Ariel Alonso

Thoughts expressed here are mine alone.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

@OrionSeven Our participation in the syntax generation of software engineering is gone -- and good riddance. However, the rest, and most important part, of software engineering is still in full force.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

@ThePrimeagen When the dust finally settles, and we all realize the discipline required to properly use agents, I think we will be looking at a productivity increase on the order of a factor of 2 to 5.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

I spent the weekend actually reading the Claude Code docs.

It's a rabbit hole.

CLAUDE.md files. MCP configs. Skills. Subagents. Hooks. Plugins. Agent Teams.

You could spend more time configuring Claude Code than building software.

All of it is productivity theatre.

The only thing that actually matters: think first, then give it focused, relevant context.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Microservices are just monoliths with networking problems.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Why did it have access? If a junior engineer takes down prod, it's never the junior's fault. That's an access and SDLC issue

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

When you’ve had a really productive session and you’re about to make a breakthrough

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

I just nearly fell into a 50-year-old trap: waterfall.

"I'll plan everything upfront, feed the spec to the LLM, ship it all."

But specs→code isn't like a compiler. Some questions only get answered in code.

Note to self: Validate the risky parts first.

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

Claude’s session limits are this generation’s Pomodoro timer.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

The best DevOps tool is a calm, experienced senior engineer who's seen this problem before.

All the automation in the world can't replace someone who knows when NOT to automate something.

[sniper (heron) @iamaheron_]

How did we all decide that “pull request” was perfectly fine terminology? It’s a merge request and I’m tired of pretending otherwise

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Hear me out:

We should standardize rules files as...

https://t.co/QOOsDi51uC

Not https://t.co/aB8qN0Dkjb, .cursorrules, https://t.co/Zbk0dmnB8R and all that BS

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

Don’t react. Respond.

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

Pro Tip: “You didn’t fix shit” is a powerful prompt.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Many of the most important “prompt engineering” skills are management skills: clearly understanding the task to be done & what information is needed to do it; explaining the task to the AI; giving useful feedback to improve outputs; & generalizing lessons learned into a process.

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

It is difficult for me to take any software update seriously that puts anything related to emojis in its top 10 of its release notes.

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

@ByTimReynolds Steph couldn’t do that.

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

I’m still waiting for the iOS update that autocorrects “ducked”.

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

It bothers me a lot that I feel less able to create a full working web app in an hour today than I could 11 years ago. It feels like it should be *much* easier now!

[Ariel Alonso @dotariel]

@TheDunkCentral BAMVP