Hussain

building slowly but surely. (unsuccessfully) attempting to burn less tokens.

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@tszzl A classic arms race; damned if you do, damned if you don’t

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@joshpuckett I have! I’ve been playing with some concepts around wait masking in particular for the app I’m building. I just think some of these performance tips compiled in a Reference Desk style section would be awesome :)

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@joshpuckett if you add a section about that on Interface Craft I’d devour it

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@mitsuhiko I actually think a large part of my human reviewer fatigue stems from having to read AI prose. They seem to love talking to each other in this way, though

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@weswinder It’s the progressive disclosure of it all

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@rileybrown One of my recent lifehacks has been to “interview” different models (big and small) about their experience using and understanding my app’s CLI/MCP. They usually give excellent responses and help me think outside the box as an engineer

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@chipro In Codex at least, it seems to worsen every autocompaction cycle, since it seems to consider each turn after compaction as a greenfield task and lean towards being comprehensive. But just an anecdotal hypothesis

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@paulg as somebody who has been a student founder then worked in university innovation, 100% agree. far too much time is spent teaching folks with little enthusiasm to build about business fundamentals they will never use

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@alexdanilowicz Seeing as Magic Patterns is one of my favourite design products I imagine you’re in the second category :)

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Auto mode is one of those product engineering magic things that look super simple/invisible on the surface but have so much packed underneath

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@argofowl @thsottiaux @ajambrosino ended up taking matters into my own hands

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@mattpocockuk so the average day on x

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@theesabina It’s also the insanely verbose “explainer text” it adds to ui elements. “Off, turns off the feature. On, turns it on app-wide.” Yes we’re smart enough to understand what a toggle is, Claude

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@ryancarson @paper I find it much more steerable than Claude Design, and its MCP comes with pre-baked “anti-slop” design instructions. It does take a fair bit to get your existing design language ported over but they’ve added design tokens support recently

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dogfooding volli has taught me that nothing touches @claudeai Fable 5 at orchestrating multiple agent sessions

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@webdevcody i have also fallen into this trap and have fully committed to building and using my own ADE. i love being trapped

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@Suhail slash commands are your friends!

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normalize adding themes to AIDEs pls

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@bcherny @mattpocockuk @JohnOusterhout I wonder if “engineering” vs “coding” is a harness vs model concern. It seems to me that raw models tend to react tactically to most requests, and it’s harnesses that make the relevant context for long-term engineering available to the model.

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Obligatory "hello world" tweet :)