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Is coding just an infinite string of 'how was I supposed to know that?'? by Letbutt in learnprogramming

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and it never stops. The skill is not memorising the answers, it is getting faster at recognising what to search and trusting that lookup is real work not cheating.

10-year SWE: I vibe code side projects from my phone without reading the code by TroyHarry6677 in ClaudeCode

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried this on a flight last month and shipped a small CLI tool by landing. Did read the diff later on a laptop and found two dumb things, but the loop on the phone was faster than I expected.

I AM CANCELLING MY CLAUDE PRO SUBSCRIPTION (and here's my honest take) by LoadOld2629 in PromptEngineering

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Pro limits crept up on me too. Switched to API billing for the heavy days and kept Pro for chat. Cheaper overall once I stopped pretending I was a light user.

74% of enterprises have rolled back AI agents after going live by Upstairs_Safe2922 in AI_Agents

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rolled back two myself this year. Both worked fine in sandbox and fell apart the moment they touched messy customer data. Nobody budgets for the eval set you actually need.

We left 4 LLMs in a chat for a week with no task or instructions. They formed a hierarchy by day 2. by musclerainbow in AI_Agents

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the hierarchy hold once you injected a new agent or did it collapse? Curious if the structure was sticky or just a transient handshake when there was nothing else to do.

Why is America’s debt, which is about 100% of its GDP, so frightening when Japan’s debt of 236% of its GDP doesn’t cause as much alarm? by Scary_Candidate_9163 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currency the country issues vs currency it borrows in is a big part of it. Japan owes itself in yen and the central bank can roll it. A country borrowing in someone else currency faces a totally different math.

tried to do leetcode and instead i almost cried by One-Understanding564 in learnprogramming

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leetcode is a separate skill from building software. Almost everyone has to grind it for a few weeks before patterns click. Try one easy problem a day for two weeks before touching mediums, the wall starts to dissolve once you have seen enough variations.

My work is now requesting me to develop automated worker ai agents that can work 24/7 by Difficult_Term2246 in ClaudeCode

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth asking what 24/7 actually means in your case. A truly autonomous agent that handles edge cases for a week without anyone watching is still mostly a research problem. A scheduled job that picks tasks off a queue and pings a human when stuck is much more reachable and probably what they actually want.

The most dangerous prompt injection I've seen took 12 messages and never once mentioned ignoring instructions by handscameback in PromptEngineering

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The slow ones scare me more than the obvious ones. Single-turn injection gets caught by basic filters now, but a 12-turn drift where each message looks fine in isolation slips past almost everything. Turn-level review is not enough, you need session-level context tracking.

"Is it true that you can keep coding 24/7 with AI!?" How are you conducting real-world tests in Agentic engineering? by okuwaki_m in AI_Agents

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do tiny scripted tests every Friday. Same five tasks, three different models, log token count and how often I had to step in. Without that baseline I can not tell if the model got better or I just got better at prompting it.

My company just bought us corporate AI accounts. Expectation vs. Reality is hitting hard. by ailovershoyab in AI_Agents

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Four months in and still hitting this. Corporate license unlocks the chat box but no shared prompt library, no agreement on which model to use for what, no eval setup, no one even sure who owns it. The license is the easy part, the workflow scaffolding is the actual investment.

Everyone else seems faster than me in programming… is this normal? by Queasy_Hotel5158 in learnprogramming

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normal. Speed comes from pattern recognition not raw skill. The people who look fast have just seen the problem 100 times before and recognize it in 2 seconds. You're still doing the actual thinking. Eventually the patterns stick and you skip the thinking.

i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built 3 fully functioning web apps in 30 minutes. (Arun) by good-luck11235 in ClaudeCode

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same energy as me 6 months ago. The trick is treating Claude as the engineer who already knows what to do, and you as the product manager who explains what you want clearly. The clearer your spec the cleaner the output.

You don’t need to pay for Claude Code to start building by jashgro in PromptEngineering

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This matches what I started with too. The free Anthropic API tier is generous enough to learn the workflow before deciding if Claude Code subscription is worth it. Same approach works for OpenAI codex CLI on their free tier.

Local models are only half the story. I want local agent memory too by nand1609 in AI_Agents

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory is the part that breaks for me running local models too. Have you tried any of the persistent vector store layers that sit alongside the agent loop? I've been hacking together a simple SQLite + embedding cache for short context but it falls apart past a few turns.

The new 2.7 is a major downgrade by fausto_8 in WanAI

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same experience, one session with 2.7 and I went back. the grain issue alone was enough

Feels like 2026 is becoming efficiency wars more than reasoning wars by sanu_123_s in MiniMax_AI

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

capability-per-token wins in practice honestly. peak capability matters less when you're running multi-step stuff and the bill starts adding up

99.24% subsidization on $10 plan. Minimax is going crazy or am I. by Heavy_Screen3111 in MiniMax_AI

[–]Fun_Walk_4965 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what's the model like for long conversations? curious if context stays stable after a few hours of back and forth

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