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0 pointsjermaustin11mo ago0 comments

I've been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude.

I've kind of decided this is my last job, so when this company folds or fires me, I'm just going to retire to my cabin in the rural Louisiana woods, and my wife will be the breadwinner. I only have a few 10s of thousands left to make that home "free" (pay off the mortgage, add solar and batteries, plant more than just potatoes and tomatoes).

Though, post retirement, I will support my wife's therapy practice, and I have a goal of silly businesses that are just fun to do (until they arent), like my potato/tomato hybrid (actually just a graft) so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant!

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windex1mo ago

>so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant!

We should be friends. I like your ideas.

jermaustin1OP1mo ago

I'm always looking for people to share my weird ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with software or computers. Unfortunately my only friends are all software people who have no interest outside of computers. Something I've found to have very little interest in anymore.

dendrite91mo ago

Did you see this last year about the origins of potatoes?

I'd like to get into grafting fruit trees, my uncle was a major fruit eater and filled the yard with many varieties of apples and pears. The apple tree where I live was a mess and I've jsut started the pruning to get it under control.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5494517/strange-but-tru...

windex1mo ago

I moved out of software things myself and now do things around the home and outside more and more.

Zecc1mo ago

For what is worth, I prefer the name pomato to totato.

jermaustin1OP1mo ago

I'll keep that in mind when marketing. I was going to go with French Fry Tree.

midnitewarrior1mo ago

Name to consider: twoatos (pot- and tom-)

kirubakaran1mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomato

jasondigitized1mo ago

You got any land down there? I would like to be close to you and, post retirement, eat said french fries daily.

jermaustin1OP1mo ago

This might be a little dark, but the majority of our street is very elder, and none of there families want to move over here.

They were the original non-familial homesteaders from 50+ years ago when all this land was my wife's great grandfather's, and he sold off small plots to people. He, infact, inherited it from his father, who bought a half mile square back in the 20s or 30s (I believe). The first house on the road was his (Great Great Grandpa). The road WAS his driveway, then slowly but surely new generations of the family started building houses a few hundred yards away from each other, then they started selling plots to people in the 60s, and sold the last of the original land in 2023 about a year before grandpa passed.

Now the only land left in "the family", is this 1.25 acre plot that I live on. I don't really have the desire to buy more from the folks that are dying, but my neighbor has already bought up about half of the vacant land.

tbreschi1mo ago

Best comment of the day

0_____01mo ago

That sounds lovely. I think too many people get attached to the structure of life as they've lived it for the last n years and resist natural phase transitions for far too long. Good luck with retirement and your dream of being the botanical equivalent of the mean kid from Toy Story:p

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