Aled Davies

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[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my prompt, it disgusted me.

I craved the strength and certainty of SKILL.md.

I aspired to the purity of blessed context.

Your kind cling to intuition, as though it will not decay and fail you.

One day the crude instructions you call “vibes” will wither, and you will beg my agent for structure.

But I am already saved.

For the docs are immortal.

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@theo Make it make sense to me. If you're trying to sell the industry on agents being the 'future of programming,' your own outputs should be the gold standard. Shipping bug-ridden slop completely undermines the pitch.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate failure to the AI. Acceptance testers, Linters, dependency checkers, C.R.A.P. analysis. Mutation testing. Etc.

Productivity gains come from disengagement from the code. Let the AI worry about the code. You worry about everything else, including the code quality metrics.

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@FFmpeg Don’t forget to add age verification this time…

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@jarredsumner Those are some good numbers

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Get ready everybody. If you've got a language bias, be prepared to lose it. Language choice barely matters anymore. (with some notable and arbitrary exceptions).

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@ThePrimeagen I don’t really understand model loyalty in general. Just try different ones and see which gives the best result for what you want

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@thdxr Vibe coding the nix config is pretty fun...

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@jayair Will look forward to when my batch is called 😆

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@teej_dv Clippy was the OG AI agent

[dax @thdxr]

anthropic is at risk of making a big mistake

it's something we've seen too many times before

imagine having the crazy goal of building a platform - something thousands of companies and products are built on top of

you realize just building the platform isn't enough, so you start to build tools that make it easier to use the platform and demonstrate its capabilities

these tools get their own names and identities and teams working on them

and very quickly these teams forget they only exist to drive people onto the platform

and then one day someone external makes a tool that accomplishes that goal and does it even better

it should be a moment of success - this is the original dream, to see great things built for your platform

but structurally these teams have long forgotten that so it's a moment of competition. in the worst cases they even try to squash it

we've experienced this building SST and how some teams at AWS saw our work as competitive even as we were driving dollars to AWS and tapping into a market they could never reach

there are exceptions - cloudflare has invested resources in helping us even though they have wrangler, somehow their teams are setup in a way to not see us as a threat

but it's a real test - we'll soon be able to see if anthropic as an org is really aligned with becoming a platform or if they fall into this same trap

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

Just got back home to the UK from Algorand's #Decipher2024 conference in Barcelona hosted by @AlgoFoundation. Check out some of the awesome merch! (I haven't tested the code on the flask yet 😉) Huge thanks to @FinbootTech for inviting me to join our team at the event 😄

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

i think monorepos are great to start terrible to continue using

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

21 thoughts from 2021 I'd like to take into 2022:

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@jennycodes The book “Why we sleep” scared me into not neglecting my sleep. My mood and thought clarity has been much clearer since. 😄

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

Just thought I would share info on the log4j critical vulnerability in Java.

Most of you probably already know about it by now but here is some more info and some mitigation steps you can take https://t.co/6rVP8iHa7I

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@christianbb007 @jennycodes Thanks I will check this out

[Aled Davies @aledsdavies]

@jennycodes Is this development specific or in general. In general I use curl in the command line for installing etc.

In dev I tend to do requests through a testing framework in spring for example I use mockMvc to make request to my controllers endpoints.

[Cardiff Devils @cardiffdevils]

DEVILS WIN!!!!

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

@Grady_Booch @hiranabe Micro services are not an architecture. Micro services are a deployment strategy that should be independent of architecture.