JeremyNT (u/JeremyNT)

JeremyNT commented on The ROI of Exercise herman.bearblog.dev/exerc... · Posted by u/ingve

noelwelsh · 4 hours ago

I am someone who enjoys exercise, but I only enjoy certain types of exercise. I cannot stand mindless "monostructural" endurance events like running or swimming. However I'll happily chase a ball until I am exhausted. I need some complexity and mental stimulation in my exercise. My favourite type of exercise, which I only discovered relatively late in life, is what I call "compositional movement", where the movement complexity is the point. Things like gymnastics, dance (particularly breakdance), some kinds of parkour, and so on. In other words, I think different kinds of exercise suit different kinds of personalities. It's unfortunate that most physical education doesn't do a good job of introducing people to a range of movement possibilities.

JeremyNT · 41 minutes ago

This is really where the focus needs to be for young people, and I think it's where our education system is really failing.

What exercise is best? Why... the one you enjoy and will continue doing!

Focusing on ROI can be a good way to view it for the right personality type, but I think that mentality can be harmful for the wrong personality type who will just grind out activities they don't really enjoy until they give up in exasperation.

I suspect for most people the trick is just finding something - anything - that is physically demanding that they enjoy, and then sticking to that.

JeremyNT commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

brookst · 9 hours ago

I have the best luck with RFC speak. “You MUST validate that the documentation validates existing code before implementation. You MAY update documentation to correct any mismatches.”

But I also use more casual style when investigating. “See what you think about the existing inheritance model, propose any improvements that will make it easier to maintain. I was thinking that creating a new base class for tree and flower to inherit from might make sense, but maybe that’s over complicating things”

(Expressing uncertainty seems to help avoid the model latching on to every idea with “you’re absolutely right!”)

JeremyNT · an hour ago

RFC speak is a good way to put it.

Also, there's a big difference between giving general "always on" context (as in agents.md) for vibe coding - like "validate against existing code" etc - versus bouncing ideas in a chat session like your example, where you don't necessarily have a specific approach in mind and burning a few extra tokens for a one off query is no big deal.

Context isn't free (either literally or in terms of processing time) and there's definitely a balance to be found for a given task.

JeremyNT commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

JeremyNT · 10 hours ago

Some of these sample prompts in this blog post are extremely verbose:

If you are considering leveraging any of the documentation or examples, you need to validate that the documentation or example actually matches what is currently in the code.

I have better luck being more concise and avoiding anthropomorphizing. Something like:

"validate documentation against existing code before implementation"

Should accomplish the same thing!

JeremyNT commented on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/adva... · Posted by u/sebg

dpkirchner · a day ago

> Why on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question.

Feigning misunderstanding is a weird look.

JeremyNT · a day ago

Spell out what you are implying.

I have no idea what the originator of this thread was doing to end up in their situation. I've seen nothing like it on bluesky.

Maybe it's obvious to you and others why it happened, but it's not to all of us, and down voting people for asking this question doesn't make is any clearer.

JeremyNT commented on The unbearable slowness of AI coding joshuavaldez.com/the-unbe... · Posted by u/aymandfire

stillpointlab · 2 days ago

I'm still calibrating myself on the size of task that I can get Claude Code to do before I have to intervene.

I call this problem the "goldilocks" problem. The task has to be large enough that it outweighs the time necessary to write out a sufficiently detailed specification AND to review and fix the output. It has to be small enough that Claude doesn't get overwhelmed.

The issue with this is, writing a "sufficiently detailed specification" is task dependent. Sometimes a single sentence is enough, other times a paragraph or two, sometimes a couple of pages is necessary. And the "review and fix" phase again is totally dependent and completely unknown. I can usually estimate the spec time but the review and fix phase is a dice roll dependent on the output of the agent.

And the "overwhelming" metric is again not clear. Sometimes Claude Code can crush significant tasks in one shot. Other times it can get stuck or lost. I haven't fully developed an intuition for this yet, how to differentiate these.

What I can say, this is an entirely new skill. It isn't like architecting large systems for human development. It isn't like programming. It is its own thing.

JeremyNT · a day ago

> What I can say, this is an entirely new skill. It isn't like architecting large systems for human development. It isn't like programming. It is its own thing.

It's management!

I find myself asking very similar questions to you: how much detail is too much? How likely is this to succeed without my assistance? If it does succeed, will I need to refactor? Am I wasting my time delegating or should I just do it?

