Manuel Darcemont

CTO @TandemAIx
AI for FDEs

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

This! As long as AI is considered as an amplifier and not as something to reduce HR costs in companies like Google, then every other company has to do the same too, just to stay competitive. Bar will be high though - and I think that many engineers will actually quit because of burn out or total lack of interest for agentic engineering.

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@akoskm and even better, who you manages also often tells you "you're absolutely right," which was pretty rare in my management career

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@djn_mngs @akoskm lol, true!
AI would probably have gotten a much warmer reception when I started my career in 2009 and had to deal with WebSphere, EJB, and SOAP!

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

crazy how my TL went from pure excitement around lauren or Matt Pocock magic recipes to PURE DOOMING, to the point where I can barely bring myself to log on anymore, all in just a few days.
grateful to the few people trying to bring some perspective and nuance, like @antoniogm
It seems we’re now condemned to spend a week like this every 2–3 months. Can’t wait to see some optimism again soon (which doesn’t mean blind optimism!)

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@GergelyOrosz Agents are like workflows before AI. Who was really using the custom workflows feature in asana or linear ? No one. Everyone was building them in zapier. The best agents are those that are very intricated to the product and that help your users without them being aware

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

my IDE usage over time from Intellij Idea to @herdrdev
wondering how many IDEs will i test in 2027?

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@mattpocockuk this atypical and Kandinsky-ish cover will never leave my mind (maybe because it was both illuminating and very painful to get through all 600 pages at 25 yo!). Anyway, I see more and more old design and architect books resurfacing. Probably a sign of how our job is changing!

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@barrec03 funny (or a bit sad?) how the people deploying the most advanced software in the world are actually running the deployment from an Obsidian vault, a spreadsheet and whatever they can keep in their head

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

remembering the vanished tech from my childhood: iPod nano... MSN... Cursor Tab completion...

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@AaronKlein thanks for sharing!

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

curious whether this will be an open weights model or a closed one
ByteDance’s CEO explicitly asked not to distill open-weight models so I’m wondering which direction they'll take

[Jukan @jukan05]

FT: BYTEDANCE IS IN THE PRE-TRAINING STAGE OF A MODEL WITH UP TO 10 TRILLION PARAMETERS, APPROACHING MYTHOS IN SCALE.

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@barrec03 the only comparable asset class is air conditioners in Europe right now :)
and obsolescence risk is zero, technology peaked 50 years ago

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

first time I actually feel what MIT engineers felt in 1960, punching a stack of cards, handing it to the mainframe operators, and waiting to find out if the program they'd spent hours thinking about worked. Except now it's with Claude Code!

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@rauchg Our data at Tandem (https://t.co/88CYbikGu1) backs this up hard
We're watching the shift happen in real time: users don't want instructions anymore, they want the action done for them. "Don't tell me what to do, do it for me." This pattern barely existed 6 months ago

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

New blog post!
Barbell Planning: Balancing Risk in Project Management https://t.co/oQu9ahQPSg

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

a thoughtful digest about where we stand in 2023

The Engineering Manager role in 2023 https://t.co/nhE6SuSg09

[Manuel Darcemont @mdarcemont]

@NetlifySupport Hi team, we're getting 502 errors from the proxy of our webapp. The proxy app is healthy so we don't know what is going wrong. This is severely impairing our business right now, could you please help us?