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New comment by easyascake in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

easyascake — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:51:29 +0000

We call these temporal comments. We recently updated our code review skills to heavily discourage them. It doesn’t matter why funcA was added then later refactored to funcB. That much can be ascertained from git history. What does matter is why approach A doesn’t work, but B does.

New comment by easyascake in "Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment"

easyascake — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:12:12 +0000

I think it just doesn’t occur to companies of a certain size. I was similarly flummoxed when my current job also assumed I was BYOPC, though they acquiesced to buy me a Mac when I asked. But, the rest of the team still uses their desktops and (!!) has trouble when traveling and being forced to use an alternate development environment.

New comment by easyascake in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

easyascake — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:43:47 +0000

I use the GitLab CLI (glab) extensively, because it is so much better than the (official) GitLab MCP. I just run `glab auth login` before launching Claude Code, then tell CC to use `glab` to communicate with the GitLab API.

When using the MCP, I have to do a whole OAuth browser-launch process and even then I am only limited to the 9-10 tools that they've shipped it with so far.

New comment by easyascake in "Gemini in Chrome"

easyascake — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:48:39 +0000

I’ve got one. When estimating tasks, there’s a particular blog article I like to reference [0] and I used an LLM to summarize it into a set of project instructions.

Did it read the summary? Nope, I already know the material and have been using it for years. But it was a great way to communicate the key points to the model as part of project instructions.

[0]: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/

New comment by easyascake in "Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App"

easyascake — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:11:15 +0000

Went to their website, filled out the form, assumed I was signing up for a beta. Then...nothing happened. No automated emails, "you're in the beta!" notifications, nothing. Reached out to them on twitter, nothing. So I'm not sure what's going on, but from where I'm standing right now it looks like I gave my email to a service for no reason...