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mjrbrennan commented on Agents that run while I sleep   claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-... · Posted by u/aray07
tudelo · 4 days ago
The only counter I have to this is that there are some workflows that have test environments, everything can't or shouldn't just run locally. Sometimes these test take time, and instead of babysitting the model to write code and run the build+deploy+test manually, you can send it off to work until the kinks are worked out.

Add to that I have worked on many projects that take more than 20 minutes to fully build and run tests... unfortunately. And I would consider that part of the job of implementing a feature, and to reduce cycles I have to take.

After the "green" signal I will manually review or send off some secondary reviews in other models. Is it wasteful? Probably. But its pretty damn fun (as long as I ignore the elephant in the room.)

mjrbrennan · 4 days ago
Yes that's fair, but not the case for me. Everything can run locally and specs run quickly for covering things claude changes. For everything else, the GitHub CI run is 10-15m and catches any outlier failures, and I'm usually working on more than one thing at a time anyway so it doesn't really matter to wait for this.
mjrbrennan commented on Agents that run while I sleep   claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-... · Posted by u/aray07
recroad · 4 days ago
Am I supposed to be impressed by this? I think people are now just using agents for the sake of it. I'm perfectly happy running two simple agents, one for writing and one for reviewing. I don't need to go be writing code at faster than light speed. Just focusing on the spec, and watching the agent as it does its work and intervening when it goes sideways is perfectly fine with me. I'm doing 5-7x productivity easily, and don't need more than that.

I also spend most of my time reviewing the spec to make sure the design is right. Once I'm done, the coding agent can take 10 minutes or 30 minutes. I'm not really in that much of a rush.

mjrbrennan · 4 days ago
Yes I'm still not really understanding this "run agents overnight" thing. Most of the time if I use claude it's done in 5-20 minutes. I've never wanted to have work done for me overnight...tomorrow is already plenty of time for more work, it's not going anywhere, and my employer isn't paying me to produce overnight.
mjrbrennan commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
sekh60 · a month ago
Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.
mjrbrennan · a month ago
I responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges.

If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got...

mjrbrennan commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
__jonas · a month ago
Every single forum I see now is using this:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.

mjrbrennan · a month ago
I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".

It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.

As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.

mjrbrennan commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website    · Posted by u/susam
mjrbrennan · 2 months ago
I've got a couple, one for my fiction writing and general worldbuilding (a digital garden if you will) at https://writing.martin-brennan.com and my tech blog at https://martin-brennan.com
mjrbrennan commented on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLh... · Posted by u/cjaackie
crystal_revenge · 2 months ago
> when the person in front of me reclines their seat.

As a reasonably tall person I have never reclined my seat and will forever consider anyone who does an asshole.

The very fact that you can but don’t do something is the precise space where assholeness is defined.

mjrbrennan · 2 months ago
This is fair on shorter flights ~1-4 hours, but I am reasonably tall too and I am not suffering through a 14 hour overnight flight without reclining. I don't think there is anything wrong with it in this case, and flight attendants will force people to de-recline their chair in meal times etc.
mjrbrennan commented on What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?    · Posted by u/ekusiadadus
bravesoul2 · 7 months ago
Sydney too, for quite a while (I am sure at least 5 yrs maybe 10)
mjrbrennan · 7 months ago
Brisbane now as well since the past ~1 year or so, much better than the old Go Card system. The only downside in most places with these systems though is that there is no easy way to pay for e.g. children, would be perfect if you could say 3x tickets on this card when you tap in + out.
mjrbrennan commented on Ask HN: Is AI 'context switching' exhausting?    · Posted by u/interstice
mjrbrennan · 9 months ago
Yes, I’ve only just started trying out Claude Code and I do not mesh well with this method of asking AI to do something, then having to wait a few minutes and come back and check its work.

I find this leads so easily to distraction and I find this workflow very boring. If I’m going to use AI I want to use it in a more integrated way, or in a more limited way like just querying ChatGPT.

Will still try Claude more but I’m really not a fan so far.

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I’m Martin Brennan, and I’m a full-stack staff software engineer working at Discourse.

I'm primarily a rubyist, but I enjoy JavaScript too, and I work with Rails and SPAs all day.

I have a technical blog at https://www.martin-brennan.com and a digital garden for my fiction writing at https://writing.martin-brennan.com. You can contact me at mjrbrennan@gmail.com

Outside of software engineering, my other loves include writing, reading, music, film photography, Warhammer, my lovely wife, our two sons, and our huge menagerie of pets.

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