joshgachnang

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CTO/Founder, Flourish Health. Raised $46mil to help adolescents with serious mental illness. CTO Advisor, stealth autism startup. React Native, React, Node, Python, Django, native apps, and web apps. Personal email: [email protected]
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Comment · 3 days ago
I've also noticed anything related to GrokBot gets massively boosted on X, which is probably serving as a huge marketing channel. Plus anyone with a Cursor subscription gets access.
Comment · 1 month ago
How are you automating all the parts? OpenClaw/Hermes?
Comment · 1 month ago
As low as $69/month through the compounding pharmacies.
Comment · 1 month ago
I didn't read this as "pair program every line".

I write a bunch of features. Most are pretty boring. A junior isn't going to learn much by pairing. But occasionally, I do big architecture changes. Those ones are perfect for early collaborative design, pairing, and discussion. The whole team benefits from understanding the architecture better and juniors get to see how seniors think about it. Then you can pair with juniors on the prompting or, more likely, the implementation plan to hand to the agents. That's maybe once a week.

Comment · 1 month ago
Hey, I love the idea and the fully integrated approach! The feedback loop sounds great, and overall far better than the pretty generic companies I've dealt with for GLP before.

I've led building an EHR totally from scratch at one company and currently advising another as they build their EHR, both totally integrated approaches in industries where you usually have lots of disconnected care (adolescent serious mental illness and ABA/autism care). The state-by-state regulatory challenges are very real! If you want to chat, my email is in my profile!

Comment · 2 months ago
And James Earl Jones!
Comment · 2 months ago
The best class I had in high school was American Dream: a mixture of literature and history/social studies. You'd learn about a time and then read a book for that time, like Grapes of Wrath or The Jungle or All Quiet on the Western Front. It was a double period, had two dynamic teachers (one old hippie and one young fun guy), and most of the grades were from papers about how the book and history related. More schools should have something like that.
Comment · 2 months ago
BugBot in Cursor has been great, I rarely find myself looking at it and disagreeing, especially with medium/high impact. I also have a custom architecture reviewer that just runs Claude, that's been great for finding duplicate code, boundary breaking, etc. We still have Github Copilot reviewing because it will (very occasionally) catch something BugBot missed, but the false positive rate is wayyyy higher, to the point I've considered disabling it a few times.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been working on the same thing for my ReMarkable, but I get it uploaded as a newspaper doc every morning since you can't install apps on it. Overall it's been working reasonably well!
Comment · 2 months ago
This looks pretty awesome, like almost exactly what I've been hoping for. Is it possible to run the sessions on a remote server to keep tasks running? I mostly work from my laptop and it's nice to fire off tasks to a remote server (mostly been Cursor Cloud Agents lately) and close my laptop, maybe check in from the app later.
Comment · 3 months ago
They escaped using the package proxy cache. I'm not seeing how a VM would have prevented that.
Comment · 3 months ago
How would a VM have stopped any of this?
Comment · 3 months ago
I've run into a bunch of segfaults in Bun whenever I went slightly off the beaten path, probably from the "horrifying" Zig code. A huge test suite + a clean rewrite with a path towards more safety is how I would go about it too, personally. Now whether I would do that rewrite in Zig or Rust, I'm not sure. But I have high hopes it's going to work a lot better, especially since Anthropic uses Bun heavily.

Are LLMs better at writing Rust than Zig? I'd assume so, there's way more Rust open source code than Zig. And if so, that's a very solid reason to switch IMO.

Comment · 3 months ago
I used Stelo from Dexcom with my Oura Ring, no prescription. I didn't really learn much, other than occasionally realizing I was cranky because of low blood sugar.

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