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m_fayer commented on Turning Claude Code into my best design partner   betweentheprompts.com/des... · Posted by u/scastiel
hetspookjee · 15 hours ago
Over the last 2 weeks (evenings only) I've spend a lot of time crafting the "perfect prompt" for claude code to one shot the project. I ended up with a rather small CLAUDE.md file that references 8 other MD files, ranging from project_architecture, models_spec, build_sequence, test_hierarchy, test_scenarios, and some other files.

It is a project for model based governance of Databricks Unity Catalog, with which I do have quite a bit of experience, but none of the tooling feels flexible enough.

Eventually I ended up with 3 different subagents that supported in the development of the actual planning files; a Databricks expert, a Pydantic expert, and a prompt expert.

The improvement on the markdown files was rather significant with the aid of these. Ranging from old pydantic versions and inconsistencies, to me having some misconceptions about unity catalog as well.

Yesterday eve I gave it a run and it ran for about 2 hours with me only approving some tool usage, and after that most of the tools + tests were done.

This approach is so different than I how used to do it, but I really do see a future in detailed technical writing and ensuring we're all on the same page. In a way I found it more productive than going into the code itself. A downside I found is that with code reading and working on it I really zone in. With a bunch of markdown docs I find it harder to stay focused.

Curious times!

m_fayer · 14 hours ago
Long after we are all gone and the scrum masters are a barely remembered historical curiosity, there shall remain, humble and eternal, the waterfall model.
m_fayer commented on The ROI of Exercise   herman.bearblog.dev/exerc... · Posted by u/ingve
donatj · 2 days ago
> Less pain

Is there anything to back this up? The people I know who work out are always complaining about their muscles and joints.

m_fayer · 2 days ago
For me personally: My fitness routines are regular but sloppy.

I’m often complaining about soreness here, a lightly pulled there, a big joint that needs to be left alone for a few days. It’s annoying but also even kinda satisfying, and I know how to avoid serious injury.

I’m not complaining about lower back pain because my fitness activity has rid me of it. That pain would have stopped me from being able to move easily, work on my cabin, play with children, and would have eventually made me overweight and chronically ill.

The tradeoff is really a no-brainer in my case, and I don’t think my case is so unique.

m_fayer commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
shermantanktop · 3 days ago
Do they lose moral agency? Having practical reasons to take an action is not the same as ceding moral agency.

We are not perfect creatures and sometimes do immoral things, for various reasons. But we did those things, nobody else did them.

That also suggests a practical guideline: whatever your rationale for taking action, anticipate living with that rationale for years and years. If you can’t see it looking the same 10 years from now, perhaps that is a strong clue.

m_fayer · 2 days ago
Talk to me about agency when it’s the wellbeing of your vulnerable dependent loved ones, young or old or sick, that’s on the line.
m_fayer commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
mlsu · 3 days ago
Social media is like a parasite for the brain that slowly drives a person insane. Posting or only consuming.

In some sense, whenever I see someone with psychotic views (in any political, ideological, social / etc direction), it’s not even “their fault” — their mind was simply melted by technology.

Touch grass.

m_fayer · 3 days ago
Your comment sounds hyperbolic at first blush. But the more I think and observe and read about incoming evidence, it seems correct.

And if we take that as fact, that means Zuck's culpability is nigh unprecedented in private enterprise. The mega-scale profiteering of Apple & Microsoft & Amazon distort markets and elbow out competition but that doesn't compare to the personal misery and destabilization and resulting downstream poverty and violence caused by social media. Purveyors of booze and cigarettes are closer, but those things never threatened democracy or global order. Fossil fuel companies may contribute to climate change, but no one can saddle them with full moral responsibility for selling a product that's the lifeblood of the world. Weapons manufacturers didn't start the wars or cause the instability.

So Zuck and his algorithmic friends - what to make of them? The mind boggles.

m_fayer commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
shermantanktop · 3 days ago
By default, people have moral agency for what they do. Exceptions exist, of course, but “I wanted to make more money” is not one of them.
m_fayer · 3 days ago
Actually, taking someone’s livelihood hostage is a great and time-proven way to rob initially decent people of their moral agency. The case studies are everywhere.
m_fayer commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
vjvjvjvjghv · 3 days ago
My observation is that anybody who engages a lot on social media is at a very high risk of losing their mind over time. They get caught up in these weird bubbles of constant controversy and group think bubbles . I have seen this with friends but also with more famous people.

For content creators there is a lot of economic incentive. Real science is kind of boring and mundane while controversy is exciting and sells.

m_fayer · 3 days ago
It’s one of those “the house always wins” setups. For a while if you have success and integrity, you wag the algorithm. Eventually though, the algorithm always ends up wagging you.
m_fayer commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend   thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
seydor · 3 days ago
I'm confused, which point of the hype cycle is this?
m_fayer · 3 days ago
You just wait, when we achieve agi it’ll drive hype cycles at a speed humans have no chance of keeping up with. We will always effectively be in all points of the hype cycle at once. Money will wash randomly through the economy like soap through your laundry. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
m_fayer commented on Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash   latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
kg · 4 days ago
There was a lot of business value during the dotcom boom and we still had a crash. The question is how many AI companies have strong fundamentals and will survive, vs the ones that have weak fundamentals and will die if/when the investment money dries up.
m_fayer · 4 days ago
The sad thing about bubbles based on overhyped but nevertheless useful tech is the collateral damage of the pop. Small promising companies that are simply too young to have good fundamentals will go under from the backlash created among investors and potential customers. It’s destruction that could’ve been avoided if we had a more measured and sober society that doesn’t need a new craze every 5 years.
m_fayer commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA   jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
cjonas · a month ago
Ya this is nonsense. The web is what it is.

You could maybe say "every framework is a hack to workaround protocols primarily designed in the 90's before we really understood the full application of the web"

m_fayer · a month ago
I would go as far as saying that the genius of the web is that it can grow, develop, be hacked, modified, expanded through technical and institutional means to be many things it wasn’t originally envisioned to be. Why is that a bad thing? Why is originalism a good thing?
m_fayer commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars   modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs
pmg101 · a month ago
I thought about PHEV but in the end went full EV simply because it seemed to me with two whole power trains that's 2x the components to go wrong/need maintenance.
m_fayer · a month ago
That same insight applies to regular hybrids, and yet Toyota’s hybrids are legendary for their durability. There’s a reason half the cabs where I live are Prius station wagons, and it’s not their efficiency, judging by how they’re driven.

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