Dan @dandotdev_

taking a break. repeat startup engineer. generalist. dan.dev nyc Joined May 2021

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Dan @dandotdev_

5 days ago

@RhysSullivan It’ll be more interesting when this chart reads ROI, not LOC. At least they acknowledge 8x is an overstatement

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2 weeks ago

@pbakaus Way better, nice.

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2 weeks ago

@pbakaus It's the best daily driver for software engineering, but the worst at design

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@pbakaus 1. Haiku 2. Sonnet 3. Gemini 3 flash 4. Gemini 3.5 flash 5. GPT 5.4 mini 6. GPT 5.5 Funny how poorly GPT does in comparisons like this. It feels impossible to prompt or repair away the long copy, excessive meta, overuse of cards, vanilla fonts, etc.

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2 weeks ago

@thsottiaux If only codex was competent at web design, there'd be no reason to touch claude. It's the only thing missing!

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4 weeks ago

@thsottiaux Would love to see a headless browser tool for the CLI. Playwright / Playwriter MCPs are okay but could be better.

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Dan @dandotdev_

3 months ago

@linear What makes Linear Agent better than using Linear MCP with an external agent?

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Dan @dandotdev_

3 months ago

@RhysSullivan Spend 90% of your time in plan mode before letting loose. Wind it up until the agent clearly articulates plans and checklists. When things go off the rails, restart quickly with added context. That’s more important than the model but codex 5.4 is thorough.

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 months ago

@expo Add a ripple shader on top of a basic prompt and designers lose their minds

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 months ago

@ryanvogel an app where when a kid calls in sick to school, 30 year olds within a three mile radius are notified so they can go to the school and eat that child's lunch

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 months ago

@thsottiaux Beautiful

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 months ago

@101babich @storybookjs @figma @cursor_ai I found cursor agent to be poor at most frontend tasks, especially compared to claude code or codex. I’m using GPT-5.2 codex in opencode + figma mcp + playwriter mcp and get better results with far less prompting.

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 months ago

@clementrog It was a good run while it lasted. Given Anthropic's poor PR, I wouldn't expect an announcement. Codex allows using ChatGPT pro / plus plans with Opencode, worth a shot.

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Dan @dandotdev_

5 months ago

@milichab @thdxr @andresmarpz I couldn’t get the Cursor agent to migrate ~3k lines of css to tailwind. I’d try one component at a time and it would choke and introduce regressions. Both opencode and claude code nearly one-shotted with the same model (Opus 4.5). Feel like cursor has regressed for months now.

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Dan @dandotdev_

a year ago

@brian_lovin I’ve had luck creating a new composer and appending rules to my initial prompt whenever it starts down a bad path

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Dan @dandotdev_

a year ago

@dandotdev I’m interested in your x handle, please dm me

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Dan @dandotdev_

3 years ago

@shreyas How would you advocate this to leadership that’s biased towards acting on the first idea, especially when shipping speed is held in such high regard? What’s the balance?

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Dan @dandotdev_

3 years ago

@HiJulieJennifer @jhubb_ @juliofarah @BritonBaker @logan_liffick Congrats team!

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Dan @dandotdev_

3 years ago

@BritonBaker Turned out great!

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Dan @dandotdev_

4 years ago

@shivkanthb It’s not just design - they built their own real-time sync so there’s zero latency. They’re the slimmest and most ergonomic PM tool

Tuomas Artman @artman

4 years ago

When we started work on @linear, we felt real-time sync was a core functionality we had to invest in from the get-go. It turns out sync was important, but not for the reasons we thought. Read on.