Jeff Mitchell

Self-taught hobbyist writing Rust the hard way. Consistently running before I walk and documenting the compiler hurdles I trip over. No CS degree, just stubborn

[Jeff Mitchell @crustyrustacean]

Back on X. No blue check, no poor attempts at hot takes, no false platitudes. This is my lab notebook while I build projects I have no business building, with a language I have no business using. Warning: questionable architectural decisions ahead.

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It’s time to get on the T3 Code train.

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@badlogicgames Great read.

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If software is meaningless now, cause it's less than cheap to build, what to aim for?

What is worth making?

I'm not sure there's much value or purpose in re-making something that already exists, seems lazy.

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@maria_rcks It’s fashionable.

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@maria_rcks Tempting…very tempting…

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@theo I'm kind of in the neither camp, honestly.

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@RetroMemoriesHQ I sure did.

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It’s Sunday.

I often use this day as a reset of sorts. I don’t often follow through with the reset, but it’s a nice concept.

What to do, in this 2026 Year of Our Lord, when programming is largely solved.

Perhaps focus on the act of problem solving?

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@theo API access is prohibitively expensive, plus, I just don't want to give money to Anthropic.

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@theo This is why I won't use the American labs, they actively discourage you from using the tools you want to use, by making it prohibitively expensive.

I don't want Claude Code, or any first party harness for that matter, on my system, ever.

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@eas4ai Blocked...without prejudice.

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PHP

The gift that keeps on giving.

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@mitsuhiko I was thinking the same thing :)

"Shut them all down, hurry!"

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@azamsharp So very true.

What do you suggest for people who have difficulty problem solving?

No one teaches this "middle" of learning to program. You're universally expected to "just get it", when show the syntax.

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@jpschroeder Maybe because all the models are trained on the same thing and are poor outside their training data?

Also, uniqueness isn’t rewarded, generally.

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@ggsimm I like Theo’s stuff a lot. I enjoy his content.

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@_mctrinh I fall into this trap all the time.

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Debtmap is an amazing tool in the arsenal of tools to reduce slop.

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@ibuildthecloud Exactly. Makes it difficult. To easy to say, why bother, someone else has done it.

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@rustaceans_rs Someone is redoing it in Rust?

Oh wait, probably already done.