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In some Slavic languages it means “poopoo”.

It can’t be CO2 because they said it refills itself.

But was the code of high quality or a mess?

Because I noticed people at my work did similar requests to improve CI. The result was a faster CI, but full of cludges huge inline bash scripts in workflow YAML files, and effectively unmaintainable, unreviewable mess. After just a few rounds of these optimizations the entire CI setup is basically a Rube Goldberg machine but made of duct tape.

Maybe it depends on what you are working on. I work on platforms and engineering tooling. I cannot say the agent can be trusted yet in my experience. And I’d say I’m pretty advanced agent user compared to my peers. The majority of the work I do I have to steer and correct a lot.

For example, recently I’ve been adding skills for our team. I added evals. If you ask an agent to make evals it’ll always try to bias and overfit just to make tests pass. No matter if I have it stated in every possible place not to do it and Codex instructed to catch these cases. It doesn’t work. Lots of sloppy evals get written and skills get extremely specific instructions to pass specific tests.

I think if you are implementing trivial features in a green field product it can work to some degree for some time. But eventually it’s going to deteriorate into a mess. Death by 1000 paper cuts.

I think it’s much more simple than that. It comes down to caring.

I’ve had a long discussion with a coworker on a long drive.

What we came to realize is the difference in our attitude towards writing code.

I approach it as craft. Even when I’m doing 100% of my coding with an agent these days. I still care about the result to be of high quality and maintainability. I still use my system design knowledge to guide the agent to produce scalable systems.

He treats it like just a job. If it’s good enough he ships. The edge cases and bugs don’t matter. Can be fixed later.

But in my mind that’s a fallacy. We all know things don’t get fixed later unless they are obvious defects and users complain.

Instead we get slow degradation of overall quality. All those small issues compound overtime to create a brittle systems that is difficult to debug and maintain.

My mental model of software engineering is like this. Each commit/PR is a small LEGO block. If you make them well they’ll snap well and create a stable structure that can withstand forces. If every LEGO block you make is just slightly off here and there. Your structure becomes unstable and will always have faults and will always have failures under unpredictable environmental pressures.

I think ICQ was from Israel.

I’m not advocating ketone supplements. Your body produces ketones by itself.

I’m not advocating a carnivore diet nor eat like that. Had croissants today! But it’s true that people of the north do not eat carbs as they simply do not exist there.

I don’t know how true that is. But I read a theory somewhere that people developed bigger brains when they started eating more fish which contains omega 3s.

That’s false. Carbs are not a requirement for human body. Proof of that are native populations living far north, exclusively off of animal food sources.

Human body prefers ketones as a source of energy. But glycogen is faster.

My simplified mental model is like this. Ketones are normal gasoline. And glycogen is racing fuel (ethanol). If you run a stock car on racing fuel it may start and drive for a while but it’s damaging the engine and creates unnecessary wear.

Body’s preferred food source is ketones. It functions most optimally when using ketones.

But the fastest accessible energy source is glycogen, which comes from carbs.

Fruit were completely different and a lot less sugary and more starchy than they are today. We wouldn’t recognize most fruit neither by look nor by taste.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-foods-looked-like-befor...

I address it with AI.

Write REVIEW.md.

I have CC check itself pretty well.

I also put into agent/claude/review instructions to write using simple English skill and humanizer skill. Then not to write redundant comments.

It’s not perfect but definitely catches lots of slop.

Huge fan of Orca. Been using it for a month. Plan to setup a proper remote env this week.

Remember when there were all these accusations of Russians creating Facebook memes during elections.

I said back then that it was just that - engagement farming. It was clear as day that some groups like this existed. Some groups just pushed affiliate links or selling t shirts (print on demand). It was just that. Even a little digging with critical thinking was making obvious if you were on the internet long enough.

So now every data center will have run their own wires? The city will be covered in transmission towers, wires, substations. To place new transmission wires, they’ll have to cut down some forest or demolish something.

How about Yaris hybrid? It’s quite small, great performance, and very reliable.

How often does the majority of the population need to drive around the country? I doubt it’s a major factor for the majority of people.

It makes sense to me, but I have some prior CRM context.

My interpretation is:

Context.dev service API key to retrieve company logo, industry, and socials for a company domain […that agent had identified]

Totally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.

If you work from home you will absolutely need an office when you have kids.

At the same time I can get store brand ice cream for €1.50 per box of 6 that has two or three ingredients and tastes delicious. That’s in Portugal.

This has been going on for a decade.

Inbefore extreme NIMBY

There’s a very clear anti-building conspiracy in Canada. I can only think that someone must be limiting supply to keep prices high to protect profits.

Because my friend had the craziest protectionism story.

He wanted to build a multi family home on his existing lot.

Of course all kinds of studies need to be done. One of them is a tree study. Which costs $3,000 alone per tree. He hired firm and they were doing a study (for building purposes).

Then one day a crew shows up and cuts the tree all of a sudden. Turns out that his neighbour, unknown to him, was complaining that the tree was creating too much shade. So without any study they just came and cut it down.

That’s before even his study results came back.

Agreed. Look at the light rail project in Ottawa for an example of Canadian land issues, timelines and quality. It’s a disaster.

Countries can’t be best friends. Each country will always act in self interest.

Maybe from all those stolen API keys?

Yeah, exactly that. Most friends I have in Canada only started to have families once they were able to secure appropriate-sized dwelling. Which didn’t happen until late 30s. And current generations possibly cannot afford it at all in many jurisdictions. And stories I read from back in the day were “a factory worker and a teacher bought and paid off a house in downtown Ottawa in 3 years” are just insane. If I had that kind of purchasing power today I’d have more kids for sure.

Please share your opinions. Thank you.