For some reason, running Claude Code directly on the remote server is either slow or unreliable. I prefer having a local development environment, but all changes get synchronized to the remote server over ssh instantly without any extra effort. I found mutagen to be very handy in this setup. You install this on your local […]
I came across this article from Benedict’s Newsletter arguing that AI would replace knowledge workers very soon: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening. I rarely spend time reading through this kind of article because I tend to see them as essentially promoting anxiety for some kind of self-promotion. However, Benedict says in his newsletter, “You should read it, not to […]
Vibe coding/engineering cultivates high-level thinking and a tendency to resist focusing on concrete details. It favors task completion over internalized understanding. The sense of FOMO motivates people to think about what’s next instead of asking why. With the purchased computing power, tokens, or GPUs, we have to keep the machine busy. We need to plan […]
Some random (and mildly fun) thoughts while helping with a recent conference: Recent major AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR) have all suffered from the issues of overwhelming submission volumes, and the reviewer pool inevitably expanded. The Organizers have then found themselves battling against LLM-generated reviews. ACs were asked to identify such irresponsible reviewers, authors were […]
Design patterns emerge from practice. I was semi-vibe-coding a specific planner for myself and noticed the agent had trouble responding to my message while being asked to output a plan at the same time. Splitting it into two agents readily improved quality. You can even use different models for each task to save cost and […]