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by quxbar 338 days ago
IMO you're better off investing in tooling that works with or without LLMs: - extremely clean, succinct code - autogenerated interfaces from openAPI spec - exhaustive e2e testing

Once that is set up, you can treat your agents like (sleep-deprived) junior devs.
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caleblloyd 336 days ago
Been using gRPC with json transcoding to REST on a greenfield project. All auto generated clients across 3 languages. Added frontend wrapper to pre-flight auth requests so it can dynamically display what users are allowed to do.

Claude Code has been an absolute beast when I tell it to study examples of existing APIs and create new ones, ignoring bringing any generated code into context.

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mhogers 338 days ago
Autogenerated interfaces from openAPI spec is so key - agents are extremely good at creating React code based on these interfaces (+ typescript + tests + lints.. for extra feedback loops etc..)
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