Bas Steins

SWE working on @stelviodev🐍, podcast host @basdotfm🎙️, coffeechatter☕, conference speaker🎤

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

Wow, 7k friends on this app! 🎉

Time for a re-introduction🔄

I'm Bas, I work on @stelviodev (AWS for Python devs), and I host a podcast @basdotfm

Say hi 👋 if you like to geek out about Serverless, Python, or DevTools!

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@mitsuhiko Summer. Weather gets warmer and climate changes on X. We should have more ACs btw

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@eurofounder @lennysan Why not Siemens?

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@gfodor @yacineMTB I've tried both ways… It's funny that, of two pet projects, I had a better understanding of the one whose code I didn't read until it was done.

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@schteppe Even go? I think that’s the least debatable of those

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@thdxr Solving AI is kinda pointless unless we solve natural intelligence first

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@eddiejaoude Would love to re-connect!

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@thekitze

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

Another podcast is up: @michal_stlv and I are talking about Serverless on AWS and the Industrial Revolution of Coding.

With a surprise at the end!

[bas.fm @basdotfm]

From Lambda To VPCs (And the Industrial Revolution of Coding) – A conversation with Michal Martinka

https://t.co/711DlWz8dY

[Tower @gittower]

Are you using GitHub Actions to its full potential?

Part 5 of our guest series by @bascodes goes beyond CI with real-world recipes:
- Pre-build your DevContainers
- Auto-deploy to GitHub Pages with Hugo
- Ship Cloudflare Workers on every push

Grab the snippets! https://t.co/l6FyhErcCn

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@mitsuhiko Wait, what?

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

We had that same problem in the early days of SWE, before fancy design patterns and languages emerged.

AI is still early, we haven’t figured out how to best deal with it, yet.

We might never, at least not economically

Lots of lessons ahead of us to learn

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Thoughts and prayers.

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@Shashikant86 @FredKSchott Well done… No kidding, I was just building a similar adaption with copilot on my last month of subsidized credits

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@MrAhmadAwais Sure 👍

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@basedspinach Self sabotage is a flex now?

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

Some thoughts:

I like the simplicity of TUIs and the comfort of GUIs

If you have a well-made TUI and a well-made GUI, over time the GUI is more likely to turn into garbage because of the “great UI” technology

Recent popularity of TUIs mainly driven by coding agents. That’s all very early, thus the form-factor that delivers simplicity had some head start

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

Some thoughts:

I like the simplicity of TUIs and the comfort of GUIs

If you have a well-made TUI and a well-made GUI, over time the GUI is more likely to turn into garbage because of the “great UI” technology

Recent popularity of TUIs mainly driven by coding agents. That’s all very early, thus the form-factor that delivers simplicity had some head start

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@VinciRSS Won’t work. Age verification never was the objective

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

@_ashleypeacock Up until June. Tokens too expensive afterwards

[Bas Steins @bascodes]

That’s the problem with subsidies every single time

I had no incentive running anything other than the top OpenAI or anthropic models in copilot.

Now, I wonder if a frontier model is worth 10 times the price of open weights models

Will the frontier models stick past the subsidy phase? Could be a tough awakening for anthropic and OpenAI

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Its the beginning of the end of subsidized AI subscriptions. GH Copilot is moving to usage-based billing, as has Claude (for business customers.) Fair to assume more will follow.

I expect this change will also be a great boost for open models - cheaper, and pretty good already