Josh Nichols @techpickles

Principal Whimsy Engineer for myself, Staff Software Engineer for @GustoHQ. Hobby hobbyist, husband, father, noun, https://t.co/9L8pwSaRrY . Opinions are my own. pickles.dev Atlanta, GA Joined June 2007

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

7 days ago

@nateberkopec I think about it like guardrails along a cliffside road. Like, yes, it is now harder to go over the edge, but still possible to do in the right circumstances

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Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

2 weeks ago

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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

2 weeks ago

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

2 weeks ago

@nateberkopec You’re absolutely right. That is exactly kind of concern to have, and is a load bearing belt and suspender.

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

4 weeks ago

@nateberkopec Came across tropes.fyi recently and it has been great for giving these patterns a name. And for feeding into ny writing voice skill to not do them 😅

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

a month ago

@samsaffron I did some of the same things wrt to spelunking through the claude binary, but a) felt like a gray area and b) could be its own entire post

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

a month ago

Claude Code prompts for `python3 -c '# comment\nprint(42)'` even with auto-mode on. Not a bug. There's a Bash parser in there with opinions, one of 6 layers between your keystroke and execution. Mapped them all. pickles.dev/claude-codes-p…

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

a month ago

@samsaffron It is, thanks! I started this before auto mode came out and haven’t had the chance to spelunk it more closely

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

a month ago

Repeat after me: CLAUDE.md, skills, and anything else in the context window is at best a suggestion. Hooks are the only way to enforce behavior

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

2 months ago

two weeks running Claude Code with /sandbox. here's the config that actually works, the stuff that broke, and the stuff that's still broken. pickles.dev/the-sandbox-co…

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

2 months ago

"That's awesome, congrats" takes thirty seconds. "Great, now what about Y?" takes the same thirty seconds but leaves someone deflated. Wrote about the skipped acknowledgment and why we keep doing it to each other pickles.dev/can-we-just-si…

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

2 months ago

@nateberkopec I was coming around to a similar idea, but slightly different motivation. I was working through architecture and design decisions, and found myself wanting to quote reply to stuff in a file, rather than replying and chatting about jt

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

3 months ago

@nateberkopec Misread as “it will slop”, like the antonym of “it will slap”

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

3 months ago

~/.claude/ is basically production. No staging, no isolation. Every Claude Code plugin mutates your daily driver config. Wrote up how to set up a proper test environment after borking mine one too many times. bit.ly/4r7VlvC

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

4 months ago

@hakunin Oh no! I don’t think there will be anything I directly help, so definitely contact support if you haven’t already. Once you have a case number, you can send it my way and I’ll make sure it gets routed to the right place internally

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

4 months ago

@headius That'd be great! I'll DM to find a time to chat

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

4 months ago

My team is hiring! Come work on sidekiq, karafka, and other async stuff with Gusto (see what I did there?) job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/741…

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Josh Nichols @techpickles

7 months ago

@bcardarella I’ve had that happen before when I said to use a subagent. I didn’t track it as a Task though, and just immediately came back said it is running in the background (?!)