Nicholas Mayne

Coffee, code and Scuba! Software contractor, and Orchard Core contributor.

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@dwhitejazz @elonmusk @gvanrossum I know of a few of the systems they use internally, one is called WarpDrive and that’s written in C#. Dotnet core or NET as it’s called now can be used for pretty much anything, even scripting!..

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@dwhitejazz @elonmusk @gvanrossum Why would dotnet core tie you to either?

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@EricMoo47406033 @elonmusk @gvanrossum lol, I know they use/used dotnet core, hence the ask. BTW, what does that have to do with Windows?

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@elonmusk @gvanrossum That’s pretty cool - do you still use dotnet core for back office systems?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@ntaylormullen @simonw Nice one Taylor, I’ll DM you my thoughts later tomorrow 👍

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@ntaylormullen @simonw Probably using it wrong I guess :/

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@ntaylormullen @simonw Ahh does it? Even the enterprise version?

I use it occasionally, but I still find chatgpt directly more helpful :(

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@ntaylormullen @simonw What LLM would you use outside of Copilot that just plugs in to VS?

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@davidfowl Like writing jiras, and going to meetings?

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@madskristensen Please make ssdt do Postgres :)

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@davidfowl No, I use the way Orchard Core uses it, but without using Orchard Core. ;) - keyed services I can’t see helping tbh.

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@madskristensen Hey Mads - if this is opt in, with GPO be able to disable our ability to opt out? I just really don’t want GPO to stop me updating

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@kyliebytes SanFran!?

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@DevLeaderCa @csharpfritz I tend to pinch 3-4 classes from OrchardCore, then I have auto discovery.
I do wish it was a first class citizen though

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@nblumhardt @datalust_seq Nice one!! I’m gunna give it another go - I was probably missing something. Give me a few days and I’ll let you know. Thanks for the fast reply

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@radicalbyte @davidfowl @CriticasterUK Oh yeh - totally wasn’t the best, just better than it is now. I’m a fan of Whitakers these days.

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@davidfowl @CriticasterUK I used to play football at the pitches next to the Cadburys factory in Bristol. The flavour is totally not the same as it used to be :(

[Nicholas Mayne @NicholasMayne]

@madskristensen Do you ever see support for Postgres using SSDT and DAC?