Chris McCarty

Changing how people plan travel @kimkimtravel. prev: Tripadvisor, EveryTrail. Follow for travel tech, sustainable travel, teams, misc 🐪🌲🦉🥾🌎

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We're hiring for Rails engineers on our team again, which is exciting!

What resources do you like/recommend for people who may not have experience w/ Ruby/Rails but are experienced w/ other Web technologies?

@eileencodes, @searls, @tenderlove (who else to ask?)

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Yet again, without fail, TurboTax reminds me I don't have any Olympic Medals to report or proceeds from a crime hotline. Maybe 2026...

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@bcherny Amazing! How quickly could an agent add a feature for the double tap hotkey desktop app to open code mode vs default? Bonus points to trigger specific subagent/flow

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@danlovesproofs I find it helpful for communication and records (short term). It’s not hard to adjust an ai flow to think, gather context, save to system and then start.

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@levelsio What is your Claude setup like? Custom skills and agents, plugins? Or just vanilla?

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Cool AI moment in a 1:1 yesterday:

I was chatting w/ an engineer about a potential edge case, and we were trying to decide how/when to prioritize.

I said "let's try this": and hit a hotkey to record my voice, reiterated the issue, hit enter, and 5min later we had PR to approve.

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@mcuban Trajectory is another thing to consider. If it gets 80% cheaper and/or 5x productive every few quarters

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@SahilBloom AI summarize this for me in a single emoji so I don’t need to read or learn it

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@justinskycak I put my workout plans on the calendar. Easier to just do the workout than regretfully/sheepishly delete the calendar event.

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@minordissent Hmm idk. Kids are some of the most interesting people…

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@anymanfitness

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@stephsmithio @Olohiremee Depends on context, but a varied team can have more strengths than 1 person.

Also this means the team just executes but can’t improve as it grows because it would be constrained my the managers individual abilities.

Taken to the extreme: this means the CEO can do *every* job?

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@petergyang Aura digital frame

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@aakashgupta That month has 44 days in it

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@GeorgeMayer Right

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@ctjlewis I think the point is still valid—It’s a game changer.

An idea that might take 2 weeks of x deep work sessions can be an afternoon while sipping a beer.

Maybe it’s not enterprise prod level (not everything needs too be), but it’s becoming quicker to build and test than to spec

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@nateberkopec Of course AI wrote my bash / git log scripts and the python/pandas code to graph it…

Still have to think a lot and give detailed instructions but I think it’s a good think more time is reinvested there vs typing code.

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@nateberkopec I ran some numbers this week (caveat that new lines, net lines, etc all have their flaws) and have seen 3x since leaning AI first and pushing through even when it felt slower (compared to copilot mode that is). A lot might be tests, comments, etc but that’s important too.

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@_HMSP How much was a cheeseburger with added bacon?

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@samuelstroschei @YeetMeTwice @sanjeevn72 Why stop there and not just go all the way to family as a service?