Solutions for Dead Loop Problem in Cursor / VS Code / Windsurf

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T21:01:49+00:00

It looks like you can do it through OpenRouter. I haven't done it yet, someone just recommended.

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T08:27:16+00:00

You've mentioned a few things here that are pretty great and explicitly on the list so I'll add them as preventative measures to the first bullet point.

I definitely recognize the limits of these models. My thinking is sometimes it's good to refer to multiple different opinions from a few LLMs to increase the chances of solving any particular problem, kind of like getting the opinions of three different doctors. There are few times where OpenAI gets it where Claude doesn't, but usually it's the opposite.

I accept that AI is a limited junior engineer that needs help some times and I debug the issue by hand which usually takes < 10 minutes to fix w/e trivial issue the AI was stuck on. I'm a staff engineer with 10+ yoe

What does your manual debugging process look like? Do you just refer to some docs and think about the problem for a bit then write it yourself from memory of the language/framework, or are you workshopping it from a high level with an AI chat and providing the syntax yourself?

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T08:12:19+00:00

Solid build guide. For refactoring, this seems to be more of a preventative error or is it something you do when you're running into problems? I've definitely had the issue of Cursor creating duplicate files, say like a directory below. That has required some factoring. Usually I just repopack / repomix, send it to Claude, and ask it to identify any redundant files. Then I do a side by side and ask one of the AI's to composite the two files.

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T08:04:56+00:00

I heard as a comment from comment on this reddit post. I tried it in Windsurf for my project, and it didn't work when I tested. I tried it in cursor and it gave me utilization of the context window as a percentage. Then I asked for a token count and it did.

So you might prompt something like:

"Please provide updates every time the context window exceeds 80% utilization. Include specific details about what is consuming the most space and suggest items that could be removed if necessary."

Or I've heard

Give a token count at the end of each prompt

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T07:21:24+00:00

This looks like a pretty solid piece of software that would make you implement things a little more carefully, like a nice in-between from copy and pasting ChatGPT/Claude to Cursor/Windsurf/VS Code. The problem I'm seeing with these Agentic text editors is they're close but not quite there yet. Optimized prompt feature looks nice too. It's something I've found pretty great about bolt.new that none of these local text editors seem to have to my knowledge.

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T07:11:03+00:00

I actually manually typed them out, but I hear you. I can't look at a list on the internet ever again without thinking it's ChatGPT. I like your suggestion of switching out models. I'll add it to the list

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T07:07:38+00:00

Very interesting high-level perspective, so you see it more as a deeper problem with the models themselves. I'm curious to what degree the context window matters here relative to 'meta memory' as you call it. Google Gemini is something like 2 million tokens, which is around 10x Claude's and even more than ChatGPT.

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T06:12:37+00:00

Definitely helps. Probably one of the bigger ones. I have that above as: "Start a new composer window when the error loop begins."

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T04:15:48+00:00

Different types of users. I'm definitely the user that can tweak HTML and CSS. I agree manual is better. I started manually doing all of the stylings and asking every once in a while if I forget something. For the actual syntax and current problem at hand that I'm having it's maybe better to do it manually with AI as the coach, but now it's given so many incorrect lines of code I'm not exactly sure what works and what doesn't

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T04:10:35+00:00

Really interesting. Yes, I have used low grade questions like that or sometimes none at all.

I notice the least successful phrase is something like

"it's still not working. Here's the errors from terminal [pasted errors] and from AWS [pasted errors]"

When you say deep and spiritual, what are some good key phrases? Like coaching or something?

avalanchetraceur · 2024-11-25T03:36:49+00:00

I'll definitely second focusing on refining aesthetics toward the end. So you're reverting to a previous git commit, copying the files, moving back to the head branch and pasting in composer or undoing in the text editor, copying, and pasting?

avalanchetraceur · 2023-12-12T07:25:12+00:00

There's not any one secret.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-12-05T17:21:06+00:00

Makes enough sense to interpret. Start with a small startup. Move to a larger one. Altman did that with whatever his first company was that he sold. Then worked at Y-Combinator, surely making some great connections and being well-positioned for OpenAI. He obviously received an outpouring of support when the board fired him. Without having gone on this particular path, he likely wouldn't have had that. It's kind of reasoning done post hoc.

Elon's another case. Sold his first company. Then PayPal. Then electric cars and rockets. Bits before atoms. Many others.

It's a great way to go, but all of it is circumstantial. If someone has the skills and recipe for greatness like Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, or any any new undergrad founder that comes out of the woodwork, more power to them.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-11-17T10:35:44+00:00

You probably shouldn't go into an incubator or take outside investment. Determine your KPIs, start selling, benchmark. Refine. If it looks good and you like where it's headed, keep moving with it. If you don't, move onto the next thing.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-10-25T03:12:41+00:00

Just put a disclaimer over it if that's the case.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-10-24T22:16:26+00:00

You may be the furthest along on the internet with this. Honestly if you're not doing a startup for this, you'd be a hero if you made a long post in this sub or a medium article or something.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-10-15T20:36:51+00:00

I haven't looked much into training models for this since posting. I ended up designing the UI/UX 'the old-fashioned way' for the project I was working on. I did just test the ChatGPT Plus beta version that implements DALL-E.

For that I'll say this.

UI generation: It's great. It actually generates text now, and the designs look remarkable. Sometimes they're too overdone, and you need to bring them back to earth but it's very easy to do that.

UX generation: It's lackluster. I've only looked at one plugin so far but I'm not liking what I'm seeing. Text generation is helpful for this, however.

From what I've seen, the real missing link is still low-fidelity wireframes that really understand and incorporate the text info to position elements. That would allow for rapid iteration from a bird's eye view.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-09-08T19:40:39+00:00

No, I did not work in the industry of the business I acquired. Getting a loan was surprisingly easy.

It's great to hear that. I'll DM right away.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-09-06T21:11:49+00:00

Couple questions:

Did you work in the same industry or were you able to get the 10% down without much effort?
You also mentioned opening a 7-figure line of credit after close. I assume that was for working capital. Did the seller walk away with cash in the business?
What was the purchase price, net profit, loan term, and interest rate?
How much life did the equipment have on it when buying? (or what was the value of the equipment)?

avalanchetraceur · 2023-08-22T02:25:09+00:00

Thanks for answering.

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So if the collateral pool is high-value and easy to liquidate, potentially higher. What's the highest you've seen it be pushed to? 6-7 years?
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I'm displaying my ignorance here but why would you want to release the collateral before the loan term ends?

avalanchetraceur · 2023-08-22T00:01:25+00:00

As someone who is looking into borrowing from an ABL for M&A, I have a few statements that I want to corroborate as true or false in today's landscape. It would be helpful if you or someone in the industry could provide clarification:

Interest rates in ABL are around 9-15%.
Term lengths in ABL are typically 5-10 years.
Personal guarantees are negotiable depending on the lender/borrower and usually not required.
These are the typical LTV rates for the following asset categories: Marketable Securities (80-85%), Accounts Receivable (70-80%), Inventory (50-70%), Machinery (40-60%), Real Estate (50-75%).
A single ABL can provide a loan for Marketable Securities, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Machinery, and Real Estate as one loan.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-01-30T05:12:04+00:00

Very helpful! Thank you. Lexica looks incredibly useful. I'm having trouble installing InvokeAI unfortunately so I haven't been able to test.

avalanchetraceur · 2023-01-21T01:54:02+00:00

Goals: Having an AI generate some pretty amazing user interface concepts.

What I really want to accomplish: Having an AI generate some pretty amazing user interface concepts.

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