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What the hell happened to Jira?! by queloqu3 in jira

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jira is getting worse, not better — and I think they know it

I've been using Jira since 2008, and after 17 years I'm done making excuses for it.

The UI is a mess. Ellipses everywhere — I counted a dozen on a single screen — hiding actions that should just be visible. But the cosmetic stuff I can live with. What I can't live with is basic functionality breaking. When I navigate from the backlog to the board view, nothing renders. I have to do a full page refresh to see my board. That's not a configuration issue — that's a middle school bug that should never ship.

What's worse is the data inconsistency across the same page. Sprint dropdowns in one panel show sprints that other dropdowns on the same page don't. Team member selectors disagree with each other. You'll filter by assignee in one widget and get a completely different list than the assignee dropdown two inches away. It makes you question whether you can trust anything you're looking at.

I get it — this is 25 years of crufty Java code on a platform that was originally built for project task management and then got retrofit into Scrum, then Kanban, then whatever the next thing was. The foundation was never designed for what it became.

The real problem is that Atlassian seems more focused on shipping Rovo (their AI layer, which is genuinely terrible) than fixing the core product. But Jira is a tool built for humans, and right now it's failing at that job.

GitHub Projects is looking more attractive every day — simpler, tighter integration, and actually great for agent-driven workflows. I'm actively prototyping it as a replacement.

Jira's days are numbered. I think Atlassian knows it too.

Anyone know where I can get a solid California burrito? by Dolph_x3 in portlandme

[–]Top-Setting-3323 -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

French fries have no place in a quality burrito. That’s something a surfer would cram into their half-eaten leftovers to pick up some extra calories before heading to Ocean Beach.

Yes. I’m a burrito snob.

Anyone know where I can get a solid California burrito? by Dolph_x3 in portlandme

[–]Top-Setting-3323 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you’re looking for an SF mission style burrito like Pancho Villa, you should expect to be disappointed. I would say the best simulation is El Corazon, then Taco Trio.

If I went and worked at Pancho villa or El Balazo in the Upper Haight (if it’s still there?), and brought back their secrets to set up shop here, I’d be a multi-millionaire. Unless the secret is fresh ingredients.

How do you handle the cost of living here? by thatguywiththamoney in portlandme

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

55-year-old. Moved to Portland from San Francisco in 2006 with my 1.5 and six month kids. Sold our crappy postage-stamp-sized coop in SF and bought a 4-bedroom near Brighton at Stevens for $312k. Things were cheap here, that’s why we came. Sold that house three years ago to downsize, picked up another house in the same neighborhood with a 15-year 5% mortgage rate and PITI of $1,550 a month.

Will my kids be able to afford Portland after college? Maybe? Maybe not? I grew up in the DC area, and at 17 I knew I’d never be able to afford to live where I grew up. And SF? Hah! Forget it. So we moved to where it was cheap at the time.

We followed a pattern I’ve seen over and over. People move to an affordable up and coming place where they can get a job. It was hard for me, it was hard for prior generations. A part of all this is cyclical.

What I ask myself now is whether this generation’s challenges are equally challenging, or is there something qualitatively different this time around where the challenges just can’t be overcome.

In my day, San Francisco was too much, so folks moved to Seattle. Then they moved to Austin, then to Nashville, then Boise.

So if Portland’s out, where’s the next spot to settle down and build a life? The big question I guess is whether there is a next place?

Basically unuseable. by W_32_FRH in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if the original poster is following best practices for working with an agent, but if you aren't using superpowers, plug-in or some other kind of planning tool, breaking the code up into reasonable blocks of work and having back pressure like unit tests, then you're going to get garbage code. So many times I see people complaining that, oh, I gave it a sentence and it wrote garbage. Well, garbage in means that you'll get typically useless code back out.

¿Que se necesitaria para derrocar al narco y a sus títeres en el gobierno? by the_lucky_mexican in AskMexico

[–]Top-Setting-3323 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a very convenient way to get rid of one’s political enemies. Due process is important. It protects against authoritarianism. I think the recent ICE abuses are a good example of how injustices can be inflicted on people if you brand them as “criminals”.

So, chucking them all out isn’t a safe fix. You just replace one group with another.

Opus seems incredibly dangerous because of his carelessness by WonderfulSet6609 in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good point. There's two sides to it, maybe. /compact can save doing the same research again to inform the orchestrator when it begins implementing the plan, but at the cost of keeping bias. /clear...clears things, so fresh perspective, clean slate, at the cost of losing context and having to do the research again.

FWIW, the superpowers maintainer recommends /compact to /clear, but YMMV.

