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SparkyMcUnicorn commented on A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers   stochasticlifestyle.com/a... · Posted by u/ChrisRackauckas
jpollock · 3 days ago
I've just spent the better part of two weeks trying to convince a LLM to automate some programming for me.

We use feature flags. However, cleaning them up is something rarely done. It typically takes me ~3minutes to clean one up.

To clean up the flag:

1) delete the test where the flag is off

2) delete all the code setting the flag to on

3) anything getting the value of the flag is set to true

4) resolve all "true" expressions, cleaning up if's and now constant parameters.

5) prep a pull request and send it for review

This is all fully supported by the indexing and refactoring tooling in my IDE.

However, when I prompted the LLM with those steps (and examples), it failed. Over and over again. It would delete tests where the value was true, forget to resolve the expressions, and try to run grep/find across a ginormous codebase.

If this was an intern, I would only have to correct them once. I would correct the LLM, and then it would make a different mistake. It wouldn't follow the instructions, and it would use tools I told it to not use.

It took 5-10 minutes to make the change, and then would require me to spend a couple of minutes fixing things. It was at the point of not saving me any time.

I've got a TONNE of low-hanging fruit that I can't give to an intern, but could easily sick a tool as capable as an intern on. This was not that.

SparkyMcUnicorn · 3 days ago
If you have examples, can you provide git commit hashes that it can diff and use as a reference?

For repeating patterns I'll identify 1-3 commit hashes or PRs, reference them in a slash command, and keep the command up to date if/when edge cases occur.

SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
rvnx · 13 days ago
Thank you for the tips, do you know how to rollback latest changes ? Trying very hard to do it, but seems like Git is the only way ?
SparkyMcUnicorn · 13 days ago
I haven't used it, but saw this the other day: https://github.com/RonitSachdev/ccundo
SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability   nexusrouter.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/mitchwainer
fbjork · 13 days ago
Founder of Grafbase here.

Here are a few key differentiators vs LiteLLM today:

- Nexus does MCP server aggregation and LLM routing - LiteLLM only does LLM routing

- The Nexus router is a standalone binary that can run with minimal TOML configuration and optionally Redis - LiteLLM is a whole package with dashboard, database etc.

- Nexus is written in Rust - LiteLLM is written in Python

That said, LiteLLM is an impressive project, but we're just getting started with Nexus so stay tuned for a steady barrage of feature launches the coming months:)

SparkyMcUnicorn · 13 days ago
What's the difference between "MCP Server Aggregation" and the litellm_proxy endpoint described here?

https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/mcp

SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers   fortune.com/2025/08/11/st... · Posted by u/zdw
pstuart · 13 days ago
Seems like an opportunity for a coworking-lite space -- rent a seat/desk spot for 1 hour blocks.
SparkyMcUnicorn · 13 days ago
I somehow doubt that people are lugging a desktop and printer around the city, only to set it up and work for 1 hour in Starbucks.
SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev   blog.kilocode.ai/p/future... · Posted by u/twapi
asadm · 14 days ago
Even if they do get better. The latest closed-source {gemini|anthropic|openai} model will always be insanely good and it would be dumb to use a local one from 3 years back.

Also tooling, you can use aider which is ok. But claude code and gemini cli will always be superior and will only work correctly with their respective models.

SparkyMcUnicorn · 14 days ago
I use Claude Code with other models sometimes.

For well defined tasks that Claude creates, I'll pass off execution to a locally run model (running in another Claude Code instance) and it works just fine. Not for every task, but more than you might think.

SparkyMcUnicorn commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code   blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1
skydhash · 23 days ago
No one remember all the things. It's usually ctrl+r (history search) or write it down in some script or alias.
SparkyMcUnicorn · 20 days ago
But I still need to remember what to search for, and they're not always straight forward. The agent writes and organizes the scripts/commands I use frequently, and references them as a starting point. It all started by having an agent look at my shell history.

It's faster than I am, and it knows things like ffmpeg flags I don't care to memorize.

Even opencode running on a local model is decent at this.

SparkyMcUnicorn commented on GitHub pull requests were down   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/lr0
mmastrac · 20 days ago
Good thing we're using a shared Samba drive and editing files directly without locks!
SparkyMcUnicorn · 20 days ago
Project_v2_final3 is looking good, but remember to grab the new actionscript files out of Project_v2_final4 as well.
SparkyMcUnicorn commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code   blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1
dv_dt · 23 days ago
Script? I havent used anything more complex than "tar xzf file" in a decade
SparkyMcUnicorn · 23 days ago
Remembering one thing is easy, remembering all the things is not. With an agentic CLI I don't need to remember anything, other than if it looks safe or not.
SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation   perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders
trallnag · a month ago
What do you use all these VMs for in your homelab? I've dabbled with Proxmox in the past but settled on plain Ubuntu for my home server that I now treat as a pet managed with Ansible.
SparkyMcUnicorn · a month ago
Take your pick. Everyone wants different things. This site/repo is pretty great.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts

SparkyMcUnicorn commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation   perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders
pphysch · a month ago
To be fair, Proxmox is essentially a UX wrapper around QEMU/KVM, which is free software and the true kernel of value. If you are going the MCP route I wonder if a direct QEMU or libvirt MCP server would be much more powerful and precise.
SparkyMcUnicorn · a month ago
Proxmox has a UI and a bunch of APIs so I don't need to rebuild them myself, and maintains everything quite well (all major upgrades I've done have been pretty seamless). Proxmox is definitely an easy path, and you still have root access for drawing outside the lines.

u/SparkyMcUnicorn

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