David Ackerman

prev. engineer at @stainlessapi @stripe @google - now dad and vibe coder

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[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@HoochNScooch @Mappy6984 @grok who's right in this conversation and why?

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

Buffets will totally cut off people who try to take 50 plates of crab. It's obviously antisocial behavior.

They will at minimum expect you to eat your previous plates before going for more, but might just kick you out if they think you're being too greedy.

There's "no limit" except for pathological cases and that's honestly a good thing.

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@HoochNScooch @Mappy6984 I guarantee people will try to stuff them in their purse. And no, "if you want 50 crab legs you can get it" is not how a buffet works. It's a business and will shut down if it's not profitable

But low class? Sure.

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@HoochNScooch @Mappy6984 Nope, if they did that people would be even more greedy and try to take 50 crab legs and take them home or just waste them.

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

This is true for a lot of people and it's worth saying so people don't feel obligated to go down that path.

But what's kind of funny is that I bought a nice car in 2019 and have absolutely loved it the entire time. I actually didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

It made me realize that spending the extra money really does bring extra happiness sometimes. I realize that I'm somewhat of a car guy! It's great to find out where you should spend big money

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@xwanyex They just seem to be saying the RULES are nuts, not that setbacks themselves make no sense.

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@nichochar Nah too extreme. You can't keep them away from screens forever

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@jtesla47 Actually I stand corrected - he sold zip2 while he was 27 but on his birthday he might have had a similar net worth to you! You can do this!

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@RhysSullivan My current belief is that some subset of good engineering decisions do actually make things faster and better (see tigerbeetle), but it's a lot harder than people think. Most people end up slowing themselves down without actually adding much value.

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@IterIntellectus I mean, they probably just can't SAY that it's allowed. The question is are they testing for it and enforcing the results. If they are, then indeed it's a bummer

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@SCHIZO_FREQ My reasoning is more like "the best in the world avoid steroids because they want the most prestigious award, which requires them not to"

therefore, the roided up dudes will be starting from a reduced baseline. but still interested to see how much roids help

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@BrenzGarage I thought this was a knockoff "supercar" from some video game because they don't have the rights to depict a real car

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

Exactly me

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

oh he has an "ai();" function in his project

it's the npc code which is a for loop and some if statements

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

in 2026 this video goes so hard
- no vibe coding
- no cursor tab completion
- no dot auto-complete
- no syntax highlighting
- using Visual C++ 6 because he hasn't changed his setup since Y2K

https://t.co/XDQ5V7bfYh

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@Console_buche If I understand correctly, they want to contribute but zig won't accept it. If so, that's completely on zig and not bun.

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@garybernhardt @mycoliza It's a skill issue but I am not very good at shipping projects if I hold them to the highest standards that I'd prefer. So I compromise and try to iterate toward the right balance

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@garybernhardt @mycoliza Agreed but it's not inherently good to apply quality where it doesn't matter, and it wastes time. It's very hard to draw the line effectively

[David Ackerman @dackerman]

@catehall i think some people feel awkward expressing a desire to not be social, as if everyone is supposed to want to be social all the time

that said, i think they put the option there specifically to make people more comfortable stating that preference, so i'm sure it would be fine