Andy Hails 👨‍💻

Tech Leader, Software Developer, Tech Delivery Expert.

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@wesbos Strangely, we do.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Morning Bathrobe Rant: AI out-codes you; deal with it.

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Claude Code Central London Meetup Group https://t.co/tRXhgQ4DAJ #Meetup via @Meetup

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@avilesrafa @mattpocockuk Nice! Is that built in Filament PHP?

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@javarevisited Yes, and a few years ago, I was also lucky enough to attend a 3-day workshop with Neal Ford on this subject.

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@jeffrey_way I've just installed https://t.co/I9ttGQ5PeQ and it seems to work very well. There is a very reasonable one-off lifetime cost. To me, this is much more preferable over pppm pricing!

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Listening to @TheRestHistory podcast on Iran. Wondering why the Americans pronounce Iran, EYE-Ran, and Ibiza as Ee-biza. It's like they did it on purpose.

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@brankopetric00 ECS?

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@aarondfrancis This is the same for the UK, too; we don't have/need the infrastructure to deal with it. When it comes around, we're like flailing children to the rest of the world! 🤣

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@ThePrimeagen But man, what a slog to complete the rest of them!

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Glad that when the singularity happens. I'll have this to fallback on.

[Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds]

Oh no

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@aarondfrancis @danielkelly_io @vuejs @nuxt_js Amen, brother.

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@mattsimmonds So sorry to hear this, Matt. We will be praying.

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@johnehosier Wonderful news! Congratulations to the whole family! X

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@iamdevloper Commitment issues are easily fixed by using Git.

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

I’ve done consulting work for 20 years including building custom manufacturing software.

I’ll be honest, $100-150k for a custom MRP system is pretty low these days. Even when I was only charging like $75/hour many many years ago, they’re so complex that I ended up billing about $100-150k back then. If someone were to ask me what to budget for one today I’d tell them at least $300k.

Considering average US devs are $100k-200k/year, that’s just two devs for a year at most. Not really that far out of line.

What they did poorly was communicate what they were doing. It should never be a surprise when you get the bill. You should always know what the risks are in terms of going over estimate. And you should always have an escape hatch with a valuable deliverable, even if it isn’t fully finished.

The only real way to do fixed bid software is if:

1. They are using an extremely battle tested and known framework (Rails, Django, etc) that they know very well
2. The software is of a type that they’ve done routinely for many years, with very few divergences, so they have comps
3. They pad it 50% anyway

In manufacturing this would be considered insane but the reality is that most software development is more like R&D than it is like “build this part”.

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@ThePrimeagen @peach2k2

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@mattvanswol Be kind.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Repeat after me:

The best software engineers pick up a new language in a few weeks. They can become pretty good in a month or two.

The best devs also don’t get bogged down with one language.

ESPECIALLY not today when AI makes onboarding to new languages so much easier

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@_joeyMcKenzie @statamic I tend to reach for Blade more!