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New comment by ggregoryarms in "I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it"

ggregoryarms — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:48:59 +0000

I suspect Newton is rolling in his grave at your words. Standing on the shoulders of giants also means respecting the giants. That means dedicating time to learning what they have to teach. Not treating them as a black box with no credit or consent, in the name of your own "glory".

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

ggregoryarms — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:44:48 +0000

Maybe that's because you're not using your time well in the first place

New comment by ggregoryarms in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

ggregoryarms — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:11:48 +0000

To be fair browsers/CSS have been solving a lot of use cases you'd normally turn to js for, lately. We should continue escalating this effort.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)"

ggregoryarms — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:57:15 +0000

I fear this is an analogy for what's happening with LLMs and context engineering.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Vibe code is legacy code"

ggregoryarms — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:37:11 +0000

I find this a bit like saying that we can't understand East of Eden because Steinbeck is dead.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "AI agent benchmarks are broken"

ggregoryarms — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:39:55 +0000

Seems like more of a subtextual/accidental ability than an emergent ability.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

ggregoryarms — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:47:56 +0000

Exactly. If I'm going to be solving bugs, I'd rather they be my own.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

ggregoryarms — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:45:51 +0000

Building a basic static html landing page is ridiculously easy though. What js is even needed? If it's just an html file and maybe a stylesheet of course it's easy to host. You can apply 20 lines of css and have a decent looking page.

These aren't hard problems.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Engineering "home-cooked" software"

ggregoryarms — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:25:38 +0000

There's a balance. Not every team is made up of infallible devs, even at decent companies. Human nature is never full-trust.

I've known talented devs who are great people who still need more oversight than you describe. Usually they are ~5 years off from being full-trust, yet still valuable team members. Yes they benefit from daily standups.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?"

ggregoryarms — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:41:27 +0000

Maybe that other dev has a unique ability you should reward. Sound awesome. Focus on that.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Rewilding the Self"

ggregoryarms — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:44:54 +0000

Try "Way of Being" by James Bridle.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

ggregoryarms — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:28:29 +0000

At some points, new improvement and occasionally ingenuity need to find a healthy way back into the workflow. Moreso early on, but consistently over time as well.

If we just create copies of copies forever, products degrade slowly over time. This is a problem in a few different spheres, to put it lightly.

The main rule is a good one, but the article overfocuses on it.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

ggregoryarms — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:49:21 +0000

Yeah, that commenter wildly misunderstands what "progressive" means. Like full on got the definition of the word backwards.

Is this common? People think "progressive" means "complete government control"?

Progressives support regulations to prevent both public and private entities from becoming too powerful. It's not like they want to give the government authoritarian control lol.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

ggregoryarms — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:41:20 +0000

Politicians do come in different flavours. There are some elected officials with good intentions. See again the AOC/Pelosi rift.

The more we regulate to get money out of politics, the more good people will have a shot at being elected.

These are all common progressive values. No true progressive supports wealthy unethical politicians gaining more power. Anyone telling you so is not speaking in good faith, or they are misinformed.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

ggregoryarms — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:35:25 +0000

Trickle down economics isn't something you either "believe in" or "don't believe in". It's a disproven theory that does not work.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Monorepo – Our Experience"

ggregoryarms — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:29:53 +0000

At least you're in control of when to look at the updates in new versions.

A monorepo gives you less control. If you're unable to enforce control through other means, sure use a monorepo. But it's limiting.

New comment by ggregoryarms in "Monorepo – Our Experience"

ggregoryarms — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:26:14 +0000

"If the whole world was a monorepo" is a great point made me laugh.