I had to install Git to push this application to Github, which, up until now, I'd avoided. And it was everything I was afraid it would be. It was ten pages of alternate install configurations and legacy software and collaborative packages. Probably. I didn’t read a word. I'm sure Git's perfect for collaborative work, but for somebody looking to just iterate their code as fast as possible, it's way too much.
Grove is a CLI tool that basically hinges on two, small, numbered-selection screens. It’s super clear to navigate. You select a list of files and folders to be backed up per project. And you make saves! It remembers your most recent project so that if it's not already open you can just type "grove save" in the terminal and it'll back up whatever you're working on.
I tried really hard to deliver a stable launch. I was using Grove to backup Grove while I worked on Grove for weeks. I optimized till I was blue in the face because this tool is already part of my workflow. It’s also my first release. There will be updates.
One spot that feels like it could be done better. When you add files or folders, you select add, and then you type 1 to add files or 2 to add folders. I would have preferred if there could be a unified file/folder picker. But Windows doesn't offer that natively which means I would have to bring in a crate with its own gui file/folder picker, and it would probably bloat the binary to like 2 megabytes and I didn’t feel right about it.
I’m honored to answer any questions. Youtube demo if you don't want to read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo55__-9Wfo
How I understand the article, is that they understand why others act in certain ways, they know the mechanism of empathy, but nothing here confirms that they are empathetic themselves. I think this article's conclusion is misleading.
There are many different definitions of what empathy means or how it “feels”. Do you (literally) feel the pain you’re inflicting on somebody else, do you know about it cognitively but not feel it, and how does any of it influence your actions.
That's interesting! But confusing as well. The test they reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist) includes lack of empathy. Are they saying that this criterion could be dropped from the test with no effect on the classification?
Something in this realm covers my practice. I just keep a master prompt for the whole program, and sparsely documented code. When it's time to use LLM's in the dev process, they always get a copy of both and it makes the whole process like 10x as coherent and continuous. Obvi when a change is made that deviates or greatly expands on the spec, I update the spec.
I do something similar with quality gates. I have a bunch of markdown files at the ready to point agents to for various purposes. It lets me leverage LLMs at any stage of the dev process and my clients get docs in their format without much maintenance from myself. As you said once you get it down it becomes a very coherent process that can be iterated on in its own right.
I am currently fighting the recursive improvement loop part of working with agents.
I definitely lean pro AI, and I feel an air of condescension here that doesn't thrill me. But, it wasn't overwhelming and the point does kind of resonate.
I see it in a reddit post, or a twitter comment, I've suspected it in text messages. And like that angle, the like "you're a human. can you please, just" and feeling a little out there for pouring my soul into every word I right wherever it is, like, that idea resonates. That frustration to be reading a lengthy blurb in what's become an over-saturated style where I have to work even harder to discern their real meaning than if they were actually that verbose to begin with.
