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Comment by theptip

9 hours ago

If you can’t think up enough coding projects to keep an agent busy in the background that’s a skill issue on your side.

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lionkor  8 hours ago

I am aware this is likely sarcasm, but in case it isn't, what do you gain from doing side projects this way?

  • theptip  8 hours ago

    No sarcasm, I am completely serious.

    I don’t have time for much leisure coding these days. I do have time to kick off a few tasks in the morning to progress my many side projects. Nothing public / oss, just code that I find useful/interesting like home automation, content pipelines, games, etc.

    There are a bunch of cases where remote control from iOS onto a Mac Mini is simply nicer than using iOS Claude Code sandboxes.

    It’s the same pattern as you (hopefully) apply at $dayjob. If you are not defining a /goal and letting your agent crank you are not making full use of the models’ capabilities.

    • lionkor  7 hours ago

      Well I am fully of the opinion that LLMs can help in software programming, it's not something that I feel provides any value unless it has a human in the loop. The overhead of having to figure out if the agent did a good job, if the agent is actually done or not, and if the thing it built is shit or not, is worth simply avoiding by having a human in the loop.

      So I wouldn't agree that the agent should be cranking out code all the time, in fact that seems more like a waste of resources compared to the work it creates. But I do understand home automation software can be very one-off and simple. But then again, a properly programmed home automation suite doesn't need a SOTA model to modify it, I think.

    • troupo  5 hours ago

      On all projects I've run any of the models they:

      - infinitely duplicate any and all code, helpers and components

      - infinitely duplicate CSS (because they duplicate components)

      - continuously write code like "read the entire db into memory and run a filter function on retrieved data"

      - continuously write code like "call db with multiple queries for each element in a list"

      - etc. etc.

      Why the hell would I ever want to run them unsupervised?

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