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by ncphillips 9 days ago
I’ve used it for several improvements to our wysiwyg. I was able to refactor to a much more cohesive architecture that is making future work much easier/safer. We got a fzf like search algorithm for an autocomplete that includes marking which characters matched. It fixed some jank performance issues I was struggling to track down.

Fixed small several bugs last week without even open the editor. It wrote tests that confirmed the bugs, then fixed them. Then I manually confirmed as well.

It built a double entry event log. A single application event produces two logs, one for the person doing the action, one for the person being acted upon.

For a nasty problem we have, we had AI prototype 2 different solutions. Then we reveiewed them as a team. We threw those out but it was very helpful input into our decision making.

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> I’ve used it for several improvements to our wysiwyg. I was able to refactor to a much more cohesive architecture that is making future work much easier/safer. We got a fzf like search algorithm for an autocomplete that includes marking which characters matched. It fixed some jank performance issues I was struggling to track down.

so, basically did some vague, almost incomprehensible stuff. seems par for the course.

How was any of that incomprehensible? They gave a list of some actual things they shipped. The hand wavy dismissal where you pretend they didn’t say anything just exposes your bias. You don’t want to hear a success story so you don’t.
how do you ship a "wysiwyg"?

and my point is he is doing the hand-waving. i'm quite happy to hear success stories - we get so few concrete ones here.

It’s obvious from context that his team owns some sort of WYSIWYG editor.