Stefano Saitta

Software Engineer, Founder & Jiu-Jitsu guy. All at once.

CTO @ MAAT (

[Stefano Saitta @nerder_]

This is my current understanding of the various AI coding tools:

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@verycracked what's the main challange?

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Both of this reasons are why AI writes as it writes.

Doesn’t care about you nor understand anything

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Brevity is more than politeness to the reader. Compression is understanding.

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@louis030195 You get to ask this question only if you have a compelling answer to this other question:

"How is your product AI-proof and why couldn't I rebuilt it using an AI agent?"

You know, so people know if they are betting on the right horse and shit.

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@antirez Can this actually happen?

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@ccssmnn Yes, it's actually like that! I do all the things I knew I could do before, but was never "worth" doing because the time they took.

I still need to find a balance tho, because the reviewer hell is very real

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How come my PRs average line added is ~3k LoC all of a sudden. I know it's a shitty metrics for anything, but it's a signal of something.

Either sloppification or my PRs, or that I can do more in less. 🤔

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@tszzl Expand

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@housecor I woudn't say that was about syntax per se was the point, it was about the ergonomics. Because of course we were writing most of it.

Decisions were always there, they just surfaced more now that we don't write the code as much anymore.

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@mjzellinger @catboosted 😅 Sad, I wanted to believe it was true. But the fact he sold PayPal in 2002 made it a bit sus ahah

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@nicdunz got evals bro?

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@mjzellinger @catboosted Umm with which company? Can't fin anything on a quick google

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@anthdm For local ops, or interacting with cli/api/mcps mostly.

It's just more accurate and fast in doing that.

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@KaiXCreator Everything that requires a production-ready quality of code or system design you want to use codex.

For anything operational (ie: quick local scripts, os management,etc) or frontend heavy stuff you want claude code.

For polishing/refactoring you want Composer 2.5 in Cursor

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the /goal feature is only useful for an extremely narrow set of tasks.

For almost everything else you just want the human-in-the-loop

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superpowers is a hungry motherfucker

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@petergyang quick somebody drop the xkcd

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@theo

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We are doing the final preparatory work to launch the scarier migration I've done in my professional career as a dev.

Wish us luck

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@CyHollander @sin__tax @paulg Are you really trying to Socratic-question me into oblivion so I’ll agree with the absurd claim that college professors or nurses are considered affluent by the standards of American society?

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@CyHollander @sin__tax @paulg You can try and google or ask any chatbot that.