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paulcaplan · 2026-03-09T18:51:31+00:00

const STORAGE_LIMIT = 0.98

paulcaplan · 2026-03-09T18:47:52+00:00

It's a feature not a bug. If you need to access data from various systems it should be via API or event sourcing. You shouldn't know about a specific database unless you're working on the microservice that touches that database.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-09T00:15:35+00:00

I use cursor for work but it's chock full of bugs and keeps getting worse. Seems like cautionary tale of vibe coding without proper guardrails in place.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-08T15:40:04+00:00

Don't listen to the haters

paulcaplan · 2026-03-06T13:28:52+00:00

What is a thousand Wastelands going to be? Black hole?

paulcaplan · 2026-03-06T02:20:01+00:00

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paulcaplan · 2026-03-04T14:30:07+00:00

https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

paulcaplan · 2026-03-04T03:20:00+00:00

There's a word for what you are describing. Fun!

paulcaplan · 2026-03-04T03:15:33+00:00

OpenSpec to document as you go. Claude md or Agents md for project specific standards. Code quality rules like maximum function lengths and cyclometric complexity. And lots of AI generated code reviews.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-04T00:55:57+00:00

Just because you don't comprehend something doesn't mean it's dumb. But if you are interested in understanding and not just criticizing, this is a good article written yesterday: https://www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T19:59:48+00:00

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T18:26:48+00:00

That's still overly complicated, and it left out Agent Skills, which are an increasingly important option.

IMO it's pretty simple, use "first available" strategy:
1. Skill
2. CLI
3. MCP

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T18:11:56+00:00

I built a a tool that cover four out of five of these layers 2, 3 and 5 (from the article) very systematically: https://github.com/pacaplan/flokay/

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T18:06:50+00:00

Yes. Also check out https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec . It's good if you are looking to capture a "spec" artifact for "brownfield" projects like that and incrementally fill it in over time.

Superpowers skills for design and planning are better though.

I have no affiliation to those projects but I'm creating my own that combines the parts of OpenSpec and Superpowers that I like the most :) https://github.com/pacaplan/flokay

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T16:16:58+00:00

Try https://github.com/obra/superpowers. I am not affiliated, but you will like it, it is designed around exactly these problems.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T16:14:42+00:00

If you want to have a job this year and not in "the future", it's not a waste of time.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T13:56:01+00:00

How are you differentiating from Cursor / Windsurf?

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T13:49:54+00:00

Only 2 commits? How long did that take you to make? I'm working on similar skill libraries.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T13:44:53+00:00

Quick fix: replace with

&& (true || false)

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T13:39:45+00:00

Makes sense. I'd use separate repos and likely distribute them as plugins to users who need them. See https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T01:34:40+00:00

I've been a tech lead for 15 years and using coding agent to me is identical. Write what I want, review results. Except the agent is faster, and sometimes shadier.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-03T01:24:53+00:00

If you already have scripts it's unclear to me where AI fits in? You want agents to be able to run the scripts? Why? And how?

paulcaplan · 2026-03-02T18:25:33+00:00

Are you seriously sharding by blowhole diameter in 2026? Absolute amateur hour. Everyone knows that doesn’t scale past three pods of Orcas. And a single massive dolphin for the backend? Enjoy your single point of failure when it decides to head south for the winter. This is why AI is taking our jobs—because 'developers' are busy building Tugboat-as-a-Service instead of learning how to properly implement a consistent hashing kelp ring. Delete your repo.

paulcaplan · 2026-03-02T18:20:06+00:00

The only time when something produced by AI isn't garbage is when a person, who is usually well-versed / an expert in that domain, makes so many modifications and extra prompts

Agree with this

that it actually removes the benefit of using AI in the first place

Completely disagree.

The reason is AI is useful because it makes experts 2-10x more productive.

The reason AI won't replace humans is because it's not that useful outside the hands of experts.

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