Roy Derks 🚀

Agents, MCP & Developer Experience at IBM ⚡ 🥑
Tech Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur 🚀
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[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

🍾 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR

I’ve won a @hackernoon Noonies Award for my contributions to the developer community

Thanks everyone for voting 🙌 🙌

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

overengineering was the easiest way to fail your startup

glad it no longer exists today

[Kushal Byatnal @kushalbyatnal]

it’s hard to explain the 2010s microservices fever dream to anyone who wasn’t there

every day on HN, we'd wake up to an article from a new startup about how they split their app into 300 services so they could infinitely scale (never mind that they only had 100 MAUs today)

so many companies never recovered from this

it turns out, replacing simple function calls with network calls that could randomly fail isn't great for shipping velocity

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@TejasKumar_ losing sleep for baby is also def worth it

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

do we get a another shrinkflation of the quota soon?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic recorded a staggering $80,000,000,000.00 net loss in the first half of 2026.

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

iHome speaker charging stand, for sale at ~$50

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

Love my new Apple HomeView

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

being ai pilled is not the same as ai psychosis, i repeat

[nader dabit @dabit3]

I'd much rather work with someone who flexes much they accomplished with the fewest amount of tokens vs how many tokens they spent, and I sense this is a major trend in general

How we quantify this as an industry is still TBD, probably a major new set of benchmarks

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@adocomplete No better recursive loop than the tool itself

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@hey_amandam @AgenticAIFdn @Vapi_AI 👋

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@dabit3 Active usage > token usage

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@easeev @geoffintech @karrisaarinen King is dead all hail the king

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@mattyglesias As someone who has been in full remote roles, I had a hard time feeling the “job was real”. Often felt like a robot typing on a keyboard interacting with other robots

That said, some people really enjoy it for some reason

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@harshil1712 @leostera coming to agentcon in SJ as well by any chance?

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@icanvardar more harnesses than js frameworks at this point

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

anyone remember using console.log() to debug instead of “claude pls fix”?

[hannah @erhannah]

one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@arismarko @TejasKumar_ 🙌❤️

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

If your employer gives you tokens in whatever way, SPEND them

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

Reminder to spend every token in your quotas, in every tool or subscription you have

These times won’t last

[Roy Derks 🚀 @gethackteam]

@nickytonline @AllThingsOpen @pomerium_io @AgenticAIFdn see you in SJ!