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I was still using my copilot account, figured I’d see how the new pricing worked. I blew through 60% of my max+ limit in 1 day on absurdly light usage, promptly cancelled rather than upgrade from the $39 / month plan to the $100 /month plan.

I do think there’s a productivity help from AI but vibe coding everything is miserable and gives awful results. Targeted AI usage makes sense and I’ll refine my local AI usage and tooling for that.

They’re just trying to help developers reach the target Jensen Huang set, that developers should be spending half their salaries on tokens. Now you can do that so much more quickly.

It’s how you build the biggest bubble.

It works pretty well for greenfield, that’s where I’ve been using it. A pretty involved monorepo with a decent bit of code and things are still going reasonably well.

Also, leaning on documents as deliverable artifacts for people and for AI awareness / consumption helps me.

Like put together an architecture document for either the entire application or specific parts and subsystems (or multiple documents with different granularity) those can list future considerations.

I pretty often will include those documents when generating proposals / specs to make sure the AI is building in the right direction. It’s not perfect, there are some rough edges and these are the early days of this whole process.

Openspec has an “explore” command you can use to give some thoughts and have agent spit out a high level plan, some back and forth, then create the proposal once you’re happy. I’ve also generated markdown documentation for a subsystem or thought so I can check it in, then continue improving that later, then when ready to turn it into a proposal and implement I start by referencing that document.

It sounds like a big part of what you’re talking about is just pre-feeding future concerns into one proposal for work that you plan to do in the future, also nothing wrong with that. I’ve used “in the future we will need … so design in that direction without implementing in this first iteration” sort of wording.

And not sure if this applies but I’ve found big monolithic code bases become too large for AI to work well in… enforcing some boundaries by breaking code into technical foundation and vertical slice functional modules really helps decouple code and focus on cross-module boundaries and interfaces, similarly to how they help reduce cognitive load for developers, helps for AI too

Phillip Island is awesome. If you can see the return of the tiny penguins in the evenings, it’s a pretty nice way to spend a chill hour or two as penguins waddle by.

But we have SO MUCH of it! It’s all we have to offer right now.

I don’t claim to have perfect memory and recall of all biases of all news sources but Ground news shows them slightly left of center and that’s my memory too. I will spend some time on deep introspection to figure out if I’m a fascist. Thanks.

Man, these “left leaning” papers and sites sure are carrying a lot of water trying to get republicans re-elected sharing this bullshit. The pushback is a lie meant to convince voters that they can vote republican and still sleep at night like those republicans will stand up to Trump.

Don’t fall for this bullshit and shame on these farces of journalism for getting played into or being complicit in doing PR for republicans re-election campaigns

I recognized your… fez - Austin Powers

Yeah right, fucking performance art. They won’t do shit agains fascist daddy

This article making it sound like Republican senators and house members were going to do anything to rein in Donald Trump sounds completely unbelievable. Most of the time the Democratic leadership barely makes any meaningful noise.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

If the next democratic candidate for president doesn’t run on aggressively prosecuting all of this, well, missed opportunity.

I’m sure Trump will blanket pardon anyone in his administration still kissing his ass, but still.