Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

software gardener, https://gist.mom

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You might notice a similar thing when you ask AI for some specific design style, let's say brutalism, and then it also makes the text on the page *about brutalism* just so chatty, can't stop itself

I find slop-comments annoying bcs the codebase doesn't require this information zooming out from code doesn't help: I noticed AI gets confused about outdated comments or spends tokens maintaining them seems like almost all advice we gave to new devs makes sense for AI

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i'm kinda surprised I didn't find anything reliable, @⁠code-yeongyu/comment-checker from oh-my-opencode is nice, but it warns instead of modifying files i don't wanna tell the AI to remove the ad-libs, just delete them

even the newest models perform so much HYPEMANNERY I ask to fix a bug, the agent leaves a "fixed a bug here, yay me" comment. there's just zero respect for the fourth wall, the conversation about the process leaks to the medium. and then we're all reading that REPEATEDLY.

introducing gist.mom πŸ«‚πŸ«‚πŸ«‚ collaborative editor for your GitHub Gists ever wanted to collaborate live on that postmortem or RFC? working with gists feels like corporate back-and-forth, not fun like designing together in Figma?

"if I wanted to become a manager, I'd do it already" is a pretty common take when talk with other engineers for many, including me initially, agents kinda sucked the joy out of programming i figured out how to rephrase it in my head so it doesn't feel so lame

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"if I wanted to become a manager, I'd do it already" is a pretty common take when talk with other engineers for many, including me initially, agents kinda sucked the joy out of programming i figured out how to rephrase it in my head so it doesn't feel so lame

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we’ve been deciphering and crafting spells, learning math and physics, diving deep into insurmountable complexity I hope we can find joy in wielding multiple genies and demons, forcing them to do our bidding, defending from their attempts to snitch on us or play tricks on us

"if I wanted to become a manager, I'd do it already" is a pretty common take when talk with other engineers for many, including me initially, agents kinda sucked the joy out of programming i figured out how to rephrase it in my head so it doesn't feel so lame

"vibecoding" feels like it's for idea-guys. people who wanted to build software, but didn't have the attention span for it but when you realize the clanker can snitch on you to the cops, introduce vulns or delete your prod db... it starts being fun, right?

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we ain't at the "AI-made personal software" point of history yet Townie is great, Y.js is so foolproof u can have a json blob per entity u handle schema changes over time with runtime types (funnily, Claude removes Zod's validations, but not @arktype.io xD) 1/2

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sometimes I just want a simple tool just use it and forget about it software not a product, not a B2B SaaS, but also not sb's magnum opus and part of the chosen toolset that defines you I hope bear-fit can be like that for you.

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i think we could use some more simple software don't get me wrong, i *identify* as Obsidian and Linear user. i love the craft, the keyboard shortcuts, the performance but not all software has to be like that... let's call it Good and Complex software, High Effort Software

your favorite software is probably Good and Complex some other software you're using is Ass and Complex, like Jira and Zoom's frontend (backend and video quality is legit tho) but what if we had something Simultaneously Ass and Complex SAaS. let that sink in

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part 2 of day 24 was plain suffering, but I really enjoyed #AdventOfCode hoping it's not the last one before we get turned into paperclips

my family during Christmas Eve, remembering the communism: > we were so poor we didn't have toilet paper! we had to use a newspaper! > People's Tribune? > nah, Worker's Voice was softer