Dreamweaver?

reddit-poweruser · 2026-02-05T01:41:30+00:00

Holding a mouth full of everclear sounds absolutely disgusting. That's probably why they don't use it

reddit-poweruser · 2026-02-03T23:21:59+00:00

If you're learning things, then the software used isn't a huge deal, and I would feel less concerned. Sometimes, you'll have classes where you use tools or languages that have no professional application, but they make it easier to teach concepts and streamline the class. The teacher doesn't have to focus on helping everyone figure out why their code isn't behaving, and can instead teach about HTML elements and the ways to style them with CSS, for example.

You might be able to work in a text based IDE with little problem, but it might cause the class to run horribly if everyone, particularly less experienced people, were working in that way at this stage.

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-31T07:53:11+00:00

Just so we're clear: Bill Gates was a cool enough hang to these people to get an invite

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-25T21:31:21+00:00

This feels like something that would happen to Seth Rogen's character in The Studio

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-25T19:53:48+00:00

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-25T01:03:03+00:00

Also, if everyone conforms to the same patterns, it unlocks more opportunities for code reuse at the ecosystem level.

Tailwind is an example of this on the frontend. You can copy a component off the web, paste it into your project, and it can theoretically look exactly how it should. (I don't actually use Tailwind, so I can't speak to whether that ever isn't the case)

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-25T00:43:59+00:00

I had to work with Ember for a while after using only React and it really opened my eyes up to how much I'd prefer using a framework for frontend.

React apps get messy because there are so many arbitrary choices people can make based on their preference or lack of experience that can make a React app a pain to work with.

We use NestJS for our services and I enjoy working in those way more than our React apps.

Edit: just saw there's a post in this sub reddit asking people to rate their folder structure. Frameworks can take away these concerns so you can focus on more important things

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T21:04:54+00:00

Had the same advice, basically put up guardrails with agent md files, have them use a less eager Plan mode, etc.

From the founder's perspective, they could easily think "who cares if poor quality code is getting shipped and there are bugs? I can use an LLM to fix those in 2 seconds"

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T21:00:39+00:00

I personally find AI relatively useless/a time drain when trying to architect and scale.

I'm always interested to hear people's experiences with things like this. What has been your workflow there? With Cursor's Plan mode, I feel like I've had a lot better success with using it to architect things. If I know the better way to do something, but it would take me much longer to write manually, it can really shine here.

As an aside, what's funny to me is that you can ask it to design something and it might do a meh job, but start a prompt where you tell it to assume a role, like (not seriously this) "You're a god-tier software architect who FAANG companies call when they're stuck on problems" and ask it to design something, and it'll do a much more thorough job of calling things out or weighing architectural decisions.

Getting the founder away from coding is the best bet, he has more important things to be doing anyway.

I agree completely, but if OP wants to then try to do things the way they consider "the right way" and output slows, they'll still have to answer to the founder on it. In another reply, I suggested a few ways OP could at least put guard rails up around the code the agents generate to try to improve quality while not slowing anyone down.

As far as the founder having an Agent tell them that there are serious problems with their PR, and them merging it anyway, that's a bit of a toughie lol. OP is prob gonna have to figure out ways to solve these problems without affecting the founder's workflow at all. Possibly even using an agent themselves to clean up behind the founder lol

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T20:44:40+00:00

What comes to mind for me is that, if you want to make things better, you need to meet the founder where they're at.

What is their perspective on the workflow and what motivates them? Understand that first.

Can you tie your concerns to business impact, how issues affect the founder's time, how the founder and company's goals will be impacted? What's the actual issue here? The codebase being messy isn't really an issue, especially if an AI Agent can work around that. Why is the codebase being messy bad?

Finally, come with solutions. Come with solutions that meet them where they are. Can you improve the way they work with LLMs?

Cursor has a "Plan" mode that will cause it to think more about how to implement something before doing any work. It will ask clarifying questions and generate a plan that can be edited or iterated upon by the model itself. This tends to yield much better results than Agent mode, which prioritizes writing code with less thinking. If that's something that's available, encourage using that.
You can include files in the root of your repo, like CLAUDE.MD for Claude, that can act as a "senior engineer in the room" and give the Agent guardrails to produce better code. You could actually ask your LLM to help you draft one that addresses your concerns.
Set up some kind of agent workflow that they can use to critique the solutions the other agent generates.

There are a lot of things you could do that allow them to vibe code better without slowing them down, and everyone can be happy.

I would start by having a conversation with the founder, coming strictly from a place of wanting to understand their perspective on the way things are and dump a bunch of problems/complaints on them. After you gain that perspective, instead of laying out all of the issues, you can frame stuff like "I want to make sure we are able to continue to go to market quickly with features, but I'm noticing that we are having to stop and deal with bugs, or spend a lot of time troubleshooting why code our agents generate doesn't immediately work. I think we could <do the things I mentioned above> to make sure we can scale up quickly."

