John Waters

[John Waters @johncwaters]

I am also hitting my usage limits a lot less while getting the same amount of work done, if not more.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Since Opus 5 came out my workflow is entirely different than it was a day ago.
I ripped out OMC and moved to native agents with some customization I like. The key is integrating other models into the workflow.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Grok for research. ChatGPT as a workhorse. Opus 5 for the complex stuff. Fable 5 as the orchestrator and last checkpoint.

Between that change, static checks, and strong e2e automated visual checks, this workflow feels really strong.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

@itsaaroshi Where's Astro?

[John Waters @johncwaters]

If the only argument you have is "it needs to scale," you are thinking about it wrong. Now the question is "does it sell."

[John Waters @johncwaters]

It is crazy how fast development is shifting. AI agents are more capable than ever. I have not written code by hand in months. There has not been a need to.

Clean code is a myth. Some of the best things ever made are pure spaghetti code, and in the end nobody cares.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

If the only argument you have is "it needs to scale," you are thinking about it wrong. Now the question is "does it sell."

[John Waters @johncwaters]

@cheaf25master Brain scans.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

If you want a proper dev experience, use Astro. It gives you the tooling you actually want without shipping the extra weight.
Not to mention you are probably using react wrong.

I'm looking at you useEffect() >.>

Just never reach for React.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Your website does not need React.
I would bet 99% of websites or products could be built better without React bloating everything.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Most sites do not need client side state management or a giant bundle shipped to every visitor just to render some text and images.

That is what got you a slow site and a bloated build process. Most apps are a glorified form processor. Skip react.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Yeah cause blocking people's access to stuff has always worked before

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Especially since software has gotten progressively worse over the past 5 years, with or without AI's help.

If your code solves a problem and makes money doing it, no one cares how it was written.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Writing code was the bottleneck.

Unless you are a genius like Chris Sawyer, the AI model is going to write code as good as or better than you did. And it is definitely going to be faster.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

100% ai image cause I find it hilarious.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

But now I can make them 5 times as fast, so more of them stick.

My credit card is not too happy about the new subscriptions though.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

It is actually so insanely fun to be able to see a problem and know I can whip up an MVP in less than a day, while doing other stuff, to prove if it is worth solving.

Just like in the pre AI days, a lot of the projects do not go anywhere.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

The design philosophy was simple: do not do any of that.

Still in internal beta but the early feedback has been good. Each reminder gets its own character and that is about as complicated as it gets.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

Been quietly working on a side project called Keeplings.

It started because family members I care about kept struggling with habit and medication reminder apps. The feedback was always the same: too many notifications, too many things to do.

[John Waters @johncwaters]

My favorite metric is how much code I can delete.

Less code is less to maintain, less to break, and less for the next person to read.