having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.
(alas for this capturing my thinking face 😐)
Thanks to everyone that joined us for @xtclondon.bsky.social on Tuesday! Loved all the discussion sessions on enjoying programming, effectiveness of AI, security and "best vibe engineering practices" 💪 Looking forward to future meetups: www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
Sadly Rachel is unable to join us tonight, wishing them all the best and look forward to hearing from them in future! We’re still meeting up tonight! Come for the pizza and stay for the great discussions!
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
Join us tomorrow evening and chat with us on how you're using LLMs, including automating writing awesome documentation with @nearestnabors.com! We will be at the City Pride, sign up now: www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
Excited to listen to @nearestnabors.com share their pearls of wisdom on using LLMs next week at @xtclondon.bsky.social ! Join us for pizza, drinks and fun convos - sign up now! www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
Tues Feb 17 @nearestnabors.com presents "Self-improving docs". Learn how to take Rachel's really, really ridiculously good skills with docs to enable you to write really really ridiculously good docs right in GitHub!
Sign up and join us in person at the City Pride!
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Hey if you’re in London and up for it, love to have you give a lightning talk and discuss here: www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
The pizza is really good there too! 😊
Excited to discuss all language models, large and small, with y’all! Happy to wax lyrical about Vercel’s AI SDK! Seeking counsel from other vibe engineers out there 👍
Late notice perhaps, but we're back in the loving embrace of the City Pride on Tuesday next week (20th January)! Come along to chat with your fellow humans about working with humans and machines. www.meetup.com/extreme-tues...
If you want to keep hand rolling the fetch, setting the X-Stainless-Timeout header isn’t enough. If you find out all the combination of headers to set, please do share 👍
Getting 408 errors calling the OpenAI API on Microsoft Foundry using fetch in Node? Try using the official Node library from OpenAI instead, it’s configured such that it prevents the default 60 second timeout!
the hack to being productive with claude code is to start the project with great e2e tests that are declarative enough that they let you precisely specify behavior without saying too much
it's really magic
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Gutted that we had to cancel this :( We won’t able to book the City Pride for the rest of the year either. If you’re interested in hosting #XTC for November or December then please do reach out!
Happy belated birthday! What did you end up deciding?
