Zach Taylor

dev | math enthusiast | fan of @remix_run, @elixirlang | instructor @zerotomasteryio | | I use vim btw

[Zach Taylor @_zachdtaylor]

@kentcdodds this seems like a case of "building the wrong thing"

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It's insane how fast my eyes glaze over when I read anything that was obviously written by AI

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@dillon_mulroy yeah.. I’ve never felt so constantly on the verge of burnout as I do now

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Performance is sometimes a design/architecture decision, in which case it needs to be thought about up front. That kind of performance isn't an "optimization" that can be deferred until later.

[Zach Taylor @_zachdtaylor]

AI feeds the part of me that is afraid to make mistakes, and therefore I learn less

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opus sure loves the word load-bearing

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Having AI one-shot something and then reviewing the code after to get a mental model is a terrible way to work

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meditate in between prompts

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@ryanvogel This is so great 😂

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I wonder if there's a correlation between people who get really into agentmaxxing and people with addictive personalities.
Anecdotally, I don't have an addictive personality and I've never felt a need to maximize agent output.

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@MichelleBakels Since I started following him I’ve come to admire the guy a lot

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ego? shit my ego ain't big enough

[sunil pai @threepointone]

this will be an industry wide phenomenon but we won't admit it

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It's really important to be clear on how things are *defined*.

When I read a variable or function name, I want to know what that name is defined as.

I should be able to create a dictionary with every name in the codebase and a clear definition.

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alright yeah opus 4.7 sucks

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do people actually lose sleep because they're prompting so much? why are you doing this?

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@imfat Obviously

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I just noticed today that I feel slightly afraid to type code by hand now

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@BrooksLybrand I actually thought something was broken when I saw that logo

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Literally the second I hit enter on a prompt my mind wants to stop thinking and check my phone or something