alt Hacker NewsFor personal workstation, the current directory is enough. Maybe I change the color based the status of the last command. That’s pretty much the only information I need before entering any command. Everything else can be accessed when I really need it.
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hiAndrewQuinn • 06/24/2025
I like stuffing everything which might be important to the context window in there, personally. Saving 50ms on the prompt load sure beats a false negative when something goes wrong because I don't even think to ask whether I have the wrong Node version installed or something.
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meesles • 06/24/2025
Problem is you can't get timestamps and run times of your commands 'when you really need it', unlike almost everything else
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You don't need to know what branch you're on before running commands? I cant tell you the number of times ive been on the wrong branch executing stuff.