"The scarce thing is not the ability to create more. The scarce thing is the ability to recognize what matters, what is beautiful, what is useful, and what is worth pursuing."
--ChatGPT
After two months of heavy "coding" with AI agents, I have one conclusion: if your codebase already exists, is fully human-written, and you use agents to add or improve features, it works great. However, when you try to create something new from scratch, they tend to add so much overcomplicated spaghetti code that it's hard to maintain in the long run. No matter which coding model you use, sooner or later, you'll hit a wall you can't break through.
The risk of AI for education is not students cheating in exams, it is people in general cheating themselves into believing they understand things they don’t.
Spent an hour trying to make AI fix a Supabase auth issue.
Fed it the docs. Explained the context.
Nothing worked.
Every new prompt “you’re absolutely right I should’ve….” then goes ahead to do the same rubbish.
Got mad and swore at it.
Read the docs myself. Fixed it in under 15 minutes.
This is what’s supposed to replace engineers? Come off it.
James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today."
George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering https://t.co/uIJSBJdzVa < these are five crazy-relevant questions to ask of yourself and your team. @addyosmani then offers strong recommendations to consider.
Just launched Cirkl — a PWA to borrow & share stuff (books, tools, games) with people you trust.
No marketplace. No payments. Just private reuse.
➡️ https://t.co/o92zyvqj0b
#PWA#TWA#CircularEconomy#IndieDev#FrugalLiving#PrivacyFirst
every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.
We are finally going to ship the static_h branch to OSS! We have already been shipping it to more than a billion devices and it has been rock solid.
The branch contains years of significant improvements:
- Dramatically better support for modern language features (let/const, async, class, etc)
- Better interpreter performance - up to 2x and more, depending on the benchmark.
- Speedups in library functions
- No more limit on number of properties in an object (the limit used to be 196,000, which is a lot but clearly not enough for our devs!)
- Experimental JIT
Not all of these features will be enabled right away, but they are available and we will be turning them on gradually.
(Native compilation and static typing are present in the same static_h branch, but not quite ready for mass usage yet)
How about don't listen to anyone who says anything like this because they actually have no clue how it will play out and just because they do something something AI does not mean they have any experience accurately predicting the future of civilization and the arc of tech development.
Get your degree. Study. Study everything you possibly can. Learn everything you possibly can in life.
Nobody ever looks back in life and says I wished I'd learned less stuff.
First time founder: “You need to sign an NDA before I tell you my idea.”
Second time founder: “Here’s everything I’ve got. No one’s gonna care until I make it happen anyways. And it’ll take money, years, and probably won’t work the way we expect.”