This is not ok

Yeah. Now I can avoid getting overwhelmed on the details that don't matter or I can automate that complex refactor because my initial abstraction didn't model the data correctly to fit my performance goals.

It’s actually a great time to care about the craft. I don’t know if people realize this but you can actually write whatever you want into the prompt box. You can use the AI to get the function just right instead of making it generate crap as fast as possible.

It's a btreemap, not a hashmap

There are no bad ideas... Except for all the bad ideas

Hey... If python can do it then...

I would expect all let expressions, even irrefutable ones, would eval to a bool. Irrefutable ones would trivially be true

I assume it's to simplify if-let/matches! into a single syntax

Ctrl-C in psql gives me the heebie-jeebies - Neon There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude qu...

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Woah

Probably burnt out when they took it to IETF

Ah yeah, expected

What was the reason?

Overall. Although probably biased by the work I've been doing recently. A combination of greenfield work, integration work, and more complicated refactors.

Each time I have used a plan and TDD approach using a cursor agent

I've simultaneously been working less (less active participation from my brain during working hours) while working much more (evenings and weekends).

It's easy to fire a quick prompt before you go to eat dinner, then you quickly review and prompt again, then you clean up dinner and prompt again

I haven't written a single line of code in the past two weeks.

It's definitely helped me so far. But it's also incredibly addictive. I fire off the prompt, wait, review the plan, wait, build the plan, wait, review the code/test, wait for fixes.

Brain will probably explode soon.

I'm pretty deep in the LLM psychosis right now. It started from ADHD induced burnout for a project I really wanted to work on but I just couldn't get past the mental block. I was able to throw cursor at it and make very solid progress.

Now it's also my notes and research assistant.

rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?ver...

I suspect the gryoscopic forces of any significant flywheel wouldn't be desirable in a car

Looks at me

I am the terminal now

It's missing

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Yeah. I think it's pretty neat. It's unfortunately not privacy preserving but that can be potentially resolved with enough fake load

DOMinating your reviewers

What's wrong with negative durations? 👀 I think a signed duration can be useful sometimes

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I hope this works out because the idea is really really cool

"time for lunch"

It's 8pm

Yeah. When I last looked, none of the listed software could reasonably be called slop by current usage of the term