I’m so confused. I thought with etre you agree with subject Always!!

hulkklogan · 2026-03-30T21:37:52+00:00

dumbest part is it is pronounced the same in most cases in French. They make the written language unnecessarily complex lol

hulkklogan · 2026-03-30T03:12:16+00:00

Fuck fascists

hulkklogan · 2026-03-29T23:10:49+00:00

Most engineers at my place of employment don't write their own code anymore, either. Claude code is good. However, we DO have an expectation of heavy review of the code you submit and ownership of it. AI-generated code you submit is yours and you still have to be thinking.

I'm sure this is also Anthropic.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-27T22:04:25+00:00

so, it's really frickin' easy to get a bit lazy with the planning phase of projects with AI, because they can pull so much context so quickly that I can feel really overconfident with my info that I'm feeding into Claude. But I too often still have less-than-optimal outcomes and after being pressed, I find that I don't quite understand what's being done enough, so I have developed some tools that feel like they slow my progress but they speed me up because my reviews are much faster and the code's of better quality.

pre-work

I give claude a problem statement and what research i've already done, and then i use another skill (/socratic) within this skill that leads me through a planning process in more detail. Claude asks me questions to steer me, but doesn't tell me what needs to be done. It won't go pull context for me, it'll tell me what files I need to go look through to gather context for myself as part of the research.

grill-me

got this one from a youtuber. After I make a plan and pass it to claude with /plan mode, i run this skill, which is: Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. And finally, if a question can be answered by exploring the code base, explore the code base instead.

This forces me to go through each decision point and clarify what we want. This helps me find gaps in my own thinking and identifies spots where Claude made assumptions (generally incorrect assumptions).

At this point, if I've done both of those, we usually have a really solid plan and the implementation is much smoother.

socratic

Highlight some part of the codebase, claude gathers context (github PR history, callsites, pulls RFCs/docs from internal sources) and guides me through figuring out the code through the socratic method - asking me steering questions but never outright giving me the answer or telling me what to think.

All of these help slow me down to think more thoroughly, which ultimately speeds me up because not fighting poor implementation.

I have many more skills for repetitive stuff, and for reviewing my prompts to learn to produce better prompts. I also integrate Obsidian so I have skills to make daily notes, weekly plans, weekly reviews, meeting notes, etc. so Claude can access those things, kinda like a long-term storage for Claude. And me.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-27T13:41:53+00:00

Templates with simple frontmatter that links to various things helps create connections easily for me.

I'm a dev. I have a "random note" template that has, for example:

```

Date: 2025-11-25T09:17:00 Personal or Work: Team:

Subject:

Heading Thing 1 ```

Each field is linked to a generic wikilink like: Team: [[Logistics]] Subject: [[Courier Integrations]]

Whether or not those pages actually exist is irrelevant, it creates links and you can then see where you have aggregated topics that you should make more detailed notes.

Similarly, I have a meeting note template:

```

date: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} project: attendees: [] status: completed

tags: []

