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A bit too vague to be useful advice don't you think?

Why not show some actual examples of these agents actually doing what you describe. How exactly would you set up an agent to simulate a user?


To me it sounds like one way to do this would be to have LLMs write Cucumber test cases. Those are high level, natural language tests which could be run in a browser.


Wow, this is amazing. Tempted to try one of their $2/month suggestions.


A random provider could be a hit-or-miss. I've personally used RackNerd (found them on LowEndBox/Talk) in the past and can't complain for the price. They have plans under $1/month, and they even provide an IPv4 address:

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No affiliation, just a happy customer.


On twitter it highly depends on who you're following. If you specifically wanted to avoid political posts, it's not that hard to steer your algorithm that way. I follow ~130 people, and outside of maybe 4 of them who I like hearing political comments from, I only get interesting tech/tech-adjacent discussions. Almost zero politics.

In the past, whenever I get some politics stuff or celebrity news in the main feed, I just press "not interested" and relatively quickly those types of posts stop showing up.

On the other hand, I'm not sure who actually uses bluesky. Can't say I've ever felt the desire to go on there.


Nowadays? 4+ times a week. I want to learn as much as I can now that I essentially have 24/7 mentors that can remember everything I've told them.

Sure, I could write it all by hand; but even as a decent typer, I'll never match a tenth speed of claude code or opencode just GOING. Maybe there's a better way to learn, but whatever it is, it's not obvious to me.


How long have you been programming?

I actually felt like I learned the most when I stopped going to Google and StackOverflow for solutions and instead moved to docs. It's far less direct but the information is much more rich. All that auxiliary information compounds. I want to skip it, feeling rushed to get an answer, but I've always been the better for taking the "scenic route". I'd then play around and learn how to push functions and abuse them. Boy there's no learning like learning how to abuse code.

Fwiw, I do use LLMs, but they don't write code for me. They are fantastic rubber ducky machines. Far better than my cat, which is better than an actual rubber duck. They aid in docs too, helping fill in that space when you don't exactly understand them. But don't let them do the hard work nor the boring work. The boring work is where you usually learn the most. It's also the time you don't recognize that's happening


Close to 5 years. I read docs too and love the immersion and the fully grasping of concepts when going with your route, but most days there's just not enough hours for this.

> The boring work is where you usually learn the most. It's also the time you don't recognize that's happening

That was always how I did it before mid-2025. And I do still do boring work when I truly want to master something, but doing that too much just means (for me) not finishing anything.


5 years isn't that long. I've been doing 3X that and I'm constantly learning new things. Not even about new language features but even languages I've been using that whole time. New ways to problem solve. New algorithms. New tools.

Not finishing things can be okay but also not. An important skill to learn is what's good enough. And to write good enough to be easily upgradable. It's important to write code to be flexible for this reason. It's also important to realize it's okay to completely throw away code. But also this is the reason comments are so important. Don't just write what functions do but also write how you envision the design. Even if you can't get to it now. Then when you or anyone else comes back (after lunch, next week, next year, whenever) there's good hints about all that. Knowing how to get up to speed and be effective fast. If anything this helps agents even more. Commenting is a vastly under appreciated skill and only becoming more valuable


"Give me a second" is something I say when someone just has to break the silence with some unproductive comment. Having 20-30 seconds to think silently should be a completely normal thing.


The early internet aesthetic is why, as much as I dislike the site's culture, I continue to use reddit + RES.

The UI, the minimal buttons, the tight paddings, the lack of pop-in, the complete lack of animations; these have all been essentially unchanged for the past decade. Even the dark mode colors look exactly as it did the first time I switched it on.


That screenshot is super interesting, never seen anything like it.

It's giving me some ideas for a TUI video editor using that grid interface. What a cool project.


Strudel is my favorite, it has pretty syntax, and their interactive guide (with inline REPL) is extremely well done too.

https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/


I thought I was being rate-limited for opening posts too fast, which has happened before.

After more than an hour I thought, "wow this is pretty harsh" and "so much of my exposure to learning things is directly tied to HN posts". I was lost lol.


If the lenses are good, it's enough. Just have to up the font size a bit and give up some information density compared to, say, a 16-17 inch laptop.

The Quest 3 is already close to good enough to spend decent chunks of time in reading text. Just have breaks every 30m to avoid mild strain.

To me, the sweaty face issue is the main annoyance with working in these types of headsets.


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