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New comment by dluxem in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

dluxem — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:32:06 +0000

I think this (for me at least) is the biggest pain point. Use styles and practices from this existing code base, even if they aren't documented explicitly in AGENTS.md or something. If we're importing a library somewhere that does what the agent is doing, reuse that same library - don't chose another one. If we have a pattern for unit tests, follow the same style. Etc. etc.

That issue, and the issue of "aesthetics", are the biggest complaints I have today. I don't know exactly how to define aesthetics, but it's when AI is making decisions that no experienced developer or designer would. They may be functionally correct but "ugly" to another developer or and end user.

An example is an case I ran in to yesterday where parsing a config, and failing and logging on a configuration error. It logged a specific item where the config was invalid but not what group or any notion of where in the config this error was. Of course, specific item names could be duplicated in different parts of the config. It's small, but correcting these minor things take time and they are the types of decisions no one would have made who had any experience writing code and debugging a config problem. This was Opus 4.8/max too.

New comment by dluxem in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

dluxem — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:35:49 +0000

I am of the same mindset as you, but you also have to look at PE multiples of Cisco in 1999 and Nvidia today. One being the "ammunition" supplier in the battle for the Internet, and the other supplier in the battle for AI.

Cisco was over 400 at one point and Nvidia is around 30. Not quite the same.

Other players today: - Digital Realty 48x - Equinix 75x - CoreWeave (still losing money)

There is likely a bubble of some type here, but I don't think this is the same as the Dotcom bubble.

New comment by dluxem in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

dluxem — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:34:22 +0000

I believe using a skill here is the wrong approach. LLMs already know what TDD is and how to do it, just like object oriented programming.

If this is encoded in a skill, that skill essentially has to be loaded for everything thing your LLM is doing. This is probably one of the few areas where direct instructions via AGENTS.md is best, and I don't believe it requires much direction here to force the issue.

But I think the OP is just trying to have their agent work in a very specific way -- that is fine too.

> 5. Show me the test and ask for approval before continuing

New comment by dluxem in "Claude Opus 4.7"

dluxem — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:56:53 +0000

My purely unfounded, gut reaction to Opus 4.7 being released today was "Oh, that explains the recent 4.6 performance - they were spinning up inference on 4.7."

Of course, I have no information on how they manage the deployment of their models across their infra.

New comment by dluxem in "Microspeak: Escrow"

dluxem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:33:39 +0000

Escrow used to be something we would see in large Enterprise software contracts. We would need to place the "gold" build of the software and associated source code on CD (or tape, depending on the year) and ship it to a third-party escrow service. Should our company go out of business, now former-customers could access the source through the escrow.

It's kind of crazy to think about the process actually working though. The likelihood of a customer being able to recreate the build environment properly and produce a working release of our quite complex software seems low. It would probably be cheaper to putting that effort in to ripping out the solution then trying to patch some bug in a defunct vendor's solution.

New comment by dluxem in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

dluxem — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:15:08 +0000

As someone who works in the B2B SaaS space...

- If our customers vibe coded better integration points for us, it probably improves our overall value to our customers.

- The software industry, especially startups, is such an insignificant portion of the market, its not really worth worrying about. But, I can tell you from experience, that even large software companies don't want their own developers spending much time on accounting, ERP, or HRIS systems and they "outsource" this to SaaS companies.