Davy De Waele

IoT/Java/JS/Mobile architecture & development. IoT architect @ixorbe working on IxorTalk. Love interacting with customers and deliver solid technical solutions.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

Blown away by @claudeai when I asked it to create a README with a screenshot. Seeing the agent fumble its way through the process, making mistakes, correcting it. interpreting cli outputs. Being relentless to get the job done. Mind-boggling

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

one thing I love about @claudeai generated code is the subtle form of humor. when I saw a random youtube video URL in a shell script I had to click on it.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

As impressive as coding agents and personal assistants might be, the whole idea that an app or service that was able to convince millions of users to pay for its service (over a period of months / years) can just be replaced by a simple vibe coding session is just so ridiculous. Software for an audience of 1 is just the initial dopamine hit you get from building something cool. Its not a sustainable thing. You will not actually use it after building it. It will end up on the huge pile of AI slop and 99% of the ai vibe coded startups out there today. Building a business / service / audience remains very difficult (and so it should be)

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

@stevenmc1060 For sure the junior engineer will generate more code. However there is still a big gap between generating code and shipping it to production where it will create value.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

It has become impossible to keep up with all of these things and become somewhat of an expert in it. At best you just know they exist. You're not doing any of these tools / technologies any justice by playing with them for a couple of hours / days and making bold statements on them.

At best you commit to 1 thing and try to become really good at it. But it becomes pretty tiring (and frustrating sometimes). Lots of noise especially on social media.

All while we still have customers relying on us to solve their problems, support their systems and keep on delivering actual value to their production systems / workflows / processes.

If I would complete that list above I would probably end up doing nothing at all.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

Had a discussion with one of our engineers the other day who was thinking about becoming an electrician. Now this is a senior full stack developer and he is adopting AI so he will be fine for now, but his main focus up until now has mainly been development. That is tricky. People who are dealing with infra, security, compliance might be able to last a little bit longer, but a lot of developers who were mediocre at best or didn’t expand their skill set will have a difficult time.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

You always get this immediate wow effect or rush when claude code delivered something end to end, even with security , cloud deployment ….

But even before AI, the first lines of code you write in a new project are always the most beatiful lines you’ll ever write for that project.

After a while conflicting requirements come in, different customers want different features, bugs start coming in, quick fixes are needed, people leave the team and new people come in. You deal with infra issues, security issues, backup policies, failover issues, cloud costs ….

Software is about customers, building relationships and trust, perseverance, dealing with edge cases, getting it certified, tuning performance, lots of boring stuff.

This will also be a challenge for all these new greenfield AI projects popping up right now as they will face similar issues, albeit perceived and dealt with in a different way.

Would love to see how many will still be around in a couple of months.

But hey, what a wild time to be in software !

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

@asaio87 I sometimes feel that having these limits is a good thing. It allows you to break away from it all, go for a walk / run, do some reading. I tend to use it to prep some infra stuff, or do some more artisanal stuff like reading code or documentation.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

In the next version of Claude Code..

We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone.

Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to (1) shepherd a pull request to production and (2) perform straightforward, parallelizable code migrations.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

Love to look at past Claude Code conversations.
uvx claude-code-log@latest --open-browser has become my new favorite command.

Not really sure how I feel about the fact that claude code decides to start my local brew postgres in favor of his own docker compose version, simply because my docker daemon wasn't running at the time.

[NVIDIA GeForce @NVIDIAGeForce]

Celebrating 25 years of the GeForce 3 the only way we know how: on a classic PC rig + a CRT + some of the most iconic games of the era

What game are you booting up first on this PC? 💿

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

It's really amazing. In 2 days I made a bitbucket CLI to do all kinds of bulk operations and reporting stuff we needed for our ISO certification. I rebuilt our timesheet entry app and added reporting and forecasting (and imported our data from the old system). I built an AWS access portal allowing our devs easy cross account access to AWS accounts outside of our AWS organization. All end-to-end apps. All done in a single day. As an experienced developer its amazing to see what these models are capable of and actually doing. Makes you rethink everything about your business (hiring process / training / what to focus on / ....)

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

has it been that long ?

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

How cool is this … Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again ) https://t.co/uawUr85CXr

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

OMG … so many memories. We had a Philips MSX at home when I was a kid and this would be a family event. Fun times.

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Rumor has it that to this day joysticks still hide in fear when they hear this intro music…

The 1500m run at the end of Decathlon - oh, the painful left-right-left-right at high speed until you heard that all-telling “crack” and knew it was time to say goodbye to yet another one.

Joysticks would either fall victim to rage quits (damn you, Ghost'n Goblins) or attrition.

Can you remember a game that cost you one in the past?

[Bueno @0xBueno_]

that bios beep takes me back

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

@alphafox Older ☹️

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

@pamelafox Great app indeed. Also use it from time to time. Nice way to get some insights in your usage

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

I think what Peter did was get (non technical) people excited about the possibilities of having an AI assistant backed by a good model with unlimited tool use (CLI access). But the influencers on X and YouTube promoting it the most indeed don't get a lot further than "build a mission control", "make a second brain", "do a morning brief". Just adds to the AI slop but doesn't do anything of real value. You gotta see past that. There's no denying that even beyond the hype, something really interesting was created that got people thinking. And it will push the ball forward.

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

So for the next couple of months every add on X will promote websites / apps looking like this ?

Amazing how AI slop now finds its way not only on social media posts and videos, but now also in Github Repos, PRs, Apps , Websites ....

[Davy De Waele @ddewaele]

Watching my @openclaw fumble its way through playing an online game we vibe-coded is hilarious. Tries the headless chrome browser approach then switches to https://t.co/SzY3se8VWm. The very idea of talking to an agent like this, running on your server somewhere is would have seemed ridiculous a couple of weeks ago ... but hey here we are.