I work on industrial automation software (SCADA/HMI, MES, PLC comms protocols, etc.).
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kevinherron commented on Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code? · Posted by u/ex-aws-dude
kevinherron commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227
Does the same happens if I create an AGENTS.md instead?
Use AGENTS.md for everything, then put a single line in CLAUDE.md:
@AGENTS.mdkevinherron commented on Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps? · Posted by u/not_that_d
The problem is you still think that the perfect prompt or AGENTS.md or whatever is going to get you a one-shotted (or close) feature in return. There isn't (yet) a model or orchestration framework that is going to take a large feature from start to finish for you.
The reality is that LLMs/agents are just a new way to write code. You still need to understand, more-or-less, how this feature is going to actually work, and how it needs to be implemented, from start to finish.
The difference is that you don't write the code, you tell the LLM to write the code. Once you've figured out the right "chunk size" an LLM can handle it's faster than doing it yourself.
I've found it's actually a little _harder_ in green field projects because the LLM doesn't have guard rails and examples and existing patterns to follow.
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kevinherron commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags
One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.
You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.
Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.
Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)
Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)
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I flew to NYC and back last week and never experienced anything like this with mine shrug
The 3s have been an improvement on the 2s for me, especially in fit and feel in ear.
kevinherron commented on Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin detekt.dev/... · Posted by u/TheWiggles
Out of curiosity, how many of you are using Kotlin for backend development? It seems that Java has caught up a bit, and the advantages of Kotlin (extension methods, better syntax, better null-checking) might not be enough to justify the risk of lock- in?
Personally, I quite like Kotlin, but I haven't been able to convince most of my greybeard colleagues to make the leap.
We use it for (non-Spring) backend development. It's lovely and always my first choice over Java.
I like to avoid mixing Java/Kotlin within the same module when I can, but it still works, and parts of our codebase are mixed this way. (by module I mean e.g. the same Maven or Gradle module, i.e. try to avoid a situation where you have a `src/main/java` and `src/main/kotlin` next to each other)
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i have yet to find a site where i needed to activate DRM. even on sites where firefox did tell me to activate DRM, i just ignored it and the site worked fine. that said, having the feature built in doesn't bother me as long as i have the option to ignore it or keep it turned off
Try Spotify’s web player.
Most commonly our software runs on premises on server-class hardware (or what passes for server-class depending on the industry...), sometimes hosted in the cloud, sometimes on "edge" hardware (think Raspberry Pi class power/spec wise).
One component of the software actually is a web frontend (and a Jetty backend) to go with it, but it's not your typical "web-app" and it's not SaaS. But there's much more to it than that.