It's almost identical to when I delegate a task to a junior... only the feedback cycle of "did I guess correctly here" is a lot faster... and unlike a junior, the AI will never get better from the experience.

JeremyNT commented on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/adva... · Posted by u/sebg

Leynos · 2 days ago

So how did the content appear in your feed?

JeremyNT · a day ago

Why on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question.

The default method of operation on Bluesky is that you follow people you are interested in, and only the people you follow show up in your feed.

JeremyNT commented on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/adva... · Posted by u/sebg

yupyupyups · 2 days ago

I registered a Bluesky account not too long ago and noticed shortly after a regular appearance of gay and furry nsfw content. The NSFW setting was turned off, so these accounts are for whatever reason neglecting to tag their content properly.

Telling Bluesky that I'm not interested in "this type of content" didn't help remove the problem. Blocking/Reporting the accounts is futile, as they are so numerous. Moderation lists for LGBT/furry content seem to be nonexistent or unlisted from public modlist sites (maybe they are considered to be "homophobic"?)

Anyway, Bluesky does't seem to be safe-for-work, so it's hardly a proper replacement for Twitter. If this is fixed, then that would be good.

JeremyNT · a day ago

> I registered a Bluesky account not too long ago and noticed shortly after a regular appearance of gay and furry nsfw content. The NSFW setting was turned off, so these accounts are for whatever reason neglecting to tag their content properly.

What... are you doing with the app exactly??? Do you not curate a list of accounts you follow?

To counter your anecdote: I've literally never seen anything like what you describe. I follow the people I'm interested in who post things I find of interest. I've occasionally (only occasionally) clicked on the "discover" tab, but it also does not show the sorts of things you described.

JeremyNT commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

moi2388 · 2 days ago

I completely agree.

On a side note.. ya’ll must be prompt wizards if you can actually use the LLM code.

I use it for debugging sometimes to get an idea, or a quick sketch up of an UI.

As for actual code.. the code it writes is a huge mess of spaghetti code, overly verbose, with serious performance and security risks, and complete misunderstanding of pretty much every design pattern I give it..

JeremyNT · 2 days ago

What tooling are you using?

I use aider and your description doesn't match my experience, even with a relatively bad-at-coding model (gpt-5). It does actually work and it does generate "good" code - it even matches the style of the existing code.

Prompting is very important, and in an existing code base the success rate is immensely higher if you can hint at a specific implementation - i.e. something a senior who is familiar with the codebase somewhat can do, but a junior may struggle with.

It's important to be clear eyed about where we are here. I think overall I am still faster doing things manually than iterating with aider on an existing code base, but the margin is not very much, and it's only going to get better.

Even though it can do some work a junior could do, it can't ever replace a junior human... because a junior human also goes to meetings, drives discussions, and eventually becomes a senior! But management may not care about that fact.

JeremyNT commented on Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi

1945 · 3 days ago

The author isn't exactly a thought leader in the space, or really any space for that matter. Opinion worth nothing.

JeremyNT · 3 days ago

It's just another anecdote, but the "vibes" feel like they're shifting.

The employment numbers, the inflation numbers, government austerity, the gpt-5 disappointment... the valuations are all more like meme stocks and not based on reality.

If enough articles about the crash start appearing, and enough people believe the crash is coming, the congratulations: the crash will occur.

JeremyNT commented on I'm worried it might get bad danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/conzar

righthand · 10 days ago

I am senior developer and have easily and successfully avoided using Llm development these last few years. Nothing has changed for me and my team mates who do use it are slower than me and often don’t know what the Pr actually does.

You chose to invest in the downward career slope. That’s why your opinion has changed. If you continued to resist it you wouldn’t be looking to remove yourself from the auditing/coding position.

JeremyNT · 10 days ago

I used to be like you and then I decided to get up to speed on where things stand a couple of months ago.

I hate using it but I can write issues in gitlab, send them to aider, and it will spit out working solutions complete with test coverage.

Right now I think I'm maybe still faster just writing things myself but this feels incredibly tenuous. I'm certain that in a year vibe driven development will be faster.

There is no programmer's union. When the industry decides it's time to get rid of developers because vibe coding is faster than mid level developers, there is no counter.

The only developers left will be either true 100x geniuses or vibe coders. I'm not the former so I am trying to make sure I can become the latter long enough to last a few extra years.

Regardless of how much you personally want to resist, this is what is going to happen.