Nathan Staab

Former touring musician turned software engineer.

Exploring what software engineering looks like when AI writes most of the code.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@ramonpiano_ so verbose there is a skill for it

/wait-what

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Agentic Uncle Bob is peak Uncle Bob

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Spent my morning setting up Cursor automations and Claude routines.

The demos make agentic coding look effortless. The configuration absolutely is not.

But watching an agent successfully pick up and complete work on its own for the first time?

Extremely satisfying.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

I've been using Matt Pocock's AI coding skills and the biggest improvement isn't better code it's feeling more involved while writing less of it.

The structured workflow keeps me on top of the decisions while the agent handles more implementation.

Process > bigger prompts.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

There is a toddler mode the 15 minutes before bed time where they run around like they have 20 projects deadlines they have to complete before going to sleep and it’s hilarious.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

NYT putting the Mini behind a paywall is wild. They should rename it the microtransaction crossword.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

The most fearless hearts are not those who escape the fire, but those who return to it carrying water for the ones still inside.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Reports say 90% of AI projects are failing.

The reason? Most teams treat AI like traditional deterministic software. But AI is probabilistic.

Instead of coding for fixed inputs/outputs, you’re wrangling a system with infinite possible behaviors (chatbots).

Much harder.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

AI isn’t replacing us anytime soon. Right now it’s like Clippy with better PR.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@philcourtm @squeakywheeky @LastPass This helped me! Looks like LastPass released a bug

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@suchsweetspeed These old fucks need to get out of office and let the generation,who actually understand todays world, start making policy.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

These crypto bros pretending like they are experts with GPT now crack me up!

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Instead of debates, we should just have all the presidential candidates play One Night Ultimate Werewolf together to see which ones are the jerks no one would want to play with.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Let’s get to the ploffs!

[Cleveland Monsters @monstershockey]

no Sunday scaries here 🤭

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

burn ticketmaster to the fucking ground.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@RyanAnk This is why I got out of music. Its 4 greedy fucks making all the money and everyone else in the industry fighting over table scraps.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@Coutsey 5 time all star, 3 Stanley cups, Vezina winner…
I don’t know what else you can do to prove yourself as an elite goalie.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@Coutsey Yes, Vasilevskiy is better but Fleury especially in his last 4 years here was performing at what most would call "elite" status. He is a less sound, athletic-based goalie so we remember the soft goals he lets in.

I love the Pens but us Pittsburgh fans can be very entitled.

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

Can we just get people who aren't greedy insecure man-children to run the banks from now on?

Seems like an easy fix to me...

[Nathan Staab @nstaab1]

@Coutsey Fleury was putting up Vasilevskiy numbers for most of his career in Pitt. Pens fans just love to shit on players so no one really noticed