David Becerra

I learned to build software the hard way. Then they made it easy. This has made a lot of people very angry.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

I can see this one on a fortune cookie.

[Naval @naval]

Great products are not so much invented as discovered.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

Tweets like these are like horoscopes. So generic that they’re hard to argue for or against, yet too many people take them as gospel.

[Naval @naval]

Good marketing is finding different ways to tell the truth.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@jayair At a certain scale, being average is good enough for investors and founders alike. Many value money above all, not virtue or morality or wisdom. So how do we "maximize value"? By appealing to the average taste of the largest possible market.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

“Write the way you speak” is great advice unless you’re functionally illiterate.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

Feature request: the ability to mute posts written in lowercase.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@nathanbaugh27 Go with a little LA noir. It’s short, gritty, and full of zingers haha

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@DanBochman FWIW I have better results when I flip that ratio.

I find that the more time I spend writing out the task, the less time Claude takes to build what I want. Aside from a few small tweaks, I spend little time correcting Claude with this approach.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@danshipper Me-ah! See! I’m taking your model, see? MeAH!

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@ChanningAllen Dude, it’s everywhere. It’s the new banner ad, and it’s gonna be hard to undo it.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

I did the same when I was getting my business off the ground. I'd set my alarm for 5:36, go downstairs, and drink coffee outside in the cool air while the sun rose.

I got two hours of work done before 9 AM. I resigned from Stripe a few months after starting that routine.

I miss those days. It's easy to see now just how much more I enjoyed making it than having it made.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@ChanningAllen @ankurnagpal

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@philipbrown

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@ijustine Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s about a robot searching for purpose after he glitches out and kills his owner.

The book was funnier than I expected. But also philosophical in true sci-fi fashion.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@CasJam Not as much as me—shiiiieet.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@NYMag Underscores*

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@atmoio You can, but software engineers don’t see themselves as artists.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@growing_daniel I rigged my toilets for continuous flushing. It feels like I’m standing on the edge of Niagara Falls anytime I go.

[David Becerra @DavidVII]

@jeffrey_way @adamwathan I’ve never understood the whole-app-in-one-shot argument. The results are always significantly worse than building with a multi-shot approach.

People don’t necessarily need to learn to code as much, but they should absolutely learn how to build effectively.