David ⚔️ Soards

Software Engineer | UX/UI Designer

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

cash me at https://t.co/vXMk5UEj4l

[Kyle Gawley @kylegawley]

I cancelled my $10/mo Calendly subscription and vibe coded my own with Fable for $12,000

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@theo where's the "delete your account" guy when you need him?

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

lol i guess it's cool to pay $1K/mo to an "evil cult" now since they have a good model (that retains your prompts)

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

If Anthropic put out a $1000/month tier that gets 5x the $200 tier limits and also lets us keep Fable access, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[Burke Holland @burkeholland]

I think the core problem with AI right now is that it's too slow.

while GPT cooks you start another session. And then another whilst that one cooks. Then another cause why not.

Now you're a slopopotamus.

Fast inference is the unlock. Humans are single threaded.

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@flowtype whoa, flow is still a thing?

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@evanyou intended (with an ed)?

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@wesbos @MattPenny99 savage

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

Dumocracy at work! we elected this MF’er! several of my family members voted for him (multiple times)! 🫠

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Dumocrat. You take the E out and you don't use the B. A lot of people don't know dumb has a B in it actually. You don't need it.

[sunil pai @threepointone]

remember when programming was free

[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.

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

i kinda think the reverse. it’s crazy to me that you can’t learn to code now without paying for an AI subscription

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

It’s kind of crazy that we used to write code for free. You just opened an text editor and typed in some words completely at no cost

Same with designs. Every rectangle and shape was free

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@ThePrimeagen can’t tell if this is a real post or a joke

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@ryanflorence update?

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

[me irl @me_when_irl]

POV: going on LinkedIn

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@audioprogrammer codex

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@ImSh4yy i “downgraded” to Sequoia immediately.

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@zeeg downgrade to sequoia. PITA but worth it.

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@burkeholland so is this https://t.co/U1O7RDwlEi

[David ⚔️ Soards @ninjasoards]

@wesbos killin em!