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You just need good compaction and a memory system with decent project layout and documentation. If you don't have that 1M tokens won't really save you either.

Very eager to read through your code! I read the first version and incorporated several of its ideas into our own internal elixir agent framework. (We make use of your ReqLLM package, thanks much for that!)

Congrats on the release!

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Most of the team uses:

- Claude Code + worktrees (manual via small shell script)

- A root guardrails directory with a README to direct the agent where to look for applicable rule files (we have a monorepo of python etls and elixir applications)

- Graphite for stacked prs <3

- PR Reviews: Sourcery + Graphite's agent + Codex + Claude just sorta crank 'em, sourcery is chatty but it's gotten a lot better lately.

(editor-wise, most of us are nvim users)

Lots of iteration. Feature files (checked into the repo). Graphite stacks are amazing for unblocking the biggest bottleneck in ai assisted development which is validation/reviews. Solving the conflict hell of stacked branches has made things go much, much faster and it's acted as downward pressure on the ever increasing size of PRs.

Yet another developer who is too full of themselves to admit that they have no idea how to use LLMs for development. There's an arrogance that can set in when you get to be more senior and unless you're capable of force feeding yourself a bit of humility you'll end up missing big, important changes in your field.

It becomes farcical when not only are you missing the big thing but you're also proud of your ignorance and this guy is both.

Another way to look at this is that using LLMs and agents in your business function takes a while to master. It's a skill and it's a good move to push teams to incorporate AI into their workflows before immediately reaching for a new hire. There will be job functions that will be eaten away, I'm sure, but Jevons and his paradox are still undefeated.

I live in Manhattan with a kid and I love not needing a car. I walk my daughter to school and I walk to work from there. It's great.

Funny. I lived in Seattle for 5 years before I moved to Sydney, where I lived for 5 years. That was a different era though, tech wasn't the industry it is now and the internet still felt new. I moved down in 2003 and my American accent helped me land a job I wasn't qualified for (having self taught myself some php and java in Seattle, mostly working as a bartender though). In 2005 I started a small software shop with some friends. Back then (2003) the Ruby user's group was too small to get a reservation at a pub so we'd have to partner up with the Smalltalk guys. Rails came out a year or so later and that changed.

I got back into web stuff when I moved to the states and have been up and down the stack many times since, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the stuff we did back then. Web 2 was an annoying new buzzword and we were still mostly writing software for kiosks, device drivers in C, bridging that with Lua, and using Flash for the interface b/c everybody else in the space was using shitty C++ Motif interfaces. . . . memory lane.

Imagine that Newtown and the Inner West are a lot different than when I lived there, but I do miss that time.

The Kiwis too have their own "invented the airplane" guy (Pearse?) Seems a lot was happening at that point in history.

This is beautiful.

It's more expensive because the tax treatment is better. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

If a city could grow economically by simply building more housing that would be quite the discovery. A perpetual motion machine!

What a weird argument. There are many, many apartments in New York that people want to live in so badly that they'll pay millions upon millions of dollars to do so.

If you've not read Absurdistan or Lake Success or any of Shteyngart's other novels, then you really should. He's one of our best living authors.