Erik Hanchett

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS (working on Kiro) - prev Frontend Engineer AWS, author @ManningBooks. YouTuber at - Opinions are my own.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

Full site: https://t.co/p7KULedXI8 🔥

What easter egg should I add next?

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And I made sure that Kiro used the Chrome MCP tool throughout to make sure what was built was correct. Mobile Lighthouse scores were very good as well.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

When I built it, I mostly just described what I wanted, made sure it was mobile responsive, and did some slight tweaks in the HTML/CSS while I was at it. 🔥🔥🔥

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I upgraded my personal website using Kiro this weekend. I added dark mode, a better mobile nav, and some fun easter eggs. Hover over the hero image to see for yourself! 👀 +1 if you get the reference.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I created a video with my top 3 things I'm liking about TanStack Start, I also through in how I used Kiro with TanStack Intent and what that is -> https://t.co/f3oGNyC43I

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

Been having fun jumping into TanStack Start lately. Love the createServerFn for GET and POST. I'll write something up on this later...

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@FrancescoCiull4 Awesome! Looking forward to it. Maybe we can sit down and have a longer chat too.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

This will be fun! Looking forward to giving my talk this year!

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

SPEAKERS FOR THE COMMIT YOUR CODE CONFERENCE!

Spent my Sunday working on this.
We have 112 speakers this year! Still adding more to the site but I love seeing these amazing people in the same place!

100% of ALL ticket sales donated to charity.
The conference FOR the community!

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

Been having fun jumping into TanStack Start lately. Love the createServerFn for GET and POST. I'll write something up on this later...

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

@joshuahoover haha what?

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I'm team typing. I don't love the idea of whispering to my coding editor 🤷, though I can see the benefits.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

@codeSTACKr I like that. So it depends on the task?

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@wesbos Love the idea, we'll see about the execution.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

@kentcdodds @businesinsider @HughLangley Very interesting article. I definitely felt the shift in 2025, and I'm seeing it even more today. The only slowdown lately is token cost worries, and that's just in the last few weeks.

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@FrancescoCiull4 @frontendnation @DThompsonDev @shrutikapoor08 @MikeRyanDev @bytesofbree Nice!

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

@FrancescoCiull4 @frontendnation @DThompsonDev @shrutikapoor08 @MikeRyanDev @bytesofbree Yes! Very much so!

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I spoke with @evanyou at VueConf this year about all the interesting things he's been doing at VoidZero. I'm so glad for him and his team, and excited about what this means for VoidZero. And I'm really happy everything is staying open source too! 🎉

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. https://t.co/DJTpX4Q9Xt

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I've been deep diving into TypeScript and all the latest versions, here are some of my thoughts on the latest -> https://t.co/5YqYjYFR4s

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

I see a lot more PMs upskilling into engineering work, or at least taking on more prototyping and creating detailed specs for engineering teams, while engineers focus on building the product. But I agree that we still need people who are dedicated to those roles.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Erik Hanchett @ErikCH]

Lots of great talks today on AI and web development at @CascadiaJS . Last day to come by our booth and say hi!