Jacob Floyd

Real Estate Investor 👉 Applied AI Nerd

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[Sherwood @shcallaway]

We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier this week.

Three hypotheses:

1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove

2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times

3- Unit tests waste money by making your agent generate more tokens and by adding useless CI runs

Will report back soon with the results!

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

@AndrewCurran_ Now see what happens when you pair the best accountant minds with these AI models.... the story points towards a negative but AI is happening FOR us not TO us

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

GPT 6.1 Sol is the first model I've noticed with this kind reasoning.

Seems to be very aware of the harness it's operating in

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

"Vibe Coding" is a terrible term

The skill continuum of levering generative/agentic AI to produce quality software is massive, not a meme

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

People seem shocked that the author of Clean Code doesn't read code anymore. But that should not be surprising.

Why did I write Clean Code? What is the goal of keeping code clean? To get it out of the way of the real job -- thinking.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you're using AI all day and you're not making more money, it means you have the same problem you had before the AI: you're doing stuff that doesn't matter.

This is the real reason 99% of people don't get ahead. They don't know how to tell the difference between what's important and what's irrelevant. And just doing irrelevant things faster gets you the same outcome: nothing.

Except this time it cost you tokens.

[DHH @dhh]

There's almost no problem that can't be solved by going faster, trying more options, testing additional hypotheses. Accelerate!

[Melkey @MelkeyDev]

Your AI complicated workflow/setup is just psychosis and adds no value.
It makes you think you’re doing a lot and gaining productivity but it’s not.
All you need is a harness, and a good way to navigate git worktrees

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

turns out fundamental knowledge still matters. truely hate this fucking timeline. everybody just leaves their brain at the door now.

[Yash @YashHustle_22]

AI makes everyone a developer is true the same way cameras makes everyone a photographer.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

sqlite is literally a database in one file. but nah, let’s burn 2GB of ram and a postgres container just to store our shopping list.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

I wouldn't be totally surprised if the terminal hangs around for coding agents and programmers longer than we all think. Consider that those things are with us since the 70's.

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

Anyone who has access to Jev should try it as a tool for your main agent, really cool so far

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

@Stringcodes Modern languages are more efficient

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

I think a healthy attitude in life is to look at a rule, assume it was made for a reason, but to always default to getting rid of it (situation might have changed). The German/Austrian mindset however is to defend every rule. As a result, we're accumulating more and more rules.

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

@mitsuhiko Accepting that agents write shit python that's more efficient for them

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

@mattisigur After learning rust and seeing how much more efficient my agents are it's really hard to code typescript/python anymore

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

@montonenico This guy should look into my lite friend

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

Video editing with agents was always clunky for me using remotion, pointed Astra at the hyperframes docs with my website and was really impressed

[Jacob Floyd @GooseBuilds]

Agents work best with Rust

[Jamie Turner @jamwt]

"Rust for infra and Go for web," nah. Don't even bother with Go. Just use Rust for everything.