Daniel Ciocîrlan

I build what I can & teach what I know

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

To have my work @rockthejvm showcased on the main Scala website is beyond the biggest dreams I had when I started.

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[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

Have you noticed that everyone's programming blogs are prettier all of a sudden?

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

@levelsio did 12 startups in 12 months

the 2026 version would be 100 startups in 100 days

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

AIs can help with programming, but

imagine if a fraction of those hundreds of billions on training LLMs were spent making better libraries, frameworks, languages or programming tools

[Rock the JVM @rockthejvm]

The Scala Projects course is out!

In this course, you're going to build 6 practical projects you can do in about 2 hours each, and use for yourself or maybe turn into a product!

What's inside, deals and link:

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

You can only truly vibe code if you can code.

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

I think we got some terms wrong:

Computer science is a mathematics, because it explores by proving things.

Software engineering is a science, because it explores by invalidating things.

Software development is an engineering, because it builds real, useful things.

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

So you're using AIs to write your emails and you expect more than 2 seconds of the other person's attention?

[Riccardo Cardin @riccardo_cardin]

The last day of the @scalarconf is over. Oh boy, what an adventure. 🎉 Many thanks to all the people who work to make it happen 🙏

Thanks to @danielciocirlan for being such a great mentor and friend. Thanks to @odersky for all the rest 😜

[Rock the JVM @rockthejvm]

YouTube:

https://t.co/2KDh3cJ62d

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

@dhh He threatens there will be no more political parties or elections after him.

Declassified documents prove his campaign was backed by Russia.

So the constitutional court ruled the elections were unfair, BECAUSE of him.

So we cancel elections, and let the same fraud run again?

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

@dhh Romanian here, with quite a bit more context.

This dude is a fraud. He declared zero expenses for his campaign while getting 500 million views on targeted ads. He has paramilitary guards with millions of $ cash under their floors.

one more.

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

If you really and fully solve a problem, you go out of business

Therefore, the goal of the real entrepreneur is to make yourself redundant

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

If you're a "true engineer", you should ask for a 2x raise at least

If you're a "vibe coder", write for fun, ride the wave and make the $$ if you can, like @levelsio does

You can be both, but not good - at all! - to be neither

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

I think I understand the hate towards @levelsio from software engineers

It's perceived unfairness:
- engineers are trained for years for the serious code
- that code is ~free (kernel, OS, compilers, libraries, even LLMs)
- then this guy makes $$ with "vibe coding", how dare he?

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

The "important" code is still the domain of the "true software engineer"

If people trust their business, career or life with your code, you're a true engineer

If you go out of business or your career is over if you break something in your code, you're a true engineer

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

https://t.co/8r37HLgK3H

[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

To have my work @rockthejvm showcased on the main Scala website is beyond the biggest dreams I had when I started.

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[Daniel Ciocîrlan @danielciocirlan]

This announcement is the icing on a cake that was baked over many years, thousands of hours of failed recording, hundreds of thousands of lines of code that will not see the light of day. Thank you, Scala Center, and big thanks to every single developer who still trusts my work.