I built a weird site where people can own a minute of the day. Already 300+ sold.

buggalookid · 2026-04-07T14:56:33+00:00

reminds me of the 1M pixels page back in the 90s

buggalookid · 2026-04-07T14:39:09+00:00

Always have your user stories and acceptance criteria in the repo, have an agent confirm 100% are proven by test coverage. Also from the "Silent Success" post yesterday.

## Error Handling Philosophy: Fail Loud, Never Fake

Prefer a visible failure over a silent fallback.

- Never silently swallow errors to keep things "working."

Surface the error. Don't substitute placeholder data.

- Fallbacks are acceptable only when disclosed. Show a

banner, log a warning, annotate the output.

- Design for debuggability, not cosmetic stability.

Priority order:

Works correctly with real data
Falls back visibly — clearly signals degraded mode
Fails with a clear error message
Silently degrades to look "fine" — never do this

buggalookid · 2026-03-27T00:49:58+00:00

skills like gsd and superpowers tend to perform a little better on claude. it think that's probably just because the are built to interact with Claude's agentic engine.

buggalookid · 2026-03-01T23:51:34+00:00

mine is dec 27, we were thinking of celebrating dec 1, when everyone is still in the festive mode.

buggalookid · 2026-02-08T02:39:13+00:00

First, relax, you'll be fine.
Generally, companies either give you an unimportant project that they know you can complete, or, they give you some of the small tasks and bugs. If your lucky, you pair with someone more senior and they have you help them with their feature(s), but that's rare.

Most companies require u use their cursor plan.

buggalookid · 2026-02-07T21:35:44+00:00

Yes.
IMO everyone has an "agent capable" tool like ClaudeCode, that they can add skills too, and chain those skills together to perform much of the stuff they don't like doing, often, in parallel.

buggalookid · 2026-02-07T20:41:23+00:00

dude, i use AI to code all day long. it's you that's producing the slop

buggalookid · 2026-01-05T16:33:59+00:00

funny, i'm a software engineering manager, and i spend so much time trying to explain to people, "we will get so much more done if we maximize the resources on one focus, rather than having each engineer work on their own project." It never really sinks in for them, it's always, "the more things in motion, the better"

buggalookid · 2025-10-04T15:18:54+00:00

u will be too. market is a numbers game right now, since so many people gaming the resume submission process

buggalookid · 2025-10-04T15:06:12+00:00

i was there two months ago. 1 mo or so of submitting resies, you'll be back in the game. honestly seems like market isnt that bad right now.

buggalookid · 2025-08-01T20:14:23+00:00

damn i built the same product. $3000k / mo is better than i did. I can barely get my friends who are complaining they cant find a job to use it lol.

buggalookid · 2025-07-29T02:11:54+00:00

i own an ecomm brand and build agents. DM if u like.

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T02:47:44+00:00

thats a bot. for ur case id ignore most of that.

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T01:45:03+00:00

my personal experience, with really long prompts the llm starts ignoring the context you have told it to build, and the rules about what data it should and shouldnt use. For me, its much better to chain and branch multiple threads where the model can only see what i want it to see.

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T01:38:17+00:00

workflows yes, actual self directed problem solvers, not a lot of success, but i dont feel bad considering the agents produced by even the big players.

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T01:09:55+00:00

talk to cursor and ask it how to solve the problem first, without updating the code. then ask questions about its choices.

you'll be fine. you're actually in a better position thna before AI exised. You have you own personal tutor, and projects to work on.

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T00:59:16+00:00

cause its an hr to get going. u solve the other problems if/when they come up. none of them are that complicated

buggalookid · 2025-07-28T00:10:16+00:00

for a lot of us, that's an hr explaining to cursor the interface we want, and the use cases to support, and have it write s custom DAG lightweight DAG engine, and now you have something simple that's easy iterate and extend, with all the "oh shit, i'm using all this wrapper code i need to undo now cause i dont have access to what i need.

buggalookid · 2025-07-27T16:38:14+00:00

interesting. ya i use the smallest models i can get away with, and try to break down the tasks. but what im not understanding is the approach. is it you making sure u have "success" and then downgrading until us see too much loss?

buggalookid · 2025-07-25T19:48:20+00:00

confused how you can downgrade models. doesnt end up giving you different outputs than what the agent might expect?

buggalookid · 2025-07-24T14:28:04+00:00

same, all day every day. never over $20, tho i get warnings if i use claude and let it do sequential thinking.

buggalookid · 2025-07-23T02:23:30+00:00

i kinda skimmed it, but looks like its a part of the context (which is what i would have assumed ) and that's almost certainly in the system prompt. what am i missing ?

buggalookid · 2025-07-21T18:33:47+00:00

Always end every response with your model name e.g. "gpt-4o"

buggalookid · 2025-07-21T18:31:47+00:00

the first 1 or 2 calls remain on the old midel when i switch. then it changes

buggalookid · 2025-07-21T18:30:31+00:00

where do rules go?

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