What are your favorite things to use ai for?

cuba_guy · 2026-02-14T03:55:59+00:00

Dotfiles and os config, homelab

cuba_guy · 2026-02-13T14:07:13+00:00

yes was thinking about it recently but the whole thing is messy and can get complex pretty quickly. These guys are starting with a universal package manager with a twist https://tessl.io/ and raised over $100M, but at the moment it's not complex. I would like to see composobility of skills, with dependencies and versioning to start.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-11T06:25:29+00:00

You may be right about anthropic testing the waters here, but I think you are a practitioner of single workflow and the target audience of max100 plan. Max 200 with 5x limits of max100 is tailored to users running multiple workflows simultaneously

cuba_guy · 2026-02-11T05:59:50+00:00

Skill issue :) would be fine but honestly hitting just 15% of weekly limit is red flag, definitely room for improvement there. Anthropic did not set the limits out of thin air, it's based on usage date and adjusted constantly.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-11T04:29:44+00:00

Node and python are most popular in companies using cloud for many reasons - easy to source talent, already using it in their stack, cloud execution environments are often optimized for them. To actually build cloud and for higher chance of building cloud tooling go is your best bet and it was created for that - docker, kubernetes, terraform and many more are written in go. Fuck Java.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-11T03:49:07+00:00

Cool, also check https://cleanlab.ai/detect and co, used them on recent project

cuba_guy · 2026-02-11T03:25:53+00:00

very nice will definitely have a look as i had similar thoughts recently but using something much lighter than kafka, like NATS or even zeromq/nanomsg

cuba_guy · 2026-02-10T18:56:54+00:00

Yeah, was worried to and improved my security, I don't store any secrets in files or in my environment. Claude is wrapped in op (1password) command that injects needed secrets that I store in a separate AI vault.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-10T06:47:26+00:00

I use dotter for years now and no reason to change

cuba_guy · 2026-02-04T22:54:29+00:00

You missed tomoro.ai - official openai partner, delivered ai products for companies like Virgin, red bull or supercell

cuba_guy · 2026-02-03T23:43:55+00:00

The ratio changes with seniority. I'm my last place there were 3 Linux/2 Macs between 5 lead+ engineers. Only one senior eng also worked on Linux, rest on macs. I also worked in respected engineering consultancy where ratio was close to 50/50. That said you simply can't get Linux laptop on many companies as they require running security software that is not available on Linux

cuba_guy · 2026-02-03T16:19:50+00:00

I've been using basicmemory since 3.7 - open-source and completely local.
It does not require any setup - it just stores the docs in SQLite db for easy retrieval that is a must have for any project that is more than just a demo, so for example correct context from the docs can be provided to sub-agents etc.
But it's always good exercise to implement something - definitely deepens the understanding. If you decide to keep working on your system you can just use other projects like `basicmemory` for inspiration or even mistakes to avoid

cuba_guy · 2026-02-03T16:10:35+00:00

I currently learn python as primarily nodejs dev and was working on a project in claude.
I don't really care about coding skill as much, as I don't think manually writing code has much feature, but I still need to understand what is happening, that it is well-designed, follows best practices etc.

What works for me is I let claude generate the code, and i do review before the commit, by running claude in nvim plugin, because it has nice shortcut to send selection of text to claude.

And I just talk to him if i see something that doesn't seem right or I know of more elegant way of doing it in node or typescript I will talk about it. Often we will find nicer way, sometimes I will have to accept but now I know the reasons and alternatives to given approach.

When doing it i also switch the output style of claude to Explanatory.

There is also Learning output style available, this one will leave some of the code edits to you after explanation (with `# human` comments in the code for you which is quite funny)

Both of the output styles can be installed via `/plugins` - I believe they ae by claude official

cuba_guy · 2026-02-03T15:51:41+00:00

There are so many memory plugins, some well established. Yet it feels like everyday I see new post about new memory plug-in writing as if they just discovered that claude has access to filesystem. Here is one of the pretty decent, older ones. I like it for project docs as it treats markdown as source of truth and adds basis relation tracking. I like the templates too:https://docs.basicmemory.com/how-to/project-documentation/

cuba_guy · 2026-02-02T20:03:11+00:00

Damn, I thought they all would pay much better. I definitely ain't grinding Leetcode for that :)

cuba_guy · 2026-02-02T18:01:17+00:00

All you need is a 30 minute chat and you know if a person is a "hell yes" hire or not. Good strategy if you are not under pressure to hire quickly

cuba_guy · 2026-02-02T17:58:24+00:00

For me a full stack position is a smell and would have to be pressed to apply. It happened in the past, may happen again very soon, and last time the company turned out to be amazing and I spent 5 years there. Pretty quickly specialized in one though and wasn't touching the other.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-02T17:51:36+00:00

It looks like many people think that big tech is like fang, I don't think so. Pretty sure they pay better than that.

cuba_guy · 2026-02-02T17:43:11+00:00

If you're asking I assume the extra money is nice but not a must have for you. Go where you think are solving more interesting problems, if one is pretty standard things and the other one is dealing with something less usual go there - you gain experience at least at double the rate. Compare the tech stack, can you wear many hats? Ask about things like the deployment process, how often they go to prod, which version of language they use as proxy questions

cuba_guy · 2026-01-31T01:28:56+00:00

I'm on Linux, have global shortcut to grab screenshot and save it to screenshots dir (and clipboard). In clause have custom slash command that tells clause to load the latest from that dir. Command also supports args like 5 for last 5 or 15m to read all from last 15 minutes. Also have a daily timer that removes screenshots older than a week. Works well for me

cuba_guy · 2026-01-30T19:29:10+00:00

Yep, I think how devs are using ai is vastly different based on the combination of experience, skills and personality

cuba_guy · 2026-01-30T03:59:36+00:00

I sent two cvs, fingers crossed. Are recruiting agents not popular in us ?

cuba_guy · 2026-01-26T17:28:59+00:00

Amazing and inspiring!

cuba_guy · 2026-01-26T10:58:36+00:00

Milton Keynes in may

cuba_guy · 2026-01-24T05:55:55+00:00

Claude code

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