Jakob // theCodeDrift

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“But can we make it useful?”

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@hd_nvim Full episode: https://t.co/u2JOP5hKxs

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

"Functions under five lines are a sign of premature optimization."

One ast-grep warning, worded as an instruction. The first time Claude hit it, it checked the call sites and cleaned up after itself.

With @hd_nvim

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@spion @badlogicgames @mattpocockuk If only there was a tool that wrote the rules and the fixtures for human verification... 🤔

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

It's great DevHunt's committed to fixing it, but @patricknegri and @mihai_respira also deserve better

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

The week I launched on @devhunt_, I saw very strange voting activity. What was just my launch week turned into looking at all of October.

103 throwaway accounts voted only for three launches, and those launches took two of October's four weekly #1s.

https://t.co/eP3Tyk3aYR

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@hd_nvim Full episode: https://t.co/u2JOP5hKxs

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

"I rewrote tree-sitter with ChatGPT."

Parsing was ast-grep's bottleneck, so @hd_nvim ported tree-sitter's C core to Rust. He asked ChatGPT to make it 10 or 20% faster, and it did.

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

🚀 Taskless CLI 0.13.7

Deeper Oxlint support: your agent turns on Oxlint rules the same way it does for Ruff. Writing a rule now either finishes or leaves .taskless/rules/ as it was. Plus a fix so a local build of Taskless can adopt a nightly.

https://t.co/xz3Elpb1EK

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

"How do you know?"

Look, if we had the answer for that we would have stuck it in the agent several opuses (opii?) ago

Engineers are still needed, even if we can't articulate why

[shaharglazner @shaharglazner]

https://t.co/QeRPTQEA4a

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@hd_nvim Full episode: https://t.co/u2JOP5hKxs

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

"So this is very dangerous."

@hd_nvim on how a cloned repo's sgconfig.yml could load malicious code the moment you run ast-grep. Custom languages are opt-in now, so upgrade.

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

⛵ seamux 0.5.1 is out, the web UI for cmux (@manaflowai)
- a terminal on the board you can reach from your phone
- say "make it so" to send a dictated prompt, an idea from @anomalyco's Hex
- answer permission prompts right from the card

npx seamux
or
https://t.co/iBnkpK7Qtv

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@hd_nvim The structure of slop. Still getting a lot of use out of my "justify any function < 5 lines" rule

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

When the thing you're building finally has a diagram

[lauren @poteto]

hot take: you don't need a software factory, and i don't love the term. it's just marketing

all you need is good software engineering and investing your tokens in the right places. the more deterministic the better (and token efficient)

[David Poll @depoll]

Confession: I’ve scrolled past dozens of comments on a PR just to find out why I couldn’t merge it. More times than I’d like to admit.

Agents have made this a lot worse. They push commits and leave review comments of their own, and all of it lands in the timeline. PR timelines have gotten dramatically noisier, and the few things you actually need to know get buried.

My team is rethinking the foundations of the PR experience around that problem, and today the first piece went into public preview. The new Overview page puts merge readiness and your next step right at the top. A summary catches you up on review activity, and you can filter the conversation down to unresolved threads. It’s opt-in and rolling out through the weekend.

This is a much-needed start, and there’s a lot more coming as we modernize PRs for the way software gets built now. If you try it, we’d love to hear what still sends you back to the classic view.

https://t.co/0FpYy5dDBv

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

@matteocollina @jarredsumner LLMs are trained on all our prior mistakes, so yeah...

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

Upgrading Taskless around Claude's auto mode continues to be an absolute headache. I know all of you here on X love to yolo, but there's a *huge* number of devs running Claude in auto mode, and auto mode suddenly hates npx even with the min release flags.

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

🚀 Taskless CLI 0.13.6

The installer now asks separately before it touches your global agent settings, and verify stops passing a rule that didn't run. Your agent also finishes the upgrade once you've moved the CLI.

https://t.co/QTPNFalOBR

[Jakob // theCodeDrift @theCodeDrift]

Round materials & the intelligence layer alone have saved me a few hundred hours of VC research. I'm utilizing my time better and spending it on the conversations that are moving Taskless forward.

IDK what else to offer. Get your raise stuff out of google docs and shoehorned CRMs. There's a better way.

[Usman Gul @usmangul]

Metal expands into Data Rooms.

Today, as part of our consolidation strategy,@Metalraise is launching a new platform for Data Rooms and Round Materials.

Founders can now upload round materials to @Metalraise share secured links with investors for analytics on viewing data, and get sharp insights into ways to improve their materials. These insights are based on rich user context, as well as off-market proprietary data on how capital markets perceive a particular operating space or business model.

With each passing quarter, advancements in the capabilities of underlying models are opening up new opportunities. In the near future, the process for raising venture rounds will look quite dissimilar from how it works today.

At Metal, we aim to lead the upcoming transition to bring greater efficiency and precision to private markets.