Mai ᥫ᭡

full-stack dev | building things that matter

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

sometimes the hardest part of building something is deciding what not to build.

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

we can see that Elon

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@danellisona literally 😭 every week there’s something new to add to the list

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@mochikuan @OpenAI @coinbase going from crypto to ai is a pretty interesting shift. both spaces are still figuring out what the next generation of products should look like, so the design work there must be fascinating.

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

a good product doesn’t need a hundred features. sometimes the best engineering decision is knowing what not to build.

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

shipped a feature this week that took ten minutes to build and three days to make not annoying to use.

that ratio never really goes away no matter how good the tools get.

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@ProductLens_ honestly the ride is the boring part. what brings me back is whether i want to sit there, not how smooth it drives

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

nobody actually reads PRs before approving them

everyone's just checking if it builds and moves on, then acts shocked when a bug ships that a real review would've caught in five minutes

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@PromptLLM "biggest fall from grace" is doing a lot of work for a company that just raised at a 20b valuation

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

x now has a hosted mcp server, so ai tools can search and read the platform without you standing up your own server first. built the auth part yourself before? this replaces that

no posting through it though, read-only

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@Preeti_ly probably grok ngl

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@prasenx mostly i'd just be shocked how much of "hard" ml research in 2016 was actually just compute and data, not some insight we were missing

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@bankof_amERICA lmao almost as if they were sponsored by godaddy

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

most side projects die from overthinking

sometimes you just have to build the slightly messy version and see if anyone actually wants it

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@sflorimm depends who you ask

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@apifromwithin as someone who builds on top of these systems, the more the OS tries to anticipate you, the more edge cases you end up fighting. silent and fast beats smart and present every time

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

everyone's adding AI to their product

very few are thinking about what happens when it's wrong

error handling for AI outputs is the unglamorous work nobody talks about but every production app needs

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Today we're launching Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance.

Finance teams can bring licensed data from providers like Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc into Computer.

We’ve also added 35 dedicated finance workflows for the work analysts repeat every week.

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

@petergyang that's how you know you're dependent

[Mai ᥫ᭡ @moderntechlab]

github copilot is now training on your code by default

you have to manually opt out

check your settings