Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬

Director Web Engineering • 🇸🇬 • Husband & father • Pragmatic optimist of better, greener future • React, TS, TanStack, ReactRouter • Product Engineer at heart

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@claudeai Awesome! Can we get a Haiku 5 at sonnet 4.6 levels now?

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@KCodes7777 This sounds plain wrong.
800k is wishful thinking.
100k downloads do not translate to 800k / mth. That is wishful thinking.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

My observations after >12 years of dev:
- reviewing PR is not easy. Gets easier as you get to know the developers’ styles and process their styles
- AI doesn’t have a style, it is everything under the sun
- this + PR volume -> effective DDOS on the devs -> tired & overloaded

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

I can only speak for myself, but a big part of this is we're just tired. Now that we can see how insane it was what we used to do, for decades, it's exhausting to just think about it.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@Catholicizm1 This is stupid comment or you really don’t have any idea what a fair, good marriage is.
Dads and men historically helped just as much as women only in the back yard, garden, hunting.
Industrial times when man had no more space to do that was an anomaly.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@BusDownBonnor I’ve seen this kind of shit a lot lately. There is a whole category of such “optimisations”.
Alongside the 9999 step pattern of stupid questions to get people invested in the app.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@elonmusk @elonmusk I am conservative, pro-remigration (not german). How do you manage real conservative vs fake conservative, pro russsian, will-lie-about-anything politicians?
Corrupt idiots won’t invest in space, won’t make our society multi-planetary, they just want to steal.

[React Router @ReactRouter]

We just published 7 CVEs identifying security vulnerabilities in React Router and Remix v2

We recommend updating to the latest appropriate versions:

- React Router v7 -- 7.16.0
- React Router v6 -- 6.30.4
- Remix v2 -- 2.17.5

Details, links, and package ranges are listed below

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@rohit4verse Yes, when you have unlimited tokens, sure. When you are in the pragmatic world, no!
Anthropic, OpenAI have an interest in people using as many tokens and paying them as many millions as possible.
Ai is great, when used pragmatically

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@AnthropicAI @claudeai when are we getting a haiku 4.8? We don’t just need crazy powerful models which break the bank and take for ever, we need some simple fast ones too.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

This would be a practical idea. A decon-shamber where at least 3 separate agents must confirm it is safe.
For ultra-time sensitive, the devs could pull a quarantine version at their own risk, just like alpha.
And quarantine cannot do ^ or ~.
@npmjs ?

[Juho Vepsäläinen @bebraw]

@kettanaito Just having a quarantine mode where some bot takes the hit by installing it first before the package is provided to the public would be a step forward. Probably hard to make foolproof, though.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@UrbanCourtyard Please stop posting images/renders of such pragmatic, wonderful, fun cities to live in, I am getting sad 😉.
Seriously, amazing work, this is the future for most places.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@mattpocockuk How about one to learn a new language based on existing skills. I want to learn rust knowing I am a ts engineer to give good parallels

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@nuqs47ng Very good idea.
I think this is the future, gated contributions by confirmed contributors

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@Tallowtwins Very cute but also exagerated claim for enotiinal response. Based on what data and research? The fact that they curl and are cute and sleep better when on contact in the first 1-3 months?

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

I may be anti-trend here, but having to scale to +10x when you're already at a huge scale, under constant pressure is not easy.
Other competitors are also nice, but they will probably have similar issues at such scale.
Fingers crossed for all 🤞

[shadcn @shadcn]

Rooting for @github. They’ve given me years of free infra. happy to give them some time to figure this out. You got this.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@GergelyOrosz To be honest, are there any metrics impacted by notifications that management would care about? Never felt that retention was impacted, not in a clear cause-effect.
There is little incentive except moral not to abuse them.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@TheAmolAvasare These are not AB tests. These are “how much can we squeeze” tests. I loved Anthropic but once you take CC out of Pro, I am switching to GLM.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

@tannerlinsley Glad you are stable enough to do that but also I think it is fair to expect decet ads on open source sites.
Making it took time and you deserve the money and more.
Ads are more than a fair price to pay for the awesome work you do.

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

I love Denmark, welfare states which gove strong foundations to everyone so people can take risks and be entrepreneurial.
Great writing, fair points despite the controversial yet catchy title.

[DHH @dhh]

Tomorrow needs to be tended to by planting new seeds. New companies. New growth. New capital. And that's just not going to happen if the Danish state declares itself at war with capital formation or accumulation. https://t.co/rMQy0eKrr3

[Alex Radulescu 🇸🇬 @Alex_Rdls]

In the short term, things will feel very fast.
Then we realise there are gaps, quirks, bugs, security issues and more.
I would argue the real multiplier will be 1.3x-1.6x because we will code faster but more time reviewing PRs, more time debugging, understanding, organising.

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

I don't think AI will be the 10x or 100x multiplier that people say, because I think there are natural checks and balances in place regulating everything.

You can code 10x faster now? Cool, do that for a week straight and you'll fry your brain. You will need to take breaks and regulate yourself.

You can build a product 10x faster now? Cool, but it takes just as long as it always did to get people to care, get customers, etc.

You can tear through the entire backlog in one day? Cool now there's no more work to do and everyone is fired. Maybe lets not tell the boss this is possible.

You can generate any image of anything you want? Cool, but your friends can only take so many custom meme images before they disown you.

You can send 10,000x more AI-enhanced "cold outreach" emails looking for clients? Sure but it takes just as long as always to gather requirements, discuss timelines, etc. None of that is any faster.

Only a very tiny % of giga-chad geniuses will have both the intellect and the agency to employ AI in a way that actually 10xs or 100xs the value that they generate.

The rest of us will be limited by organic or bureaucratic guard rails.

Personally I'm very grateful for the role AI plays in my life. It allows me to code 10x faster with the time I allocate, which frees up other time to do things I enjoy in my personal life. My output is more than before, not 10x, maybe 2x. And my quality of life has improved.

That's well worth $200 a month!