Clement

SWE | ex @storj | Creator of glab (adopted as the official @gitlab CLI/TUI) | @gitlab Hero 🦊 | Views posted are mine or borrowed. 🇬🇭

[Clement @clems_dev]

It’s official! GLab is now “the” @gitlab CLI tool. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project and made the transition possible!

https://t.co/UJVOJNE5rR

[Environmental Protection Authority @EPA_Ghana]

EPA wishes to inform the general public and all relevant stakeholders that the ban on production, importation, distribution, sale, and use of polystyrene foam products, popularly known as "Styrofoam" or "Takeaway Packs," in Ghana shall become effective 1st January 2027‼️‼️‼️

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

It’s not my nature. I give my man proper, meaningful and sensible gifts. You should try that too. Gift giving is neither a one way street nor an entitlement. Don’t expect champagne treatment when all you offer is ‘a king was born today’, singlets and boxers. And don’t just wait for occasions.

[Clement @clems_dev]

@MikelAsamoah 🤣🤣

[Aᴄᴇ Rʙᴋ♠️ @ace_rbk]

2019 I took half payment for a project and subcontracted part to a designer who later passed away prematurely I still paid the full part of his money and added extra from my pocket to his wife even though the project wasn't complete.

This is basic ethics and human decency.

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk I do that at least an hour every day. Feels good and pointless at the same time lol

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness.

I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so.

Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented.

At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet.

So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI.

I am happy but also sad and confused.

If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.

[Clement @clems_dev]

… and please, javascript on the backend will forever be a bad idea

[Aᴄᴇ Rʙᴋ♠️ @ace_rbk]

Languages are beginning to matter less and less with agentic orchestration but that doesn't mean you should use python for mission critical systems

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk That’s a good one bro

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

hey, asking for a friend

can we stop using lines of code for a measurement in productivity? at one point we all agreed on this

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk Switch to timestamp based versioning, add an append-only lockfile with checksum, enforce a CI integrity check, always rebase onto main before merging (you can enforce this on GitHub). Problem solved

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

This is normal and I believe every engineer lives through that at some point in their career.

This happened to me when I moved away from Haskell after writing it exclusively for 8 years.

I was no longer an expert.
I was no longer visible in a programming community.
I was no longer using a tool I liked.

So I naturally was asking myself, “Who am I now?”

But the truth is that human identity is much more complex and bigger. It’s a crime to reduce it only to career or engineering skills.

[Kuba Gretzky @mrgretzky]

This is what we're up against if we allow AI vibe coding to go unsupervised.

Strong proof that LLM-generated code can cause more harm than good in unskilled hands.

I stand by 100% of the points in this post.

Hiring software developers is going to become a much bigger pain than it used to be, since recruiters cannot make a justified decision just by glancing at their GitHub profile.

Open-source projects will be harder to manage due to the higher costs of reviewing PRs to prune AI slop.

This is probably the best quote from the post that sums it all up:

"AI multiplies what you already know.
- 10 years of experience × AI = 10x output
- 0 years of experience × AI = 10x slop"

The skill is not yet dead.

https://t.co/IuSDU81L93

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk Couldn’t agree more!

[Kritika kumari @kritikatwtss]

Someone just said it

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk @KayandraJT 😂😂

[tldraw @tldraw]

This week we're going to begin automatically closing pull requests from external contributors. I hate this, sorry.

[Clement @clems_dev]

“Crack dev” and then shows us a js code snippet lol

[Giyu @rutu_3]

If you can understand this piece of code, my friend, I can say you're crack dev 🙌🏻

[Clement @clems_dev]

Counter-take: “full-stack” is often just frontend + NodeJS + BaaS + vibes.

No one is louder than people with this stack.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

Honestly, most “full-stack devs” are just backend devs who learned enough CSS to survive.

[Clement @clems_dev]

@ace_rbk Broo, I was so shocked!! Looks like all my old write-ups will be flagged as AI

[Anish Acharya @illscience]

dev reviewing their 57th PR from product manager who just discovered claude code