Derrick Hathaway

Sr Staff Mobile Engineer @ BILL. React Native. TypeScript. Aspiring pizzaiòlo.

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@RhysSullivan Stracciatella, arugula, and a balsamic drizzle. 🤤

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@fernandorojo Yes! I’ve stopped writing docs. Just keep the code as simple as possible, optimize for readability and reasoning, and point your agent at the code itself, the actual source of truth.

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@aaronshaf Might be something in here: https://t.co/Fv98BGtsvZ

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@Baconbrix Not that AI was even involved in this particular case. Definitely appreciate how @Baconbrix, @expo, and others are driving down the cost of mobile development to unlock this type of quality.

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@Baconbrix People can complain about AI slop all day long. But the reality is as the cost of development goes down the quality of the top 1% goes up dramatically.

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@kettanaito @ApiMocking The value of fast, automated, correctness feedback loops has gone through the roof lately. ❤️ MSW!

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@karpathy @lauriewired There was probably once a time when people thought the idea of grandma using a computer was silly.

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@Jarsen @thorstenball I’ve been using -v Zarvox because it sounds more robotic and creeps out my fam.

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@kentcdodds @zeeg I wonder the cost in kWh’s?

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@joshpuckett I’m a dev with reasonably good taste, but I’ve never been satisfied with designs I create myself. I’d love to level up. Will this course be helpful for someone like me or will I be lost without a set of foundational skills?

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You're significant other will love it.

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ALWAYS notify me when you're done with a task or if you need input. Use
`say -v Zarvox [brief notification message]`.

You're welcome.

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@thdxr https://t.co/mz1MKlZave https://t.co/nUsIFmn1z1

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@CraigTrudo @thogge Jokes aside… I’m learning how important they are together. You can’t have lasting peace without confrontation. And if it’s confrontation-only then what’s the point?

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@CraigTrudo @thogge Half way there.

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@threepointone Final sear on the turkey legs

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@_chenglou Would love to hear this conference talk. Plz re-un-retire. 😄

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@Jarsen @atomkirk Here’s hoping it isn’t replaced with big model’s shilling products instead of giving unbiased results. 🤞

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@ryanflorence “Easy-to-replace systems…” I don’t know anything about thermodynamics, but when I think about abstractions this statement always comes to mind. Totally agree that this is the thing to optimize for in the agentic coding era.

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Yesterday I overheard "Easy-to-replace systems tend to get replaced with hard-to-replace systems." and now I can't stop thinking about whether this is just a restatement of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of systems design.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet just saved me a couple hours debugging an obscure configuration issue. @AnthropicAI #ThankClaude