Jonathan Franco

Software Engineering Manager during the day, mentor and builder at night.

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@nikitabier @levelsio I’m sorry for your loss man. Sending love and prayers for you and your family

[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

TLDR

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The problem with the "if it works who cares what the code looks like" mindset for agentic work is that it assumes the agent has a perfect understanding of "works." Realistically, things are underspecified, agents make bad assumptions, etc.

To be fair, agents are pretty good at unit test coverage. They're pretty bad at designing human experiences (API, CLI flags, etc.), especially cohesive ones for future roadmap plans they may not have visibility into (unless your backlog is perfect and vision fully laid out, which I doubt). They're bad at knowing where performance matters and what type (CPU vs memory tradeoffs). They're bad at where compatibility matters and where it doesn't (and tend to err on the side of preserving it without further guidance). Etc.

Unless you have this ALL specified, you can't possibly claim "it works" without taking a look and thinking about it.

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@FlorinPop17

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@TecEdSocial Congrats man!

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

There a LOT of performative AI right now. Inside your org it wastes tokens/money. In biz dev it’s a distraction. Focus purely on ROI.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

I get how uncomfortable it feels to disengage from the syntax, from the sequence, selection, and iteration of code, from the dopamine hit of getting a complicated function to execute properly. I get it. I've been coding for longer than most of you have been alive -- I get it.

But the bar has been raised. And if I, someone who has been coding for more than six decades, can clear that bar, you should be able to clear it too.

And fear not, I've found plenty of joy on the topside of that bar. It just take a leap...

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@VicVijayakumar @ThinkAppraiser Did you move to Amsterdam?

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@rakyll Go is build for concurrency and simplicity, so it’s great to see that happening

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@alangsilveira Winter will be cold for us this year lol

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@tekbog Good investment opportunity @ranman

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

If you think you're growing by reading shit on the internet without synthesizing it into wisdom through the struggle and uncertainty of solving difficult problems, you haven't figured out learning yet.

Claude is not making you smarter.

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@levelsio Muito bom Manuel Pieter

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

Starting a business is easy. Staying in business is hard.

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@lucas_montano Because that’s not going to happen lol

[Jonathan Franco @jonathanfs08]

@drgurner @TheDefiantGhost I’ve been following his lessons for sometime and his predictions are based on an apocalyptic path combined with current geopolitical events and the fact that history has a tendency of repeating itself… but it will take a long time to be true

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

The only way to have more energy is to do more

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

You will never have an extraordinary life, being an ordinary person.

You won't have an extraordinary career, business or even relationship if you do the things that the average person does.

Decide that you're fine being "different," disregard social pressure, and go be Great.