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aosaigh commented on What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? · Posted by u/ekusiadadus

Nextgrid · 6 days ago

The Swiss public transport ticketing system. Their app uses location services to automatically determine your fare, so you don’t need to buy tickets in advance: https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sbb-mobile/eas....

As a bonus there are no ticket barriers so no queues and no overheads of maintaining those machines.

aosaigh · 6 days ago

I believe Copenhagen has this too now. I visited in the same week they were launching the system (last year?) and it worked perfectly. All you had to do was press a button on your phone as you enter and leave the station and it automatically calculates what you owe. I loved it. It also worked throughout all of the different train systems.

aosaigh commented on Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M² sdo.group/study... · Posted by u/brunohaid

brunohaid · 12 days ago

Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here.

The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project.

We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more details, but also happy to answer any questions here.

aosaigh · 12 days ago

Well done, this is inspiring. I've bookmarked and downloaded the PDF for future renovations myself.

Looking through other comments here, it's absolutely wild how a tech-oriented audience are happy to completely disregard traditional design (interior, graphic, UI, ...), while championing technology design (systems & databases).

aosaigh commented on Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M² sdo.group/study... · Posted by u/brunohaid

FirmwareBurner · 12 days ago

How else do you think designers can justify their inflated rates? Wrap it in in a fancy word salad to elevate it and sell it to wealthy urbanites.

Reminds me of that scene[1] from the Silicon Valley TV show where that designer was tasked to design a server box and he started the meeting showing random pictures to the CEO with some bongo drum soundtrack in order to "establish a common vocabulary" lol, or the brand manual of the infamous Pepsi logo redesign fail[2] full of made up geometrical nature BS stories that the agency pulled out of their ass to milk Pepsi, which I'm sure is what the satire form Silicon Valley was based on.

At this point, I think designers just operate on the basis of "a fool an his money are easily parted".

[1] https://youtu.be/qyLv1dQasaY?si=yUwQU-9EQL3QMxbi&t=6

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/hspqgd/pepsi_logo_r...

aosaigh · 12 days ago

This is such a childish and cynical take. Just because you fail to see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

libraryofbabel · 16 days ago

I use Claude Code regularly and have been responsible for introducing colleagues to it. The consensus here seems to be that it’s the best coding agent out there. But since it’s the only coding agent I’ve used, when colleagues ask why it’s better than Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, etc., I sometimes struggle to articulate reasons.

Claude Code power users, what would you say makes it superior to other agents?

aosaigh · 16 days ago

I mentioned this is another comment, but for me one of the big positives is nothing to do with the model, it’s the UI of how it presents itself.

I hated at first that it wasn’t like Cursor, sitting in the IDE. Then I realised I was using Cursor completely differently, using it often for small tasks where it’s only moderately helpful (refactoring, adding small functions, autocompleting)

With Claude I have to stop, think and plan before engaging with it, meaning it delivers much more impactful changes.

Put another way, it demands more from me meaning I treat it with more respect and get more out of it

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

spyckie2 · 16 days ago

Can’t you send the same spec through cursor? Am I missing something there?

aosaigh · 16 days ago

Yes certainly. I’m sure Cursor would do a good job.

That said, I think that the differing UIs of Cursor (in the IDE) and Claude (in the CLI) fundamentally change how you approach problems with them.

Cursor is “too available”. It’s right there and you can be lazy and just ask it anything.

Claude nudges you to think more deeply and construct longer prompts before engaging with it.

That my experience anyway

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

miroljub · 16 days ago

> That said, it was amazing to just see it go through the requirements and implement modules full of organised documented code that I didn’t have to write

Small side remark, but what is the value added of the AI generated documentation for the AI generated code. It's just a burden that increases context size whenever AI needs to re-analyse or change the existing code. It's not like any human is ever going to read the code docs, when he can just ask AI what it is about.

aosaigh · 16 days ago

I’m not sure I agree that I’ll never look at the code. I think it’s still important to know how the code is working for your own mental model of the app. So in this case I’ll be testing and reviewing everything to see how it’s implemented. With that in mind it’s useful for me as well as serving as context for the AI. That said, you may be right.

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

danielbln · 16 days ago

Yes but let's not forget the lessons of waterfall planning. You can't anticipate everything, so the detail level of the implementation plan should be within a goldi locks zone of detailed but not too detailed, and after each implementation and test phase one should feel comfortable adjusting the spec/plan to the current state of things.

aosaigh · 16 days ago

Another good point. I noticed this happening while writing my document.

A few times while writing the doc I had to go back and update the previous steps to add missing features.

Also I knew when to stop. It’s not fully finished yet. There are additional stages I need to implement. But as an experienced developer, I knew when I had enough for “core functionalty” that was well defined.

What worries me is how do you become a good developer if AI is writing it all?

One of my strengths as a developer is understanding the problem and breaking it down into steps, creating requirements documents like I’ve discussed.

But that’s a hard-earned skill from years of client work where I wrote the code. I have a huge step up in getting the most from these agents now.

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

philipwhiuk · 16 days ago

Frankly, even if you ignore Claude entirely, being able to write a good spec for yourself is a worthwhile endeavour.

aosaigh · 16 days ago

Complete agree. It’s a core skill of a good developer. What’s interesting is that in the past I’d have started this process but then jumped into coding prematurely. Now when you know you are using an agent, the more you write, the better the results.

aosaigh commented on Getting good results from Claude Code dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ingve

aosaigh · 16 days ago

I’m just today after having my first real success with Claude (and generally with coding agents). I’ve played with Cursor in the past but am now trying Claude and others.

As mentioned in the article, the big trick is having clear specs. In my case I sat down for 2 hours and wrote a 12 step document on how I would implement this (along with background information). Claude went through step by step and wrote the code. I imagine this saved me probably 6-10 hours. I’m now reviewing and am going to test etc. and start adjusting and adding future functionality.

Its success was rooted in the fact I knew exactly how to do what it needed to do. I wrote out all the steps and it just followed my lead.

It makes it clear to me that mid and senior developers aren’t going anywhere.

That said, it was amazing to just see it go through the requirements and implement modules full of organised documented code that I didn’t have to write.

aosaigh commented on I spent 80% of my time planning and 20% coding with AI tools · Posted by u/cgvas

aosaigh · 18 days ago

How do you structure Claude context files/Claude.md?