rmnclmnt (u/rmnclmnt)

rmnclmnt commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay

rmnclmnt · 5 days ago

> I also think it takes a lot of the fun out of the whole thing.

I used to say that implementation does not matter, tests should be your main focus. Now I treat every bit of code I wrote with my bare hands like a candy, agents have sucked the joy out of building things

rmnclmnt commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

djmips · 6 days ago

It is pretty hard work huh! I was surprised. In my case, I was doing a personal project but in the end I felt a little crispy although the result was succesful.

rmnclmnt · 6 days ago

Honestly now I only use agents for very narrow surgical scopes to avoid feeling numbed. It removed the fun of actually dreaming and building things

rmnclmnt commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

rmnclmnt · 6 days ago

Can we also take into account the mental cost associates with building software? Because how I see it, managing output from agents is way more exhausting than doing it ourself.

And obviously the cost of not upskilling in intricate technical details as much as before (aka staying at the high level perspective) will have to be paid at some point

rmnclmnt commented on The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest brokenco.de/2025/10/30/ka... · Posted by u/alex_hirner

rmnclmnt · 7 days ago

If only for the initiative driving the work behind delta-rs, I’d say it was well worth it!

rmnclmnt commented on Don't push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.... · Posted by u/nutanc

rmnclmnt · 14 days ago

> We don't need AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). We don't need a digital god. We just need software that works.

Yeah, I think the days of working software are over (at least deterministically)

rmnclmnt commented on Writing a good Claude.md humanlayer.dev/blog/writi... · Posted by u/objcts

serial_dev · 14 days ago

I’m sure I’m just working like a caveman, but I simply highlight the relevant code, add it to the chat, and talk to these tools as if they were my colleagues and I’m getting pretty good results.

About 12 to 6 months ago this was not the case (with or without .md files), I was getting mainly subpar result, so I’m assuming that the models have improved a lot.

Basically, I found that they not make that much of a difference, the model is either good enough or not…

I know (or at least I suppose) that these markdown files could bring some marginal improvements, but at this point, I don’t really care.

I assume this is an unpopular take because I see so many people treat these files as if they were black magic or silver bullet that 100x their already 1000x productivity.

rmnclmnt · 14 days ago

Matches my experience also. Bothered only once to setup a proper CLAUDE.md file, and now never do it. Simply refering to the context properly for surgical recommendations and edit works relatively well.

It feels a lot like bikeshedding to me, maybe I’m wrong

rmnclmnt commented on Ruby Was Ready from the Start obie.medium.com/ruby-was-... · Posted by u/thunderbong

herbst · 19 days ago

I am super efficient these days. But that's exactly what it feels like. Coding is not fun anymore and needs a lot of stress resistance now.

However doing actual manual coding starts to feel weird as well

rmnclmnt · 18 days ago

> Coding is not fun anymore

The thing that made our crowd apart in the work society is now vanishing, that’s sad.

I wonder how future movies will depict programmers: depressed faces getting angrier and angrier chatting with a CLI coding agent! This will not inspire future generations!

rmnclmnt commented on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-s... · Posted by u/random_moonwalk

rmnclmnt · a month ago

Your daughter is so lucky! I meaning the physical UX is very reminiscent of teenage engineering, looks great! The more I was scrolling down the article the more I hoped for an « order » button :)

rmnclmnt commented on 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark dataengineeringcentral.su... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

pu_pe · a month ago

In places I have worked at that used Databricks, I feel they chose it for the same reasons big orgs use Microsoft: it comes out of a box and has a big company behind it. Technical benchmarks or even cost considerations would be a distant second.

rmnclmnt · a month ago

Until the product manager ask for the bill… then all of a sudden things get reconsidered

rmnclmnt commented on 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark dataengineeringcentral.su... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

esafak · a month ago

I used pySpark some time ago when it was introduced to my company at the time and I realized that it was slow when you used python libraries in the UDFs rather than pySpark's own functions.

rmnclmnt · a month ago

Yes using Python UDFs within Spark pipelines are a hog! That’s because the entire Python context is serialized with cloudpickle and sent over the wire to the executor nodes! (It can represent a few GB of serialized data depending on the UDF and driver process Python context)