I sponsor this project called mkdocs material by squidfunk. I remember reading that the author gets $18k per month in sponsorships and thought that was a great example for an open source project based income.
> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding
Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful
I've been using Cline a lot with the PLAN + ACT modes and Cursor for the Inline Edits but I've noticed that for anything much larger than Claude 3.7's context window things get less reliable and it's not worth it anymore.
Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work?
My findings are generally that agentic coders are relatively interchangeable and the reason they work is primarily because of the LLM's intelligence and that is a result of the training they are undergoing on agentic coding tasks. I think that both LLMs and agentic coding tools are converging quite quickly in terms of capabilities.
> Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work?
I've run into this wall as well. I am working on it right now. :) Here is a hint of the direction I am exploring:
Thanks so much for sharing your work. Your blog posts are _far_ more interesting and helpful than most of what I'm seeing about agentic coding.
I'm particularly fascinated by those last two links, along with your latest post about READMEs. It makes me wonder about a visual specification editor that provides GitHub-like task chronology around the spec, with the code as a secondary artefact (in contrast to GitHub, where code is primary).
It can, but Claude 3.7 is the best model for it right now. Using other models with mycoder right now is just an exercise in frustration. I will fix that eventually.
What I meant to ask is, instead of pushing your code to Github, is it possible to use a local self hosted instance of a similar tool like GitLab or Bitbucket?
It is just a prompt change if there is a cli tool for GitLab or Bitbucket. I just tell Claude to use the gh cli tool and to use it as external memory to track tasks and to submit PRs.
It’s important to understand how AI will affect your field and recalibrate your position or contribution accordingly
It is a big enough change for this to be a valid question for anyone in the world today
Leaving what you’re doing and going into “AI” will likely set you up for a crypto level disaster
Vibe coding is a thing but vibe business building or job hunting isn’t! So beware of hype and know that in the end money is made by serving people and it will be equally hard with vibe coding too because the bar is higher
AI will create newer opportunities for sure but follow the opportunity, not the AI is what the sentiment here is I guess
>It’s important to understand how AI will affect your field and recalibrate your position or contribution accordingly
In the case of my industry (middling cybersecurity) we're seeing the following "advances"
- When you ask someone a question, they vomit your question into co-pilot, paste the result, and presume that they have helped somehow.
- All meetings now have not-useful meeting notes and no one reads these.
- People are considering implementing security co-pilot, which will introduce useful advances such as spending much more time building promptbooks so co-pilot can understand our logs.
- A lot more people think they're engineers, and vomit out scripts which do things the "authors" do not anticipate.
>- When you ask someone a question, they vomit your question into co-pilot, paste the result, and presume that they have helped somehow.
We have been dealing with this at my job also. It's really concerning how this is becoming normalized and how often we've had to deal with it. Somehow there are people that have "Engineer" in their title that think this is acceptable workplace behavior and work product for a professional making $XXX,XXX/year.
We had a person join our team recently who doesn't know our stack at all (which is fine, we were happy to teach them). When another engineer reviewed their pull request and asked a question, they pasted the question into Copilot and responded to the pull request with the answer (which was wrong!), even going so far as to say "Copilot thinks it's this: ...". I almost lost it. Your job is to learn, understand, and apply that knowledge, not paste incorrect model responses back and forth between web forms!
It's baffling and enraging. Are people _trying_ to demonstrate to management and their teammates that they're actually worthless? Are our expectations as a profession really this low, that we don't expect people to understand the code that they push?
To me, it seems that Stoicism’s assumption—that everything is perfect and interconnected—shares similarities with, and might even originate from, Hindu philosophy or other Indian philosophies, which view ultimate reality as inherently perfect
We offer competing core functionality in terms of storage and search, but we’re also focused on intelligence: real-time anomaly detection, semantic log analysis, and natural language search.
Would recommend the demo video and playground environment we linked above! Feel free to reach out at founders@runsift.com if you’d like to learn more
I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
> 1. Networking (friend of friends, friend of customers, etc). Leverage your network to find more customers.
For those located in India (I would argue anywhere outside US really), in my opinion, trying to find customers in your network is a waste of time, even if you're wealthy. Most societies outside US aren't as abundant in their mind nor value driven the same way people in the US are
Instead focus on the long game, keep filling in the blanks on your ICP and what their pushes and pulls are by trying to figure out who is the right segment to serve so you can save time and energy
I feel like rule for code of conduct with humans and AI is the same. Try to be good but have the courage to be disliked. If being mean is making me feel good, I'm definitely wrong.
