Clint Winter 🧈

Husband and father of three
Senior Developer @givebutter

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

The way this video cuts but doesn't actually go anywhere is super irritating.

[TheHouseoftheMuse @HouseoftheMuse_]

So obvious… why didn’t we do this all along? 😳

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive.

this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important.

so: not paying that cost is telling

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@theslowtell @simonsarris Why do you sound like the bots lol

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@jeffrey_way Do you feel like this is something appropriate to a professional setting or more of a hobby / side-project perspective?

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@simonswiss Damn dude, I hope you recover quickly!

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@VicVijayakumar SAME I hate it so much

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@kenwheeler Someone has to do it so we can see what the offspring looks like

[Newton Job @_newtonjob]

I just can't live without this Arr::arrow() helper.

It is just the cleanest way to handle partial JSON column updates directly from a validated request and avoid overwriting existing data. 📝

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@_KevinSmith Pathetic and cringey discussion on there tbh

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

This is pretty close to the ideas I've developed independently on how we should be working with AI. Worth a read.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/ze3x7bgsL4

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@_joeyMcKenzie Dang ended up getting on nix huh? Still gotta try that myself.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@yayfor1a 22m is still young enough where they dont understand danger IMO, so I'd do the same. Depends on the playground though.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

"Ship fast" turned into "ship slop". It never meant ship unreliable, bug-riddled garbage.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

You used to just be able to listen to music, get in a flow and write some code, tools worked pretty reliably, and all was right with the world.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

Now every time I open a tool or website, there's a "new version available" and I cringe, wondering what they broke this time.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

Between claude and github, the uptime window where everything is working is incredibly small

[Dan Hollick @DanHollick]

Have you ever wondered how I make some of the illustrations for https://t.co/Em92bQM8y3?

Well, I made a video walking through some of the tooling I've made. Hopefully its interesting.

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@kenwheeler Congrats brotha!

[Clint Winter 🧈 @clintwinter13]

@christophrumpel Totally, sometimes you have to push yourself past the edge to finally settle back to where is most effective