Kapil Koju

#Programmer #Developer #Engineer

#Scala #Java #JS #TS #FP

[James Ward @JamesWard]

@jayphelps Not impressive:
https://t.co/Y1o0qAqluX

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression.

As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a class divide ensues.

The lazy. The lazy push code. They don't write it. They don't manually test it. They don't even read it. They're on autopilot. See Jira ticket, prompt for task, submit code. Many of them are barely on their computer the whole day. A comment on the PR asking why they did this? The lazy ask AI. A Slack message? The lazy ask AI. Need to prepare for standup? The lazy ask AI. As long as it sounds enough like them and isn't detected. Some of the lazy are even overemployed, and work multiple jobs. The lazy smart ones get away with this, and even rewarded. After all, software engineering for the lazy is just a dance to convince your colleagues you're smart and hard working.

The craftsmen. The craftsmen are tired. Very tired. 15 PRs in queue. Slack blowing up. The entire burden of review falls on the craftsman. The burden of understanding. They try. They work their way through the code, thoughtfully commenting to improve what ships. The response? A lazy: "That's a clever idea! You're absolutely right." with an incorrect change. It's fine, the craftsman says. I can fix them. They write a doc urging his colleagues to be better. The next day? 20,000 line PR to review. Day after day, their workload grows. Bugs seep into production. No one seems to care. Another round of AI is thrown at it. Their animosity to their colleagues rises. Eventually, they give up. It's just not what it used to be. The craft they loved is dead. They eventually wake up, a lazy.

This isn't all companies. Many companies are genuinely more productive, adopt the right set of principles and practices around AI development and have highly talented teams that trust each other. It tends to happen in bigger companies that are 10+yrs old with a higher talent variance. But it happens. A lot.

[Simon Brown @simonbrown]

My C4 model book is complete and printed copies should start appearing in a few weeks! 🎉

[Eric Torreborre @etorreborre]

Is AI profitable yet? https://t.co/YEgfvglv6o

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Cloudflare has acquired Vite / VoidZero

Void is vite's fullstack Intertia-like framework.

This gives Cloudflare control over the entire stack. They have all the primitives from frontend/backend framework, linting, testing, formatting, JS runtime, db, kv, inference, blob storage, access, etc...

smart move. A tidy package they can hand to an LLM to make a site.

[Flavio Brasil @fwbrasil]

okay folks, new module out of the oven 🍞

kyo-ui 🧩

write a UI once, run it on the client or the server:

▸ Swap the runner: the same UI mounts in the browser on Scala.js, streams from a server over SSE, or renders to static HTML for SSR and tests.
▸ Reactivity without the machinery: a Signal is a plain value you pass wherever the API takes one, with no wrapper type, binding operator, or hooks.
▸ Type-safe down to the markup: containers accept only valid children, attributes are enums instead of strings, and setters exist only where they apply.
▸ Surgical updates: no virtual DOM and no re-rendering, only the nodes a changed signal touches get patched.

JVM, JS, and Native. Of course 😎

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

No one could have known that telling programmers "spend as much money as possible on this new agent technology; whoever spends the most money wins!" would result in companies spending too much money on this new technology.

[Rock the JVM @rockthejvm]

https://t.co/bM4cA3tWFO

[Johannes Schickling @schickling]

Very cool to see this new Effect-native frontend framework. Love the design decisions so far.

Excited to give it a try soon. Great work @devinjameson!

[Scott Wlaschin @ScottWlaschin]

The Dept of *Education*, everyone. 🙃 Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

Looks like nobody wants datacenters but everybody wants AI.

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

Is anyone looking at the failing tests or is everyone just asking AI to update tests to pass?

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

C4 Model beyond the basics
https://t.co/Y2NUfHqTj3

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

2026 OKR: Token-maxxing
2027 OKR: Token-minimizing.
#AI

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

#Waterfall #Agile #AI

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

More developers should learn about property-based and model-based testing

Unit, integration, E2E tests are fine for "this should work" but are usually not good enough to test "this should never happen"

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

Has anyone coined a term for filling up Jira description with AI Slop ?!

AI is really good to populate plausible wall of text which is mostly overlooked during planning but the struggle begins during implementation.

#VibeCoding #VibeProducting

[Kapil Koju @TheKojuEffect]

Trump just signed an executive order to cancel April Fools’ Day forever.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it.

To say goodbye to [email protected] or [email protected] (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

‼️Do not npm install or deploy anything right now

Supply chain attack on axios 1.14.1 - even if you don’t use axios it may be a nested dep.

Pin versions or wait until this is resolved