Lucas Holt

MidnightBSD project lead, senior software engineer, tech geek.

@[email protected] on Mastodon

[Lucas Holt @laffer1]

@kmcnam1 and that's why you don't buy laptops with mediatek wifi

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@boblazar_s4703 @brockpierson Exactly. i was about to say the same thing

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@Pallavi_345 antigravity (agy) cli is very different to gemini cli.

The issue isn't models as much as how the agent works. If you learn how to use it, it can do many of the things claude code cli or codex can do. The one thing google sucks at is MCP. agy can't talk to many MCP servers

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@Pallavi_345 I used Gemini exclusively for awhile. It's not terrible at coding. It's great at front end, javascript, and OK at perl and php. It's passable at C and Java.

Now google nerfed the limits so it's pretty useless and gemini-cli is dying this month for consumers.

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@lilpoochie17 @SabirS @Bhavani_00007 You don't need an IDE. use both cli tools. you can even automate it with openclaw or setting up code reviews on pull requests from the other provider.

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@cozmoz_domine @acadictive @nzmrldev I agree. I think qwen 2.5 is OK for auto complete but not for actual coding.

I've had better luck with phi 4, gpt-oss:20b, deekseek coder, and even mistral over qwen.

It depends on what you are doing and how new the model needs to be or if it supports tools.

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comparing headroom to lean-ctx, it seems like lean-ctx fails in some scenarios reading code for refactors. (depending on settings) lean-ctx claims to save more.

headroom[all] is huge though.

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I was working part time for 6 dollars an hour while in college on this.

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What's the craziest development project you've done alone?

Aside from MidnightBSD, I built an e-commerce website in classic ASP + vb6 activex dll in 2001! I rewrite it in https://t.co/WXBYvXo7Va in like 2002. It included UPS integration with SOAP, XML/XSLT and ...

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The site was NOT PCI compliant. We stored credit card numbers in the DB, but encrypted with AES inside an XML document with the key in the windows registry. I even built a vb app to set the key lol.

It's absolutely insane by today's security standards.

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@YotamBlu @siya_twt_ I tend to use Opus to plan a project and then have gpt code it. I am letting claude vibe code an app end to end for me right now to see how it comes out. It's here: https://t.co/7D8Grk4Q8L

For ports work, I am using all three (codex, claude, agy) but GPT tends to do the best.

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@pradiptwt Delete grok. Google will handle deleting gemini on their own. Their latest antigravity cli move puts them halfway there!

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@brockpierson hate ball mice with a passion to this day. Nasty to clean. Sun had laser mice with special mouse pads in the early 90s. We should have moved to them sooner!

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@YotamBlu @siya_twt_ GPT is better for security vulnerabilities and bug free code. it's also more likely to minimize diffs without custom prompts.

Claude does well if you put guard rails on it. you still have to fight it to get it to do what you want.

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@jimjustgames

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@FunMovieTVFan babbages

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@Pallavi_345 Youtube

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@kmcnam1 It's not just the charge port design but the inability to left and right click at the same time.

Apple engineers never played a FPS title in their life.

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@TammyVanLeer @1True_American_ If grocery stores had more than two lanes open, I might go again