greymalik (u/greymalik)

greymalik commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr

falloutx · 8 days ago

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user.

Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

greymalik · 8 days ago

When there’s a gold rush, sell shovels.

greymalik commented on There is an AI code review bubble greptile.com/blog/ai-code... · Posted by u/dakshgupta

zmmmmm · 17 days ago

My experience with using AI tools for code review is that they do find critical bugs (from my retrospective analysis, maybe 80% of the time), but the signal to noise ratio is poor. It's really hard to get it not to tell you 20 highly speculative reasons why the code is problematic along with the one critical error. And in almost all cases, sufficient human attention would also have identified the critical bug - so human attention is the primary bottleneck here. Thus poor signal to noise ratio isn't a side issue, it's one of the core issues.

As a result, I'm mostly using this selectively so far, and I wouldn't want it turned on by default for every PR.

greymalik · 17 days ago

It very much depends on the product. In my experience, Copilot has terrible signal noise. But Bugbot is incredible. Very little noise and it consistently finds things the very experienced humans on my team didn’t.

greymalik commented on Skills Officially Comes to Codex developers.openai.com/cod... · Posted by u/rochansinha

rdli · 2 months ago

This is great. At my startup, we have a mix of Codex/CC users so having a common set of skills we can all use for building is exciting.

It’s also interesting to see how instead of a plan mode like CC, Codex is implementing planning as a skill.

greymalik · 2 months ago

I’m probably missing it, but I don’t see how you can share skills across agents, other than maybe symlinking .claude/skills and .codex/skills to the same place?

greymalik commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

jrecyclebin · 2 months ago

Skill descriptions get dumped in your system prompt - just like MCP tool definitions and agent descriptions before them. The more you have, the more the LLM will be unable to focus on any one piece of it. You don't want a bunch of irrelevant junk in there every time you prompt it.

Skills are nice because they offload all the detailed prompts to files that the LLM can ask for. It's getting even better with Anthropic's recent switchboard operator (tool search tool) that doesn't clutter the system prompt but tries to cut the tool list down to those the LLM will need.

greymalik · 2 months ago

> Anthropic's recent switchboard operator

I don’t know what this is and Google isn’t finding anything. Can you clarify?

greymalik commented on How I use every Claude Code feature blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12

rererereferred · 3 months ago

There's an Atlasian cli with Jira support https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/acli/reference/command...

greymalik · 3 months ago

Cloud only. My employer is still on an ancient data center version. But you can easily write a cli that wraps the REST API.

greymalik commented on How I use every Claude Code feature blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12

rajamaka · 3 months ago

Claude is able to detect the lines of code selected in vscode anyway

greymalik · 3 months ago

As-is Gemini CLI and Codex. I run my CLIs in VSC and only using it as a file browser.

greymalik commented on Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/ridruejo

theshrike79 · 4 months ago

I’m still waiting for Gemini to add hooks and sub-agents

greymalik · 4 months ago

They will do it with needlessly complexity that is out of step with the competition, as they did with slash commands (toml) and extensions (skills-equivalent).

greymalik commented on The Programmer Identity Crisis hojberg.xyz/the-programme... · Posted by u/imasl42

greymalik · 4 months ago

> One could only wonder why they became a programmer in the first place, given their seeming disinterest in coding.

To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

> careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments

That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value. It’s accidental complexity that I am happy to delegate.

greymalik commented on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/weinzierl

simonw · 4 months ago

Part of it is that they gave a name to a useful pattern that people had already been discovering independently. Names are important, because they mean we can start having higher quality conversations about the pattern.

Anthropic also realized that this pattern solves one of the persistent problems with coding agents: context pollution. You need to stuff as little material as possible into the context to enable the tool to get things done. AGENTS.md and MCP both put too much stuff in there - the skills pattern is a much better fit.

greymalik · 4 months ago

How is it different from subagents?

greymalik commented on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023 finance.yahoo.com/news/fo... · Posted by u/ripe

techdmn · 4 months ago

Seems like a good time to mention my old stand-by:

There is no such thing as a labor shortage. There may very well be a shortage of qualified people willing to work under the conditions and for the compensation a company would like to provide.

When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation.

greymalik · 4 months ago

I agree with that, but isn’t it also the case that if an employer raises wages enough to get the workers they need, they have to do some combination of passing those costs along to customers and reducing the benefits to shareholders, which in turn reduces their ability to remain a viable business and keep people employed? It’s a balancing act.

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