For me, working mostly in Planning Mode skips much of the initial misfires, and often leads to correct outcomes for the first edit.
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kbuchanan commented on Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing linch.substack.com/p/ted-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Thanks for this. I'd never heard of Chiang, and now I've bought my first book!
kbuchanan commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
Claude Code is hard to describe. It’s almost like I changed jobs when I started using it. I’ve been all-in with Claude as a workflow tool, but this is literally steroids.
If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the first time it really does feel like working with a junior engineer to me.
I've had the same experience, although I feel like Claude is far more than a junior to me. It's ability to propose options, make recommendations, and illustrate trade-offs is just unreal.
kbuchanan commented on Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mgh2
I have mild tinnitus and the best advice I've ever read on the internet for it is: Stop reading. Don't look up information about tinnitus. Don't think about it. If you happen to notice it, try to distract yourself immediately. There maybe legitimate hearing damage but for the psychological aspect, the more you think about it the worse it becomes. I think I saw a quora answer somewhere where the doctor said "Nobody complains about tinnitus while playing Playstation". And it's very true. Until this post just now, I hadn't thought about it in weeks (months?).
Supported by my experience too. My tinnitus is very real, but when I discovered just how much of a psychological component was there, it became more manageable. Little by little I thought I was losing my hearing until I had it checked—it was perfect. The audiologist helped me understand that my constant "tuning in" to the tinnitus was creating the perception that my hearing was being harmed by loud noises and leaving a high-frequency sound in its place. Which is there, but when ignored, it largely disappears.
kbuchanan commented on Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video youtube.com/watch?v=exSRG... · Posted by u/fogus
I love Clojure the language but I’ve never seen a more fragmented ecosystem.
There seems to be a pattern in the language of “a problem emerges > a community solution gains traction > Cognitect develops their own solution but its weird and undocumented”, like deps.edn over leiningen, spec over malli, pedestal over ring, etc.
Many prominent clojurists recommend deps.edn over leiningen and socket repl over nrepl, but I’ve seen very little guidance on how either actually work or how to use them.
Spec seems kind of weird and not well thought out either.
And Clojure CLI tools also seem like a total shitshow compared to go or rust’s tooling.
As a result working with Clojure feels puzzling and unpleasant, and I feel hesitant to use any community library or project in the language.
I think the bottom line with Clojure is it's not an ecosystem well-suited for non-veteran programmers. For as simple as the language is, effectively using Paredit, navigating partially documented libraries, diving into source code to see how things interact—it's tough as a new developer. I don't believe Clojure is overtly hostile to newcomers; it's just crafted by veterans, for veterans. And this is the result.
kbuchanan commented on Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”? · Posted by u/sodapopcan
We embraced Hotwire with a Clojure backend. Favorite things:
- One language model (i.e. no JS, just our favorite backend language)
- Extremely minimal front-end tooling
- All data is manipulated with the same tools
- No client-side routing, validation, or... really much at all
P.S. We even wrote our own import-maps solution to avoid needing a JS bundler for the small stuff you can't do without JS.
kbuchanan commented on Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice? · Posted by u/throwaway91021
Funny, this is exactly to the point how I have it. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to remove animations on OSX, but works well regardless.
How do you prevent ⌘+Tab from automatically jumping you between desktops? At that point, the desktops feel like impediments, not boundaries.
Perhaps I'm out of touch, but I haven't seen this explosion of software competition. I'd LOVE to see some new competitors for MS Office, Gmail, Workday, Jira, EPIC, Salesforce, WebKit, Mint, etc etc but it doesn't seem to be happening.
Having said that, I don't think it's all AI (this trend's been going on for a while), nor do I think startups can't thrive—as the pie gets bigger, competitors can carve out yet smaller niches, as the OP points out.