I feel that agent coding is actually giving a second wind of life to solid principles, “proper” software architecture. Now you can nag the llm to follow them and A- it will actually apply them if well directed and does not mind the (small?) extra complexity upfront B- you pretty much immediately see the effects
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Dansvidania commented on Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? · Posted by u/GaryBluto
That's totally something a bot would say to blend in ;-)
I swear I make all my captchas
Dansvidania commented on AI Methodology: Using Encapsulation deadend.dev/posts/ai-agen... · Posted by u/Dansvidania
I found it really interesting. It also reminded me that encapsulation has been a valuable technique long before the rise of AI agents. It was useful for keeping modules decoupled, whether in large teams or even small projects. Now it feels like these classic principles are becoming relevant again in this new context. In a way, the old is becoming the new new!
Thanks for reading! I find myself thinking along these lines pretty often, old school, "proper" software engineering (referring to solid, architecture design before coding, TDD ... ) that in my experience would get you sideways looks in some companies with the argument of practicality, are now feeling suddenly very practical.
Dansvidania commented on Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary? historyextra.com/period/v... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
The thing is: even ignoring that campaign, Garibaldi was successful elsewhere and mostly coherent in his political positions.
So really, the nostalgics of Bourbon rule are just the Italian equivalent of American Confederates: they just never got over the fact they lost.
I don’t share the nostalgia for burbonic rule, but I have to point out that the fact that they lost does not mean that they were not invaded. Both things can be true.
Dansvidania commented on Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary? historyextra.com/period/v... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
Just to offer food for thought, some people in the south of Italy still regard him as a Sardo/French invader and do not buy the “national hero” persona that garibaldi got attributed after the unification.
Dansvidania commented on Models of European metro stations stations.albertguillaumes... · Posted by u/tcumulus
Wow. How?
Incredibly impressive. Is there a public dataset that was used to build this?
Dansvidania commented on Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/y... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
is there a book that you'd recommend to a CSS noob so that a hypothetical backend developer could learn modern CSS that allegedly does not suck in a curated and guided, not pick-your-own-adventure via blogpost and tutorials way?
Dansvidania commented on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to... · Posted by u/research_pie
My experience would be the opposite. I'm not goal oriented
> Instead I now just trust my instincts and follow what seems interesting or meaningful to me right now
for me that means watching anime, playing video games, reading HN and social media, and maybe writing small programs like solving S.O. questions, And now I look back, have accomplished nothing of significance, and have huge regrets. Regrets that I didn't set goals and work toward them so that I'd be in a better position in my life than I am now.
Not sure the OPs method will change that. In fact the OPs method sounds like using the waterfall method for life planning. That also doesn't sound like it would work for me
I feel you. I cannot offer much more than that, but if you care for a friendly advice from someone who is still in the same situation and very much still working on it, setting goals became another way to procrastinate for me.
It is cliche, but system over goals has helped me.. or I guess you could see it as microgoals one does not need to think about much.
Write code for at least X hours per day, read a book for X amount of time, exercise X days a week.
It gives me a checkbox to tick and no overhead in thinking about what goals are achievable, what are desirable.. etc.
https://github.com/sharno/zagel