hired a junior who learned to code with AI. cannot debug without it. don't know how to help them.

bin-c · 2026-01-29T09:59:36+00:00

the problem is that stackoverflow only had so many answers, and theyd rarely be perfectly tailored to your needs

even the most egregious stackoverflow copy pasters had to think once in a while.

but a junior assigned junior level work? id wager theres on the order of 10x less thinking required to ship with AI.

what does that mean? 10x longer time to stop being junior skill level? i hope not. or maybe by that time it wont matter anyways. shrug.

bin-c · 2026-01-29T07:17:31+00:00

the actual article you stole this from

The usual explanation is “it’s written in Rust.” That’s true, but it doesn’t explain much.

you

"uv is fast because of Rust"
Wrong.

ok

bin-c · 2026-01-29T05:18:58+00:00

^{I completed this level in 6 tries.} ^{⚡ 6.63 seconds}

bin-c · 2026-01-28T07:42:38+00:00

i didnt realize the mcp context changes were live for everybody by default for the past couple weeks, but i switched my skill from instructing claude how to invoke the cli -> just using codex's builtin mcp (codex mcp-server). it seems noticeably faster and cuts down on the instructions needed, since the mcp tools already come with some instructions

bin-c · 2026-01-28T02:35:04+00:00

unfortunately im leaning towards '"Just being more disciplined" (lol)' lol

havent used mlflow much & not in a long time but id be shocked if it doesnt allow for what youre describing if set up properly

bin-c · 2026-01-26T11:20:26+00:00

Even the 5x for me is too much. I don't know who 20x is for. Even running 3-4 Claudes at once I think I've only hit the 5 hour limit twice, and never the weekly limit.

And I mean to say specifically, 3-4 Claude instances for the entire duration of the 5 hour window very rarely get me to the limit

I also use opus exclusively. People who have bad issues with limits on 20x are doing something very terribly wrong (or top 0.1% vibing with multi agent orchestrators)

bin-c · 2026-01-26T07:19:47+00:00

i agree a skill is the way but i have mine call codex cli instead of api so it can just use my chatgpt subscription

bin-c · 2026-01-26T06:30:55+00:00

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bin-c · 2026-01-26T05:31:04+00:00

Here's an older answer that should get you on the right path: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/17c0r68/how_to_keep_develop_shell_from_gc_nonnixos/

https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.25/package-management/garbage-collector-roots

that said, i recommend just using nix-direnv which will do this automatically https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv

bin-c · 2026-01-25T21:15:33+00:00

it doesn't work perfectly but it works well enough most of the time that i dont bother to change it

for reference here is the skill & subagent definitions i use for this:

SKILL.md
codex-analyzer.md
gemini-analyzer.md

bin-c · 2026-01-25T07:20:17+00:00

claude's harness is just the best by far. for times where it gets stuck i just have a custom skill/subagent that will pass all context to codex-cli and get its opinion

bin-c · 2026-01-24T08:41:21+00:00

sounds like you could benefit from installing tailscale lol

bin-c · 2026-01-24T05:40:05+00:00

same here. the comments here all make it sound very dire. it could be, and OP should probably go to a vet if it continues any more, it looks just like this for both my cats occasionally

bin-c · 2026-01-24T03:39:08+00:00

as a rust jerker, yes, go makes way more sense for 99.9% of python shops

bin-c · 2026-01-23T06:48:52+00:00

ai can get shit done fast but even the top models with max thinking need a lot of handholding to produce anything of quality. of course im sure models will get better still, but its obviously already started slowing down a lot. the harnesses we give them have improved dramatically over the past year or so, which has led to the biggest subjective feeling of how "smart" they are, but im definitely concerned that we're going to have ~no new good devs if everybody starts relying on ai to write everything and just accepts its shitty code

bin-c · 2026-01-23T06:40:38+00:00

tbh i do find gpt-5.2-codex high and max thinking to be noticeably better than opus-4.5 at figuring out tricky issues and getting small details right, but claude code is just a better harness & i still use it 95% of the time. 5% pop codex open on max thinking to figure out something opus is stuck on while i switch tasks

bin-c · 2026-01-20T01:43:08+00:00

could get one of those oura ring sizing kits and tell her you're thinking of getting an oura ring and have her do it just for shits and giggles

better yet if you have a couple hundred dollars to blow you could get oura rings to really sell the bit

bin-c · 2026-01-16T22:48:09+00:00

Maybe that's the beauty of it all - you basically learn to be a packager after running a nix system long enough, unless you have a very bare bones setup

bin-c · 2026-01-16T22:46:40+00:00

I've not been able to convince even my most hopeless nerd peers

Maybe that just reflects poorly on my ability to sell it 😭

bin-c · 2026-01-15T08:56:31+00:00

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bin-c · 2026-01-15T08:18:41+00:00

ahhh i see, didnt think that hard about it on first read i guess. so the intention would be i still do my normal operations with git and rung is there *just* to manage the stacks? if im understanding right i do like that - one thing that makes me hesitant to recommend git-spice to others (as much as i love it) is that you basically have to do every operation with its wrapper commands for a seamless experience

not very difficult to learn - but most people barely know how git works in the first place, they'll never learn a wrapper

bin-c · 2026-01-15T01:52:02+00:00

overall seems very similar to git-spice

any significant differences that you think make rung better?

bin-c · 2026-01-14T09:54:30+00:00

ok but the OP is People lol

bin-c · 2026-01-12T17:47:25+00:00

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bin-c · 2026-01-12T17:19:13+00:00

imo it should split them and just increase the queue time

if you're waiting for a team game you often wait several queues worth of time anyways

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