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New comment by jagenabler2 in "Claude Cookbook"

jagenabler2 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:41:40 +0000

I do this often, I manage to get the results I’m looking for

New comment by jagenabler2 in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

jagenabler2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:38:29 +0000

How do you know your testing is complete if you're not sure what the underlying code does?

New comment by jagenabler2 in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

jagenabler2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:04:48 +0000

I don't think this argument holds. The OP made the very good point that most quality software teams are composed of both seniors and juniors, with the seniors (and even staff members sometimes) drawing the lines so that the system stays on rails.

If you're a manager now and your "team" is a bunch of coding agents, those agents are hardly junior engineers at best. It is equivalent or even worse than hiring a team of 3-5 junior engineers and letting them run rampant with your code.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

jagenabler2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:36:11 +0000

Reading is beautiful because of language's inability to fully capture emotion and reality. Every author tries to tell a story in the way they think captures their perspective best. Every author and book you read is a different perspective on the world that shapes your own.

Reading writing from an LLM loses all that. It's just words, there is no expression. It's literally the most boring parts of reading.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

jagenabler2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:17:30 +0000

you should really consider trying things that don't exactly fit your ideals. Listen to music you don't think you'll like, or watch a movie that you've never heard of. You find threads that you do like and learn to understand the parts you don't. Discomfort and friction is how we grow as people, it's how we gain perspective, and how our interests evolve.

Otherwise, if you're going to keep consuming the exact slop content that you're looking for, you're going to stagnate as a person.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

jagenabler2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:16:50 +0000

this doesn't work in any truly complex system. If the entire organization's shared understanding could be captured in a few documents, software engineering would've been a solved problem ages ago.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

jagenabler2 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:32:55 +0000

Thanks, that makes sense! I’m realizing that’s how I’ve been learning to approach it too and seeing the best results.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

jagenabler2 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Do you feel like the ideas you’re getting from brainstorming these days are the same level of quality as in the past? I’ve been doing some of the same, but I’ve also been feeling like the downtime where I’m genuinely stuck is where my most innovative solutions come to light. I’m not going as deep into problem spaces anymore.

I’ve also lost my ability to self-filter. In the past, I’d write down an idea and if I was stuck for too long, I’d discard it. Now I feel like I have an obligation to build everything.

Maybe it never mattered and the quantity of solutions is truly the most valuable thing.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jagenabler2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:03:58 +0000

The indigenous populations probably would.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jagenabler2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:58:09 +0000

I resent my recent ancestors for tearing up all our cities in favour of motorways, and grateful only that it wasn’t worse. They thought that was progress though, and that cars were the only way to move into the future.

I’m not against advancing in this area, but there is nuance. Progress can be short sighted.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

jagenabler2 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:35:07 +0000

Claude/ChatGPT is not good or elegant writing. Read a book or a short essay from a respected author and it becomes obvious why different styles of writing are actually discernible. AI-generated text feels void of life and unintentional, it is legitimately a chore to read.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "Leave a Trace"

jagenabler2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:28:19 +0000

The price of community is inconvenience

New comment by jagenabler2 in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

jagenabler2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:34:51 +0000

Proper rails, hygiene and architecture need to be actively maintained, they don’t just continue to exist in a developing codebase. Historically, a small proportion (the 10% as you say) had a disproportionate amount of influence on coding standards. When they can no longer keep up with that ongoing maintenance, which we’re seeing with the increased pressure to ship code, the hygiene will regress. We’re riding the tail of all the engineering practices we’ve developed as an industry.

This is what I’m seeing, anyways. Junior engineers are being rewarded for shipping so much code, it’s impossible to evaluate it all, and subtle changes in existing patterns are slipping through. Eventually all those subtle changes transform the rails.

New comment by jagenabler2 in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

jagenabler2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:28:55 +0000

I'm not sure where this idea that REAL ID is a form of citizenship came from. I am not a citizen and i was given a REAL ID just by proving my legal (non-immigrant) status.