Kashif Shaikh

Technical Advisor - CTO for Startups | Architect | Staff Engineer | ex-Samsung | ex-IBM | Web3 | Blockchain | Ecommerce

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@scottstts @Huangs_law If AI is producing code at 10x velocity at tenth the cost for a FTE dev, how much does it cost to maintain 10x the code over a period of time?

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@scottstts @Huangs_law So then why doesn’t everyone just ask AI to write assembly code?
At some point, humans need to review the code, and say you run out of money / tokens / AI is down, and there is something critical that needs to be done, how is your team of web devs going to handle it?

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@scottstts @Huangs_law AI should be used as means to the end (increase efficiency). Otherwise if you rely so much AI, such that only AI knows what to do - you better have enough budget to “hire” AI agents to fix/develop/code like hiring a dev in salary.

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@wesbos we have Cursor about 1000/requests per month

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@MansiCodez kafka - very hard to scale with dynamic workers (eg auto scale).

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@wesbos node_modules is still stuck in the past where it doesn’t share deps between projects

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@9mmsmg forgot about movies, many netflix shows will start the season with sex scenes and then they disappear. It materially does nothing to the story line except gives it the “rated R” rating to feel more raw.

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@CP24 Maniac Murder Cult - lol

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@dhh I feel I need to frame this tweet - doesn’t just apply to open code, but also code that you write at work that others enjoy

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@majornelson did u ever gift an iphone?

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@kareem_carr

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@NVIDIAGeForce @DOOM GeForce Season
How many of people played DOOM 1 way back in their Intel 486!!

I did! Now I deserve to play DOOM in all its glory on a 5090 in 4K with ray tracing and DLSS4!

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@ThanosPapathan @dhh 3 years is an eternity to be at a company

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@GergelyOrosz We are spoiled by the FAANG companies, thinking everyone values engineering like them. Most big companies overrun by suits always think of engineering as a cost because it’s reported as such on their balance sheets

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@BetaProfiles finally I hate glass/clear - find it is more distracting

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@ThePrimeagen When you start to work on OSS and large codebases, you will learn to read at lightning speed

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@dhh @TopperH They also have a mac version of dockur

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@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day

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@NoContextHumans genocides

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@simonw Would interns blindly accept what the LLM tells them? These companies have a problem. Let them try it for a year and then wait for an “engineering blog post�� telling everyone the results