I’m in a similar boat. Many artists I listen to on Bandcamp offer cassettes(!) at a fair price and will charge a comparable price for the digital. However, I’ve seen some artists charge thousands for digital only but $10 for a tape that includes the digital version.
I don’t know why they do this, but I do know I have an ever growing stack of tapes I can’t listen to…
I am coming back to this. I’ve been using Claude pretty hard at work and for personal projects, but the longer I do it, the more disappointed I become with the quality of output for anything bigger than a script.
I do love planning things out and clarifying my thoughts. It’s a turbocharged rubber duck - but it’s not a great engineer
Me too. I’ve been playing with various coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot for some time, and I would say that their most useful feature is educating me. For example, they can teach me a library I haven’t used before, or help me debug a production issue. Then I would choose to write the code by myself after I’ve figured everything out with their help. Writing code by myself is definitely faster in most cases.
You are right, I don't have any baseline. I just try it and see if it works. One good thing about the software field is that I can compile and run the code for verification. It may not be optimal, but at least it's testable.
My thoughts on scripts are: the output is pretty bad too, but it doesn't matter as much in a script, because its just a short script, and all that really matters is that it kinda works.
At first I thought becoming “10x” meant outputting 10x as much code.
Now that I’m using Claude more as an expensive rubber duck, I’m hoping that I spend more time defining the fundamentals correctly that will lead to a large improvement in outcomes in the long run.
My personal experience was that of a decrease in productivity until I spent significant time with it. Managing configurations, prompting it the right way, asking other models for code reviews…
And I still see there is more I can unlock with more time learning the right interaction patterns.
For nasty, legacy codebases there is only so much you can do IMO. With green field (in certain domains), I become more confident every day that coding will be reduced to an AI task. I’m learning how to be a product manager / ideas guy in response
Neat! I am going to check this out.
I recently built an MCP system similar to this called Nonlinear (so clever) that uses SQLite for storage that lives outside the repo.
Honestly though, in repo is the better option.
Claude recommended I use Tilt for setting up a new project at work.
I wasn’t sure if it was worth it…is it pretty easy to set up a debugger? Not only do I have to adopt it, but I have to get a small team to be OK with it.
Our target deploy environment is K8S if that makes a difference. Right now I’m using mise tasks to run everything
Goal for the year is to post every two weeks
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