“I’m a null pointer exception debugger.”

> “I’m a null pointer exception debugger.”

NullPointerException is the Java world. In C++, dereferencing a null pointer is rather undefined behaviour.

So it's perfectly fitting the noun for c++ dev is undefined behavior :D

I prefer almost anything to CSS modules, so this bike shedding topic is probably very subjective.

> full height of four to six feet

In South Carolina, they get to be 20-30 feet. They’re medium-sized trees. I’ve never heard of any variety that is full grown at 6 feet. That’s a baby.

Because your competitor will double their number of customers, and halve their prices— forcing you to do the same.

So then everyone would continue earning the same as before.

What’s shocking about it? Seems like the usual culprit— a bad config rollout. Took a long time to identify, so maybe that’s shocking. But I can attest that sometimes, you get into fight or flight mode and miss the obvious when trying to diagnose a disruption like this.

That said, nowadays, the first thing I do is spawn an agent to look through the most recent commits and try to identify something that could be the cause of a service outage.

This one seems like something Claude Code or Codex would have quickly flagged.

Agreed, we've all been there, but 4 hours! For a network config change. No one raised their hand and said "hey I just toggled this thing maybe we should look, I did it exactly when our entire region went had down"

There are plenty of great tools available these days. Bubbletea would be my tool of choice, I think:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

Charm is what the post submission is using

TUIs are much easier to run in a container, for one thing. Though, I guess a terminal-based web browser would work for some web apps.

Passive flows. Mike Green has covered this well for a long time. Here’s a recentish interview:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSpR770JvXg&pp=ygUYbWlrZSBncmV...

Has any harness matched the effectiveness of Claude Code yet? I haven't experimented much recently, but every time I have in the past, I wasn't able to get any other tool to approach how effective I am in CC.

I'd love to use a different harness-- ideally an OSS one-- and hook it up to whichever LLM provides the best bang for the buck rather than being tied to Claude.

OpenCode has been great in my experience. I still get the best results using it with Anthropic's models, but some of the open weights ones are catching up (GLM 5 works reasonably well for me).

> mimes … word of mouth

Nice.