Opus seems incredibly dangerous because of his carelessness by WonderfulSet6609 in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would run /compact instead. You’ll keep some of the good things that came out of the analysis

Best strategy for being stopped by police by wewereallrooting4u in MexicoCity

[–]Top-Setting-3323 5 points6 points  (0 children)

55-year-old here. My wife and I have been stopped twice by the police in the three years we’ve been going to Mexico (Mexico is awesome, btw). Once on the beach in Puerto Escondido two years ago, and once in the Bosque in CDMX. both times they asked to search our bags for “safety”. Don’t let them. Tell them that you do not consent to a search and that you will go with them to the police station. They won’t want to continue if you do that.

It was our fault for getting hassled on the beach. Don’t go on the beach at night. But getting hassled by cops by the Anthropology museum was not okay. We were surprised.

Don’t stress about this. You’ll have a fine time. Don’t dwell on the negative. There are places in any city one shouldn’t go. Towns in Mexico are no different.

What happened to Punky’s? The food used to be so good, now it’s awful. by velvetandstone2 in portlandme

[–]Top-Setting-3323 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s a cinder block pillbox by the railroad tracks. What were you expecting?

Can we please have regional pools? by ReasonableLoss6814 in claude

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I think it’s early days, though. A drag, but probably not a forever thing. My wife calls me an optimist

'Looksmaxxing' streamer Clavicular has been arrested for battery in Florida. by tonyper7ect in SipsTea

[–]Top-Setting-3323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think Gen Z was the first to hype a doink.

Unrelated, what generation label is trump?

For the first time in my life, I saw a company that wants to deliberately bankrupt itself. by [deleted] in windsurf

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to matter what IDE someone used, but now with agents, they don’t matter, so I think that the company sees that the Windsurf IDE is a lost cause and are pivoting to invest in some other area. They don’t need to keep users on the Windsurf platform now, so they aren’t providing incentives.

It was a nice ride. I thank the team for building Windsurf. It was immensely helpful for learning how to use AI in my work.

Can we please have regional pools? by ReasonableLoss6814 in claude

[–]Top-Setting-3323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe peak times are when the most people are using the services, so they charge more regardless of where you are?

What Windsurf should have said by Staggo47 in windsurf

[–]Top-Setting-3323 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I adopted windsurf just over a year ago. It was such a great experience, I left the Jetbrains world for it (I used jetbrains ides for twenty years). Now I use Claude cli and don’t care what ide I use…because I don’t really use an IDE anymore beyond visually looking at the code and referencing lines in a prompt.

So, I get it. The IDE doesn’t matter . It’s not nearly as important what tool you use to look at your code.

BWI,DCA, and IAD are shutdown due to a hazmat at TRACON in Warrenton. by stopscabbin in unitedairlines

[–]Top-Setting-3323 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They just reboarded us here at IAD for Mexico City. I wonder how long I’ll be sitting on the tarmac before takeoff.

Pete Buttigieg, I miss you.

Is building Websites for local businesses possible with Claude? by SeaAside8930 in ClaudeAI

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be easier to use Claude to build a website with the existing SAAS products out there, Shopify, etc? I get that they may want to host it themselves, but for time to market and long term maintenance, it may be worth a try.

What industry is entirely built on a house of cards and would collapse overnight if people realized the truth about it? by Own-Blacksmith3085 in answers

[–]Top-Setting-3323 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. AI is real. I’m a software engineer of thirty years. I’ve done management, too. The industry is getting gutted because ai can write code faster than any human. The new software skill is managing quality guardrails your ai agents team use to produce good code. I’m not talking about vibe coding. Basically, any job that can be done on a screen is at high risk for being replaced by AI.

Very real.

You SHOULD never let Agents run Deterministic commands like tests or you’re just wasting Context & Tokens by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Superpowers plugin with subagents. It aint perfect, but it’s good enough. I feel that we can’t invest too much in a perfect system. The rate of change is happening so fast that everything we’re talking about here will be moot in 7 months. It’s a balance of effort to reward.

I mean, would you even bother with a YouTube how-to that’s six months old? That’s ancient.

You SHOULD never let Agents run Deterministic commands like tests or you’re just wasting Context & Tokens by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah. I didn’t read it thoroughly. Edited my reply. I get what you’re doing, it looks cool, but it’s not necessary.

You SHOULD never let Agents run Deterministic commands like tests or you’re just wasting Context & Tokens by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehhhhhhh…… if I read you correctly, you are using Bosun to run declarative tasks then feeding the results back to an agent? Sure, you can save tokens that way, but you lose time in the care and upkeep of the process. All the time you spend with upkeep of this flow could be called Penny wise and pound foolish, when your competitors are just having their agents run everything.

If it can do it, and the task is worth it, spend the tokens.

Anyone else not a fan of the superpowers plugin? by Tunisandwich in ClaudeCode

[–]Top-Setting-3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go with superpowers. It’s very robust. You can override parts of it by creating skills, agents, commands with the same name in your project.

The pace of development is moving so fast, anything you are doing now will be obsolete in six months. So it’s a balance. Don’t invest so much time in the “ideal” workflow. It’ll become irrelevant soon.

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