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It's amazing and intense 😃 Do some form of training you like, make sure you take time for it so you release stress, recharge and sleep better. When the baby just won't stop crying, use headphones or some form of hearing protection, you still hear but it saves a lot of emotional energy. Also no need for both of you to be in a long crying session, tag-team so the other one can have a short break instead. Also don't forget to write things down, just jot things down in obsidian or something on your phone. There are so many things you will want to remember or thoughts you'll have that will just get lost if you'll try and remember to write it down a little later. Also check out the wonder weeks, they go through a lot of phases so it's really nice to understand roughly what is happening in each phase and how their mood can be.

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Totally agree, it's the most self explanatory term for all the types of feedback that can be done during any part of the workflow. We want to be able to give feedback as early as possible to steer the agent to be on the optimal path as early as possible, the later we feedback the more to correct in the end.

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Look into using skills and then creating your own custom skills, super powerful! Project structure and creating short automated feedback loops is key for quality and more long runing tasks. I'm traveling today but I'll send you a DM tomorrow with a setup process that you can let your agent use to have a project setup and feedback loops automated. The least I can do for all the knowledge you have shared on you YT and course.

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@souravbhar871 I found this a while ago that intercepts the traffic for deeper insights into CC, it gives visibility into tool calls and reasoning. And no, I'm not the creator of it 🙂 https://t.co/2ACKJSZIAp

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@pontusab Check out https://t.co/hwM4UcieIN it's local and open source.

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It's almost never a permanent injury, it's mostly imbalance and build up over time that hasn't been addressed. What you don't take time for early on will force you to either quit, or slowly heal and address those symptoms of the problem. If you have any type of limited movement in your hips you will always end up with knee problems when running. Get a Lacrosse ball or similar (need to be super hard) and lay flat on the ground face down and put the ball between the floor and you thigh, start from the top and find a gnarly place. Lay still on it and relax, don't move it around, it should be still in that place until it starts releasing. Then move downward to the next spot until you have released the whole front thigh, stop at least 10cm above the knee. Do it on just one leg and compare when you walk how much further that leg can move backwards without "tension" in the hip compared to the other leg. Do both legs for a couple of minutes before you go out and run and you will not get tense so quickly. But do shorter distance in the beginning when you are ready to run again, also decrease weights when lifting when you have released your thighs as it will take some time for other muscles to get ready for the improved mobility as you will be weaker in the end ranges initially.

Check out The Ready Stare on YT for some videos on how to use a Lacrosse ball effectively.

Don't give up on it, it can most likely be fixed.

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@Trader_XO Can highly recommend Cursor instead if you want to use AI tools when developing, it's night and day between VSC and Cursor.

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Opus 4.5 is crazy good with the correct setup! I'm a heavy user of AI in SWE and I have stopped using any other model for serious work. I have almost not written a single line of code the last couple of days since it one-shots everything. I collaborate on detailing and help it plan, then I review and onto the next! I tried using Sonnet, but it's just too much difference in quality that it's not worth it since I need to spend more time reviewing, and fixing things that Opus just nails.

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@calcsam BOOK, loved the first one so looking forward to dig into this one as well

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It would be great to have a coach template where the user can have a natural voice conversation with the agent Coach. To make the conversation feel more fluent and reduce the perception of long pauses like during RAG or tool calls, the agent could use small verbal nods, like "mhmm" or "that's interesting," adapted to the conversation. Ideally the frequency of these cues should be rate limited so they don’t occur too often to feel robotic.

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I've gone through a similar thing a couple of years ago where my cognitive ability notably declined, I had severe brain fog and low energy and focus.

If you don't feel rested measure your sleep pattern so you have enough sleep time in deep, and REM. I wasn't able to get my brain to wind down so I woke up feeling just as tired as when I went to bed.

Wind down in time before bed and limit blue light, can highly recommend the yellow tinted Gunnar glasses to block Blue light, and to relax the eyes. Especially since you sit so much in front of the screen. Also, turn down the brightness as much as you can.

If you don't feel rested at all after a full night of sleep your brain is probably going non stop all night. Take half a sleeping pill for 2-3 nights to help it wind down. Take as little as possible so you don't use it regularly! It's not good sleep but better than when the brain is at full speed, so just use it to break the bad cycle.

You mention you have a recurring inflammation in your tooth, get that sorted as an inflammation that close to your brain will definitely affect you negativity.

