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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • I have a full pro model for Kiro at work. It does actually work, but we have custom MCP servers for all the internal tools, context on how to use these tools, style guidelines, etc. and then on top of that we have a lot of AI context files in the code base to help the AI understand the code base and make the correct changes.

    I’ve been using it on a side project and it works if you know how to constrain it. It does get things wrong a lot. But the big thing about it is doing spec driven development where you give it a write up and it makes a requirements doc and a design doc with a lot of correctness properties in them to follow when generating and making the tasks.

    I don’t believe people can vibe code unless they can actually code. It’s a whole different way of coding. I still manually edit what it does a lot.

    A lot of people explain it like it’s a brand new junior developer. You need to give it as much context as possible, tell it to exactly what you want, tell it what you don’t want, tell it why, etc. and it still may not listen exactly.



  • I own a free oracle cloud virtual instance because it was free and better than every other free service. 100% dedicated VI, 4Gbps network bandwidth, 4CPUs at around 2.5GHz, 24GB RAM, and 200GB. All free. And no possible way to ever go over since those are static when I created the instance.

    This is for a personal project that I didn’t want hosted on my home server to expose to the open internet.

    I justify using oracle because I’m technically costing them money with no downsides for me.

    Fuck Oracle’s ownership though.


  • Many smart lights are not a security vulnerability. Get those that connect to a local only hub and or if you need access away from home for whatever reason, get HomeKit enabled devices.

    Plus, even if remote access could happen, it’s not even a security vulnerability to have a stranger turn on my lights. I just flip the switch off.

    I’m sitting here with my red and blue soft lighting in the evenings watching tv and playing games. It’s the perfect lighting.









  • And I have you tagged with the city we both live in! I think I know the school. I had an interest, but I’m already 9 years into my software engineering career and the pay is too much to give up.

    If you’re not in the Seattle Indies discord, send me a DM! Never too early to make connections.

    (Also replying from a bus!)