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andruby commented on Turning Claude Code into my best design partner   betweentheprompts.com/des... · Posted by u/scastiel
jmull · 11 hours ago
Test-driven and prompt-driven development aside, I never understood why people (and groups) spend many hours (or 1000s, or 10000s of hours) building things when they don't really know what they're building.

(I've certainly seen it done though, with predicable result.)

andruby · 10 hours ago
Do you mean people that build something without a plan? Some people have an idea (or vision) but not a plan and they figure things out along the way. Other want to / need to plan everything ahead of time first.

In my anecdotal case: I behave like the former in some cases (crafting) and the latter in others (travel planning)

I wouldn't say one way is always better than the other.

andruby commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions   github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik
andruby · 3 days ago
> I try to assist inexperienced contributors and coach them to the finish line, because getting a PR accepted is an achievement to be proud of

I really appreciate this point from mitchellh. Giving thoughtful constructive feedback to help a junior developer improve is a gift. Yet it would be a waste of time if the PR submitter is just going to pass it to an AI without learning from it.

andruby commented on Phoenix 1.8.0 Released   phoenixframework.org/blog... · Posted by u/tortilla
mike1o1 · 19 days ago
Very cool to see usage_rules mentioned in the blog. That tool is such a great idea, and leveraging that for Ash development has made a drastic improvement in LLM development for me. Excited to see that get more adoption across the Elixir ecosystem.

https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html

andruby · 19 days ago
How are you finding Ash? I've been debating to dive into it. I'd use it with LiveView, not for a GraphQL or JSON API backend.

Is there a struggle when using Ash between the "Phoenix Way" (gen.auth, scopes) and eg AshAuthentication? Ecto vs Ash.Query?

andruby commented on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025   backblaze.com/blog/backbl... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
jmakov · 19 days ago
Would be interesting yo have sth like this for cars
andruby · 19 days ago
That would be much harder to do for an individual company. It's more in the territory of national safety and government administration.

Afaik NHTSA tracks safety-related defects and recalls but they don't publish "failure rates". It would be nice if they did.

andruby commented on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny   techcrunch.com/2025/08/02... · Posted by u/bingden
SilverElfin · 22 days ago
Seems undemocratic. Everyday folks can’t buy even though they would want to
andruby · 22 days ago
Capital and Finance was never democratic. And I doubt it ever will. It’s literally those with more money have more power.
andruby commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
jajko · 25 days ago
Workaholism is always just manifesting underlying psychical issues, be it some form of OCD, deep unhappiness with one's life and escapism from emptiness or similar. Such state manifests in many destructive behaviors, which then like in case of sleep create their own forces of destruction.

One can't escape psychology, one thing no school taught me (and they should have since we all deal with this in some way! plus its not that complex). Once I grokked the basics, dealing and with people and understanding them became much easier.

andruby · 25 days ago
I'd be careful with saying that is "always" the case.

What about people who are deeply passionate about their mission and chose to devote their life to it?

andruby commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
keysdev · 25 days ago
One best things about getting laid off from work is that one get to sleep as long as one want in the morning!
andruby · 25 days ago
I don't think this person has children :P
andruby commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits    · Posted by u/thebestmoshe
jimbo808 · a month ago
I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.
andruby · a month ago
Unlimited works well for everything that is “too cheap to meter”.

Internet, text messages, etc are roughly that: the direct costs are so cheap.

That’s not the case with LLM’s at this moment. There are significant direct costs to each long-running agent.

andruby commented on Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11491... · Posted by u/qsort
manmal · a month ago
> Tests are the source of truth more so than your code

Tests poke and prod with a stick at the SUT, and the SUT's behaviour is observed. The truth lives in the code, the documentation, and, unfortunately, in the heads of the dev team. I think this distinction is quite important, because this question:

> Do we have a bug? Or do we have a bad test?

cannot be answered by looking at the test + the implementation. The spec or people have to be consulted when in doubt.

andruby · a month ago
What does SUT stand for? I'm not familiar with the acronym

Is it "System Under Test"? (That's Claude.ai's guess)

andruby commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
seszett · a month ago
I also get that.
andruby · a month ago
me too. Are we all in the EU? (I am)

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