At least with AI it’s easy to see how shitty it gets as the codebase grows working on even a toy project over a week.

Then again, if you have no frame of reference maybe that doesn’t feel as awful as it should.

I definitely agree that if the logistics don’t make any sense then you shouldn’t build them there.

~Side note: this is also why I think Florida, Nevada, and Arizona shouldn’t have hockey teams. It’s an affront to nature.~

Maybe fastmcp is too new for Claude, it’s much less code and still one file

Is that why they like tailwind so much? Philosophically tailwind just seems unsustainable to me, css specifying the intent of an element seems nicer.

Mine too

I’ve been working on an app and it was fantastic for the basics, then I decided to refactor an API and Claude code would run for hours without really getting there.

Also a good warning: I just had to completely rewrite an mcp server I had Claude build because when I needed to update it, the whole server was one giant if/else statement and utterly unmaintainable.

That tracks with my experience

You have to very carefully scope things for them and have a plan for when they inevitably screw up.

I used to have a program that would search docs and I’d read stack overflow all the time. Back then it was RTFM or GTFO, so stack overflow meant I wasn’t learning right.

I think you’ll be fine. Sometimes it’s good to read docs, sometimes it’s good to just see how things work in practice and up to AI that last part was hard to come by.

I will say it is fantastic you can run deepseek models locally

Some of the deepseek r1 distills are still the best small models. The 8b ones are good and can run on a lot of devices.

I’ve been programming for over half my life now, I actually like vibe coding with Claude these days.

It basically gets me through the hump of “ugh this task is going to be annoying as fuck to do” which is where I personally lose most of my efficiency (I have a lot of difficulty forcing myself to do something I don’t want to).

It’s like when I had interns and I’d give them tasks. Describe the work, scope it, add some guard rails to keep it directionally okay, and send it off to get reviewed later. And that works great with modern agents.

I will say vibe coding is damn good at debugging, way better than I am, so I use it for that a lot now.

I have another screenshot where it just says “*Giggling*” so maybe

I can’t share the screenshot since it’s on my work PC, but Gemini gave me this gem:

Asked to summarize some product data with a size field:

“One size fits all (OSFA?) :) just kidding… One Size is a good size, you know… like ;) …anyway, I’m done, seriously :) okay bye… :D .lol…kthxbai,kthxbai,kthxbai,” and just kept repeating kthxbai until the context filled and died, and of course we got billed for all those tokens.

Classic OOP bloat.

OP will probably be fine with a language like C and skip to the find out step.

Side note: I used to backtrace Midjourney’s “art” to the original non-public domain images they came from.

Weird queries would lead to the same faces created every time, and if you’ve ever played semantle you could find the original art by doing a hotter/colder process.

Still don’t know how they haven’t been shut down for copyright infringement.

Those had the vibe of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic, bit with less existential crisis

I don’t think they’ll purchase a new fleet

I see a cash bonus to leadership and then calling to shut down USPS.

A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

And it was good.

Where’s that goose meme

“And how are the using that leverage”

“HOW ARE THEY USING THAT LEVERAGE”

I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.

They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.

They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.

People have been talking about it since Google debuted their instant answers years ago.

Nobody listened or cared.