adamontherun
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Comment · 1 year ago
love that a search for 'chill vibes sculpture' returned a very chill set of results. nice step change in art search capabilities
Comment · 1 year ago
I've found that having the coding assistant do large tasks like this unsupervised is the worst way to use it. Asking the assistant to do narrowly defined tasks and then checking the work is the only reliable way.
I've been using Cursor since the summer and wrote up a few tips here https://betaacid.co/blog/cursor-dethrones-copilot
Comment · 1 year ago
Orion
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been working with Cursor for a few months. I learned quickly to stay away from the hype around creating entire features using Composer. Found a ton of value in using it to work with context from the codebase as well as external documentation.
Shared my 8 pro tips in this post towards the bottom https://betaacid.co/blog/cursor-dethrones-copilot
Comment · 2 years ago
Acquired had a great episode earlier this year that really connects with this. They talked about how Novo Nordisk stuck with GLP-1 research for decades, even when it didn’t seem like a sure thing.
A big part of that was Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, who pushed for GLP-1 research at Novo even when he faced a lot of skepticism and wasn't always treated well for it. Compare that with MetaBio—mentioned in the study—where Pfizer pulled the plug early and missed the boat entirely. Novo’s persistence, especially Thomsen's, led to Ozempic and Wegovy
Comment · 2 years ago
My use case failed
Asked if there were any available 3 bedroom units currently for rent in my building
There aren’t in reality
But service came back saying there were 4
Comment · 2 years ago
Great episode of the Lawfare podcast recently where Shane Harris interviewed Benjamin Breen about his book, Tripping on Utopia, which tells the story of how Mead’s research into expanded consciousness and psychedelics.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id...
Comment · 3 years ago
we started using (and now contributing to) https://orval.dev/ this year which both generates the mocks using MSW as well as the client-side networking code (React Query in our case). It removes so much boilerplate its amazing.
wrote up the basics of our workflow few weeks ago https://betaacid.co/blog/api-contracts