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New comment by jmcpheron in "Now might be the best time to learn software development"

jmcpheron — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:42:27 +0000

I thought this was great writing, I assumed you are some long time development blogger. I hope you post more.

New comment by jmcpheron in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

jmcpheron — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:53:05 +0000

>I've switched to o4-mini-high via ChatGPT as my default model for a lot of code because it can use its search function to lookup the latest documentation.

That is such a useful distinction. I like to think I'm keeping up with this stuff, but the '4o' versus 'o4' still throws me.

New comment by jmcpheron in "Teaching LLMs how to solid model"

jmcpheron — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:04:39 +0000

It's so cool to see this post, and so many other commenters with similar projects.

I had the same thought recently and designed a flexible bracelet for pi Day using openscad and a mix of some the major AI providers. I'm cool to see other people are doing similar projects. I'm surprised how well I can do basic shapes and open scad with these AI assistants.

https://github.com/jmcpheron/counted-out-pi

New comment by jmcpheron in "Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks"

jmcpheron — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:41:57 +0000

Plandex was one of the first agentic style coating system to I tried several months ago, and it worked very well. But I've been using the cursor and windsurf style editors more recently because of their popularity. And their effectiveness is honestly pretty great.

Would you classify Plandex as more similar to a terminal interface like Claude Code? Also it looks like Open AI released a similar terminal based tool today. https://github.com/openai/codex

Do you see an obvious distinctions or pros/cons between the terminal tools and the IDE systems?