Aman Thakur

"There's no speed limit" Derek Sivers
Building a frontend observability platform | Documenting my journey.
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[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

there’s a famous trolley problem in philosophy. a trolley is heading toward 5 people. you can pull a lever and divert it to a sidetrack, where it kills just 1.

today govt of india would’ve let it kill lakhs just to save the one.

#jantarmantar

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

I'm keeping it to 8 people so we actually get to know each other

reply/DM with what you're working toward and i will reach out

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

instead of doing it alone, i want a small supportive group.

for the next 3 months we will work together. every day you say what you're going to do, and then share that you actually did it

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@agreeahmed @flybayer thanks. this looks interesting. so you are basically letting them think through the tasks and parallelize them. i need to try this.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@flybayer cool. i have also tried parallel agents. maybe let one work on UI and other work on server. but i still don't get how people can run 10 agents. context switching is so high.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

why is medium so bad? reading an article sucks. also they don't allow LLMs to extract content

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

going to make a list where i see LLMs fail consistently
1. git internals. with git worktrees, git diff, i found today it is just assuming things. though if push it to test things it will find the right commands

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@nateliason People who understand code, please don’t do this. People who don’t continue doing as you please.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@harshil1712 @CloudflareDev @tan_stack @honojs @replicate Lovely. Especially like the goofy frontend theme.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@samselikoff Cool pattern use it all the time for below the fold content

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

claude opus was the first model which could figure out tailwind v4 in first try without explicitly telling it. great.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

am i the only one who doesn't use tab autocomplete but prefer tui like opencode or coding by hand.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

we’re paying money to become retards.

that’s the most dangerous cognitive threat of AI nobody is talking about. we forget the tough things we endured and learned before AI, they seem impossible now.

this is “thinking atrophy” when you lose your brain if you don’t use it much.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

I use a make start/all command that starts all apps in detached mode, saves PIDs, and redirects logs to files. terminal stays free, logs are always readable. much better than monorepo yarn start where all logs flood the terminal.
Here's nextjs start command

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@DavidKPiano Imagine this was standard way to fetch until react query came along

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

while a lot of people on X are arguing nextjs vs tanstack, and here i am still using react-router. it is simple, predictable and gets the job done.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@Nico_caccia I use voice memos. You can also use speech to text ai apps if you want text output.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@typecraft_dev Very similar to how you feel better when you are able to do math in your head instead of using calculator.

[Aman Thakur @ImAmanThakur]

@gabriel1 Wear dumb wrist watch instead of smart watch. now you won't look at phone for time. also use the stopwatch for focus sessions, workouts etc. huge improvement.