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thunspa··on Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friends
Or learning to actually code. I can't see why I would ever learn to use these kinds of tools.

As a developer, I can just make it myself. Now with LLMs, if it's very simple and bounded, I can just vibe most of it with very little to lose.

As a lay person, I don't see what the TAM for this is. Who will spend the time to learn how to drag and drop an application?

thunspa··on How I Program with Agents
Saw Rich Hickey say this, that it is a known fact that tested code never has bugs.

On a more serious note: how could anyone possibly ever write meaningful tests without a deep understanding of the code that is being written?

thunspa··on How I program with agents
Yes, this is what I'm fearing as well.

That we will end up just trying to review code, writing tests and some kind of specifications in natural language (which is very imprecise)

However, I can't see how this approach would ever scale to a larger project.

thunspa··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
In writing the code that is supposed to implement my idea, I find that my idea has many flaws.

Sending that idea to an LLM (in absence of AGI) seems like a great way to find out about the flaws too late.

Otherwise, specifying an application in such detail as to obtain the same effect is essentially coding, just in natural language, which is less precise.

thunspa··on Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
I never used Telegram, but was under the impression that it's similar to Signal. However, Pavel Durov recently tried to meddle in the Romanian elections process[0] in a very bizarre, almost desperate attempt to misinform the electorate.

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/05/23/why-is-t...

thunspa··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
I just cmd + shift + p -> disable Cursor tab -> enter

Sure, you could just add a shortcut too.

After a while, it turns into a habit.

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