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Liar. I literally was worried since november when he had to stop his podcasting....You are a cruel individual who clearly has political issues and your name seems about right.....

I said almost no one, so no, I am not a liar. You're an exception, not the rule.

Also any hint of empathy I might have had for you evaporated when you decided to make an infantile joke about my username. You're nothing but a troll, and not even a smart one.


So sad....I knew this was coming when he got ill recently....I will really miss him. I enjoyed his podcast, despite sometimes disagreeing quite a lot - he somehow was always someone who felt sincere in a way.

Location: Canada

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Email: kderbyma [at] gmail.com

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Hi my name is Kyle - I have 10 Years professionally - Ex-cofounder Legaltech SaaS - Self-taught programmer and have been coding since starting with C++ in 2005 and Flash games.

I am passionate, hardworking, and strive to do my best and drive real change. I like working with highly engaged teams, where I can take on important roles with autonomy and be involved in the decision making process. I have a keen eye for product and customer fit - and I am always asking questions to ensure that I understand new information, perspectives, and priorities.

I am looking for team where there is a shared sense of purpose - and a long term vision. I want to work with a loyal group of people who aren't chasing fads, but who instead are focused on their customers, their employees, their product (or service) and who are focused on good fundamentals - not hype.

I am unemployed at the moment - and would really appreciate some reach outs. I am available ASAP - and hungry!


I think the Head of HR should face legal repercussions and have a full audit. I guarantee you that they have committed other crimes....


Yeah. I noticed Claud suffers when it reaches context overload - its too opinionated, so it shortens its own context with decisions I would not ever make, yet I see it telling itself that the shortcuts are a good idea because the project is complex...then it gets into a loop where it second guesses its own decisions and forgets the context and then continues to spiral uncontrollably into deeper and deeper failures - often missing the obvious glitch and instead looking into imaginary land for answers - constantly diverting the solution from patching to completely rewriting...

I think it suffers from performance anxiety...

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The only solution I have found is to - rewrite the prompt from scratch, change the context myself, and then clear any "history or memories" and then try again.

I have even gone so far as to open nested folders in separate windows to "lock in" scope better.

As soon as I see the agent say "Wait, that doesnt make sense, let me review the code again" its cooked


> Yeah. I noticed Claud suffers when it reaches context overload

All LLMs degrade in quality as soon as you go beyond one user message and one assistant response. If you're looking for accuracy and highest possible quality, you need to constantly redo the conversations from scratch, never go beyond one user message.

If the LLM gets it wrong in their first response, instead of saying "No, what I meant was...", you need to edit your first response, and re-generate, otherwise the conversation becomes "poisoned" almost immediately, and every token generated after that will suffer.


Yeah, I used to write some fiction for myself with LLMs as a recreational pasttime, it's funny to see how as the story gets longer, LLMs progressively either get dumber, start repeating themselves, or become unhinged.


I’m keeping Claude’s tasks small and focused, then if I can I clear between.

It’s REAL FUCKING TEMPTING to say ”hey Claude, go do this thing that would take me hours and you seconds” because he will happily, and it’ll kinda work. But one way or another you are going to put those hours in.

It’s like programming… is proof of work.


Yes, this is exactly true. You will put in those hours.


In this vein, one of the biggest time-savers has turned out to be its ability to make me realize I don't want to do something.


I get that. But I think the AI-deriders are a bit nuts sometimes because while I’m not running around crying about AGI… it’s really damn nice to change the arguments of a function and have it just go everywhere and adjust every invocation of that function to work properly. Something that might take me 10-30 minutes is now seconds and it’s not outside of its reliability spectrum.

Vibe coding though, super deceptive!


There’s definitely a certain point I reach when using Claude code where I have to make the specifications so specific that it becomes more work than just writing the code myself


For me, too many compactions throughout the day eventually lead to a decline in Claude's thinking ability. And, during that time, I have given it so much context to help drive the coding interaction. Thus, restarting Claude requires me to remember the small bits of "nuggets" we discovered during the last session so I find myself repeating the same things every day (my server IP is: xxx, my client IP is: yyy, the code should live in directory: a/b/c). Using the resume feature with Claude simply brings back the same decline in thinking that led me to stop it in the first place. I am sure there is a better way to remember these nuggets between sessions but I have not found it yet.


Shouldn't you put those things you keep repeating into CLAUDE.md?


Perhaps, but I already have a CLAUDE.md file for the general coding session. Unique items I stumble upon each day probably should go into another file that can be dynamically updated. Maybe I should create a /slash command for this?

Edit: Shortly after posting this, I asked Claude the same type of question (namely how to persist pieces of data between each coaching session). I just learned about Claude's Memory System - the ability to store these pieces of data between coding sessions. I learn something new every day!


That has been my greatest stumbling block with these AI agents: context. I was trying to have one help vibe code a puzzle game and most of the time I added a new rule it broke 5 existing rules. It also never approached the rules engine with a context of building a reusable abstraction, just Hammer meet Nail.


There's no -c on the command line, so I'm guessing this is starting fresh every iteration, unless claude(1) has changed the default lately.


HR people are usually the least humane people on the Org chart. They often will include the worst offenders of out-of-touch views and often privileged lives whilst championing their own self interests yet gate keeping the ability from anyone else. HR is a disease - the worst of the worst .


I have been doing something minor - not full language - but I am working on a couple DSLs for my game engine. The games themselves are interpreted by my engine console - then transpiled to webgl and JavaScript.

The DSL is for cutscenes and scripting dialogues and movements and transitions.

The idea was to have a screenplay like language that would run in my game engine so I can write the scenes like a script instead of like code.

Then I am using a LUA like subset for the core game logic.

I don’t think I would want to have the entire thing written in a custom language though, as that seems unnecessary


Ok would like to learn more about what you have been building, can we talk? I have thought of similar ideas.


My Last Job could definitely benefit from this…. /s (not)


This is not surprising to me. It’s clearly directly wired into our emotions and nervous system. The nervous system is the key part which is being healed and so stimulation will likely increase the speed of reconnections


It would be nice if JSX was natively supported in the DOM as some kind of syntactic sugar on components by the browsers and this would fix the cycle of abuse and allow us to eventually get back to less compilation except for typescript


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