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by Trufa 123 days ago
The amount of little tools I'm creating for myself is incredible, 4.6 seems like it can properly one/two shot it now without my attention.

Did you open source that one? I was thinking of this exact same thing but wanted to think a little about how to share deps, i.e. if I do quick worktree to try a branch I don't wanna npm i that takes forever.

Also, if you share it with me, there's obviously no expectations, even it's a half backed vibecoded mess.
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unshavedyak 123 days ago
I’ve been wanting similar but have instead been focused on GUI. My #1 issue with TUI is that I’ve never liked code jumps very smooth high fps fast scrolling. Between that and terminal lacking variable font sizes, I’d vastly prefer TUIs, but I just struggle to get over those two issues.

I’ve been entirely terminal based for 20 years now and those issues have just worn me down. Yet I still love terminal for its simplicity. Rock and a hard place I guess.

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SauntSolaire 123 days ago
What's the point of open sourcing something you one shot with an LLM? At that point just open source the prompt you used to generate it.
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freedomben 123 days ago
Testing. If you share something you've tested and know works, that's way better than sharing a prompt which will generate untested code which then has to be tested. On top of that it seems wasteful to burn inference compute (and $) repeating the same thing when the previous output would be superior anyway.

That said, I do think it would be awesome if including prompts/history in the repos somehow became a thing. Not only would it help people learn and improve, but it would allow tweaking.

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NetOpWibby 123 days ago
To save time and energy?
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whazor 123 days ago
This is how I solve the dependencies with Nix: https://gist.github.com/whazor/bca8b687e26081e77d818bc26033c...

Nix helps Claude a lot with dependencies, it can add stuff and execute the flake as well.

I will come back to you with project itself.

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elliotbnvl 123 days ago
The deps question is huge, let me know if you solve it.
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CalebJohn 123 days ago
If I'm understanding the problem correctly, this should be solved by pnpm [1]. It stores packages in a global cache, and hardlinks to the local node_packages. So running install in a new worktree should be instant.

[1]: https://pnpm.io/motivation

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