Opening the essay with ~~Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial.~~ and closing with suggestion ~~ Copilot ~~ for AI agent is the worst take of LLM coding I ever saw
Readit Newsknlam commented on The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez
Such a lovely show! It’s always fun to see examples of how it takes so much intention to make something that appears simple.
For any adults who have either never heard of Bluey, or never thought of watching a “kids” show, maybe try to an episode the next time you can’t figure out what to stream next. “Sleepy time” (season 2 episode 26) is one of the most renown, but they’re all pretty good! (https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-2/sleepytime/)
Thank you, such a good episode. I adore bluey writing
knlam commented on The hidden cost of AI coding terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
Most comments here surprise me: I am using Githubs Copilot / ChatGPT 4.0 at work with a code base which is mostly implements a basic CRUD service... and outside of small/trivial example (where the generated code is mostly okay), prompting is more often than not a total waste of time. Now, I wonder if I am just totally unable to write/refine good prompts for the LLM (as it works for smaller samples, I hope I am not too far off) or what could explain the huge discrepancy of experience.
(Just for the record: I would totally not mind if the LLM writes the code for the stuff I have to do at work.)
To clarify my questions: - Who here uses LLMs to generate code for bigger projects at work? (>= 20k lines of code) - If you use LLMs for bigger projects: Do you need to change your prompting strategy to get good results? - What programming languages are you using in your code bases? - Are there other people here who experience that LLMs are no help for non trivial problems?
Copilot is just plain bad. The result is day and night compare with cursor + gemini 2.5 (of course with good prompting)
knlam commented on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone peabee.substack.com/p/eve... · Posted by u/gniting
> everyone knows all the alls on your phone
On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.
Actually you can via private API, which Apple app use all the time but forbid other app to use
https://blog.verichains.io/p/technical-analysis-improper-use...
knlam commented on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/shmatt
In the other thread, HN said Israel can only pull this trick only once and they just did it the second time
knlam commented on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/2... · Posted by u/mattbessey
Working with GraphQL over 6 years, I have seen (and created) many mistakes mentioned in the article. GraphQL is not great but it has worked well for me, you just need to adapt & change mindset to create better interface for your graphQL endpoint.
For example, having nested queries more than 2 levels is a no go for me (just like having nested inheritance is basically anti pattern)
Focus more on your interface. One way to avoid N+1 and nested query is to required parameter for related fields. For example
```
user(id: $userId) { {
id
friends {
id
...
}
to
```
user(id: $userId) {
id
friends(id: $userId) {
id
...
}
knlam commented on What happened with the Web Monetization API? chriscoyier.net/2024/01/2... · Posted by u/kuba-orlik
A friend of mine in Vietnam needed some quick cash to go home for Tet holiday and asked me for help in paying for their travel costs and some spending money. Nothing nefarious, just a few hundred USD. I'm happy to help them.
I went to a popular VN crypto website, put in their name and bank account number and how much I wanted to send them (and on what crypto network and token, as they support a bunch of them). The site spit out an address to send the tokens to with my wallet.
The transaction cost me $0.05, the conversion rates were totally fair and actually quite good, it only took a couple hours, and as an added bonus, didn't even require any sort of KYC because it was just a small amount of money.
For those of you dumping on crypto, I can tell you that it doesn't get any easier than that. There is no way that I can do something like that otherwise. We need more of this, not less.
I love crypto. I even built an SDK to make crypto payment easy [0]
However, KYC is there for a reason. Personally, I don't touch any crypto on/offramp service without proper KYC
knlam commented on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers heynote.com/... · Posted by u/jonatanheyman
Love this! You just need to add auto evaluate code and done