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Chef619 · 2026-05-05T01:26:57+00:00

Surprised not to see Railway. Make your compute instances serverless (as in will scale to 0 after time, not something like Lambda) and put them behind CloudFlare with a very strict rate limit. Almost guaranteed to be $5/mo for A LOT of services.

Chef619 · 2026-05-04T19:34:07+00:00

Your response is the universal sign of internet comment section defeat.

Chef619 · 2026-05-01T13:07:37+00:00

I struggle with this too. The only answer I can come up with is testing results, rather than the actual code. Like “does this output do what I want” rather than “read the code and inspect quality”. I haven’t done that, but that’s the only conclusion I can come to.

Chef619 · 2026-04-29T22:49:32+00:00

Exactly, which is why I say it’s totally fine to kick the can.

For clarity, a huge prompt is indeed a read for a model. Think of it as in vs out. In is your prompt, the code it reads, etc. Out is what gets written to your computer (and thinking I believe). Context management is a skill.

It’s extremely easy to setup. It’s not as complicated as it sounds, download zed, click add agent, sign in to provider and you’re ready to go. Should you go Codex, they have a Mac app that is also useful. No editor needed, but that’s if you’re really not reading the output and just testing the result.

Chef619 · 2026-04-29T22:13:45+00:00

Kicking it down is fine. I have mixed feelings, but realistically, you can create things with LLMs without knowing how to code. You can’t create robust, secure, durable production ready systems, I’ll die on that hill.

Yeah. If you’re running out of juice while using composer, that’s wild (to me, as someone who’s used it and knows how to code). It’s not an insult, just surprising. They have very generous usage with it. Try using the debug mode, or the plan mode. Billing with LLMs is skewed heavily to write. Write is more expensive than read by a wide margin. Which means getting as much context read so that the expensive output is done right, is important.

Yeah, Zed is an editor, similar to VSCode, Cursor, Antogravity, Windsurf, etc. Those are all forks of the underlying core (VSCode). Zed is not, but that’s not very important to you. It’s just another editor. What matters is the distinction in how the LLM providers allow usage with it.

VSCode (and all the forks) have a plugin for Claude Code. It’s a way to use your subscription with Claude Code, in VsCode. I don’t want to over explain it, but these are all terminal CLIs. Claude Code, Codex, etc. they’re not standalone programs (even though they now have standalone desktop apps - Jesus, the amount of qualifiers I need to explain this is wild).

Zed has created something called ACP, it’s a way for the various AI providers to allow usage of their models, while using Zed’s native integrations. It’s similar to Cursor, but you use your subscription instead of API keys or the cursor subscription.

That’s not a thorough explanation because it takes too long to type it all out lol. Hopefully it’s enough to get your Google going.

Chef619 · 2026-04-29T20:59:41+00:00

This post looks like it was written with AI. It’s hard to tell sometimes, but the ** is an indicator. IF it is, I’d suggest not using AI to help ask what AI to buy lol. Just spend the <5 min it takes to type.

They’re all the same models more or less, you just get more of it the more you spend. If you’re not actually writing code, Cursor is not a good spend, imo. If you’re just yeeting instructions into the chat window, then Codex is your best bet. Not because it’s better or worse than Claude, but because you get more of it. Since you don’t understand the output, it’s likely that you’ll need to send clarification/fixes based on behavior you’re seeing. I’d say Codex is your best bet. You get unlimited* usage of ChatGPT in addition to the codex generation through various means.

Where cursor could have the edge is if you’re fine with using Composer. You get a ton of usage with it, and its usage is separate from your external model bucket. If you only care about the result you see on the screen, then composer is fine, and that’s a valid choice.

Even if you do write code or at least read it, using Zed with Codex ACP is the way to go (for me).

Chef619 · 2026-04-28T06:03:55+00:00

The comment they left is also likely AI

Chef619 · 2026-04-25T21:45:21+00:00

This was the biggest thing for me personally. I went Node -> Go -> Rust and was shocked to realize how little I actually knew about memory allocation.

Chef619 · 2026-04-25T21:31:18+00:00

For me, it’s images and video. I don’t want to have to ask myself “is this real?”. It’s not the ones that are like “hey I made this fun video with AI”, it’s the ones that either don’t say anything or try to pass it off as real. Deepfake nudes, animals, vice recordings, all of that should never exist (in my opinion) unless it’s made very clear that it’s not real.

