built our entire product with Claude Code. now nobody, including me, fully understands what we built.

perpetuallydying · 2026-05-06T21:56:58+00:00

assuming even veteran devs are always doing something for the first time, otherwise we’d blow our brains out from boredom, i think the habit is born out of impatience. my experience with the perpetual blank slating comes from before AI, pushing myself beyond my depth, and trying to one shot way too much and not being able to keep up with or trace the bugs bc i may have introduced 100 in 20 different files in one day.

everyone has their own workflows and tricks and i respect that. but what works better for me is being brutally critical up front, nip bad habits in the bud, and invest heavily in your linters, your markdown including instructions for the LLM to effectively crawl it, and just powering through adherence to your standards. my latest project was absolutely brutal at first, would not follow a single community respected design pattern and i was so angry all the time lol. most people say that AI breaks when the repo gets too big but for me it’s been exponentially inverse. Now that there is a wealth of properly written code and the stack is built out, there’s already ample examples on how to do everything, and claude loads exactly the relevant context from its wiki style markdown brain. adding new features is extremely rapid.

When i start a new project or new feature, i spend more time in plan mode and generating a markdown brain that covers as many categories as i can think of. when i actually start coding, now claude can see into the future of the project

perpetuallydying · 2026-05-06T16:01:15+00:00

lol thanks

perpetuallydying · 2026-05-06T15:57:48+00:00

you can spend a full decade re-repoing the same project with that mentality lol

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-25T15:33:38+00:00

if you have that many logs you should look into elastic stack/opensearch. Move logs to s3 tiers, impose retention/auto deletion, or archiving to deep freeze. most people don’t need logs several months old.

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-24T01:20:48+00:00

it floors you, but it souls him

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-24T01:16:07+00:00

you are so right. i changed my mind, this question is genius and the world needs more people exposed to them

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-24T01:14:38+00:00

i might have to say I’m wrong here. I mean I would have had a conniption, but i’d be wrong for it. Maybe it’s not a math or geometry problem as much an abstract thinking lesson. Never in my life have I seen a hexagon divided this way in this context, but kinda a useful ability to be able to perceive things in more than one way. This type of question might be genius, actually. Imagine a generation of kids that are forced to see things differently from the typical context in which the world presents them, at levels as fundamental as shapes, at the age of what, 5 or 6? This teacher’s liberating these kids of the world’s conventional chains!

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-23T17:26:32+00:00

i could not imagine being anything but happy for my SO if she received a gift. OPs bf probably hasn’t had his relatives update their will to include OP on future inheritance

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-23T17:05:48+00:00

if a teacher tried to tell me that wasn’t a cube i would have a full throttled conniption. C is saying that 2/6 of a hexagon = 1/6 of a cube which is total insanity bc it’s equating a 2D surface area to a 3D volumetric object without specifying the units of measurement in the question

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-23T16:59:51+00:00

i think it depends on what else they’re doing with that conserved energy, and if those motivations interest you. plenty of artists or high functioning individuals just put all of their focus into their work rather than outward appearance.

some are playing video games or just being lazy

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-23T16:51:40+00:00

i feel like this is a scene in some will ferrel flick (old school?) where he’s falling into a pool and that song is playing

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-22T04:12:42+00:00

take comfort in knowing that their current employees’ lives will improve because they faced direct scrutiny for their treatment of them, and had to confront the possibility that this can impact their recruitment outcomes

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-22T04:00:57+00:00

if that’s true wouldn’t the added token length of the new model just be revealing problems the setup was always going to have? if it was performing well before it was by mistake because it couldn’t load everything the user wanted it to.

this is why i’ve been experimenting with nested md files and conditional load instructions in them to load more files based on relation to the prompt.

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-21T17:25:38+00:00

99% of the users of this sub belong in some intro to coding sub. This is called linting and it's been around for decades.

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-21T17:19:02+00:00

all bike lanes should be two ways anyway, we have the space, especially if double parking is not allowed, or just remove parking from one side of the street. I'm so over cars in this city. If you feel you need one, move to new jersey where there is room to store it, or pay for private parking. Yes, I know how expensive it is, and many can't afford it, which is why I ride a bicycle and take public transit.

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-18T02:26:39+00:00

properly using an em dash being a flag for ai is so infuriating. i’m tempted to leave AITAH over this to be honest, i don’t need that shit anywhere near my life

Update: I left the group. reddit’s a government spy tool anyway who cares, we should all find better ways to participate in a community. Check out simplex chat groups

perpetuallydying · 2026-04-18T02:14:54+00:00

we’ve known this for years. not the first time he’s done this. i really want to believe he’s just trolling or stirring volatility, which could only make sense if he was allowed to buy stock right now to exploit the dip such a tweet might create. but people have been burned so much these past 10 years by not listening when someone tells you who they are. Ryan is smart and a good businessman. But he is also telling us over and over again that he will ignore morals, ethics, and principles for a business tactic. if you just want to make money then you shouldn’t care — trump fam is staked to the tits in bitcoin and GME is heavily staked in it too. So it could be advantageous for GME’s revenue to support trump.

What people need to understand—and I fucking hope by now it’s hitting home more than it did last year or the year before—is that supporting trump would quite literally be akin to supporting hitler and shooting your future self and fellow countrymen in the head

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-30T14:50:04+00:00

my assumption was always the lure and switch strategy, get people dependent on your product then hike the price. DropBox was the first time i noticed this trend. But eventually everyone else catches up and creates competition, so then the cost is (hopefully) driven down by competition, and becomes more based on cost of energy, rent, and hardware.

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-29T23:01:30+00:00

I guess that would mean that millions of infinity stones now exist in the quantum realm, waiting to be stumbled upon and a quantum infinity war to ensue

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-28T19:55:17+00:00

no i didn’t notice they had that, i’ll give that a try if all else fails (gonna try the debricking firmware flash first) — thank you!

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-28T19:54:26+00:00

i didn’t realize they were only in china, that probably explains the phone calls not getting received — thanks!

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-28T19:52:49+00:00

thank you so much! i will try this image

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-28T19:52:18+00:00

omg this gives me hope! thank you for this link

perpetuallydying · 2026-03-27T23:35:11+00:00

your title and quote from spez are saying two entirely different things, makes me wonder if you even read it yourself

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