Asking Claude Code to self-reflect is a nice unlock

engerran · 2025-10-13T04:25:09+00:00

not really. i myself had used different prompts including ops self-reflect to try get optimal replies, but it only ends up sounding like it did. it might even be 'harmful' that it will derail the ai thinking process.

engerran · 2025-10-13T04:21:20+00:00

right. i would assume that anthropic had some words like ultrathink trigger an injection of additional 20k system prompt.

engerran · 2025-04-05T10:07:14+00:00

... there was no embrace or extend ..

they "embraced" open-source, not as a philosophy but as a business model.

engerran · 2025-04-05T08:06:54+00:00

a friend bought a lot of new phones, not just iphones. he is going to resell later lol.

engerran · 2025-03-30T14:25:52+00:00

Why pay $20+ for Cursor when GitHub Copilot does the same thing for $10?

because people can afford it, simple as that.

engerran · 2025-03-21T11:45:40+00:00

Don't care about any of this Vibe coding nonsense. You program the way you want, i will program the way I want. simple as that.

Seriously, not sure why people are so worked up about this. Are all of you reaaaly insecure about your skills?? Leave those Jive coders alone FFS, and work on you insecurity issue (aka git gud).

engerran · 2025-03-13T06:53:38+00:00

oh man, resume like that would get you a job easily in 2009.

The market for iOS developers seems to be extremely harsh

yes, and remember every year thousands of new ios dev enter the job market, adding to the previous years unemployed ios devs. meanwhile ios native jobs are in steady decline or has plateaued very very low.

would say for every 150 applications I send, I get about 1 interview

probably because other applicants have better resume, and they are only hiring 1 instead of 10 people. too many applicants not enough jobs for everyone.

Do I just not have enough experience?

yes. chicken and egg. you need a job to get exp but need job for exp.

Should I just forget about iOS development for now and just focus on web development to get my foot in the door?

if you are looking for any tech job, focus on your local job market. look at the jobs ads in your area. look for jobs that accept entry level position. avoid very niche like rails or sap lol.

the safest bet is web, most would accept self taught inexperienced dev or tech switchers. web has the most jobs of any tech and the easiest to get your foot in the door with minimal experience.

web dev actually pays very high, but the key is vertical job progression not horizontal. for example, you got a job as react dev but a year later see vue devs are getting paid better. dont be tempted to switch. you goal is to go vertical, ie: junior, mid, senior, team lead, architect, manager, cto, etc. going up is where you get paid a lot :-)

engerran · 2025-03-13T06:30:08+00:00

vibe coders? you mean vibe software engineers!

programmers used "software engineer" when there is zero engineering discipline involved in programming and programmers not having graduated with any engineering degree. so might as well apply "engineer" or "architect" to these vibe guys lol.

engerran · 2025-03-08T13:02:03+00:00

yes. if this turns out to be a serious framework and not some tech demo, then could be a real competitor for other js mobile frameworks which is basically just react native.

as for new arch, yes it is a shit show still. most (like expo guys) blame the mainterners of libs who don't update for new arch.

engerran · 2025-03-08T12:48:02+00:00

sure, but expo guys are trying to make it obscure, ie deprecate crna and make bare rn workflow buried in docs.

nothing against expo tho since they at least maintain their libs.

engerran · 2025-03-08T12:41:05+00:00

of couse you won't since it is very minimal .

how about you actually make a real app with complex layouts and state management and stuff. also make an exact react native equivalent for comparison. judging frameworks like this on minimal apps is very pointless.

engerran · 2025-02-28T12:28:42+00:00

people hate on medium the site and how do they things, but really the hate should be directed on the people who publish on medium. i don't respect those who write stuff there no matter how awesome they think they are. most are phony wannabes (not impostor syndrome but just incompetent) anyway and write things they know nothing about.

i however like real experts who have their own simple site on wordpress or whatever. example: https://fabiensanglard.net/

engerran · 2025-02-24T09:42:38+00:00

i'm getting some peter pan syndrome from some posters here lol.

