Yea I went through my global claude skills and /context yesterday because claude was performing terribly. I deleted a bunch of stuff including memory and anecdotally got better results later on in the day.
It’s shifting for knowledge workers too, we just need to pivot. I have had many app ideas for a while and now ai lets me build them quickly. Access to education and knowledge led to your advanced eduction, now access to cheap/fast building leads to products execution. Use your phd brain to come up with a well researched idea/plan and then go execute.
Those who are essentially vibe coding will find their code large, brittle, and unmaintainable beyond a size, contingent on its organization. They will be able to make 100x the toys but toys aren't what make the world work.
Yeah, but those are amateurs. But every developer like you and me are going to do the same, or be whipped to do the same. But the world only needs that many games, that many TODO apps, that many...so, either you are already a top developer, which ofc means you shouldn't worry, or else.
Their support team likes to sit on things for a while too.
I'm on day 4 of waiting for Azure to approve my support request to increase Azure Batch vCPUs from default of 4 to 20 for ESv3 series. I signed up last week and converted to a paid account. I'm going to use Google Cloud Batch today instead.
You’ve made a fundamental mistake and you’ll have the same result from every cloud provider.
You’re using a legacy v3 series that is being removed from the data centres in an era where you could be using v6 or newer instances that are being freshly deployed and are readily available.
If you can’t be bothered to keep an eye on these absolute basics, you’re going to have a rough time with any public cloud, no matter their logo design.
Right now you're paying more for less compute and having to deal with low availability too! Go read the docs and catch up to the last decade of virtual hardware changes.
Or, just run this and pick a size:
Get-AzBatchSupportedVMSku -Location 'centralus' | `
? Name -like 'Standard_E*v[67]'
I tend to agree. I spent a lot of time revising skills for my brownfield repo, writing better prompts to create a plan with clear requirements, writing a skill/command to decompose a plan, having a clear testing skill to write tests and validate, and finally having a code reviewer step using a different model (in my case it's codex since claude did the development). My last PR was as close to perfect as I have got so far.
That's pretty cool. I'm working in maplibre myself and your json maps seems like it could also be used to demo a workflow or tutorial in a mapping product.
Prompting is just step 1. Creating and reviewing a plan is step 2. Step 0 was iterating and getting the right skills in place. Step 3 is a command/skill that decomposes the problem into small implementation steps each with a dependency and how to verify/test the implementation step. Step 4 is execute the implementation plan using sub agents and ensuring validation/testing passes. Step 5 is a code review using codex (since I use claude for implementation).
It feels like the late 1990s all over again, but instead of html and sql, it’s coding agents. This time around, a lot of us are well experienced at software engineering and so we can find optimizations simply by using claude code all day long. We get an idea, we work with ai to help create a detailed design and then let it develop it for us.
I like your website design, especially the two-column layout in most sections once I get past the hero image (full size screenshot). I found myself looking at all the images. The downside is that I did not really get any motivation to try it out or really understand how it could help me.
I am a backend software engineer so I'm always on the lookout for a way to easily and simply create a professional looking landing page. Therefore I'm always asking the question... is there a template I can choose from and just start filling it in? Just yesterday I found a figma template hosted on figma.site and I used chrome devtools to edit the hero text and navbar and got instant results .. as in I sort of liked it. Typography, spacing, use of color, detailed data presentation (ie bullet points, 2 column layout, etc), and fill-in images are my starting point (as an amateur designer). I could spend hours tweaking a design but I would rather just copy some existing component designs and call it a day. Hope this helps.
Hah I feel you there. Around 2 years ago I did a take home assignment for a hiring manager (scientist) for Merck. The part B of the assignment was to decode binary data and there were 3 challenges: easy, medium and hard.
I spent around 40 hours of time and during my second interview, the manager didn't like my answer about how I would design the UI so he quickly wished me luck and ended the call. The first interview went really well.
For a couple of months, I kept asking the recruiter if anyone successfully solved the coding challenge and he said nobody did except me.
Out of respect, I posted the challenge and the solution on my github after waiting one year.
Part 2 is the challenging part; it's mostly a problem solving thing and less of a coding problem
That doesn't look too challenging for anyone who has experience in low-level programming, embedded systems, and reverse engineering. In fact for me it'd be far easier than part 1, as I've done plenty of work similar to the latter, but not the former.
Yea it’s pretty easy after doing them, but it’s rare for software developers these days to do that activity on a day to day basis. It reminded me of the software crackers of the 90s and 2000s who would post cracks for windows software like autocad.
It’s also relative because a $50/hr contract job isn’t exactly attracting low level FAANG engineering talent. But it’s a nice take home challenge for some second rate engineer like myself who will tackle any problem until I figure it out.
That sucks so hard man, very disrespectful. We should team up and start out own company. I tried checking out your repo but this stuff is several stops past my station lol.
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