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__alias commented on Writing code is easy, reading it isn't   idiallo.com/blog/writing-... · Posted by u/jnord
danielmarkbruce · 6 months ago
Use an LLM.

It's not a joke answer. This entire article is silly. LLMs are great for helping you understanding code.

__alias · 6 months ago
Agreed!

Especially getting them to generate sequence / flow charts I find is a hack to figure out how everything fits together well.

Claude code is fantastic at quickly tracing through code and building visualisations of how code works together

__alias commented on Writing code is easy, reading it isn't   idiallo.com/blog/writing-... · Posted by u/jnord
vivzkestrel · 6 months ago
I am really bad at reading code to be honest (especially other people's code). Any tips on how I can go about becoming good at this like starting from baby steps?
__alias · 6 months ago
It's far easier to read diagrams then it is to read code.

To get a good mental model, I'll often get an LLM to generate a few mermaid diagrams to help create a mental model of how everything pieces together

__alias commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents   agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
mmaunder · 7 months ago
Not having support for importing files makes this dead on arrival. It means you can’t have a local file with local environment details.

There’s an issue open about this in the repo already. I mean if you’re going to copy the CLAUDE.md concept, don’t leave out one of the most useful parts.

__alias · 7 months ago
it does though, the same way that an llm can trace imports / dependencies through any coding language.

``` If adding tests, read @./TESTING_INSTRUCTIONS.md

```

__alias commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents   agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
super256 · 7 months ago
This looks like a normal README.md to me. Why do we need a separate file?
__alias · 7 months ago
It's really supposed to supplement README.md, but targeting an agentic coding loop.

E.g. "Before each commit, do X and Y to validate the changes."

__alias commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents   agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
thayne · 7 months ago
Kind of, but for any given directory you can't separate out instructions for building from instructions for naming conventions, for example.
__alias · 7 months ago
With AGENTS.md you have more flexibility to do something like

``` // AGENTS.md

If implementing a new service, first read @./SERVICE_SETUP.md

If writing tests, first read @./TESTING_SETUP.md

```

Or whatever else might make sense for your project.

__alias commented on Dull Men’s Club   theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/herbertl
ecshafer · 9 months ago
The Dull Men's Club group of facebook is actually oddly interesting. I would classify it more as a group who point out the very small oddities of every day life that are not very interesting. There is a post where someone saw two geese with 42 bay geese, another where the rental company fixed a door with a piece of pool noodle. Its more like a "huh that's kind of weird I guess" group.
__alias · 9 months ago
My fave I remember seeing years ago was one where a man - over some long period of time - managed to park in every single parking space of a supermarket.

I feel like this energy perfectly encapsulates what dull mans club is all about

__alias commented on Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat   ssno.cc/posts/reversing-t... · Posted by u/deverton
__alias · a year ago
Not really relevant, but this triggered a memory of being around 14 years old and getting scammed on Runescape which drove an evil character arch from me to somehow find out how to DDOS players in the duel arena and make absolute bank. I still feel a little guilty about my actions to this day. At the same time, I'm surprised that at 14 I was able to find and pay for a denial of service provider and figure out players IP addresses to intentionally disconnect them
__alias commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday   reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx
winternett · a year ago
As someone who's been on TikTok for years now, it's extremely fake, the algorithm is a total ruse, as most of what trends is based on seeing news stories repeated hundreds of times, and most other content has the same repetitive music behind it... Far too much repetition and subtle seminaries in trending content, down to the way videos are color graded to be honestly real & organic... I've had a few videos go viral, but most things that do go viral are memes, the minute you want to push out anything remotely serious or related to business, they want money to let it pass the visibility gate.

I won't miss it if it does get banned. It's stressed so many people out for no good reason, and sucked up millions of hours of free labor from unrecognized & unpaid creators that deserve better.

That doesn't mean that any Meta product is good for content creators mind you.

__alias · a year ago
what types of videos have made that have gone viral?
__alias commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
DiscourseFan · a year ago
You suspect correctly. Its been a great economy for yuppies with college degrees, not so much for everyone else. And everyone else is the majority.
__alias · a year ago
See this is what surprises me. I would have thought voting for a more regular market with higher taxes to the elite would be favourable to the majority non-tech workers, rather than the billionaires which play the puppeteers to trump
__alias commented on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor   daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y... · Posted by u/ingve
__alias · a year ago
I just bought a 32 inch monitor and can't stand it.

27 inch is the sweet spot for me. The further through my career the more i've effective with smaller screen space and I am.

I actually prefer working on my 16 mbp nowadays.

u/__alias

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