This reflects my experience with human programmers. So many devs are taught to add layers of complexity in pursuit of "best practices". I think the LLM was trained to behave this way.

In my experience, Claude can actually clean up a repo rather nicely if you ask it to (1) shrink source code size (LOC or total bytes), (2) reduce dependencies, and (3) maintain integration tests.

It helps me think of this problem in terms of "crowpower".

[1] https://taylor.town/crowpower

I'm upset because microwaves run closer to 2 horsepower. They use like 1500W and output ~1110

They assassinated him because he uncovered too much forbidden knowledge about the triangles

The Triluminati

Reminds me of one of my favorite horror stories (NSFW):

https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-enigma-of-amigara-fault-junji-...

Obviously the rescuers should have just used a stick and push them back until they are de-deformed by undergoing the reverse process, on a serious note I think the author should have gone further, one is that it should show a pregnant lady going into one of the holes, just to put that mental image in the readers, and second, it should have a bonus page where we are shown that the bodies melt into the ground once they make it out, and then when they seem like they are dead they make a strange sound until the rescuers conclude that are trying to say "kill me"

That was rather good, thank you!

DRR DRR DRR…

No clue why this is on HN, but Bjork is brilliant. IMO one of the greatest living musical artists. If you haven’t listened to one of her records, I recommend starting with Homogenic

EDIT: For deeper dives, note that each album is generally thematic. Vespertine is about physical intimacy, Volta experiments with percussion, Medulla is 100% human vocals, etc. Wikipedia is your friend here :)

She turned 60 yesterday. I think she is great and unique and nerdy which makes her a good fit for HN in general. Her birthday (and the news around it) satisfy the news aspect.

Unfortunately I could not find anything that was interesting and not completely ad infested at the same time, so I posted the Wikipedia article. New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, etc. where is your anniversary tribute?

LISTEN/NOTIFY works great but they don’t have any mechanism for ACKs or retries so it’s got some tradeoffs to consider. Works great when you’re willing to sacrifice some durability!

Author here! Posting from phone while traveling so sorry for bad formatting.

It was outside of the scope of this essay, but a lot of these problems can be resolved with a mid-transaction COMMIT and reasonable timeouts

You can implement a lean idempotency system within the task pattern like this, but it really depends on what you need and what failures you want to prevent

Thanks for providing more context and safety tips! :)