u/BigBootyBear

The leads of these coin cell holders dont fit inside a breadboard. I've tried to connect them to a stripped off copper strand on a jumper wire via soldering but the connection is flimsy and it's hard to get the solder to "stick" to the steel leads.

Any advice?

I don't really know what to do while the agent does it's thing.

I've tried reading the code it produced in the previous prompt as it's working on the next one but the pace is too fast. There was this CISCO study that showed devlopers can realistically review just 200 LOC/hr before defect rate gets exponentially higher and the AI can 10x that in code, unit tests, CI configs and very very exhaustive documentation (specs, ADRs etc).

You can't work on something else on the project, or use the time for reading (say comp sci principles) because by the time you form a thought on what to do, the AI already prompts you for an approval or asks you what's next.

The "waiting window" is too small to get anything done and too big to just wait. So I end up just scrolling through YT shorts, browsing reddit etc. Then I figure out the AI has been waiting for my input for the last 10 minutes.

I don't know what to make of this. Yes datacenters suck. Yes AI is totally hyped. But i'm not blind. AI clearly has very good use cases. I'm just not sure how to execute on those use cases. And plenty of times, it feels like productivity gains are offset by these second-order effects (procastination, a feeling of being detached from your code etc).

I get the argument of "you get what you pay for" but I have a tendency to over-engineer and over-equip and would like to know what am I losing if I opt for a cheap one.

ATM I am working on remaking digital diagnostic equipment at home (as a hobby). Oximeters, actigraphs and the like. I also dabble with IR, WiFi and Matter/Thread.

Whenever I open a new window the chat interface defautls to copilot. Yes I can click (ugh) on the Claude Code tab but a lot of the time I just forget and end up running out of credits (cause I pay for claude, not copilot) and having to re-build my context.

I've went through more than a few menu screens and haven't found anything. Is the chat interface (and by extension the copilot editor autocomplete) a hard default to microslop funded tooling?

Every AP that cost half as much as my router (Asus RT-AX53) has a 10/100 Mbps ethernet port (and I fully intend on using Ehternet backhaul so yeah... no thanks!) and every router that has 1Gbps ethernet port cost something like 100$ which is more than my router!

I assumed that because APs have less features, computing power and software that they will be sold for less than a router. In my country most 1Gbps backhaul APs cost 2x than my asus router, making me consider just buying a few cheap asus routers, repurposuing them as APs by configuring them to bridge mode.

How can this make sense?

I'm looking for a web app that allows me to build a Civ tech tree out of my tasks. For example "Organize House" has "wash dishes" "set up robo vaccum" and "throw the trash" as dependent tasks.

I've been trying to set up something resembling this for the last 30 minutes

https://preview.redd.it/vxxk8sblbaih1.png?width=1319&format=png&auto=webp&s=80017ba77431cd4181212b39105790a1170158f6

Can see it here at Timeline View: A Visual Timeline of Project & Milestones.

Can't get it to work even with Claude trying to create it via MCP.

I'm trying to get something like this:

Milestone #1: Project Demo

1. Task 1

2. Task 2

3. Task 3

And when you complete all tasks the milestone itself is checked off.

The PAT UI sucks. Is there a way to generate a PAT with a YAML or an API request? I really hate having to go through 30 mouse clicks only to realize I forgot to toggle 1 permission as a 'Write'. Ugh.

I think LLMs are too new of a technology for there to be Orielly title about AI development. Most resources focus on working around a specific models ecosystem. Yet I'd like to standarize how I work with AI accordign to some principles or techniques that are model/ecosystem agnostic.

Thoughts?

People in my org tell me using the org certified AI is more secure because we are on an enterprise plan where our data is not used for training. Sure, I will use the company AI. But...

Apple is suing OpenAI for for allegedly stealing trade secrets, where it was said employees were instructued by OpenAI to bring parts from apple into "show and tell" interviews at OpenAI and even take the company laptop with them. Also, the models are literally based on strip mining copyrighted media and ignoring sites robots.txt.

So if OpenAI is not afraid to (allegedly) steal Apples IP and strip mine everything that was ever written down for its models training... Why would it drink their enterprises customers data like the milkshake it is?

Whats the best and most secure way to give agents the ability to help you file issues or tackle messy merge conflicts without some prompt injection causing the AI to yeet your repo into the void?

