Pat Lown

some problems aren't problems at all if you think on it long enough.

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@AndrewYang Both sides ahh take

“Socialism doesn’t work in real life” is a dog whistle, you’re not going to gain support by both sides-ing this

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@mattpocockuk No, you should be thinking about trees

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@sqs @AmpCode Smooth

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@sqs I really want to give Neo (looks great) a fair shot, having used CC and Codex, I feel like I’m missing something in the harness.

How much $$$ should I load up to spend enough time to learning how to use Amp and reasonably evaluate it?

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@kevinhgould @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames Haha same I was like: “cool I’m about to see some great examples of open source contributions in the LLM era”

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@mattpocockuk @housecor I've used a ton of /grill-me and found it really useful, but /grill-me-with-docs feels a little too "your workflow coded." I think it's less useful for others unless they adopt your workflow (which admittedly is a good one for LLMs).

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@Kristen20051 @kr0der @RhysSullivan My prompt is similar to this except I also request that it not sacrifice readability by doing long one liners, the goal is reduced complexity, not line reduction at the cost of complexity

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@dexhorthy What’s nex dex?

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@tokenbender Been working on something like this for engineering diagram pdfs. Think this could get good results there?

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@jeffreyguenther @AmpCode Amp cli

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@mitchellh When am I going to read someone’s thread though? It’s extremely rare that I do something end to end with one thread. Probably 80% of the work is done doing the initial planning, then 10% during an implementation thread, then little 2% threads doing final polish and testing

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@ThePrimeagen I check every guide, every cheat sheet, every plugin pack, every “sane defaults” config. All of them assume I already chose modal editing as a lifestyle.

What an amazing 20 minutes spent learning how to exit an editor.

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@ThePrimeagen This is how you sound:

I took Vim for the ultimate test. I decided to edit my codebase with it. I took a lot of pride in this code, written with an ergonomic editor, modern conveniences, everything dialed in. It was mine and it was good.

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@ThePrimeagen So I check StackOverflow, Reddit, and some arcane blog from 2009.

Tweet 7:
Every single source says the same thing: “Easy. Just ciw, then :%s/foo/bar/gc, then :wq, but don’t forget hjkl.”

Wtf.

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@ThePrimeagen So I crack open Vim for real, ready to edit this TypeScript file.

But… I can’t even figure out how to enter Insert mode at first. Weird.

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@ThePrimeagen Ashamed but determined, I attempt the simplest thing a programmer can do: rename a variable.

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@ThePrimeagen So I opened Vim and tried to make a tiny change. Cursor teleports like a haunted typewriter, I hit another key and delete half a function.

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@joshpuckett Uh oh, what if I don’t know Justin Murphy

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@geoffreylitt Not sure if you are self reporting anthropomorphizing so forgive me if so. Your framing of “an AI did the work” feels anthropomorphic. You wouldn’t say “my compiler did the work of converting this to machine code”