anderslaub's comments

On: Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP

[anderslaub]

I haven't tried working with Cursor for real yet but I can vouch for Claude with filesystem, fetch and optionally a few other mcp servers enabled relevant to whatever you are doing works really good.

I still haven't found a setup that can fully comprehend a large "enterprise" codebase though. The scope has to be narrowed in to get something useful.

But for almost everything else and especially to do things where I previously would have stalled due to lack of time when hitting a learning code. It is a game changer. I can do things in hours that would have taken months before - or Claude can really..

I tried to describe a somewhat similar experience that I had last week here. The 4k char limit made me cut most of it away though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478600

On: The cost of parsing JSON

[anderslaub]

Dangerous advice if object values potentially can contain string terminators..

var obj = { "Name": "Joe`s sloppy place" };

will work well as plain object while

obj = JSON.parse('{ "Name": "Joe's sloppy place" }');

Will kill your site.. hard to control especially with several different unicode characters all being interpreted as plings by json parse..

On: The cost of parsing JSON

[anderslaub]

Dangerous advice if object values can contain string terminates..

var obj = { "Name": "Joe`s sloppy" };

will work well as plain object while

obj = JSON.parse('{ "Name": "Joe's sloppy" }');

Will kill your site.. hard to control especially with several different unicode characters all being interpreted as plings