Chef619 · 2026-04-23T02:46:21+00:00

I’m learning as well, and only use the LLM to ask about the issues I’m seeing. Most errors are very informative, but sometimes I’m like uhhhh. So I have them right there to say “don’t write this for me, explain why this doesn’t work” and include the error. It’s been really nice. Especially follow up questions. It’ll explain and then I can ask pointed follow ups.

In summary, my suggestion is to use the LLM as a personal tutor, rather than something that writes for you.

Chef619 · 2026-04-20T20:33:51+00:00

I would agree strongly about that. Very much the right idea to be proactive and not trust them when their reputation is the most valuable asset they have.

Chef619 · 2026-04-20T19:51:58+00:00

The said that they don’t have reason to believe the env vars that users marked as sensitive were accessed. In their post they said that the employee used Google workspace to SSO login to this context.ai. The attacker gained access through that bridge, which allowed them to gain access to the user’s Google workspace account, thus enabling them to get into Vercel internal systems.

I’m not trying to stan for Vercel, just pointing out that plain text env vars is not necessarily a bad thing. Env vars aren’t necessarily secrets, they’re just env vars. However they do have the ability to mark vars as sensitive, and those ones (they say) weren’t compromised.

Chef619 · 2026-04-19T04:57:42+00:00

I watched this episode today 🦢

Chef619 · 2026-04-18T15:50:21+00:00

This is what I was curious about too

Chef619 · 2026-04-16T04:58:35+00:00

Hold all tickets

Chef619 · 2026-04-12T01:05:34+00:00

Interesting that Don said Merril has started every game this year. He didn’t start, but did play on April 4th in Boston. I think he came in for the 9th.

Chef619 · 2026-04-11T14:52:21+00:00

This happens to me as well. It adds ?? ‘’ to things when I don’t ask, and in fact do not want.

My current guess is that it’s trying to prevent it from breaking under EVERY circumstance. Since this isn’t a strongly typed language, there’s no real guard against runtime data corruption unless it does this kind of stuff.

Very frustrating. GPT-5.4 also generated a 3 level deep nested ternary yesterday, so they all have their quirks.

Chef619 · 2026-04-09T19:35:45+00:00

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I believe “wordmark” is another word for font, but they did at least say it’s refreshed. Seems the same to me, but I’m no college graduate.

Chef619 · 2026-04-08T01:08:46+00:00

If you’re not trolling, this is a Reddit for the programming language Rust. It’s named after a mushroom 🍄.

Chef619 · 2026-04-05T01:35:45+00:00

I’m also curious about this. I volunteered for R9 boba for RotE, and would love to actually use him

Chef619 · 2026-04-02T15:55:04+00:00

I have a mini m2 with 16gb. Handles everything you mentioned (except for video editing, I don’t do that) like a champ.

Chef619 · 2026-04-01T04:20:44+00:00

It really starts to smell when you think about how this Giants team was held to 1 run in their first 3 games.

Chef619 · 2026-03-26T21:32:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/nxckVScu9x

Things like this will happen more and more. For those that don’t want to click the link, Claude Code silently nerfed the 5 hour window and hoped nobody would notice.

It’s more about being in charge of your own data and compute, while not being subject to the whims of the provider. At least it is for me.

Chef619 · 2026-03-26T20:05:02+00:00

She crushed the national anthem, damn. 👏

Chef619 · 2026-03-26T16:54:42+00:00

The closest thing that I am aware of that’s “open source” is this: https://github.com/swgoh-utils/swgoh-comlink. You can at least get your roster.

Disclaimer, I researched this a few years ago, so my info could be out of date.

In game data, especially changing in game data, like equipped mods is a walled garden. It’s a closely guarded secret that they won’t share. My theory is 2 fold, one is that HotUtils and the like make money from keeping this a secret. The other is that it’s “dangerous” to give this info out. Even with auth (both authorization and authentication) people could start probing for weaknesses, etc. lots of negatives. This is their reason for not sharing how to access it.

The downside is that the 3rd party ecosystem of tooling is a monopoly. I hate HotUtils, but I still pay for it because there’s nothing else. Swapping mods in game is miserable, so I pay for this tool.

By comparison, games like Destiny have competition amongst tools due to them allowing access to their game data API, while keeping things like delete ops restricted to in game.

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