i'm getting a bit addicted to using #AI coding agents. the machines are pretty dumb and lie a lot about having solved problems when they actually haven't, but with persistence and a bit of manual reading and adjustment i can get to a full working solution way faster than i ever have been able to before.

my current fixation is about creating a fully comprehensive profiling report for #orly relay - i want to make it as fast as possible, and a somewhat orthogonal effect of this is that it's finding more logic bugs as i go through because these often manifest as cpu, memory or allocation blowing out and causing performance problems and at the same time, diminishing the effectiveness of the functions, which can basically be called bugs.

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careful, when you board this train the productivity gains are addictive af :)

well, i have had the ambition to build the best, smartest and easiest to use nostr relay for almost 2 years now and i'm getting really close to that target, i can't stop until i feel that 5% law of diminishing returns point, i don't think i'm there yet.

yep

just be careful to always stay in control and understand all the code and the benefits are pretty much worth the tradeoff

yup, the AI is my bitch. i've already fought through it's constant lying and ignoring the central point of my requests so many times i have become very stubborn and persistent towards it.

i'm paying for it to do the work. i'm not paying to have it lead me.

I just started using a coding agent two days ago, specifically Claude Code, and I'm very impressed

It does make some mistakes, but that's almost a good thing. I still want to feel somewhatv relevant to the project 😜