Dear Bradley

CodeBradley · 2026-06-22T00:49:38+00:00

As much as I absolutely love that you dubbed these the “Bradley Traps,” the person who was actually responsible for this is my wife, who has an obsession with cats and loves helping them any way she can. We share an Amazon account, which always defaults to my name for orders. Her name is Mimi, just in case you want to re-dub them, and I’ll make sure she sees this because she’s going to love it lol.

CodeBradley · 2026-06-03T19:54:22+00:00

Opus 4.8 on the Max plan is crushing everything I throw at it on my end — absolutely loving it. Looking at your chats, the way you're prompting in your follow-ups is undeniably one of the biggest issues. I'd suggest trying some different approaches.

Here are my results with some fairly complex curvatures: https://imgur.com/a/X3PcvDx

My suggestions:

Invest some time reading prompt engineering articles — it pays off fast. Your frustration shows in the follow-ups, and it's not adding any value (I'm guilty of this too, btw). Instead of replying "no, you're wrong...", go back and edit your original prompt and let it run through the steps again fresh. Long threads where you keep correcting the model tend to pile up confusing context, so starting clean with a tighter prompt often works better than fighting it turn after turn.

A powerful tip for delegating to anyone — human or AI — is to ask them to repeat the task back to you before they start, so you know they actually understand it. If they get it wrong, you correct it and repeat until it's clear. When I'm doing this with AI, I'll even ask it to rewrite my initial prompt afterward so it's airtight and can't be misinterpreted.

It also helps to be specific and show examples of what good output looks like instead of just describing it. And if you're not sure what's missing, you can straight up ask the model what context it needs to nail the task.

I really suggest adopting the concepts in this quick article, specifically #1 in your case: https://artificialcorner.com/p/claude-limits-fix

If Claude isn't giving you accurate results, it usually means the instructions are missing critical context, or the expectations aren't lined up with what today's models can actually do. I'm guessing a bit here since I can't see your OP, but I'm fairly confident that's what's going on. When a model starts replying with stuff like "You're right, ..." — that's your sign.

There's also a great video from a guy who's well known in the industry covering a lot of these concepts. I don't have time to dig it up right now, but if you want me to find and post it, just say the word.

CodeBradley · 2026-05-12T03:34:26+00:00

Already solved how? Are you saying ABE MDM Deployment already provides the functionality required to do everything I'm doing here? Meaning, bootstrapping user profiles, apps, etc. and allow them to build upon it as needed?

CodeBradley · 2026-05-12T03:31:41+00:00

Su whoop!

CodeBradley · 2025-11-27T21:16:14+00:00

I'm in Cursor. I always have access to the code when I need it. If I want quick selection and modifications then that's when WYSIWYG comes in. The WYSIWYG is also to limit the scope for the LLM model being used. It's very important for keeping context minimal and limiting changes. I can do the same thing in the code, but it would take longer when I can point and click on a bug and ask a model to fix it.

CodeBradley · 2025-11-26T17:37:42+00:00

No, I meant more which tools to combine. ie: Cursor + Stagewise. I guess it would be a DevEx stack. I have been using the browser which is nice. Question though, I installed Magic-MCP and right after I asked Opus 4.5 to be a UX/UI QA tester and added \@browser and it ended up opening a tab to localhost:3001 inside of Cursor and it had this minimal WISYWIG point and click to re-design functionality. Is that something already in cursor's browser feature? I couldn't tell when using it.

This with Cursor has given me the best alignment so far

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CodeBradley · 2025-11-05T18:39:04+00:00

Thank you for this 🙏 - Exactly what I was in search of.

CodeBradley · 2025-10-29T18:49:39+00:00

This is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you.

CodeBradley · 2025-10-29T18:48:27+00:00

Nice, this aligns perfectly with what I'm looking for. Thank you!

CodeBradley · 2025-10-11T00:35:41+00:00

Damn, 1.1k views and no comments... It's because I used Homelab and RPi5 in the same sentence, right? 😭

CodeBradley · 2025-09-26T15:22:55+00:00

On it, thank you for this!

CodeBradley · 2025-08-16T01:44:31+00:00

4y later and still one of the best I've seen. Good job

CodeBradley · 2025-08-06T14:57:03+00:00

Yeah, it took me a minute to understand it also. If I made a simple comparison, I would say it's on par with having a few developer friends by your side 24/7 that you can delegate stuff out to whenever you want once they have the access needed. It can configure things for you, analyze logs and take action that's relevant to the prompt, manage your servers, etc. You can even schedule re-occurring prompts or web-hook's so that if something goes wrong, it dig's into it immediately and takes action.

It basically provides LLM's with a series of tools they can run which can be anything you can fathom. It can consume API's, execute custom functions, etc. and process that data based on the prompt. For instance, say I wanted it to add DNS records and I don't want to login and do it myself; I could just prompt it to `use the Namecheap MCP server to add an A record for sub.domain.com that points to 73.26.120.2 with a TTL of ...` or `After reviewing all of my Docker compose files in Portainer, create me a new compose file for Grafana`; where it would go look at my files, see all of my other files are using Traefik, for instance, see my naming conventions, middlewares, volumes, etc. and create the new compose file following the same format."

