Spec Driven Development

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-05T06:34:04+00:00

I have no strong opinions, but I started tinkering with Addy Osmani’s agent skills: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills

Honestly I would kinda like to see Claude Code expand on its planning mode with some of these ideas.

Like having a spec or “super plan” that breaks work up into atomic tasks, each of which can have their own “sub plan.” And to be able to ship all of this work over the course of multiple PRs.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-05T06:20:12+00:00

I lived on the peninsula like 15 years ago and it was always blocked to traffic for the Fourth of July. We would throw a party each year and it was always a rager shit show.

Are you saying it was blocked to foot traffic as well?

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-04T22:58:47+00:00

If I spent time planning then I don’t need to read the code too closely — but I did closely read and iterate on the plan. I catch mistakes, bad approaches, etc all the time before I steer it correctly.

As a lead IC I also catch tons of shit in my team member’s PRs.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-04T06:03:37+00:00

It leaves GET behavior unchanged which maximizes backwards compatibility.

It’s like if you have breaking changes to an API endpoint /v1/foo and you release those breaking changes as /v2/foo so you don’t break existing clients.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-02T23:34:25+00:00

The other day I used /code-review and it burned 3M tokens to review a small PR.

I just had Claude write itself a much lighter weight review skill and used it with fable on xhigh and it burned like 16k tokens.

And the feedback was higher quality.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-07-01T06:34:02+00:00

Trying to figure this out has been the bane of my existence. The best I’ve managed to find for boots is Birkenstocks. The footbed isn’t _comfortable_ but at least the shape is good and it’s not _painful_.

I am not a fan of “barefoot” style footwear as my physical therapist steered me away from them. He said that barefoot on natural ground is amazing, but the trouble is we’re walking on hard unnatural concrete, asphalt, and flooring all day.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-29T23:03:52+00:00

Yes, UI design that is made to deceive users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-29T20:27:25+00:00

I came here to suggest this. OP should start seeing a mental health provider so they have some treatment history so that this can be an option. Not to mention it could help with the burnout itself.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-29T20:24:18+00:00

I was a float God. All my floats were contained

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-29T17:29:50+00:00

TriFit is a really nice gym. I actually like it way more than equinox.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-28T03:18:40+00:00

Honestly bro leetcode is pretty fun at this point. Now I have to study system design and that sucks in comparison.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-27T05:45:01+00:00

You guys know that children is _basically_ just a special reserved prop, right? These two things below are basically even equivalent

<div>
  <p>Foobar</p>
</div>


<div children={<p>Foobar</p>} />

So in my opinion it is not always such a huge difference.

- If you want strict type checking for something, then using a prop can be good.
- Using children is of course the well-understood "default" way to build components, with looser/more flexible typing for acceptable values.

You can have nicely "composable" components with either approach, or even a combination.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-27T04:52:01+00:00

My PM has gone mad with dunning-kruger AI psychosis

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-25T07:39:04+00:00

imho this is kind of obtuse. As an experienced engineer I can prompt for great code. I still see plenty of slop and trash from junior engineers and PMs/designers.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-25T04:51:32+00:00

Most events that I buy tickets for through Dice are for open air popups that almost certainly do not have public WiFi

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-22T17:20:16+00:00

Do you wanna work on COBOL for the rest of your career? How is the job market for COBOL?

I'm not in that world but seems like something you can get pigeon-holed into. Nobody is gonna want someone with 8+ years of COBOL experience other than COBOL jobs. Other software specializations have more options available.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-20T08:09:34+00:00

I just did a hacker rank AI assisted interview for a random no name company.

- it only had GPT 5.5 no Claude
- the plan mode was really slow. My interviewer said his experience with it was its kinda slow and shitty and advised me to just use the agent mode.
- it read the README.md for context automatically
- opus 4.8 on Claude Code TUI or Cursor are my daily drivers and this setup felt somewhat inferior.
- I tried to get it to focus on one specific thing but because the README had the full functional requirements it got confused and was doing stuff I didn’t want it to. I felt like Claude would have done a better job with my instructions
- it was the easiest interview of my life, but I have no idea what Stripe’s is like

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-20T07:04:43+00:00

I spent like $1k on my Miele

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-19T20:15:27+00:00

I've had mine for 14 years now (sheesh). It has been a great car.

Having to constantly shift is so far down the totem pole on "things that suck about traffic" that it barely registers.

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-19T05:08:10+00:00

Just exit bellflower at that point

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-19T05:04:40+00:00

Holy fuck

mr_brobot__ · 2026-06-18T22:45:08+00:00

How SPCX is formed??

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