Dave Thomas

Programmer turned publisher (but mostly programmer)

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

https://t.co/OKDMkkVwEp

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Knowledge, or experience?

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A new article on the perils of forgetting the basics in the heat of AI-assisted coding.

Link below

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https://t.co/nTk6mTk9Ln

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

I'm having more fun than I've had in a long time. (link in 1st comment)

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@sverien @pragprog I'm not arguing, but I am interested. What is the measure of quality inn the case of software, plastic or otherwise?

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

The skills you worked hard to develop as a programmer are just as valid today in the world of AI agents. Link below.

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@sverien @pragprog How much would it cost, do you suppose?

I'm the past, people illustrated posts using clip art or stolen images. Now we use Gemini and Midjourney.

No artist was harmed in the production of this article (except possibly aesthetically).

[Kenji Hiranabe @hiranabe]

まだこっちの世界観が好きなのは、自分の郷愁なのだろうか。 thank you ! ❤️@snoozer05 @pragdave

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

Bwaahaha

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Nostalgia is not a strategy.

Chad Fowler's amazing perspective on the future of systems at RubyConf Austria

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This panel at rubyconf Austria is inspiring, but too many subtle dimensions to summarize in a tweet

[Zach Daniel @ZachSDaniel1]

The #AshFramework book is half off! Still by far the best way to get started with Ash 😎

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

The agent should move at the speed of the verification, not the speed of the typing

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Hygiene:

$ du -hs .
20G.

$ find . -name node_modules -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

$ du -hs .
11G.

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

Some realtors set us some promotional material. When we opened it, a video started playing on an embedded screen. It had a USB-C port, so of course you have to play it in. Just a filesystem: copy your own mp4s on to it, and you have your very own videocard\

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I can't decide if Open 4.7 is being sarcastic:

"You're welcome! That was a fun one — the accumulated dependency drift is the kind of thing that's more satisfying to untangle than it has any right to be. "

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

https://t.co/A5qAL1RqK4

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

I'm giving a remote keynote at the Findy conference in Tokyo on July 18 (link in comment)