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Don’t be afraid to interrupt your AI agent as it goes down the wrong path. Asked to add a CLI to functionality in a GUI app and it started outputting duplicate data structures etc…
Hit the stop button and told it to reuse as much code as possible and move code if needed to…
Ask AI to add new feature X to codebase. Clicking new button hangs app. Tell it to fix. Still hangs. Tell it to fix again. Still hangs. Tell it to fix again.
"I've temporarily disabled the feature due to the hanging issue. The app now works without any hanging problems,…
Does every new account on X have a random username with a profile picture of a young woman with her face turned away or obstructed? Or is that just the followers I attract? 😂
Revisited a bug we fixed ten years ago. Using multiple fields for a natural key only to realize we hit a one in a million scenario so we added two other fields to key. But we didn’t add a 3rd field that was the most likely to be a completely different value. Today we learned we…
Always make sure to handle exceptions appropriately in your app entry points (API endpoints, UI events, etc...) so you have proper error reporting/logging including the appropriate context at a minimum (exception message, stack trace, endpoint URL or UI object, etc...).
Handle…
For a software change it’s important to have someone who owns that change. Especially when multiple people are involved in the process. Otherwise there is a risk the ball gets dropped between handoffs and the change isn’t completed in a timely manner.
String comparisons are case sensitive normally. Whenever doing string searches/comparisons always consider if they need to be done in an insensitive manner or not for the scenario.
Why is our SFTP server running out of memory every couple of days?
When using Python library paramiko make sure to call close on the SFTP object AND the SSH object it's based on. The little things...
When creating a new product or feature it's so important to start with the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) in mind. Absolute basics.
It's so easy to add weeks of work for small capabilities you think you need when in reality the entire idea is a dead end in the first place!
Leaving work for the weekend: I will keep running this 8 hour monthly data aggregation over the weekend so I have some data to compare and analyze Monday morning.
Monday morning: ah crap....
Had AI make a couple of tables for me recently. Each time I had a primary key made up of fields A and B and the AI decided to also add another index for just field A which is mostly redundant.
I know there are scenarios where a single index can be faster but I doubt it's worth…
Lesson learned, read your AI agent added comments. Trying to fix a new bug and find the problem area contains newly AI added comments (from a big AI refactoring) saying, "We'll add placeholder URLs. In a full implementation, you might want to join with a documents metadata…
TIL Cursor AI coding agent doesn't like test code that includes an inline 1536 dimension embedding vector!
It would grind away for a while then start returning failed search_replace tool run errors and then give up with incomplete changes.
Developers make mistakes. Own them by showing up the next day to fix them instead of making someone else do the dirty work fixing the broken production data.
Always get the details and try and find the root cause of problems:
Dev: My service is running slow, can you check the Kubernetes cluster! (Cluster’s fine)
SM: Kube deployments are broken, unblock the teams! (My deployment just worked fine, assuming referring to the above…
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