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My workflow for production code:

1. Pick the most complete project boilerplate (fullstack JS can easily introduce security bugs, SPA + API is best as cheap linting solves most problems)

2. Project skills (how to CRUD without mess)

3. Use worktrees for concurrent features, local session for conflicts

4. Local session for QA and refinement

I use Copilot and GPT 5.4

Managed to shorten pre-AI priced ongoing projects to 2 weeks or a month

AI is too expensive 2 months ago

GPT 5.4 instead of 5.5.

I am exclusively using 5.4 because its only 1x and very good, but the github calculation showed my once $40 become a $680 billing

That is too expensive and not worth paying

Are you using Temporal with distributed workers?

We have a simple worker setup and temporal is pretty easy to setup

Out only issue is really needing an intermediary data store for task result storage

We are using DBOS in new projects as it's even simpler and the downside (task log interface behind saas) is easily remedied with a copilot generated task viewer

Zed 1.0 3 months ago

Tried using Zed but for some reason the AI can't open the browser?

The trick is to constrain the LLM to program in a very defined coding style

If I make the LLM generate code that follows my own code architecture and style, that should be enough creative input

Claude.ai down 3 months ago

GPT 5.4 is working pretty well for me, both in Copilot and Codex vscode extensions

If you create a plan it follows it closely

I've shaved off 30s of queries by transforming json columns into a string after the first CTE is done with it

Layoffs at Block 5 months ago

If you apply Pareto to productivity, you can fire a lot of people and still manage

The Sideprocalypse 5 months ago

I haven't had much success using LLM's in Unity as there is a lot of work that goes into the editor and cannot be done via code, especially if you are using several different assets

In simple projects where database is only changed via an API, we just audit the API instead. It's easier to display and easier to store than tracking each DB change a single transaction does

My gf manages to get paid using Cursor/Copilot, despite not being able to branch herself out of a loop

In my experience Copilots work expertly at CRUD'ing inside a well structured project, and for MVPs in languages you aren't an expert on (Rust, C/C++ in my case)

The biggest demerit is that agents are increasingly trying to be "smart" and using powershell search/replace or writing scripts to skimp on tokens, with results that make me unreasonably angry

I tried adding i18n to an old react project, and copilot used all my credits + 10 USD because it kept shitting everything up with its maddening, idiotic use if search replace

If it had simply ingested each file and modified them only once, it would have been cheaper

As you can tell, I am still salty about it

ChatGPT Health 7 months ago

I just had a deja vu, I'm sure I read this some months ago

Did you previously write this exact comment before?

ManusAI Joins Meta 7 months ago

Manus is pretty "big" in the entrepreneur crowd here in Brazil

When it came out is was very good, and had much better results than ChatGPT