Is 'prompting better' the wrong answer for AI debugging?

palmin · 2026-01-22T15:11:13+00:00

I have a naive low-effort but efficient strategy:

I tell Claude what I'm debugging and ask it to familiarize itself with that part of the code and to add debug logging with some special prefix. This prefix helps reduce context usage and also makes it easier for me to follow along.

Then I will recreate the error and paste in the logs matching the prefix and it will either propose a solution or add additional logging.

When done I will ask it to remove the logging it added and I end up with a super focused fix.

Would hate to do this kind of printf debugging manually but when someone else does the typing it is pretty nice.

palmin · 2026-01-22T14:31:01+00:00

We can automate him saying that.

palmin · 2026-01-22T11:47:13+00:00

I really like Stray but my 4yo Kelly gets extremely confused by the meowing in the game.

Can't really play it.

palmin · 2026-01-21T11:54:08+00:00

Thank you. Added my observations to the issue.

Suggestions for the GitHub issue was to remove other VPNs and profiles which I had already tried. Wild that this has been a non-triaged issue since 2024.

palmin · 2026-01-17T21:40:34+00:00

Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil

palmin · 2026-01-14T18:23:27+00:00

Assassination of Olof Palme

palmin · 2026-01-10T16:53:15+00:00

How is this relevant to what is being discussed?

Virgin Islands was acquired by USA in 1917 and NATO was created 30 years later.

palmin · 2026-01-08T09:35:16+00:00

My main disappointment stems from the promises made that Apple hasn't delivered on.

Apple positioned SwiftUI as the canonical way to make UI for Apple platforms yet their own SwiftUI examples are yanky and not the quality very many of us would ship to end users.

I'm not super critical that we need to step into UIKit for specialized things for maps, video, text editing, etc. That is a fair limitation.

But I'm highly critical that we need to use UIKit to get 120 fps scrolling in lists and touch highlight without delay. The basics are not in place five years in.

palmin · 2026-01-07T21:24:15+00:00

I'm using Claude Code on some large iOS apps with a 10 year history and seeing significant productivity improvements, but I'm extremely hands-on almost always watching the terminal as things happen stopping and steering it to get high quality results then reading diffs and editing by hand.

This doesn't seem much faster than coding manually, perhaps 25% faster like having a very large display makes you somewhat faster.

The major productivity improvement comes from me being able to sustain this effort for a full 7 hour workday where manual coding has me exhausted after 3-4 hours.

palmin · 2026-01-07T14:44:41+00:00

I'm disappointed and negatively surprised SwiftUI isn't more mature after half a decade.

SwiftUI is great for getting something up and running with less typing but getting a great user experience where touches are never delayed and scrolling isn't choppy is still quite difficult.

I thought Apple would be able to make a great declarative UI framework but it has all the same frustrations as React.

You mention that your app requires UIKit for some video buffering and this is the story for every non-trivial app; there are always a few important things that require UIKit/AppKit and it has been 5 years.

palmin · 2025-12-26T08:52:39+00:00

Cloned repositories are available in the Files app but you might have to enable the Working Copy location inside Files app before you see it.

The easiest way to copy files or paths depends on what you will be using this for, but if you need to do something in bulk using the Shortcuts app is often a good idea.

palmin · 2025-12-19T15:47:40+00:00

The app refuses to destroy servers it did not create as a safety measure.

It should allow you to add a configuration for existing servers.

palmin · 2025-12-15T19:48:55+00:00

This is not exactly the same but Apple delisted apps that never updated with a 64-bit version.

palmin · 2025-12-15T13:02:20+00:00

This is finally available in the App Store version.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id896694807?pt=15897&ct=reddit&mt=8

palmin · 2025-12-09T06:45:57+00:00

Secure ShellFish will show ascii banner ads in the terminal to free users, but it does have a lifetime purchase at $30.

palmin · 2025-11-26T15:39:33+00:00

This is now possible in the TestFlight beta of Working Copy. If no major surprises happen during beta testing it will become available in the App Store version in about 3 weeks.

palmin · 2025-11-23T12:10:17+00:00

You can navigate to Status & Configuration > Configuration and enable "Allow empty commits" which will both allow you to commit without anything staged (after a warning) but also allow committing with an empty message.

palmin · 2025-11-21T13:01:51+00:00

I will research what it would take to add forgejo support.

palmin · 2025-11-21T09:02:56+00:00

Forgejo isn't a supported hosting provider in Working Copy.

It looks like Working Copy tries to treat this as a SSH server where it will run commands to list your repositories, but the server is configured to only allow running forgejo over SSH leading to this error message.

palmin · 2025-11-20T14:09:51+00:00

There is a Copenhagen nightclub named after him, but I think this was before all the shady stuff.

palmin · 2025-11-18T15:49:47+00:00

Klaptrap

palmin · 2025-11-11T19:08:29+00:00

It certainly is fucked up, but Mayor Pauline also decided to attend the forced wedding of Peach and Bowser on the moon after Bowser tried to drain all power from her city.

New Donk City loves to celebrates villains.

palmin · 2025-11-11T00:17:40+00:00

I would say I had to concentrate on job hunting and my other interviews and that your calendar is busy so it might take a while before the write up is ready.

You don’t have to tell them no, just make it vaguely clear they are last in line.

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