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Comment · 10 months ago
You’re missing the point, it’s about those tools drastically improving context window management. When you want to tackle large refactors, Claude Code will blow tens of thousands of tokens just searching for files and various refactor related file manipulation. When you run out of window in the middle of a big refactor you’re going to have a bad time.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is 180 degrees from teams I have been on some years ago - everyone took pride in being thick skinned and detaching their ego from PR reviews. Seems to be a generational thing
Comment · 1 year ago
sincerely hope this is sarcasm
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely feel the same way. I have been writing software professionally for over 20 years and truly love the craft. Now that I am using Claude Code basically 100% of the time my productivity has certainly increased, but I agree there is a hollowness to it - where before the process felt like art it now feels like industrialized mass manufacturing. I’m hoping that I can rediscover some of what has kept me so fascinated with software in this new reality, because quite a bit of the joy has indeed been stripped away for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah I spent almost 10 years building Rails apps and we would always just use whatever the most reputable gem was at the time and it always worked out great. Its only after moving into the JS/TS world that this became not the norm.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would never suggest "roll your own", but every web framework I have ever used generally has a library that is the go to battle tested auth implementation and just requires adding a few columns and/or tables to your database.
Comment · 1 year ago
"Better Auth’s pitch is simple: Let developers implement everything from simple authentication flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on their databases and embed it all on the back end."

Its absolutely bonkers to me that web development has gotten to a point where this is a novel pitch. Up until not that long ago ALL auth was done directly in your own database and embeded in your own backend. Am I missing something?

Comment · 1 year ago
Tmux?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah agree. I spent a few hours looking at the langchain repo when it first hit the scene and could not for the life of me understand what value it actually provided. It (at least at the time) was just a series of wrappers and a few poorly thought through data structures. I could find almost no actual business logic.
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you feel a question like this improves literally anything other than your own sense of moral superiority?
Comment · 1 year ago
second question - does it/will it cost like $500 per 1kg spool?
Comment · 2 years ago
I was there a few years ago and will echo the fact that the folks I interacted with at the museum of computing were truly world class fantastic. When someone loves what they do and where they are it really shows.
Comment · 2 years ago
Unmanned was already gender neutral, but hey… whatever makes people feel like they are virtuous
Comment · 2 years ago
We are at least getting a 40k series with Henry Cavil I believe
Comment · 2 years ago
I might be a bit biased (I wrote and maintain a similar gem), but I think this is a great pattern that solves a real problem that is encountered and does so in a very Ruby kinda way. I particularly like the mental model of stringing together multiple service objects into a "pipeline" and the semantics chosen for the API. Kudos to OP for putting this out there!

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