Andy Ecca @aecca_

Typical coding day with Claude (Opus 4.8) - explain to Claude the task (5 minutes) - Claude implements task (10 minutes) me: "Why is this necessary?" Claude: "You're right to push back! I over-engineered this!" - Repeat x87 times (13 hours)

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More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

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Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small plate begging for their share from the token barons who, fortunately, at any given moment can feel generous enough to press a button that makes the tokens fly out like projectile vomit. Engineers at these companies, who sit mere inches from the spigot, frequently bless us with thinkpieces that we too should be doing what they do, and it’s actually quite unfashionable not to do so. Of course none of this is so much engineering advice as it is financial advice. But sure, “wHy dO pEoPle hATe Ai?”

Tibo @thsottiaux

a week ago

I have a new kind of big button that I can press for Codex. Over the next 100 days, we will select one person per day who does impressive or incredibly useful work with Codex and give them 10X usage limits for a month to see what they can do with it. First one tomorrow.

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Many of you forgot too fast the insane amount of shitty software we had to see and suffer in the pre-AI era.

I super don't understand this. I have to believe you're writing no software of any consequence for this to be true.

Cory House @housecor

3 weeks ago

Controversial opinion in my talk yesterday: Editor doesn't matter anymore. It's just a diff viewer.

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Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh

3 weeks ago

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem. As

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"Creemos que con la IA podemos reemplazar a todos los desarrolladores junior de nuestra empresa" Matt Garman, CEO de AWS: "Es la mayor estupidez que he escuchado en mi vida".

“My opinion has always been that AI is a great tool, but it's a tool, and when I see people saying ‘99% of our code is written by AI,’ I literally get angry, because I pretty much guarantee that 100% of their code is written by compilers.”—Linus Torvalds #OSSummit

que raro se vé programar con la font de Minecraft xd

Hay un placer adulto que nadie presume: terminar un trámite sin que te falte ningún papel.

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚. ✅💙❤️

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Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

Anders Hejlsberg (@ahejlsberg) is a living legend: he created Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript (and today TypeScript is the most-used programming language, globally, as per GitHub.) Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:48 How Anders got into programming 05:40 Building his first compiler 07:44 Turbo Pascal 12:25 Delphi 14:53 Joining Microsoft 19:41 Building C# 29:11 Async/await 34:01 The rise of JavaScript 37:52 Building TypeScript 42:58 How the TypeScript compiler works 48:30 JavaScript’s strengths and weaknesses 52:18 How Anders uses AI 56:03 What language features work well with AI 1:02:49 How software craftsmanship is changing 1:07:49 Performance and efficiency 1:09:29 Anders’ tool stack 1:11:30 A 30-year career at Microsoft 1:13:40 Book recommendation Brought to you by: @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. antithesis.com/pragmatic @WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. WorkOS.com @turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. turbopuffer.com/pragmatic Four things that stood out to me: 1. “10x better for 1/10th of the price” is a proven winner. This is what Turbo Pascal did: it sold for $49.95 when competing compilers cost $500, and it was faster and more interactive than competitors’ products. Conveniently, the low price tag also killed off piracy 2. C# might have not existed without a famous court case. Microsoft originally hired Anders to architect its Java tools (Visual J++), but the Sun versus Microsoft lawsuit (1997-2001) meant Microsoft could not build on top of Java, as the company that owned Java’s IP (Sun) sued MS for alleged unauthorized changes to the Java language. Microsoft realized it had to build a new language that combined VB’s productivity with C++’s power. This led to C# and .NET. 3. TypeScript exists because Anders refused to build Script# for the Outlook .com team. Microsoft’s Outlook .com team asked Anders’ C# team to productize “ScriptSharp,” a language to cross-compile C# to JavaScript. Anders and the C# team pushed back, suggesting that a better approach was to fix JavaScript. Anders felt strongly that to be attractive to the best-of-breed developers in the JavaScript ecosystem, you want people to write JavaScript, and not another language like C#. 4. Designing a programming language is a 10-year play. As Anders puts it: “Version one is great, but has all sorts of issues. You’ve got to do version two, but it’s not until version three that it really starts to be great. Then you’ve got to convince people to adopt it.”

tech industry is optimizing itself to death.

Polymarket @Polymarket

a month ago

JUST IN: GitLab announces job cuts to reinvest in growth for the “agentic era.”

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