My Neovim + AI workflow is running Neovim (LazyVim) and Claude Code side by side in a terminal split. As the agent makes changes, I review them in Neogit. I don't really make edits by hand much anymore, but the keyboard is still how I navigate the code when doing reviews. I can jump to references, open files, read through the diff very quickly with keyboard shortcuts.
The Neovim/LazyVim speed for writing code turns out to be just as fast for navigating and reviewing code.
I think food quality is real and the same foods from certain stores taste better and make me feel better than from other stores. So I usually pick my food based on brand/store rather than organic labeling.
A lot of what I buy happens to be organic, but I eat it because it tastes good, not because of the label.
I do think organic bananas taste better than non-organic. Same with meat and eggs, but any high-quality meat is great, organic or not.
For flour, pasta, and cereal, I feel like it comes down to the brand, not whether it's organic.
Maybe food quality is more complex than what an organic label actually measures.
I've seen this at work. Giving Claude Code to a mediocre programmer gets you mediocre results. The really effective engineers with coding agent can accomplish a lot. Thousand monkeys...
Xcode is abysmal on a large codebase. Freezes constantly on operations. The most useful features stall the entire program, things like: test navigator, quick open files, debugger, etc..
But I agree that Xcode runs fine on small projects and recent version feel stable compare to past releases.
I've been using claude on two codebases, one with good layering and clean examples, the other not so much. I get better output from the LLM with good context and clean examples and documentation. Not surprising that clarity in code benefits both humans and machines.
> I really don’t think there’s a coherent pro-genAI case to be made in the education context
My own personal experience is that Gen AI is an amazing tool to support learning, when used properly.
Seems likely there will be changes in higher education to work with gen AI instead of against it, and it could be a positive change for both teachers and students.
I don't think LLMs replace thinking, but rather elevate it. When I use an LLM, I’m still doing the intellectual work, but I’m freed from the mechanics of writing. It’s similar to programming in C instead of assembly: I’m operating at a higher level of abstraction, focusing more on what I want to say than how to say it.
I've been using LLMs as learning tools rather than simply answer generators. LLMs can teach you a lot by guiding your thinking, not replacing it.
It's been valuable to engage with the suggestions and understand how they work—much like using a search engine, but more efficient and interactive.
LLMs have also been helpful in deepening my understanding of math topics. For example, I’ve been wanting to build intuition around linear algebra which for me is a slow process. By asking questions to LLM I find explanations make the underlying concepts more accessible.
For me it's about using these tools to learn more effectively.
> OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion in October, when it raised $6.6 billion. A near-doubling of its value in just a few months would be extraordinary even by the standards of Silicon Valley’s current AI boom.
My uncle was career officer in the Army and told me once that the M16, with its smaller faster bullet would wound the enemy, compared to the AK47 with its large slow bullet would kill, and that a wounded enemy was more expensive than a dead solider because you had to extract and care for the wounded.
Not sure if there was any factual evidence behind his theory, but I found this idea fascinating when I heard it.
I started skateboarding two years ago in my backyard and this year I started skating at my local skatepark. I'm all padded up for safety and even use hip pads. It's a very fun and cheap hobby. Seeing a lot of progression so it's very fun.
The book “The Non-Designers Design Book” is very good. This is where the acronym CRAP comes from, which is Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity.
I use bear.app and love the simplicity but is versatile enough to all my uses cases. It only runs on Apple platforms, so maybe a deal breaker. It seems similar to Obsidian, so maybe another deal breaker. It syncs via CloudKit and for what it's worth, the devs have shared that they are working on a web app version that would presumably use CloudKit Web Services.
For some people (myself included) Game/TV addiction is a real problem and can have drastic affects on ones life. (It did for me throughout my 20s/30s). For others it doesn't seem to have negative side effects.
My life was held back by time spent gaming for so long and later in life I realized TV was doing the same. Moderation in all things right? For me it is easier to cut them out period.
I'm happier and have a far more productive life as a result. I'm now in my 40s and have productive life and career but this didn't start until my mid 30s.
The Neovim/LazyVim speed for writing code turns out to be just as fast for navigating and reviewing code.