heather

just another human in the loop | computer person

[heather @latentforms]

indie dev has time to tweet for weeks instead of fixing the app breaking bugs i reported? bet.

too bad for you my toxic trait is building a competitor instead of asking for a refund for your saas that doesn't work as advertised.

[heather @latentforms]

Ok, thanks

[heather @latentforms]

@kimmonismus Would super surprised if this wasn’t intentional. Removing easy visibility and awareness from the UI amidst all the rate limit issues gives them more room to obfuscate and deny issues.

[heather @latentforms]

@mattjay Hooks

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[heather @latentforms]

@trq212 but have you heard your users?
https://t.co/U13NuwJAT8

[heather @latentforms]

@romainhuet Convex

[trash @trashh_dev]

me watching the llm do the job i used to love

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

If there’s a clear answer, AI can do it

[heather @latentforms]

@itsMeBennyB Still not Arc

[amrit @amritwt]

you can just act like your past failures do not exist and go all into with whatever you got for your next adventure

[heather @latentforms]

@jeiting Need a time period switcher pls

[zek @zekramu]

two sides constantly at war

[sankalp @dejavucoder]

when i see codex using python to edit files

[heather @latentforms]

@sebxturner Weird trying to claim you have distribution when all your apps have been removed by Apple

[heather @latentforms]

@jakemor @0xMomo @Superwall Need full integration with Stripe before I could even consider migrating.

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of

[heather @latentforms]

@anythingai the world does not need any more calorie tracking apps

[heather @latentforms]

@ddunderfelt @thekitze Most LLMs cannot read Apple docs, use https://t.co/Q7vrnoQ89J to feed them info instead

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

fyi, mcp is spelled api