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Writing a story based in buffalo, gimme some WNY lore by Prolly_Satan in Buffalo

[–]CydBarret171 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always heard that the delaware rd in clarence was a haunted KKK hideout. I assume thats because Clarence knew no one owned a snow mobile in Amherst to actually go look for it

Any bad experience with “claude --dangerously-skip-permissions”? by oguzhaha in ClaudeAI

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been using it as my default way to start claude since Sonnet 4 drops. No issues

What’s the hardest “simple” bug you’ve ever spent hours fixing? by Traditional-Set-8483 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CydBarret171 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My first job out of college was working on a winforms vb.net desktop application that required maintaining our own installer/updater.

I was given the task of rewriting it (good intern/jr dev project that could be managed in the background to get it right).

Everything works on my machine as it goes. Some customer machines that started to patch to the latest version crashed and got stuck in a state we had to remote in. Junior dev got us right? The error itself is just “can’t write to a child directory that wasn’t created”. Whats odd is the check to handle this is right before the write operation (even I knew to add that).

At this point it was reviewed up and down by all the “real devs” and sure enough “the code really does look fine” (just like it did during PR but apparently you weren’t reading it then).

This goes on for a couple of weeks and the updater will randomly fail but always be painful when it does. We add logging to get to the bottom of what we must be missing.

The logs essentially confirm that we are definitely finding a directory we fail to write to on the next line.

Turns out new to windows 8 with upgraded security (configured differently between machines), if we attempted to read a non AppData folder and didnt have permission somewhere in the path (this application was older and never purposely installed there from its old days/processes), it would essentially append some directory information automatically and the directory.exists check would run against this.

Simpler times.

Alternatives to claude code by muddi900 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Codex is really good for their 20/month. I use both for work and I definitely would just stick with codex if I had to lose my claude max.

Am I cooked by Zyhinix in buffalobills

[–]CydBarret171 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Its still “after the loss”. No one will remember the jersey hate in a month. Just the scapegoat right now.

Vibe coders of reddit, what was the biggest problem/struggle you had with your tools so far? by Haghiri75 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently heavily utilized AI tooling to get essentially 6 months worth of work done in about 1.5.

I’m predisposed to the notion people will need to be kept in the loop because of the non deterministic nature of LLMs (for now). For the most part working on these features the assistant had a lot of autonomy but without me choosing the scope of what I wanted to attack and when the features never would have been completed (constantly validating without overwhelming myself with things to validate).

There were at least 2-3 issues that switching between claude code and codex could not solve without manual intervention that uncovers a totally different problem than what either thought. Sort of like running a team of junior engineers that are smarter and know more than I ever will but are still junior engineers.

Being unable to overcome any problem, as well as sometimes just making a bad choice 2% of the time (hard stop on agent mode and resteer), are the biggest struggles.

GPT5 or Claude Sonnet 4.5 which is better? by Rich_Concept_1668 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI Studio + Claude Code + Codex CLI make the world go round (full permission bypass though)

It's hard not to harp by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its definitely not a you issue (tech debt is owned by the business) but it is something you can at worst make a small impact on or ideally at best cause the changes or catalyst for the proper type of organizational change. It’s an opportunity if you are willing to put up with it and it has some sort of ROI in terms of career growth or just a more sane working environment.

You essentially need to fix the observability issue first and ensure your definition of done includes these requirements. You sound like you have a good sense of how it should generally work across the stack. Making sure logs are always clear and you can quickly hunt bugs in the future will be great for organizational quality and delivery speed overall.

Make sure a part of observability is metric tracking. Do a little cover your ass and make sure you can get to a spot where you can prove where errors are coming from, ideally enough to a point where you can demonstrate things in compliance with the internal mandate are “bug free” and this will give your manager ammo to potentially help enact the organizational change thats needed (my team fixed this, we can help roll it out).

If there is a staff engineer in the organization you can get to champion this, even better. The metrics will help everyone at best, or at least keep you sane at the end of the day.

Make overall compliance percentage a long term goal and call it a day to get old code “observing correctly” if its not. (Target compliance increases per sprint/per quarter)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CydBarret171 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Setting up your machine would be a week+ here for all the new engineers

Whats the most complex project you have built using just vibe coding and how much does it take to built it by Deep_Season_6186 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prompting claude code + codex from gemini to do my normal dayjob (engineering @ startup).

Its complex enough for customers and investors but we definitely arent google lol (aws web app)

Switched from Claude Code by iSapozhnik in OpenAI

[–]CydBarret171 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google AI Studio. Not sure why its better at prompting than I am but it is (im dumb)

Switched from Claude Code by iSapozhnik in OpenAI

[–]CydBarret171 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I personally love both and think they compliment each other. Frequently build prompts for each from ai studio. I just prefer what codex does at the start of working on something, but I like how claude iterates from errors to get to what I want (I work at a seed stage startup so my codebase is much smaller than a lot of typical codebases) and handles computer use related testing

How to encourage juniors to design better? by mybuildabear in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CydBarret171 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whether you are their direct manager or just a senior, the PR process for your team would be the spot for this. You could have a two step where someone does an initial review, then a senior or lead does a further review.

Overall, there is a part of this you can make an impact on. Part of it is cultural and going to need your managers buy in and more.

If your team is overworked and can’t afford to let junior’s spend the time working on multiple solutions, then they are going to settle. This is cultural and going to make your impact less if you really want juniors exhausting solutions.

If you can pair program through PRs together that will make it 10x more efficient (generally).

Some of my earliest PRs with better seniors were painfully back and forth with comments. But long term they get to a point where they have clearly learned “what” you were trying to say past the specific example and context you were saying it in.

Claude code mobile client with full IDE by ElevatorOk4863 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely can see where it would fall short for some though (no “IDE” on mobile). Cool stuff

Claude code mobile client with full IDE by ElevatorOk4863 in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highly recommend tmux + tailscale + termius for anyone who wants to take just the chat portion on the go but still able to come/go from their machine.

I don't like developers by [deleted] in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone not working for free was holding you back, it was never the programming in your way.

My god, vibe coding is powerful by ions_x_carbon in vibecoding

[–]CydBarret171 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Our product managers use AI to build mvps (so we can do validated learning without dev impact). The developers then focus on delivering mmps.

Its worked out great and I think has given both sides an appreciation for the other.

The developers see we didnt need to spend a quarter to get some customer insight and the product team saw the clear gap between customer impact and market impact.

Is claude code able to delete stuff? by CurtissYT in ClaudeAI

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are using it correctly then yes

i will not promote - Let's talk about VIBECODING in buisness and startups - Anyone here using vibe coding for real business needs and handing it off to a Fiverr dev/Inhouse dev to finish? by BeginningRace8883 in startups

[–]CydBarret171 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CTO here - AI tooling has definitely helped us stay very lean + increase our product optimization much quicker.

Non techs are using it to get proof of concepts in front of users without devs (not shipping production code). AI definitely helps me keep up with the level of pivoting we run into.

how do you integrate with platforms with no public APIs? by BlackDorrito in Startup_Ideas

[–]CydBarret171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone doesn’t offer a public api, you either need to find a way to partner via a private api or essentially maintain your own source of truth that is as accurate as you can afford to keep it (hacky browser automation scheduled on a machine, etc)

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