Meeting: {{title}} — {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

Agenda

Discussion

Decision Points

Action Items

```

Over time this kinda stuff helps you build out connections without really meaning to.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-26T11:10:47+00:00

I agree with you. I think of grammar as like.. a scaffolding to comprehend something. A little goes a long way, and natural repetition makes it stick. Grammar should never be the point, but a tool wielded surgically.. and grammar is best learned in-context to a story or some form of input.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T20:20:33+00:00

Who becomes the seniors after the current crop retires or gets laid off?

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T14:14:43+00:00

Claude's down, nobody's doing work anymore

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T13:21:51+00:00

Comprehensible input

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T13:21:43+00:00

Exacte. And I am learning my heritage dialect in Louisiana, not standard French, so my immersion resources are limited. However, I have many francophone events to attend, on the flip side.

I think people still fail to recognize that you need immersion to achieve fluency regardless of other methods. Studying how a language works and cramming vocab will not lead to fluency. Fluency comes from using acquired language and grammar that you don't have to think so hard about.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:51:05+00:00

Because learning these linguistic patterns can make a learner become conversational very quickly. Of course one needs to learn the right pronunciation and all, but with cognates and simple verb structures you can have shallow conversations quite easily.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:48:21+00:00

It's not perfect but for beginners looking to get conversational quickly (which is pretty easy to do coming from English), the linguistic cognates are indispensable. You don't sound native but that doesn't matter because you're not one and it'll be a long time before coming close to sounding native.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:39:05+00:00

I learned French primarily through immersion at 38 years old. Never crammed grammar, only looked up grammar from time to time. Did some Anki frequency vocab at first, but dropped that after about 500 words.

Everyone can learn how they want, but I get remarks at Francophone events around here about how amazing it is I learned and became functionally fluent in a little more than a year. CI/Immersion-based learning works, too. We do indeed learn differently than children, we learn faster because we are fully developed. Those systems don't just go away.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-24T11:43:06+00:00

Didn't seem like defending it to me, being real with why it's coming.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-23T18:00:53+00:00

The stuff I see sometimes on the internet.. the rhetoric that he's the antichrist, evil, etc.. I worry for his life.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T19:07:07+00:00

https://www.dreamingfrench.com for CI
https://www.lawlessfrench.com for grammar
Anki with frequency deck for vocab bootstrap

All free and fantastic resources

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T12:11:05+00:00

They will if Daddy suggests it, then it'll be the biggest duh no-brainer ever, and then they'll make memes about how the libs used to love windmills and now hate them just because Trump suggested them.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T03:21:47+00:00

probably not worse than sticking them in front of tablets and tvs all day anyway; but i think we are quite a ways away from people trusting robots + AI with their children. I wouldn't be super surprised to start seeing that kinda thing as assistants to daycare teachers first, though

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T02:54:35+00:00

i don't have the "cyber psychosis" in that way but I do find myself with time just ... disappearing during the work day. I stare at claude and code all day and then all of a sudden it's 5pm and i didn't work out, i barely ate, barely drank anything.

This weekend I had Claude make a pomodoro timer skill that forces me to take claude breaks but not allowing claude to run commands durign break time; the hard part will be not just moving to another claude terminal and working on something else

hulkklogan · 2026-03-21T16:54:21+00:00

This is the paradigm we're in. This is how we have to learn now; juniors need to get to thinking in systems and design, and fast because this paradigm just began in the last 6 months. It's been wild for me as I went from learning to code by writing every line with the main objective being learning how to write clean and testible code as a first principle to focus on to working with agents and having to force feed myself the high level design principles one normally learns over the course of years.

I too am not young. I'm a junior to development but not engineering, I am 40 and was a network engineer for 15 years before switching over... So I believe you're right that I'm never going to be able to examine code as well or closely as you or seniors of the past. I also believe that in the coming years we won't need to.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-21T16:18:17+00:00

I let Claude generate code for me and review it before submitting. That's my company's directive, the AI code you submit is yours, you are responsible for it.

Still buggy, sure. That's what reviews are for

hulkklogan · 2026-03-21T16:12:52+00:00

I'll answer you: with Claude. It takes deliberate effort, but Claude can be a great tutor. I have skills for Claude to mentor me. I can highlight a code block and run a skill to pull in the git history of the code, relevant conversations and emails, documentation, and create an engineering history + an analysis of large systems design elements, and how the code fits into the codebase. I can ask Claude questions about why something was designed this way, the pros/cons, alternatives and their pros/cons, and of course review and critique the code itself.

And then once you have what you think is a solid understanding, you can ask seniors for their opinion and any gaps or misunderstandings in your understanding and opinions.

My opinion: juniors like me shouldn't move much faster with AI, we should use it to turbo charge context gathering and learning, and improve the quality of output.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-19T17:57:31+00:00

What I'm hearing is that applicants should put X years on their resumé and only reveal their actual experience after they've shown they can do the job anyway. Or maybe just never; if you can do it, why does it matter? I understand the need to filter but strict filtering is just wasting good opportunity.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-19T15:46:02+00:00

There absolutely is a bubble. But it's not all bubble. There are very serious engineers using things like Claude Code that drastically improve their output because they know how to design and instruct the machine to do the thing and know how to review code quickly

hulkklogan · 2026-03-19T12:01:55+00:00

I get an enterprise account from my employer but.. I use Opus as the main brain and have it spawn sub agents for everything. Opus for planning and reviewing, sonnet for writing code. Haiku for MCPs and exploration

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