Luis Monge

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.

Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.

All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

@WarrenInTheBuff @thoughtlesslabs Why not rename Sweeper to Shower?Cleans up the UI, keeps everything smelling nice and comes up with shower thoughts. You even get to brag about team diversity having a Grower and a Shower

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

@DenLoginoff @sudobunni

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Got em. I poison my AGENTS.md (and other things like code comments) all over the place with prompt injections like this to find people who don't review their code and sling it off to another human. Catches folks all the time and then its an instant ban.

As I've said, I don't care if you don't review your own code. But if you're submitting code to an OSS project and crossing a human boundary, it is simple courtesy to do some human review.

[Peter Dedene @dedene]

POV: you're still using GitHub Copilot after June 1st, 2026

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Vibe coded my first project today!

Let me know what you guys think ❤️

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke explains Goodhart’s law and why he doesn’t like KPIs or OKRs

“Goodhart’s law is real. The moment a metric becomes a goal, it’s no longer a useful metric… No metric by itself is a complete heuristic for a complex business. There’s a million different tensions in a company, and you can’t keep all of them in harmony by optimizing for one thing.”

For this reason, Shopify doesn’t use KPIs or OKRs. But as Tobi explains, this doesn’t mean they don’t value data and metrics.

“We are extremely data informed. We have invested enormous amounts of money and time into systems that give us basically everything at our fingertips… But what Shopify attempts to do is just not over-fit for what’s quantifiable.”

People love optimizing for highly-quantifiable things because there’s immediate gratification that comes from seeing a number go up. But Tobi thinks that the most important aspects of a product are rarely quantifiable:

“The overlap of the most valuable things you can do with a product and the things that happen to be fully quantifiable are like maybe 20%. Which leaves 80% of a value space unaddressable by the people who only look at quantifiable things.”

He continues:

“Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things like taste, quality, passion, love, hate… The sort of deep satisfaction that a craftsperson feels when they’ve done a job well is actually a better proxy if you allow it to be.”

They then have robust analytics systems that tell the company if something’s wrong or a new rollout breaks something.

“We think about it as a cockpit for a pilot. The decisions are still made by pilots, and we think this leads to better results… I think there needs to be more acceptance in business of unquantifiable things… And then metrics take a support function.”

Source: @lennysan (Feb 2025)

[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.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

this platform is literally unusable

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

@dhh How do you do this? How do you silence the engineering voice that comes by in the middle of the night with refactor ideas or better project names.
I remembered this tweet when I woke up at 2am thinking about Herald or Chronicler as project names for my ai re-branding assistant

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Everyone is expected to code now

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

@levelsio @claudeai @trq212

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

My favorite part: instead of a dashboard it just updates the README as it works.

Readme is the new dashboard.

[DHH @dhh]

This Omacon keynote celebrates computers as more than just tools, but as beautiful, bespoke, and malleable objects. We have such a rich heritage to draw from in our industry, and we don't have to accept losing control over our machines or their aesthetics.

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

The more I learn about Claude Code the more it feels like learning Yu-Gi-Oh back in 2010. They have so much game rules you can't fit in a user manual haha

You have all these commands to setup your game and then pass the turn to Claude

I love it!

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/Ljzw0lmvao

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I was recommended @sonofatailor by all of you

Custom fitted t-shirts based on your own body's measurements

I love them, 100% cotton, great quality

But I guess as is the problem with all clothing brands, they always change stuff every season (to keep selling new stuff) so for ~2 years now they've switched to the most boring uninteresting colors imaginable

It's all some gray pastel depressing shit

There's no happy fun colors anymore

This is why guys when they finally find some good clothes they like, they buy all the colors because you know a month or year later, it's forever gone! Sad!

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

Back home finally, I had a chance to pass by the Lego store for some gifts for my family and friends.
I got to make this custom lego with a shirt that reads Omarchy as a souvernir from NYC and Omacon

[Luis Monge @luisdi28]

@ThePrimeagen