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New comment by teliskr in "Plan mode is dead"

teliskr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:56:52 +0000

I agree with that. Currently, I have claude's $100 plan and most days I do not run out of tokens. If I were building more; that would bother me too.

New comment by teliskr in "Plan mode is dead"

teliskr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:27:15 +0000

I've been using superpowers:brainstorming skill with claude for a while and have found the process to work well for me. I generally spend 10-30 minutes typing my requirements and ideas for a feature and then I feed it into brainstorming skill which asks questions to fill in the gaps before starting to build things. I don't bother reading the spec it creates. I have been consistently happy with the results.

However, since everything changes every 5-minutes now; I am curious what is now a better process than using superpowers? What works for you?

New comment by teliskr in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

teliskr — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:20:11 +0000

I don't get excited about the directories listing all the MCPs that do all these random things. However, I used claude to create an MCP that is a gateway to our system and it's enabled some pretty helpful functionality for us. I use claude cowork to create email designs using data and content from our CMS, it can push accepted work straight into our system, evaluate content, and analyze results. All of that used to be a manual tiring process. This removed a lot of drudgery and improved the quality as well.

When I first looked at MCP protocol, I did not like it. Then I realized, I don't have to care about the protocol. Claude can implement that for me and it did.

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:07:13 +0000

What kind of metrics are you looking for? No one answers that question. It's like asking for clinical trial results about whether or not a parachute works and if you should use one when jumping out of a plane.

I don't expect AI to be perfect. Are people perfect? I leave room for corrections, but at this point they are usually minor and acceptable.

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:37:49 +0000

I can understand normies being AI skeptics, but at this point it is a pretty insane position for any developer/nerd. It's like being schizophrenic and completely out of touch with reality.

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:55:40 +0000

I'm saving time. It's implementing features in a few hours that would have taken me weeks to implement. I can review code much faster than I can create well reasoned, implemented and tested solutions.

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:42:06 +0000

oh, no worries.. what kind of metrics would be helpful here?

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:05:52 +0000

Lately, I've seen a couple responses to my comments which inquire about metrics. They seem strange and I wonder if they are bots. I just noticed this inquiry is from an account that is 11 days old. How does one benefit by adding bot comments in a forum like this?

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:03:18 +0000

I don't require metrics in these instances. I review the code and test the functionality. That is sufficient for my needs.

New comment by teliskr in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

teliskr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:34:41 +0000

I am getting really good results from claude. We have a 22-year old legacy system. The system is stable, but had issues as all legacy systems do. Claude has been great for modernizing the codebase, updating dependencies, auditing security, and rapidly adding new features. It has worked well with existing code style and patterns. Sometimes it is a little off-track, but overall it is pretty amazing.

When implementing new features or making large refactoring changes; I use the superpowers:brainstorming skill. That has consistent process which has worked really well. I alway review the code before merging, but most of the time there are few issues to correct.

I don't do 95% coverage, but I have increased it from 65% to about +80% and that is sufficient.

New comment by teliskr in "Giving up on smart rings"

teliskr — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:51:27 +0000

The only thing my body tells me in the morning is.. "dude coffee now". I have no problem falling asleep, but I usually wake up pretty early. I feel ok with 6 hours of sleep, but I don't think that is optimally healthy. I don't worry about it a lot, but I look at sleep duration, heart rate, hrv, and sleep debt. The details motivate me to pay attention to sleep hygiene. If I ignored it, I don't think I would sleep enough.

New comment by teliskr in "Giving up on smart rings"

teliskr — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:09:36 +0000

I can understand those pain points, but they don't really bother me. I'm on my 3rd oura ring now and I still like using it. I don't go crazy with the information, but I really do try to get a good night sleep and oura lets me know when I do not. I got married a few years ago and I usually don't like wearing my wedding band around because I worry about loosing it. So I wear the oura ring in place of the wedding band. I take the ring off when I lift weights and do some other things.

I also wear a garmin watch that I mostly use for tracking mountain bike rides, hikes, etc. So I'm just a geek who enjoys gadgets and the data they provide. I like that both have very long battery lives. I would love all the features of an apple watch, but I don't want to be charging it every day.

New comment by teliskr in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

teliskr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:26:43 +0000

I would expect the impact of cpu limits to be different between K8s providers. I have only used memory limits. If I had a pod that tended to be very cpu intensive, I would schedule it on it's own node group.

New comment by teliskr in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

teliskr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:30:14 +0000

Does my opinion on SQL and ORMs matter anymore? What does Claude think about ORMs an SQL? So far Claude seems to be content with my existing patterns of using JPA/Hibernate. We've been having this conversation since the early 2000s. Will we have it next year? Maybe just for fun... to pretend we are still relevant :(

New comment by teliskr in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

teliskr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:14:04 +0000

I didn't realize Apple had a kid mode. Of course I see Apple watches everywhere, but I haven't talked to any parents about them. When we got the gizmo 3ish years ago, it was popular with a lot of kids around here. I wasn't hearing of kids using the apple watch. The gizmo is nice in that they can call us and that their contacts are limited. I really don't want to have more features than that. I'm just surprised that it feels like an "unpolished" set of features.

New comment by teliskr in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

teliskr — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:57:49 +0000

I have a verizon watch only account. I was able to get the new app working, but it was a struggle. I think it worked on the 3rd or 4th attempt. I had to start over and lost all of the contacts that were connected to the watch. Fortunately, there were only a few.

Overall, the Gizmo watch has been nice to have, but it leaves a lot to be desired. It's surprising that there are not better products in this market segment.

New comment by teliskr in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

teliskr — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:48:07 +0000

I use both SQL and ORMs every day. I've used hibernate since 2004. I've certainly had some difficult times with it; but overall it is a net positive. I find that it generally works well and saves a ton of time as long as I stick to my known patterns.

New comment by teliskr in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

teliskr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:16 +0000

I tweaked the css in my browser with developer tools.

New comment by teliskr in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

teliskr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:23:53 +0000

There's a mass delusion in the industry that using Kubernetes has to be hard, grossly over complex, and is always wrong if you are not Netflix scale. Is the system as described by the author significantly less complex and better than a small Kubernetes system? Sounds like they went through a lot of work to get it to their desired state.

Rolling your own zero-downtime deployments is as about as a good idea as rolling your own security... it's not a good idea.

I run our small system on a single EC2 instance with K3s. It runs a half-dozen or so services and does it quite well. I don't think it is particularly complex or over engineered. I like how easy it is to maintain the configuration in a helm package and quickly deploy it in different environments.

There is a learning curve for doing K8s well, but that's true for any non-trivial system.

New comment by teliskr in "MacBook Air with M5"

teliskr — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:48:37 +0000

I've been using Macbook Pros for a long time. I usually spend 3-4k on them. I recently purchased an 14" Asus ZenBook for $1300 and loaded Omarchy Linux on it. I wanted to have something less expensive and lightweight for traveling. I really like it a lot! I notice that it is a little slower than my Macbook Pro, but the performance completely acceptable for most things.