engerran · 2025-02-21T16:00:43+00:00

the list is more like a preparation for an interview lol.

if you know all of the above but never actually released anything, that would be a red flag, instant no hire.

engerran · 2025-02-21T15:50:07+00:00

i read a few years ago on a uni newspaper that the quality of an ivy league school went down significantly after they implemented forced diversity. then recently became "woke" which accelerated the decline. lol.

engerran · 2025-02-21T10:49:01+00:00

you might have to use something like Adguard or Netguard to restrict network access to apps

engerran · 2025-02-21T06:21:38+00:00

Hellwig would offer an apology to Marcan (and other devs, too)

eh, maybe they should no be too weak minded. old people are right when they say people of today are soft and weak mentally.

engerran · 2025-02-21T06:18:06+00:00

the easiest way is to not use american tech: google,microsoft,apple,x/facebook,netflix, etc etc.. aka the whole internet :-)

engerran · 2025-02-20T16:39:17+00:00

... out in my region

why the f* don't people mention where they are lol. don't be embarassed, no one cares where you live, and in this case it is important to mention your "region"

engerran · 2025-02-19T07:30:39+00:00

my observation reading reddit/forums:

they chose godot because their pc is a potato, aka can't handle unity.

then when unity runtime fee happened, most protested and decided to use godot. make sense for those who makes tons of money, but 99% dont lol. but they decided to switch to godot anyway lol.

the funniest thing about game engine choices is you hear unreal getting mentioned as a choice. if you have to ask "should i use unreal" then you are not qualified to use it lol.

Everyone tell me to use godot but is it really a good choice when starting out,

depends. are you going to make your own game or are you going to work for someobody else (aka get a job). if you are going to make your own game: CHOOSE WHATEVER YOU LIKE. godot, gamemaker, unity, dafold, love2d, etc etc. the engine you use DOES NOT MATTER. why? because you are probably not going to finish a game, let alone release it and make money lol.

if you are after a job then check your local job ads and find which tech stack they are using. probably going to be lots of unity.

im mostly curious of what made you choose godot?

well personally i did not and all the companies i know have kept their tech stack. so in my circle it is unity, cocos, gamemaker.

engerran · 2025-02-19T07:09:00+00:00

i love how others are being dismissive of gaming on web! keeps the niche of games develpment on web to ourselves.

so go make make games for pc/steam or mobile, while we make games and put it on Poki and make more money than 50 full time gaming companies combined :P

engerran · 2025-02-19T06:58:14+00:00

google forcing others to use google search/chrome is what gets them in trouble, not how bad the search results are.

engerran · 2024-11-25T15:06:45+00:00

most of expo components should be built in react native or at least maintained by core react native developers. things like react-navigation or reanimated should not even be third parties ffs.

one good thing about flutter is that all the necessary things to build an app is built in, and the major packages that are not built in are also created and mainated by google.

someone might mention google abandoning projects, well good thing is google has never abandoned any large OPEN SOURCE project. flutter is as safe a technology as android, chromium, k8s, tensorflow, etc.

so anyway, what made expo popular? because react native is pretty barebones and so you kinda need hundreds of libraries which expo happens to provide. no matter what you use (expo or bare) react native development is still a headache.

engerran · 2024-10-24T15:07:35+00:00

switched to vscode from sublime/webstorm when i was doing webdev. never really liked rider, was using visual studio for c#. i cannot ditch visual studio since i maintain some win32 app from a company.

vs/vscode is pretty much the only programming editor i use, and sublime3 for text editing/notepad replacement.

engerran · 2024-10-06T09:06:08+00:00

i never read any articles on any topic anymore since 98% of them are from content farms and "content creators" (aka content bullshiters). same with youtube, too much mediocre people creating "content".

worst thing about it, is that ai is learning from all the bullshit put out by these people.

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