The criticism was directed at retailers. If they want to provide indoor maps... why not just do that? For my Target example, there's even a convenient place to put them in store: the posters that say to download an app to see a map. There's also a standard place where they can add their indoor maps for free without needing anyone's permission (openstreetmap). Or put them online with a public domain disclaimer and someone else will eventually probably do it.

Edit: In Target's case, they do apparently also put it on their website if you go hunting for it, but the ubiquitous pushing of apps is still annoying vs just putting it right there in the store as well, and perhaps offering a QR code + text link to the online version. They're clearly using it as bait to install their tracking/ads trojan. Also their online map for my store is east-west inverted for some reason (the east end of the building is on the left, the north on top), which would be immediately obvious if they mapped it to their building in OSM.

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IMHO, the biggest impact LLMs have had in my day to day has not been agentic coding. For example, meeting summarisers are great, it means I sometimes can skip a call or join while doing other things and I still get a list of bullet points afterwards.

I can point at a huge doc for some API and get the important things right away, or ask questions of it. I can get it to review PRs so I can quickly get the gist of the changes before digging into the code myself.

For coding, I don't find agents boost my productivity that much where I was already productive. However, they definitely allow me to do things I was unable to before (or would have taken very long as I wasn't an expert) – for example my type signatures have improved massively, in places where normally I would have been lazy and typed as any I now ask claude to come up with some proper types.

I've had it write code for things that I'm not great at, like geometry, or dataviz. But these are not necessarily increasing my productivity, they reduce my reliance on libraries and such, but they might actually make me less productive.

Repeated strings like that should compress pretty well with gzip, which is one of the core ideas behind atomic css performance, alongside the difficulty to remove dead css – with vanilla html/css your css grows unconstrained

With atomic css, your css stays a constant size, your html will be bigger but is easier to manage as you naturally add/remove html as page content changes, plus compression should be pretty efficient.

I've had to manage legacy frontend codebases with tens of thousands of lines of mostly unused css that were not easy to remove as they might have been used somewhere, that's what led me to start using atomic css.

I don't really love tailwind, but I appreciate it has become ubiquitous so I do use it, and the ideas behind atomic css are solid when you maintain a large frontend codebase. It has also led to the rise of self-contained components as opposed to libraries (shadcn and all the others) which I couldn't be happier about.

Tailwind comes with a set of colors, shadows, typography scale, paddings, etc.

Sure, you can override them, but most people don't and there is definitely a "tailwind look"

This is not correct, the regulation has nothing to do with cookies as the storage method, and everything to do with what kind of data is being collected and used to track people.

Meta is hardly at blame here, it is the site owners that choose to add meta tracking code to their site and therefore have to disclose it and opt-in the user via "cookie banners"

Honest question: what do you do with them? I would be so fascinated to see a video of this kind of workflow… I feel like I use LLMs as much as I can while still being productive (because the code they generate has a lot of slop) and still barely use the agentic CLIs, mostly just tab completion through windsurf, and Claude for specific questions by steering the context manually pasting the relevant stuff

I focus more on reading code & prompting claude to write code for me at a high level. I also experiment a lot. I don't write code anymore by hand except in very rare cases. I ask claude for questions about the code to build understanding. I have it produce documentation, which is then consumed into other prompts. Often, claude code will need several minutes on a task so I start another task. My coding throughput on a day to day basis is now the equivalent of about 2-3 people.

I also use gemini to try out trading ideas. For example, the other day I had gemini process google's latest quarterly report to create a market value given the total sum of all it's businesses. It valued google at $215. Then I bought long call options on google. Literally vibe day trading.

I use chat gpt sora to experiment with art. I've always been fascinated with frank lloyd wright and o4 has gotten good enough to not munge the squares around in the coonley playhouse image so that's been a lot of fun to mess with.

I use cheaper models & rag to automate categorizing of my transactions in Tiller. Claude code does the devops/python scripting to set up anything google cloud related so I can connect directly to my budget spreadsheet in google sheets. Then I use llama via openrouter + a complex RAG system to analyze my historical credit card data & come up with accurate categorizations for new transactions.

This is only scratching the surface. I now use claude for devops, frontend, backend, fixing issues with embedder models in huggingface candle. The list is endless.

Can you share some code? I work with a guy like this who claims this level of output but in reality he consumes massive amounts of other devs time in PR review.

Are you doing a lot of broad throwaway tasks? I’ve had similar feelings when writing custom code for my editor, one off scripts, etc but it’s nothing I would ever put my professional reputation behind.

Sorry, most of my code is proprietary. However, I have a stock exchange project on my github I plan to rewrite in rust. I'm pretty busy now at work but I'll do that using claude code.

If your friend is consuming massive amounts of other dev time in PR reviews, maybe he has other issues. I'm willing to bet even without agentic coding, he would still be problem for your coworkers.

Sometimes I do broad throwaway tasks. For example I needed a rust lambda function that would do appsync event authorization for jwt tokens. All it needed to do was connect to aws secrets, load up the keys & check inbound requests. I basically had claude-code do everything from cdk to building/testing the rust function & deploying to staging. It worked great! However, I've certainly had my fair share of f-ups like I recently tried doing some work on the frontend with claude code and didn't realize it was doing useEffect everywhere!! Whoops. So I had to adapt and manage 2-3x claude code instances extremely closely to prevent that from happening again.

As a follow-up, I've gotten much much faster at modeling code in my mind and directly translating it into prompts. It really changes how you code! For each task, I'm extremely specific about what I want and depending on how closely claude does what I want, I change my specificity. Sometimes like with the lambda function, I can be high level and with my react.js codebase, due to it's lack of types (I know...) needs extra attention.

To be effective with agentic coding, you have to know when to go high level and low level. And have to accept that sometimes agentic coders need a lot of help! It all depends on how much context you give it.

I wouldn't blame AI. A terrible developer using AI becomes a bad developer. A good developer using AI becomes a great developer.

Do you use it to make any actual products that makes money?

yes. https://app.grantpuma.com/

I can’t read any text on homepage with iOS Safari as first few characters/words of each sentence is cut off. Text justification is different on different pages. Vertical spacing and images are uneven across the site. FAQ accordion animation is jittery and the hamburger menu doesn’t open actual menu from any other page other than homepage. Going back to homepage from FAQ page renders homepage in previous state, such as with sidebar open, momentarily before resetting to expected state. Focusing on input on sign in page zooms in on email field, but half of it is off page.

I’m assuming this is work in progress and currently it’s been vibe coded to MVP stage?

Welcome to tech. Same as it's ever been, I've been a founding engineer twice in my career and walked away with 6 figures in RSUs while the random enterprise sales guy two desks over made 7, and the founder made 9.

I do understand the frustration, especially if you have been affected personally, but it's just the way the world works. Starting a company isn't easy either, and as I'm finding out requires a completely different skillset.

Obviously if there was opportunity for a supply chain attack like that they would have done it in addition to wrecking the IT infrastructure. Regardless, I imagine this will impact day to day drone operation as the Russians might re-flash the firmware to a known good version whether there is a backdoor or not

I use this vscode extension called "python envy" that changes venv automatically depending on which folder of a monorepo you are in, it's great! Wish vscode had it built-in

Never heard of it, will try. Thanks

AI isn't the thing, it's the thing that gets us to the thing

Comet, it makes your teeth turn green...