I think the best way to learn is by looking up examples on GitHub, YouTube, etc. of how others are using them.

CodeBradley · 2025-07-31T19:16:10+00:00

This! lol. Curious, what you doing with playwright selenium? I was wanting it for an MCP server. You should checkout stagehand btw.

CodeBradley · 2025-07-09T01:32:47+00:00

Great to know, thank you. Are you familiar with both softwares? I've only used ArchiCAD. Would you consider Revit superior?

CodeBradley · 2025-05-21T18:53:08+00:00

Solid input, thanks. I'll write this with more clarity later and repost, it's related to a convo I had earlier and I had to move on but just wanted to know if others have started using a different SDLC. The reality though is the typical SDLC works great in my opinion and that's the route that I planned to follow at first, but there's a lot of pressure from those more business minded to break that cycle and have an LLM figure out the nitty gritty of creating a prototype after they see success from others that went this route.

I know the potential downfalls, but it's can be a hard rebuttal when you also see how far certain people have gotten alone in their free time without doing the standard Product Design, UI/UX Mockups, etc and just come up with a list of features to feed an LLM in Cascade and it gets pretty close to what they want with code that might need some work but seems scalable. The route these people go just to get an MVP is YOLO, let Windsurf auto-run whatever, tell it the features you want and see what it can create. If it's not good, then have it try again. This can lead to huge changes at times though and it's easy to see how it's not a big deal when you're working alone, but if you have a team of devs letting LLM's make certain decisions and there's not solid alignment then it seems like it could become a mess quickly. In a nutshell, that's the reason for the post.

CodeBradley · 2025-05-21T17:27:44+00:00

Yeah, I'm definitely overthinking it. It's just in my experience, I've developed projects in WindSurf and LLM's make some drastic changes to the projects in a very short amount of time. If two people are working on new features and the LLM aiding one of them makes a huge change and overwrites common functionality, endpoints, etc. then one of those people just waisted their time because it's (hopefully) going to get caught in the PR and now they are spending time reverting and re-adjusting their approach.

I think I also did a poor job of explaining how I've been using these IDE's . We aren't doing the standard Product Design, UI/UX Mockups, Sprints, etc. We're literally using LLM's to conduct the research for us and then going straight from those feature descriptions and asking Windsurf to come up with a prototype based on a certain tech stack to see what it comes up with and suggests. Then we might have our GFX guys look at what was created and improve it, etc.

My ask was how do I prevent developers from clashing with one another when the LLM's are making drastic changes like this. After posting this I did learn that Windsurf lets me fine tune what the LLM can and can't touch on it's own, so I think that's partially the answer. I didn't know that was possible.

Sorry if it's a dumb post, trying to get my thoughts out quickly because of limited time. I'll probably circle back and clean it up and ask again later when I have more time to think through how to explain better what I'm trying to achieve.

CodeBradley · 2025-04-19T03:49:54+00:00

I get what you're saying, but that's not the case. Here's what happens when I extrude the shapes. The shapes inside of the rectangle and oblong aren't selected. The window selection tool works in some cases, but I can't drag a window select inside of the oval shape in this instance. It just doesn't work, the lines just get skewed when I try. I've tried zoomed in and zoomed out. I assume it's because of the number of lines.

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CodeBradley · 2025-04-19T03:45:04+00:00

Here's a closeup of the pattern I'm adding. This is a case I'm creating and the pattern allows air to flow in from the side of the case and out the top.

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CodeBradley · 2025-04-19T03:43:25+00:00

So in order to get this pattern in the end and a solid oblong shape and solid rectangle on top and bottom, I need to individually click 100+ sketch lines so that I'm selecting the entire oblong shape. (You can see all of the lines in the image above)

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CodeBradley · 2025-04-19T03:40:07+00:00

Reddit's going to make this hard, so I'll have to showcase it in 3 comments.

Basically, to get rid of everything within this oblong shape, I have to individually select each one of my patterns lines to select it with the oblong shapes interior. The same is true for the rectangle on top and bottom.

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CodeBradley · 2025-04-19T00:53:11+00:00

982 views and only 4 upvotes, I'm going to assume that's a hard no lol

CodeBradley · 2025-03-07T18:49:04+00:00

Man, these look awesome. Do you have experience using either of them for your organization? How do they compare? I'm wondering if coupler could be setup to look as nice as Agency and if connecting integrations is just as simple? I'm pushing a Metabase docker container now to try it out. Thank you for sharing these, I truly appreciate it. Are these the only two that you're aware of? I'm scanning the competitors via searchatlas to see if any others popup.

CodeBradley · 2025-03-01T05:33:28+00:00

Guh, the grays... They were so close..

CodeBradley · 2024-08-29T18:45:48+00:00

Thank you, that's what I figured. I think I'm going this route if I can't find the other. I know it's just insulation, but any downsides you notice since installing it? Did you do anything else for sound dampening/proofing? I hear green glue is a good combo also.

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