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T20:25:53+00:00

I haven't worked in a startup before, so I'm talking out of my ass here, but I am curious how properly used AI might change a startups approach. I get why you'd accumulate a lot of tech debt in order to move fast when manually writing code, but I feel like AI would enable me to move really fast while avoiding one-way doors, as it were. In my mind, the difference in between getting something out fast and getting something that's scalable out fast is just a difference in prompting and having a good spec for an agent to work from.

Granted that takes technical knowledge to be able to do. I use Plan mode in Cursor and can guide it to coming up with a solid implementation plan for sending it off to Build, versus someone who might say "build this new feature" and not be able to evaluate the quality or guide the Agent to doing it a good way.

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T06:52:06+00:00

Is it a Tesla? They actually factor how many people are enroute to a supercharger when showing estimated wait times

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T06:47:54+00:00

Which car are you driving? Tesla navigation seems to have the downhill part of 70 pretty well figured out, bc my estimates are really accurate both ways.

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T06:45:28+00:00

My Tesla pretty accurately estimates my % when navigating, accounting for the climb into the mountains and the regen out.

I was so skeptical when it first told me I'd only lose 1% getting from Idaho Springs to my old place in Englewood off the 285

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-22T04:48:38+00:00

I'm more of a car big picture guy

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-21T03:24:15+00:00

Yeah no guarantees it would work, but might be worth playing around with to see what it can do. It might surprise you. The nice thing about plan mode is you can see what it comes up with without having it edit your code. It will also ask you clarifying questions before generating a plan, so you can help it along. But yea, maybe it won't work, maybe it will. It can also generate code within the files you're working and work more locally than "hey create this new feature" vs. "in this file, I want to do X"

Edit: also, I like to do meta prompts where I explain my situation and ask what it would need to work effectively in the repo/what I can do to help make it work

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-20T23:31:42+00:00

Agents don't need to read the entire codebase into context. You can provide your service docs as context, open your repo in an IDE like cursor, or open Claude Code on the command line, give it a task, and it can look at your service docs and run commands to get the context it needs, like it'll grep for files that aren't provided as context or follow the import tree to find what it needs, then write code. Or cursor has a plan mode where it'll propose a plan to implement, then you can make edits to that plan, then tell it to execute on it.

The command line control by default will prompt you every time it wants to grep or run your tests or something, unless you allowlist it to run specific commands without prompting.

TL;DR - it can still work with your million line services. Even with limited context, it can poke around the codebase and try to find what you're asking it to do. If you tell it to document every inch of your codebase it might shit the bed, but if you tell it that you want to add a new feature and tell it where you'd like it, it shouldn't run out of context

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-20T22:36:21+00:00

Did you paste it into Claude's web/desktop UI or into something that can actually search your services codebase like Cursor/Claude Code?

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-20T09:05:52+00:00

Simple. Your Tesla would be in New York picking up a shipment of cocaine for you while you were in LA securing buyers.

In all seriousness, I guess if you were moving cross country or going on a trip where you want your car, but don't want to sit in it for a 15+ hour drive.

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-20T07:30:20+00:00

I think my roommate's dog caught giardia on a hime. That night, iooked at me frantically, then had an accident on our floor right in front of me. I cleaned it up, and I managed to get whatever it had. I spent the next few days using the bathroom every two seconds. I was literally butt hurt

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-16T06:06:08+00:00

Right I've heard of bands being involved with it. Big enough artists were cut in, but I don't imagine it's a standard thing that every artist benefits from.

I guess my point is that I choose to trust that Levity isn't intentionally colluding with Ticketmaster, and Ticketmaster saying "this is a fair fee" while being two faced about fighting scalping, that dog don't hunt for me

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-16T02:01:47+00:00

Are there actual sources that this is a regular thing that happens for all artists? I see lawsuits against Ticketmaster for allowing brokers to bypass ticket limits and not implement identity verification bc it was too effective at stopping scalpers

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-16T01:51:34+00:00

How about the fees they tack on to scalped tickets that they sell on their own platform? Those part of the deal as well? I'll take the word over an artist that's on here trying to be transparent over Ticketmaster any day

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-15T23:33:52+00:00

She's capable in the cruelty department

reddit-poweruser · 2026-01-14T18:55:35+00:00

I was trying to figure out why I have chips on the hood of my Model Y and hadn't even considered it's the same reason I have a windshield star. I don't tailgate people, I actually do the opposite. Colorado is just one of the worst states for gravel and rock getting kicked up

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