Miguel Pires da Rosa

Cake or Death?

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@LMontenegro_PT toma notas

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Spain really is building the *best* social housing in the world right now.

And here’s a great example. 24 apartments in Ibiza by 08014 Architects.

A thread 🧵

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

The movie “Ratatouille” is the purest cinematic expression of neoliberal ideology ever made.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

In case you missed it, here's something we worked on with Panavision

to show you how we got the BIG, BOLD COLOR of I Love Boosters

And why you MUST see it in theaters

[Pe. Rogério António Vieira @RogerioCasanova]

isto faz lembrar uma piada antiga sobre superstições numerológicas

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

Very fun very chill nifty music tool, got instantly hooked with just playing around with the basics

[António Capelo @antoniocapelo]

I’ve spent years making beats on hardware, but I wanted a sampler that was as fast as opening a browser tab.

So I built Mezcla 🎛️

Minimalist, web-based, and built for the producer's workflow. No DAW bloat, just chops.

Try it here: https://t.co/SgT5zTY6VO

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."

The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.

The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.

And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.

Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.

Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.

If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.

The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.

It never was.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

🔴 Just a wee reminder, if you don't like Iran's Islamic authoritarianism, it exists because the USA overthrew a secular socialist Iran in 1953 because BP was losing oil profits.

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ @tonyhawktruther]

If you tried to introduce public libraries and parks today they’d say it could never be done

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

They care for aging parents, work in small and large companies, and harvest the food on our tables. On weekends, they walk in our parks and play on the local amateur soccer team.

For me, the choice is clear.

Here is my article for @nytimes:
https://t.co/a0Mjxm8SSl

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Sometimes you get a few minutes on live TV with a billionaire. I tried to make them count! 😅

[z @softqem]

la chimera

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

2026 prediction: an Ashley Madison-level breach from an AI app. Millions have handed their most personal thoughts, or all their corporate IP, to startups with 18 months of runway and a privacy policy nobody read.

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@paulonuncio_cds És um grande palhaço, Paulito

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

Elegeram um idiota!🤣

[Público @Publico]

Menezes diz que nos centros de cidades como Porto ou Gaia é “impossível, patético, bizarro, errado” ter ciclovias. “Não há espaço”, justifica, enquanto devolve duas vias à Avenida da República. https://t.co/AbreYDy5CZ

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@NoContextBrits An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Retweet this picture so many times that when someone googles FIFA, this picture shows up.

[vas @vasuman]

Vibe coding is crazy man.

Met a 12yr old making $600k a month with his vibe-coded SaaS he started 4 months ago.

I asked how he built so fast. He said he just made a design-doc in GPT and fed it to Cursor with Sonnet-4 and it worked first try.

His goal is to get to $2M a month this year.

Running everything under his Moms Stripe account.

His firebase got hacked and sensitive user information got leaked. Got arrested and being tried as an adult but the SaaS is still printing though.

None of this happened btw.

[farinha @lsthisrealife]

ela fez o meme do Afonso Manshuft-Vichyssoise de Almeida

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@StephenKing I don't see Paul Blart: Mall Cop