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dsiegel2275 commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good   minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
diego_sandoval · a day ago
It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code.

Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.

dsiegel2275 · a day ago
Agreed. I only started using Claude Code about a week and a half ago and I'm blown away by how productive I can be with it.
dsiegel2275 commented on The unbearable slowness of AI coding   joshuavaldez.com/the-unbe... · Posted by u/aymandfire
kiitos · 3 days ago
please share these discrete instructions.md you're describing
dsiegel2275 · 3 days ago
dsiegel2275 commented on The unbearable slowness of AI coding   joshuavaldez.com/the-unbe... · Posted by u/aymandfire
dsiegel2275 · 3 days ago
Prompting it better during development can really help here.

I have an emerging workflow orchestrated by Claude Code custom commands and subagents that turns even an informal description of a feature into a full fledged PRD, then an "architect" command researches and produces a well thought out and documented technical design. I can review that design document and then give it to the "planner" command, which breaks it down into Phases and Tasks. Then I have a "developer" command iterate through through and implement the Phases one by one. After each phase it runs a detailed code review using my "review" subagent.

Since I've started using this document-driven, guided workflow I've seen quality of the output noticeably improve.

dsiegel2275 commented on Millau Viaduct   fosterandpartners.com/pro... · Posted by u/oliverulerich
dsiegel2275 · 14 days ago
I drove over this bridge on a trip to France back in 2023. Pictures don't do it full justice - it is quite impressive to see in person. If you are anywhere nearby, consider making a detour to see it.
dsiegel2275 commented on EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens   econteen.com/... · Posted by u/Chrisjackson4
Chrisjackson4 · 20 days ago
We just launched the second version of EconTeen, a financial literacy platform built to teach middle and high schoolers how money actually works.

Most kids don’t get any financial education we’re trying to fix that.

22+ self-paced lessons 25+ real-world tools (budgeting, investing, taxes, careers, etc.)

Our first launch reached 2,500+ students, and we’re now gearing up for back-to-school outreach with teachers and schools.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/econteen?launch=econtee...

https://econteen.com/

I’d love any feedback, harsh or helpful. Thanks!

– Christopher

dsiegel2275 · 20 days ago
Curious if your platform supports LTI 1.3 for easy integration with school LMSes?
dsiegel2275 commented on Hologram v0.5.0   hologram.page/blog/hologr... · Posted by u/bartblast
bartblast · a month ago
Yes, absolutely! Hologram can work on top of Phoenix and coexist peacefully with LiveView in the same app. You can have some routes handled by LiveView for server-rendered interactions, and other routes handled by Hologram for client-side interactions that need to work offline or on low bandwidth. The session data is shared between them, so users can seamlessly move between LiveView and Hologram pages while maintaining their authentication state and other session information.

This is actually a really nice migration path - you don't have to rewrite your entire app. You can gradually move specific features to Hologram where offline support or instant responsiveness matters most, while keeping LiveView for parts where server-side rendering is enough.

For your offline/low bandwidth requirements specifically, Hologram is perfect because once the JavaScript is loaded, all the UI logic runs locally. No more waiting for server roundtrips on every interaction, and the app continues working even when connectivity is spotty.

dsiegel2275 · a month ago
Thank you for the reply! I will be looking into this for sure.
dsiegel2275 commented on Hologram v0.5.0   hologram.page/blog/hologr... · Posted by u/bartblast
dsiegel2275 · a month ago
The offline support story here looks interesting. My Elixir/Phoenix app, which relies heavily on LiveView, has some new "offline" and "low bandwidth" set of requirements.

Can Hologram sit alongside the existing routes of a Phoenix app?

dsiegel2275 commented on Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics   mooncake.dev/blog/clickbe... · Posted by u/moonikakiss
dsiegel2275 · 6 months ago
A question that I have had for a while that I can't seem to find an answer: for teams that are using various columnar store extensions to turn Postgres into a viable OLAP solution - are they doing so in the same instance of their Postgres that they are using for OLTP? Or are they standing up a separate Postgres instance?

I'm trying to understand if there is any potential performance impact on the OLTP workload by including the OLAP in the same process.

dsiegel2275 commented on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it   science.org/doi/full/10.1... · Posted by u/nabla9
semireg · 6 months ago
This is sweet news. I'm over 40. I enrolled at my local university in January and I'm studying (literally right now) for my linear algebra midterm [0] which is in 45 minutes! I'm on HN to calm my nerves.

I graduated high school in the early 2000s and graduated college with major in computer science and a minor in math. My goal is 5-8 more classes for a second degree in math (major).

Wish me luck!

[0] Study guide: https://course1.winona.edu/bperatt/M311S25/Tests/Test%202/te... Course: https://course1.winona.edu/bperatt/M311S25/Administrative/M3...

dsiegel2275 · 6 months ago
Congrats! It is never too late to be doing this type of study and work.

I'm doing something similar: I just turned 50 and have been taking graduate ML classes where I work (at Carnegie Mellon). When I finish the graduate certificate program in generative AI and LLMs that I am enrolled in, I will be only two semesters away from earning a full masters degree.

dsiegel2275 commented on Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki   ricotta.affineur.io/... · Posted by u/williamsss
dsiegel2275 · 6 months ago
I spent 10 minutes or so playing around with this and it is impressive. I've also built a couple of small side projects around language learning out of frustration with Duolingo.

I'm around a C1 level in French and am just starting to learn Polish. The audio pronunciations are a great feature here and (at least in French, where I can judge it) the accents are quite good. I can see this being quite useful for my Polish work for learning some of the basics.

dsiegel2275 · 6 months ago
Using it a bit more, it doesn't seem that the C1 or C2 level generated sentences are anywhere close to being C1 or C2 level. I'd be curious to understand the sentence generation process and how it is or is not attempting to generate sentences at various CEFR levels.

u/dsiegel2275

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