I hate the includes in the PHP code I have to maintain and reasoning about it's "module" system gives me an aneurysm. Everytime I have to use venv or poetry when writing Python, I miss using Vite with Typescript. And then I remember for that to work, I need 20+ *.config files, a gazillion NPM packages (probably with a supply chain attack I don't know about) and black magic voodoo transcompilation and processing I can't hope to understand.

I'd love to write code in a language that doesnt have "trust me bro" types. Is this my sign to start a new proejct in Go or Rust? Or am I just ignorant of Go and Rusts (potentially) weak spots?

I think weve all seen the Fireship video discussing the Bun rewrite in Rust. "Just do it in Rust" is being championed on the web as a general no-brainer like "move more and eat more vegetables."

Playing the devils advocate, did you ever regret going with Rust on a given project?

I've been spending a good half year doing dev ops work to get an application going. Most of it was educational as I was repurposed into devops from web development.

As I am coming back into web development, writing a frontend for a service that consumes the big application I have been laying architecture for the last six months, I feel like a total fraud. I've forgotten like 80% of TS features, tooling, and how to use Vue and Angular (and I did dedicate time to learning them when I was building sites).

Now I fear that all my hard won dev ops chops will atrophy as my workload shifts more into webdev. Yeah sure getting up to speed on what you've forgotten is faster than learning it from scratch. But does that mean our "skill RAM" has a hard cap? I thought I'd gain skills as i'd progress in my career but those skills end up pushing previous ones. My "non-volatile experience" is more abstract and general (how operating systems work, how to plan projects, how to migrate legacy apps) rather than imperative and practical (i.e. when to use a vue slot) and I don't know what to make of it.

AI is further exacerbating it. I always make sure to understand every piece of code it generates but I still feel more like a senior developer approving junior developer code (the AI being the junior dev) rather than someone who is good at his craft. I'm never really a "full stack dev" at any given time.

I've recently had to fix a bug i've introduced in a submitted PR because my attempt to flatten a files dependencies. Basically, A requires B, and B requires C (which A needs). I've made A explicitly import B and C and it introduced a silent bug cause B requires a dep in a 100 line barrel file.

I've got a few ideas on how to write unit tests to catch these bugs in CI but they're all ugly and manual. I know of tools like rector that simplify refactoring but of no solutions to sanity test an external files dependencies.

EDIT:

I've written some code to illustrate the problem were trying to solve

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/Kitchen.php'; // If commented out, creates a bug. 
require_once __DIR__ . '/Recipe.php';

use Kitchen\Order\OrderHandler;

$result = (new OrderHandler())->handle($_GET);

if ($result['failed']) {
    Recipe::Cook('Order failed: ' . $result['reason']);
}

Heres Recipe

<?php
// Pantry and Fridge are NOT required or included
class Recipe
{
    public static function Cook(string $message): void
    {
        $ingredient = Pantry::Instance()->Get(Spice::SALT); 
        $session = Fridge::Open(); 


        echo sprintf('[%s] %s using %s salt%s', $session, $message, $ingredient, PHP_EOL);
    }
}

And the barrel file

<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/Pantry.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/Spice.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/Fridge.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/Recipe.php';

When you comment out require_once __DIR__ . '/Kitchen.php'; on index.php the code breaks but neither Pslam or PHPStan capture this unless I scope out the entire project and create ad-hoc .configs that only load a few classes. Theoretically possible but impossible practically at the scale of our project. Our CI static analysis misses this ATM.

I sometimes get off flavors from LAB when I attempt long cooks at low temps (140f for 48h+) if I want short rib at medium rare.

I've seen people online say stuff like I should lightly fry my aromatics, or I should vaccum everything and blanch in boiling water for 30s. But I never see the guys at chef steps do that when they sous vide tough meats. And blanching btw doesnt work.

Thoughts?

I'm seeing paperless come up whenever I google "document management", which is weird because most people prefer to just use an existing solution than to self host. Do most web apps suck? Why did you choose selfhosting over a SaaS?

Most reddit discussions on this issue revolve around self hosting paperless-ngx. Are there any SaaS document managers with good search? I use google drive ATM and HATE it.

I've warned Dame Aylin about Lorrokan. She said she will soar and kill him or something. I went back to the tower and... nothing? I talk with Lorrokan and he just says I have "some work to do". I don't see Dame Aylin anywhere besides my camp.

Is the quest bugged? I wonder if I should just attack Lorrokan and be over with it.