Benjamin André-Micolon

@ossaijaD @mattpocockuk I’m on Opus 4.7 with 1M context window, so plenty of room left (even if aiming to clear at 30%) I’ve been using this setup for 8 months now, so I’ve gotten a feel of to work with AI and instruction following has not been an issue for me so far

@bendersej @mattpocockuk Depending on the model you get between 70k to 150k of reliable instruction following.

What 'advanced' AI coding techniques are you using? I.e. what do you feel like you've discovered that no-one else knows about yet?

@ossaijaD @mattpocockuk Not sure what you mean by « smart zone »? I’m at around 33k tokens in context before the first message on a fresh session. It’s not lean but it works perfectly for me, so I haven’t optimized it yet (for example I don’t use rules but layered Claude.md’s)

@bendersej @mattpocockuk How does the context window smart zone not get filled up fast?

@licyeus @mattpocockuk Everything in the repo! For planning / roadmap I have a home-grown skill that scaffolds a plan (agnostic of the type of task) based on a template. All plans live under /plans and with this markdown readme to keep track of progress Nothing fancy, I like to keep things simple

@bendersej @mattpocockuk Do you also keep planning/roadmap in-repo? I've been considering leaving Linear and textfile-ing everything. I'm monorepo+custom CLI for vision/decisions/docs, but haven't made jump yet. At some point, even Github serves little purpose beyond CI (ie, local review workflows).

@mattpocockuk Thanks! Custom CLIs and MCP servers + Custom Telegram integration (for HITL) For example one helper prints out the entire local DB schema + connection string by + ports of the services - checkout aware (I run multiple sessions in parallel in checkouts, not work trees)

@bendersej Awesome. It sounds like not all of the data is tracked in Git. How do you connect the rest of it. MCP servers?

@libremax_off La meilleure des choses: partir (à l’étranger) pour revenir plus fort (ie, avec du capital) et aider la France à se reconstruire. Les cerveaux sont là, la créativité est là, le problème c’est le système (la prison socialiste) qui casse l’ambition dans l’œuf

Du coup ça sert plus à rien de faire des études. Mieux vaut se faire pistonner dans l'administration avec un bullshit job très bien payé. Le socialisme a détruit la méritocratie.

L'ANTS Piratée et même pas une excuse... c'est une DIN-GUE-RIE 🤯🤯

@xwanyex Many like myself are just quietly enjoying the massive productivity boost. (What I ship is in my bio)

I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?

@jackfriks Very happy customer of DigitalOcean I recommend their managed DB offerings. I’ve been running a cluster for the last 5 years with exactly 0 outages. Obviously YMMV but something worth mentioning. Also, their support is great

as i consider migrating my database today and where i host the website for post-bridge.com… what’s your pro tips for self hosting :)

⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly. “The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.” That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal. This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan. Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top. The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue. This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it. They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem. They see it as necessary and good.

Desperately looking for a publisher so I'm posting all the cool shit I've made over the last 6 years here.

@eddort_dev @threejs This is gorgeous! Beautiful work

adding more life to my browser game world on @threejs

@firecrawl @garrytan Does web-agent execute JS and interact with SPAs via a real browser runtime (Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP), or is it HTTP + HTML parsing only?

Introducing web-agent, an open framework for building web agents 🔥 Build AI agents that search, scrape, and interact with the web - powered by the same architecture behind our /agent endpoint. 100% open source. Bring any model. Anthropic, OpenAI, or your own.

Now that we're soon running out of 32-bit namespace for transfer IDs at @Wise, the engineers are annoyed with me choosing int over long when I wrote the first lines of code in 2010. But why don't they appreciate the $17 of savings in storage cost over years!? 🤷

Matt is onto something with sandcastle I deeply believe in home-grown skills, tooling and prompts for agents to deal with all the tiny idiosyncrasies of each product and development team and processes. But sandboxing w/ light orchestration is the one layer that generalizes

@wookash_podcast Related: x.com/bendersej/stat…

@wookash_podcast - Spec / feature adherence: is it doing what it should, enough to meet the spec, but not over-engineered And finally a discussion with the engineer / test a few branches of logic to confirm it works (UI / backend alike) E2E tests, unit tests, formatting, etc are a given 2/2

To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible? To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase? Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now What's the strategy?

Beautifully elegant! Using react-query to manage them: 👨‍🍳’s 💋

@AdamRackis x.com/bendersej/stat…

It’s honestly reassuring seeing a respected voice say this. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one seeing this. There’s tons of repetitive, straightforward tasks I happily give to ai to churn through. But my god there’s so many things that are simpler to just do myself.