Brandon Sara

Full stack dev with a passion for his family, open source, technology, problem solving, quality work, and help'n folks.
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[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@ThePrimeagen This makes me think of a comment i overheard at a recent conference. One engineer said to another "I was going to do some work during downtime, but with no Internet, I don't have access to AI, so I can't get anything done anyway."

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@ashutoshrana_20 Communicate. It's up to you to give realistic expectations when you commit to anything. Tell your seniors & your direct mgr your struggles & ask them to help you make a plan. Don't overcommit & account for learning in your estimates. If they don't accept this, better to leave.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@AFCU Also, the app screenshots on Google Play no longer accurately represent the app nor the features that it is currently providing.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@AFCU can you at least explain why you are pushing out a new digital banking experience? Especially when it is so inferior to what was being provided previously (even with new features coming, you've inspired no confidence that they will be as good).

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@AFCU @jonathantew Why would you release something that doesn't actually have all of the features you advertised? So many of us depend on these features and to just release something without them erodes trust in the competence of afcu as well as whether you actually care about members.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@AFCU The new update is absolutely terrible. Why would you ever release something that removes all of the features that made the app so good? On top of that, I feel like you tried to gaslight us all into thinking that this would be/is an improvement. This kind of move desolves trust.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@wesbos This happened to me with my kiddos... Twice. On the upside, you can get really good at Mario cart even though people use the squid ink on you (if you're 2nd or 4th player)

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@allenholub ...paths that often duplicate logic needlessly. I think it important to strike a balance, but overall, my exp has been that creating a more client agnostic API leads to a more simple app & easier code to maintain & use overall. Granted you only add to it when necessary suggested.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@allenholub While I agree that it is better to have essentially full stack engineers working on vertical slices. My experience has been that your assertion that "unnecessary complexity is never introduced" is usually incorrect. Making an overly specific API tends to lead to many code...

[Ryan Florence @ryanflorence]

Happy Father's day dads!

I'm at the end of raising my kids and my only regret is that we should have had a dozen of them

This video (not mine) describes my feelings perfectly

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@kentcdodds Not to mention, AI agents tend to do the same thing without good guidance. Spinning endlessly of you'd let it.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@madebygoogle thanks for the #PixelSuperfans swag bundle!

#TeamPixel

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@kentcdodds Indeed! Fast prototyping, quick experimentation, shortening feedback loops, throw it mostly away and then applying the learnings... This is how AI will speed us up most apart from fast learning.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@djsmith42 I think it makes sense that we start with the things that most of us generally don't like doing, like working docs. I personally don't trust any of it enough to let it write code unsupervised. You make a great point about having it do other things though, we are missing out.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@djsmith42 Writing technical release notes. AI generated them based off code changes and commit messages now.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@mattpocockuk It always comes down to good, direct (but not overbearing) communication, IMO, regardless of the issue.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@shcallaway As I've recently been experimenting with trying to run many agents in parallel, I've learned first hand how very true this is. It's exhausting switching between everything and I don't trust another agent to manage it for me

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@thdxr I have this run while I'm working on work that matters way more and check in periodically throughout the day to give it some guidance. I review when it's done and then find another piece of cleanup i need it to do.

[Brandon Sara @bsara_dev]

@thdxr This is one of the primary things I've been using Claude for lately. Our semi large codebase has gone through a few phases with little attention to updating the existing code with each new phase. I'm quite specific about what I want and do a little at a time, but it's working.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

I just ran an AI coding course for ~2,000 people

One massive piece of feedback was how dissatisfied people are with frameworks like BMAD, GSD, Spec-Kit

Turns out that giving away control of context to a framework makes things a lot harder to debug

My advice: own the process