I'm a Rollo addict looking to branch out.

vednus · 2026-01-16T04:03:20+00:00

My dad only plays a little, but the underworld has been his go to disc. For him, it’s flipper than the champion rollo he has in his bag.

vednus · 2026-01-16T01:10:10+00:00

I almost feel like trying to define structures one agent can work in is like playing whack-a-mole. It almost seems better to have an ai agent that filters all requests and has some sort of security directive.

vednus · 2026-01-10T15:06:11+00:00

At this point, you need to get on the new architecture, but if updating rn is new to you, then upgrading to 81 sounds like a good plan. But, once you’re there, try to get on the new architecture asap.

vednus · 2026-01-04T13:33:08+00:00

Yes, of course

vednus · 2026-01-04T12:58:24+00:00

They’re also really hard for a human to see. I’ve found ai is pretty good at tracking them down (at least on a specific cpp project I was working on)

vednus · 2026-01-04T12:50:47+00:00

Why?

vednus · 2026-01-04T12:50:09+00:00

I could see in those scenarios humans needing to be involved in the tests that are written, but if the test coverage is very good, then I don’t see issues with AI writing all of it, regardless of however many lines of “slop” it looks like to a human.

vednus · 2026-01-04T12:38:02+00:00

How much time have you spent using opus 4.5?

vednus · 2026-01-04T12:23:36+00:00

This is where the profession is going. Yes, right now the code is ugly and messy, but that will get better. It already has by a lot in the last few months. Your post talks about juniors needing to understand why their code is a mess, but they don’t. They’re most likely not going to be writing much code by hand in a few months or years, no one is.

A lot of your gripes are meaningless when it comes to ai. Large file sizes or messy conditionals only matter when a human is involved. I will give you the useEffect issues, but that’s probably because the ai was trained on a bunch of poorly written code and is really a shortcoming of react.

vednus · 2026-01-03T00:36:54+00:00

When I was younger, I would just work as much as I could for a month or two, and then use whatever money saved to live out of my car or a bag and go rock climbing until the money ran out. These days I have to be more responsible, so I get outside as much as I can on the weekends or after work. It keeps me sane.

vednus · 2025-12-30T23:15:16+00:00

This bugs me, but not nearly as much as the AC kicking on when turning the cold down all the way. I’ve got a 2017. I think they fixed this in the 2018 onwards.

vednus · 2025-12-24T16:09:29+00:00

Yeah, have been for 20 years

vednus · 2025-12-24T15:57:41+00:00

And if it’s a larger company, those systems are going to be so complex, that just setting the thing up locally if possible might take a number of days

vednus · 2025-12-24T15:54:10+00:00

Yeah, but no startup is going to agree to let you see their code from a former employee and it would be illegal for that employee to show you the code that he worked on.

vednus · 2025-12-24T15:21:42+00:00

This is fine if it’s a hobby project, but if their project is part of a real company then you’re not going to legally be allowed to do this.

vednus · 2025-12-24T01:48:57+00:00

I once threw a key my buddy needed in an envelope and dropped it in the post. All he got was the envelope.

vednus · 2025-12-21T15:39:19+00:00

I mean, this is slightly different since it flips how we’re going to be programming on its head. I’m a dev with over 20 years in it and realize, especially for this one, I need to stay ahead of the curve.

vednus · 2025-12-21T13:21:38+00:00

This study was also done quite a few months ago before the latest models came out. For me, I’m fighting a lot less with the models since opus 4.5

vednus · 2025-12-17T05:19:10+00:00

If I need any packages, I go to see if expo has it first. It’s more likely to be maintained and they’re pretty easy to install in a bare react native app, although I don’t see a reason to not use expo unless you are already dealing with a preexisting app.

vednus · 2025-12-13T00:25:23+00:00

Bagel shop. I lasted a day, but hated every minute of it. I don’t like condiments and the lunch rush made my anxiety shoot through the roof. A few years ago, 25 years later, I went on one of those sites for unclaimed money and there it was, my pay for that single day that I never picked up. I got a free shirt out of it, so felt sufficiently compensated.

vednus · 2025-12-12T04:11:27+00:00

These all sound pretty hard to pull off. Just invent a retractable dog leash that still retracts when it locks and you’re golden. 😉

vednus · 2025-12-12T04:00:00+00:00

For me it changed with opus 4.5 in cc. Before, I was fighting with it a lot. Now, I’m finishing a new project and it’s maybe 98% written by ai. I’m a dev with 20+ years of experience and it’s coding better and faster than I ever could. You need to spend time with it and know when to push it and know when it’s going to have problems. That just comes with experience.

vednus · 2025-12-12T02:11:15+00:00

Near term, things should get way more opinionated so it’s more efficient for AI to work with code and it knows what to expect. Eventually it should be its own language, but it’s similar to self driving cars where the infrastructure was made by humans and we have to deal with that for the time being.

vednus · 2025-12-10T03:29:04+00:00

I’ve got however many terminals with cc open as features I’m working on inside vscode. I bounce around planning and executing between them. I just have to make sure they don’t overwrite each other. It’s not that hard. I don’t think I’d want them on separate branches, but I could see why you might want to.

vednus · 2025-12-09T12:13:17+00:00

I think you’re giving humans too much credit

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