Since you are in front of the screen so much you likely have deficiency in vitamins so if possible get a blood work to see what to boost. I'm doing 2000IU of Vitamin D every day in combination with vitamin K. When taking larger amounts of D it's important to combine with K! You can take that with some Omega-3 (EPA+DHA) to improve uptake and cognitive functioning.

I also take 120mg of Ginkgo Biloba extract, this one fixed my brain fog completely! It took about 3-4 weeks until I noticed a shift so have patience.

To further boost your cognitive functioning you can take Lions Mane, I do 500mg but you can take up to 1000 each day. Start with 500 for at least 3 weeks before taking a higher dose. If you ramp up and get a headache you are taking too much.

NAC is also good for antioxidant, liver detox and respiratory health.

Depending on how often and how hard you train you should take protein, it will make a huge difference in how fast you recover and in overall energy. Get one of good quality!

This is starting to get long now 😄

For a big boost to the immune system you can do an old school health cocktail. Press half a lemon in a cup, add a teaspoon of honey, grate 1-2cm of ginger, press 1-2 pieces of garlic and add some hot water so the honey melts when you stir it. Take once a day for 4 weeks then space out to every second day if it's too boring to do each day. You will notice a much improved immune and gut system.

It will take several weeks to start noticing a difference so don't give up, you need to give it at least 3-4 weeks for any initial improvement. It's good to do some form of journaling when you sort this out as it's hard to truly remember how you really felt 1-2 weeks ago.

Oh one last thing, depending on what you train and how often. To get stress out of the system you need hard traning, gym sessions won't cut it. Do something like CrossFit or some martial art where you go all out to release all the stress and thoughts that are running in the background non-stop.

TLDR;
Morning: (take with some food)
Vitamin D3 + K2: 2000 IU
Omega-3 500–1,000 mg EPA+DHA
Lion’s Mane: 500–1,000 mg

Mid-day: (take with lunch)
Ginkgo Biloba: 120 mg (note that this has a slight blood thinning effect)

Night: (1-2h before sleep)
ZMA (2-3 capsules)
NAC (if it disrupts your sleep take it in the morning instead)

Long rant here but just reach out if you want to know something more of any of this 😄

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You can kick off multiple background agents in Cursor but you don't have any coordination of their work. If you want full autonomy you could have an agent with something like Taskmaster and have it spin up agents for each task and have it coordinate their results. Might be easier to have it use Claude Code instead but pricier.

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These things often come as an effect of other underlying problems with muscles and fascia. I've had similar problems earlier and you can 'unglue' many problems like this by doing Myofascial release and mobility training.

Get a lacrosse ball and a floss band so you can unglue the parts you need. I would also start doing static hanging. Find something you can hang in with a proper grip so you can relax while hanging. Don't use a bar in a door opening as you need to be able to hang without touching the floor (if you have pain by hanging, start slowly and unglue your shoulders and arms with the ball and band first. You can also offload by having your feet on the floor in the beginning.) Try doing a total of 3 minutes per day, split how you want but try and do for as long as you can without discomfort.

Check out "The Ready State" on YT for lots of great videos of how to use the ball and band. You can skip a lot in the videos as he talks non stop 😄

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1. Branch a conversation at any point. When detailing or working on something more complex I often find myself wanting to go back or explore a path in the conversation. Would love to bransch of anywhere without affecting the current conversation. Great if it could be visualized as branches so it's easy to go between different stages in the conversation.

2. Automatic updates of rules so they are in sync with the project. Could be presented like file diffs so they need to be accepted if there are proposed changes.

3. A small visual tweak to the command component so it's more clear when a command needs to be accepted. I have some on auto run and often miss the subtle cue that I need to accept it, maybe could do the border of the box in the same color as the button to draw attention to it when it needs accepting.

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@BillboardChris Chuck Norris once lost his temper. He found it again after watching @BillboardChris

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@smthomas3 @karpathy Same here, really good to keep the agent on track and not eagerly making up stuff or doing other tasks. This with tests for most tasks is my current workflow, saves a lot of time catching those unwanted changes when you are too eager to accept changes.

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@hwchase17 Under "Questions to ask yourself", maybe add something like - Do you need a: Single LLM-feature, Workflow or Agent?

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@smthomas3 @ulidabess Would love to have it too, totally missed the announcement of that event.