Nico Botha

Leading software teams and AI agents by day · co-memer @supermeme_ai

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

Absolutely mental that an automated service can block a $2M/month account without any warning 🤯

Don't know how any business can trust Google with critical infra after this

[Railway @Railway]

We have seen recovery and marked this incident as resolved.

A full post mortem is now available here: https://t.co/w7VNFSxrQI

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@ndrewpignanelli @writenicecode @paper @figma Wanted to say the same. I found figma mcp (in cursor) to be fairly useless. Most of the time I end up pushing pixels manually anyway

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

fast forward many years into the future and it turned out that mongo is actually the worst DB ever created

curious if the pattern will be repeated

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

Worth a read if you don’t remember the old Mongo/Redis benchmark days and how they were going to destroy MySQL/Postgres because they were “web scale”

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

I’ve been in meetings where this kind of thing was always framed as “engineering vs business”. Engineers push back against this “borderline” sales message, sales/marketing push for it. The business side always won because “growth” is more important than anything else

I’d like to believe that there were engineers at revolut pushing back against this (or maybe they didn’t even know about these notifications). Either way, it’s really bad practice

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

prediction - this wil become most people’s default git UI within the next 6 months

[Beka @bekacru]

Introducing Better Hub

We tried to improve GitHub. It’s ambitious project and super early, but our team already uses it by default. Give it a try (and its open-source)

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

Barely keeping up with the exponentiality

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

The models are going exponential, are you?

https://t.co/jdTkOH1AZU

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@GergelyOrosz And IMO, code red doesn’t mean anything if they don’t have a proper AI strategy. They are just playing catchup at this point with their own products, instead of actually setting the standards

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

Microsoft doesn’t have a proper AI strategy (at all). The best they did was to rebrand Office to MS Copilot and report a huge increase in copilot adoption (probably to look good for shareholders)

You can’t expect them to build anything meaningful if their entire “strategy” is to force copilot into every little part of the OS (even where users don’t want it)

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

This just shows how bad github is fumbling at the moment

One dev with great taste builds an infinitely better experience than a billion dollar company

[Beka @bekacru]

I didnt every try that hard and its already much better...

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@bekacru It looks great!

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@m_zokov Pre-AI I thought it was easier to use a 3rd party to cover all the auth flows without writing LOTS of boilerplate

But now, it’s actually easier to write auth flows for your specific use cases with AI (and you’re not depending on any 3rd party anymore)

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

daily reminder - roll your own auth

don’t outsource the most critical part of your app to a 3rd party

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@heyandras be careful, you're going to rebuild github before you know it

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@anuraggoel Great, thanks for sharing. I suspected it's something I missed

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

diffs[dot]com is taking over my timeline (for good reason)

it seems like building a PR review tool is the new todo list app

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

it's amazing how fast computers can be without all the bloatware

I'm running Omarchy, with 4 opencode terminals, many github tabs, cursor, slack and everything is amazingly fast on a small beelink box (24gb ram and 512 ssd)

the same setup on my mac (same specs) is quite slow

and the beelink box is a 5th of the price 🤯

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@_andypeacock yeah indeed, this 👆😑

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

This is just insane! The easiest way to make entrepreneurs and investors flee your country - tax their asset wealth

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Netherlands’ House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains.

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

@dobroslav_dev I created this CLI utility some time ago to do exactly this. Some of the dependencies are probably outdated, but it might be useful for you

https://t.co/u81ly3yetf

[Nico Botha @nwbotha]

Satire today, reality tomorrow 🤣

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

My team caught someone who sent an AI to interview in their place.

It sounds so crazy that I didn't believe it until I reviewed the transcripts:

Interviewer: "Can you tell us about yourself?"

Candidate: "Absolutely! I'm a passionate professional who thrives in dynamic environments."

Interviewer: "That's a really insightful answer."

Candidate: "Thank you! You're absolutely right."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right too."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right about that."

Interviewer: "We're both absolutely right."

Interviewer: "This is going really well."

Candidate: "It really is."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right."

Interviewer: "You're absolutely right."

Candidate: "You're absolutely right."

The transcript goes on like this for 14 more pages.

Thank goodness we're using AI to screen our candidates, otherwise we might have wasted our time talking to someone who can't even be bothered to show up to a call.