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Ticket based (Jira) it's a rough estimate but we are getting 5x as many tickets completed since adopting our current workflow/set of skills. Obviously tickets aren't a standard unit of measurement but we attempt to keep them the same size as pre-Agent work. I think our ticket size is the optimal size for a human to read and understand what that ticket is supposed to change and we do our best to keep to one change == one ticket. I've also found that if we go with larger tickets or less detailed tickets the work that Claude produces is far worse.

I wish more people had a balanced view on this. Turning over all coding with no oversight, no research and planning, no validation, of course that's terrible code. I send FAR more tokens on the planning, research, and validation than on actual coding. If fact if I had to guess it's like 10-20% of the cost and time.

My teams process has 5x our output and reduced our quality issues. But we plan each ticket with Claude and have it research it up front, producing an acceptance criteria list that we validate with human eyes. Then when we work on that ticket, first step is nearly always a heavy research and validation step, then planning the work, then reviewing the research and planning by both agents and humans. Then the coding with is mostly Claude. Then we have a detailed QA/verification step, some of that automated but always requiring a human to run the code locally, test and validate the changes, and requires automated integration tests along with 90% test coverage on all new code. It blows my mind that people would just throw code into production without testing and validation! I'd never do that if I hand wrote all the code, why would I do that if an agent did?

I know the hype promised Agents doing all the work but honestly it mostly just replaced the boring parts for me. The design, planning, and validation is still all human driven. It helps I've been writing software for a living for over 25 years, so I know pretty quickly when something isn't correct. Also I read all the code it produces, it's a rare instance that the PR is so large that I can't and I often make Claude redo those. Though I'll admit Opus 5 seems to produce way too verbose comments and that makes it harder to read all of it.

Thing is that's overly simple thinking IMO, throwing off the cultural legacy literally means replacing it with something else. Culture has a legacy, what comes before, and it's literally impossible to not have one. So that Mohawk is replacing a "normal" haircut, replacing a "normal" culture. There is nothing ironic about showing your child that it's ok to choose something outside the mainstream normal culture, especially if you have done so. It's the whole point. The Mohawk said and meant "I reject your culture and choose my own", it would be ironic to have chosen that and then teach your kid to be in the mainstream culture.

Interesting bug: if you swipe on screen with the mouse button pressed and slide of screen to release the mouse button the on screen swipe action stays attached to the mouse cursor. Only sort of a bug because it's only because it runs in a web page vs on an actual phone. Still would be interested in how to fix that in general.

Overall it looks cool, I'm a native mobile app guy so I'm always skeptical about mobile web. This doesn't change that for me but I can see growth in the web platform for mobile.

I think it is slowing down, almost undeniably slowing down. Hitting a wall? I don't think that's fair but slowing down for sure. Which follows the tech hype process, an engineer(s) make great progress on a problem, an "idea" guy hypes it to the moon and sells it for as much money as possible by promising the moon, and then the tech "fails" to deliver the moon. Even the tech was never meant to deliver said moon.

Funny that you say what on Earth are you comparing us to. It's just that Earth, look at the time it takes for purely biological evolution to take place. Flight is estimated to have first evolved 350 million years ago in insects, then dinosaurs 220 million years ago, then birds, and bats 60 million years ago. From insects to bats is 290 million years. It took us less than 100 to go from basic flight to leaving the planet. On nearly any scale we humans have evolved and adapted on an unprecedented timescale. Hell, humans only evolved 100,000 years ago or so. It's a blink of the eye compared to literally everything else on our planet.

Prove this, because I'm pretty certain this is not the case. I helped build a messaging app for iOS (Technically a TeleHeath app that needed to accept MMS/SMS also) and I saw absolutely none of this. That was a few years ago so it's possible it's changed but I'd have to see actual documentation for that. Otherwise I firmly believe this is BS and completely made up.

I'm a web developer and native app developer but I'm also a user. If I want to use a service and they have a message saying "for the best experience, use <other os>" I will never use that service again. There are no apps or services that would cause me to switch. So you can take that stance but you are just hurting your app because you as a developer don't want to learn native apps.

Every single thing is political. What you eat? political Religious? political What TV show you watch? political What job you do? political. Welcome to modern America where every single thing is a political us vs them shit show. This is the county we as citizens have let be forced on us.

Simple fact most Red's don't want to associate with Blue's and it's the same on the other side. Sure individuals won't agree but they are a minority. If you don't like the project, then just move on it has NOTHING to do with you.

Except Reddit doesn't have a product if they don't have people reading it. The TERRIBLE UI and user experience means that a percentage of users will only use reddit via 3rd-party apps. Apollo is BY FAR the best client. This isn't capitalism, it's self-harm by stupidity. Reddit's only value is the user eyes and data. Remove the users and Reddit dies a quick death. Maybe they will still pull in users but having less value but charging more to drive away your Users sure seems like a dumb plan capitalism or not.

I've been involved with Software Development for over 20 years started with VB6 and some perl/python in 1998. I saw the "informal code of conduct" and it never worked. What really happened: many people were treating terribly and most of it was swept under the rug. CoC were created for valid and good reasons. I'm not defending the Rust community here, it seems childish to me. The past is not what you are trying to claim it was in this post. Look up the MANY Rails conference sexual harassment issues and worse.

We should not whitewash the past because the present isn't what we want.

It's really difficult to give you a useful answer. Some teams have succeeded and some have failed. It depends on the product, the team, and the user base. I've built and worked on both native mobile apps (swift and kotlin) and cross platform (react native and flutter). Personally I would choice native and have for my projects. That being said I personally hate the JavaScript eco system and language so to me it slows everything down. I'm faster (not twice as fast though) and much better in the native platforms. That doesn't mean your team will be. Who you hire and what the product is will matter more than which tech you use IMO.

I think we have a slightly different use case as I'm mostly collecting sensor data for ag automation on a homestead scale and I'm a python programmer already but for me python has been impossible to beat so far. The combination of easy of use, the massive ecosystem, and wide spread support/internet resources make it hard to beat IMO.

I've started to believe that the aspirations that our culture promotes and pushes are the problem itself. Instead of creativeness Western culture promotes monetary success. Instead of happiness in a family we dream of making a billion dollars in a startup. Instead of dreaming about exploring the galaxy we dream about private space travel and mining. Instead of solving humanities greatest challenges via learning and science we push private businesses profiting from half fixes and pointless changes (carbon credits or slow introduction of electric vehicles without public infrastructure as examples). I'm not against people being rewarded for their work but the reward has become more important than the work itself. This is likely a result of the huge wealth inequality Western culture is dealing with, when someone has dramatically less they are always drawn to those that have more and are willing to do almost anything to get there.

I'm not sure where you are located but in Northern New England this is very untrue. Maine, New Hampsire, and Vermont all have a LARGE number of diy log cabins built. I've stayed in several and I'm in the early planning of building a house (not log cabin, it's a long house with builtin green house/barn sections similar to the long house on the Apple TV show home). There are many places in the US that allow you to DIY your own home, though the majority are very rural which is a MASSIVE benefit IMO.