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"People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything."

Really? Seems like they're not making proper use of the tool. I've been reading MORE not less, and also learning more along the way. Just hitting "enter" is a choice, these tools are so powerful if you invest your curiosity, time and experience.

Sounds like they don't care about what they're doing in the first place, writing code by hand won't fix that.

My kid is 13 now and has been creating Scratch games since the pandemic, he's set to be a game designer/developer as a career: https://gamejolt.com/@S10_Studio

I'm legit baffled by his creativity and clever visual jokes.

Gave it a fair shot at multiple attempts of taking an existing design and making small adjustments to it. Useful perhaps for starting something from scratch and for someone with zero design background. Most likely will just end up being yet another tool that promises visual design magic and ends up not really delivering it. It's a pass. :)

Because the code generated is only as good as the initial description of what you want. It's not too different from "standard" coding where you have a first go at solving it and then iterate and polish as you go along.

I've had multiple situations where things "just worked" and at other times you just have to steer it in the right direction a few times, having another agent doing the review works really well (with the right guardrails), it's like having someone with no other intent or bias review your code.

Unless you're talking about "vibe coding" in which case "correct" doesn't really matter as you're not even looking at what the output is, just let it go back/forth until something that works comes out, I haven't had much success or even enjoyed it as much working this way, took me a couple of months to find the sweet spot (my sweetspot, I think it'll be different for everyone).

Or, just spin up your own review workflow, I've been doing this for the past couple of months after experimenting with Greptile and it works pretty well, example setup below:

https://gist.github.com/rlueder/a3e7b1eb40d90c29f587a4a8cb7c...

An average of $0.04/review (200+ PRs with two rounds each approx.) total of $19.50 using Opus 4.6 over February.

It fills in a gap of working on a solo project and not having another set of eyes to look at changes.

I had a similar experience a couple of months ago where I decided to give it a go and "vibe code" a small TUI to get a feel for the workflow.

I used Claude Code and while the end result works (kinda) I noticed I was less satisfied with the process and, more importantly, I now had to review "someone else's" code instead of writing it myself, I had no idea of the internal workings of the application and it felt like starting at day one on a new codebase. It shifted my way of working from thinking/writing into reviewing/giving feedback which for me personally is way less mentally stimulating and rewarding.

There were def. some "a-ha" moments where CC came up with certain suggestions I wouldn't have thought of myself but those were only a small fraction of the total output and there's def. a dopamine hit from seeing all that code being spit out so fast.

Used as a prototyping tool to quickly test an idea seems to be a good use case but there should be better tooling around taking that prototype, splitting it into manageable parts, sharing the reasoning behind it so I can then rework it so I have the necessary understanding to move it forward.

For now I've decided to stick to code completion, writing of unit tests, commit messages, refactoring short snippets, CHANGELOG updates, it does fairly well on all of those small very focused tasks and the saved time on those end up being net positive.

I've been using with a subscription, both API and subs work.

My grandfather left Germany in 1927 with his mom and stepfather, his father stayed behind. I have a three-page letter written in sütterlin sent in 1948 describing life in Berlin in the aftermath of WWII, it also congratulated my Opa on the birth of his first child (my dad). Thanks to the internet I was able to finally translate in the early 2000s with the help of an online forum. This post reminded me I should frame it as the handwriting is beautiful and the story a reminder of family struggles and hope. Thanks for sharing.

I can see this changing how people interact over video calls, we might start having to exchange a "key phrase" whenever we join a call, so that both sides can make sure the person on the other side is who they say they are (or appear to be), even within families, perhaps not yet but soon enough. Crazy times.

It's great to see someone also interested in annotation on physical books, I had a really rough prototype using Hypothesis for the notes here: https://github.com/rlueder/hypothesis-hardcopy https://github.com/hypothesis/product-backlog/issues/1229

I'll give biblish a go!

I don't follow the "are no longer able to update firmware", what does that even mean? Also calling those devices "legacy" just seems to fit their needs and not their users' (I have both Glow and Glow C devices).

I was curious to give it a go but unusable on Gnome 42.5; the window lags so much that simply trying to drag to reposition it on the screen is impossible. Seems related an issue with Skiko and OpenGL reported here: https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko/issues/494

Stopping by just to mention how similar this is to Alan Moore's Watchmen main plot themes by character Ozymandias. I wonder if Moore was sitting in front of the telly in Jun '77? There's no mention of Moore of Watchmen on Wikipedia but it doesn't seem far fetched.

Thanks for the feedback! Getting some info text on main page. ;)

As I was looking for ways to stay busy during a recent furlough period I decided to tidy up my Twitter profile only to find out that there isn't an easy built-in way to do so using the default Twitter UI. So...

TidyTweets analyses your Following list on Twitter telling you which accounts haven't been active in a specific time frame (one week, two weeks, one month, three months, six months and a year). You can then unfollow individual accounts, selected accounts or all at once.

Definitely still rough around the edges (particularly the UI) but it does what it says on the label.

Upcoming features area a more polished UI as well as a way to manage Lists (create/delete/assign accts).

TidyTweets is FOSS, if you'd like to contribute with code, bug reports or feature suggestions (or just take a look around) stop by Github: https://github.com/rlueder/tidytweets

Thanks!

Happy (tidy) tweeting! :)