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Re:The Empty Middle of AI Coding on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:26AM (#47689239)
I think the "middle" isn't empty, it just requires more discipline than either extreme. AI works well when the problem is clearly framed and constrained, and fails when we skip steps and expect it to fill in the gaps correctly.

Your pipelne is basically a way to force good engineering habits. Thinking through the problem, design, and spec before coding, which reduces hallucinations and keeps understanding intact. So a big part of the improvement comes not just from the AI itself, but from the fact that it pushes you to be more structured and explicit in how you think about the problem.

Great read, thanks.

Re:Things I learned from Reddit fashion on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:56AM (#47676422)
I have sometimes turned to Reddit to find out things about clothing and recommendations for clothes, but I find the general consensus about "if you want x, the best place to buy is y" is pretty rubbish.

The best thing you can learn is how to treat clothes, as you mention.

Awesome idea!
I feel like he's just doing it for attention.
Re:Auralo: An nice new Radio App check it out on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:26AM (#47636409)
Looks good! Probably just a personal preference thing, but I was looking for a back button or way to swipe the “Now playing” panel down in order to see the list of radio stations again. You can use the nav at the bottom, but a back button or swipe down was my natural attempt at first.

Good job though!

Anthropoic are trying their own hand at OpenClaw style software so I guess it’s not a huge surprise. Shame though.
Would like to know how much it costs per day.
Re:Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code? on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:14PM (#47633569)
Zed is what you’re looking for - https://zed.dev/

Super lightweight and a joy to use. Unsure on the remote access part though.

Re:I built a tool to search text inside screenshots on Friday April 03, 2026 @04:01AM (#47624244)
Nice work - what tech did you use to build?
This is exactly why I never trust 'accidental' feature rollouts in production environments. Any CDN or hosting provider that can accidentally expose private data has serious issues with their deployment process and access controls. Railway should have caught this in staging - the fact that it made it to production suggests they don't have proper testing for permissioning logic, which is absolutley terrifying for anyone hosting sensitive apps there.
Re:speedread: A terminal-based, open source speed reader on Thursday April 02, 2026 @11:05AM (#47615461)
Great idea. Not seen anything like this before!
Re:Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:01AM (#47601022)
Great article. I still consider myself "engineering" while exclusively using AI tools, as I'm making the same changes to the code than I would have done without AI.

There's still the same level of accountability, and the same deep understanding of what problems are being solved and the approaches being taken.

But the whole "prompt" prefix seems to give the engineering aspect less meaning. I think that's just negative connotation though.

Re:How do you usually discover new developer tools? on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @08:30AM (#47599957)
Some tech/engineering podcasts are quite good for that sort of thing.
Re:Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @08:18AM (#47599846)
Looks like ccleaks is down eek - not long before ccunpacked has same fate.
Re:Image hosting for AI agents with instant test keys on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:42AM (#47599546)
I did this recently for my product (https://www.getpronto.io/guides/connect-ai-agents-mcp). I decided to use MCP but I notice you have gone with the skills approach. What made you decide to use that over MCP?

I'm considering skills as it looks a bit less friction?

The token usage differs day to day - that's the most frustrating part. You can't effectively plan a development session if you aren't sure how far you'll likely get into a feature.
I somewhat agree with the deploy fear point, but deploy fear can just be a consequence of one bad experience 10 years ago that ruined a weekend. At least for me :D
It's one of those "I always wondered" things - nice.
Re:When the bill comes due: the economics of AI coding tools on Saturday March 28, 2026 @04:00PM (#47557711)
It's just a matter of time. I'd be willing to pay more but not sure how much more :/
Re:Tailscale'd into Homelabbing on Saturday March 28, 2026 @07:16AM (#47553528)
Nice writeup. I run a similar setup with a k3s cluster at home and Tailscale made the whole thing so much more manageable.
The OneDrive thing drives me crazy too. I set up a fresh Windows install last month and spent the first hour just undoing defaults and disabling prompts. It's weird how Microsoft keeps doubling down on this when the backlash is so consistant. At some point they have to realise they're pushing more technical users toward Linux.
Re:Schedule tasks on the web on Saturday March 28, 2026 @07:12AM (#47553510)
The pricing discussion is interesting but I think people are missing the bigger picture. Being able to schedule agents to run tasks on a cron is genuinely usefull for solo devs who can't justify hiring someone to handle repetitive maintainence work. I've been using AI agents for image processing stuff and the autonomous loop is where it works.