Brandon Watson

I am a builder. Former AMZN/MSFT sr exec. Google me. 😀

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@arvidkahl So stupid that even as a 51 year old man I am still learning of new ways to treat mine. 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@BachelderDan @ThePrimeagen I hate to admit that he's not wrong. I was shocked how much I enjoyed this book.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@davj Please tell me this is a troll. I was away for a week and haven't tried 4.8 yet.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@yoheinakajima I guess my two week clock just started. No idea what that is.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@robertoblake Same issues with the AI detector in the core search crawler updates.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@evanrawal "somehow"

There have been more breakaways against the Avs this year than any season I can remember.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@deobfuscations @grok The 7s response time 🔥🤌🏾

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

I can say this with 100% certainty. There is no chance I get through the CASA 2 security audit for my new application without Codex and Claude Code.

No. Chance.

This process has taken far longer than I imagined just to have Gmail API access.

I should make a whole video about how the agentic harnesses allowed me to understand the scope of the coming audit, use open source tools to prepare for and mitigate any issues ahead of the audit, and pass on my first try.

Anyone who says agentic coding is a sham is a moron. The entire application is 109% agentic built.

How we build has changed.

The speed at which we build has changed.

That possibilities of what a motivated individual can build has changed.

Forever.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@ryancarson @morganlinton My oldest daughter was 2 the last time I had alcohol. She turns 21 in Aug. Don't miss it at all. Don't even think about it.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@levelsio I can only imagine what a mess your timeline must be with the availability of the AI reply bots.

How could a job does the algo for discovery work for you these days?

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@BlaisHunter This is art

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@BlaisHunter "Massive overpay" simply is not translating in this playoff run. 😀

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

I've never experienced the rage @DNVR_Rudo has for missed faceoffs during playoffs. We missed a goal too. I have rage.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

Well, that's a first for me. Wrote this to Claude:

" This has been going for a **VERY** long time - please write up what you are trying to accomplish that is not yet done in a prompt I can hand to another agent. You are stuck."

Codex to the rescue?

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@Dorizzdt What's the cost of uttering something like, say, "agentic copilot"? ooooo, what about "visual agentic copilot builder for windows R2"? 🤣

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

agentic based playwright testing is 100% saving my sanity as these apps get bigger and bigger.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@garyfung @bscholl Kill 2 jobs with one AI

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@petergyang What specs?

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@returnofaj And these are the same people that expect us to take them seriously when they try to explain goalie interference

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

@ChrisWalshie I do. It's a classic codependent relationship.

[Brandon Watson @Bwatson]

Claude had an outage earlier this evening. Working with Opus 4.7 right now feels like a lobotomized intern. I have to stop working on everything right now that Claude is touching. The mistakes that are being introduced belie credulity.

One example: something is broken so the fix was **TO DELETE ALL CACHING** for my app.

Is this a fix? Technically, yes. Is it the right answer? Not even remotely close.