conversation. That’s 20 minutes a day I got back, every day, without thinking about it.

Honest question: Do you actually read any of these notes? I think there is a fundamental flaw with not taking notes. I'm convinced taking notes forces you to properly consider what is being said and you store the information in your brain better that way.

Programming is no longer the main skill of SWE

crassus_ed — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/programming-skill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044883

Points: 1

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New comment by crassus_ed in "Privilege is bad grammar"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:01:03 +0000

>Informal tone and mistakes actually signal that the message was written by a human and the imperfections increase my trust in the effort spent on the thing.

Isn’t this a bit short sighted? So if someone has a wide vocabulary and uses proper grammar, you mistrust them by default?

New comment by crassus_ed in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:55:01 +0000

Nice read! The main benefit for me is the reduced search times for anything I need to look up online. Especially for code you can find relevant information ware more quickly.

One improvement for your writing style: it was clear to me that you don’t hate AI though, you didn’t have to mention that so many times in your story.

New comment by crassus_ed in "The Move Faster Manifesto"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:39:15 +0000

>The engineer who opens a pull request, taps a colleague on the shoulder immediately, twiddles their thumbs for half an hour, and then revises and merges immediately has done the same amount of work, but much faster.

Completely agree. Unfortunately corporate environments tend to reward people that are "busy" instead of productive. I've been in many environments where I had to wait for a lot of people that were busy to gather requirements, slowing me down immensely. How do you deal with that?

Why do I feel bad following recommendation algorithms?

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/recommendation-algorithms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032403

Points: 3

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Programming is no longer the main skill of SWE

crassus_ed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/programming-skill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002993

Points: 4

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New comment by crassus_ed in "Social Media Without Socializing"

crassus_ed — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:50:36 +0000

Basically the same as every MMORPG that is still around today which are now just single player games.

For me LinkedIn is the worst offender of all social media. Users on there generate their slop posts and go so far as to share their slop-generation workflow with others to farm interactions.

New comment by crassus_ed in "The next two years of software engineering"

crassus_ed — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:59 +0000

This was an amazing read! The entire thought of being so versatile as the article mentions is similar to the book Homo Deus by Harari.

In my opinion we always needed to be versatile to stand any chance of being comfortable in these insanely rapid changing times.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

crassus_ed — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:44:17 +0000

Genuine question, doesn't this apply to coding style than actual results? Same applies to writing style. LLMs manage to write great stories but they don't suit my writing style. When generating code it doesn't always suit my coding style but the code it generates functions fine.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

crassus_ed — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:20:14 +0000

I got a pro subscription yesterday. With it you get a certain amount of tokens and you have a certain limit every 5 hours and every week.

Once the limit is reached, you can choose to pay-per-token, upgrade your plan, or just wait until it refreshes. The more expensive subscription variants just contain more tokens, that’s all.

New comment by crassus_ed in "US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots"

crassus_ed — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:03:56 +0000

Interesting to compare the US to Denmark while they are so different with respect to their healthcare system.

On another note, why are there quite a few articles posted on US healthcare? Genuine question. I deliberately skip many news websites because I don’t want to read about such topics but just want to focus on technology.

New comment by crassus_ed in "A website to destroy all websites"

crassus_ed — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:07:20 +0000

This was a great read, very refreshing. I like the idea of just starting a website and writing articles on it. It is interesting that my first thought when considering doing so is: "How will I get any traffic?", but that's beside the point. I think I should just share it with friends and see how it goes.