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systems and backend dev • tech lead @censeag ex: @glassnode @parasutcom • @developer_dao #5939 • KU'18 • GSL145

[Özgür Tanrıverdi @otrv45]

unpopular verdict: if you treat it as a slightly improved C and only selectively use the std goodies, C++ isn’t too bad.

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@antirez but how then will the less experienced grow the intuition and taste to understand or extend these “ideas” without years of reading code and comparing approaches.

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@ThePrimeagen feels super dangerous but curious to see how it turns out

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looks like for me late 2026 will be full of jblow creations: i’ll either be cracking this game’s mysteries or coding in jai once it’s finally released.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

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[Özgür Tanrıverdi @otrv45]

as a software engineer: its surprising to me how frequently we are forced to explain "state reduction" even though how fundamental it is.

i wanted to have a structralized reference to it for this very specific purpose:

https://t.co/ZgRCkQj3Ph

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the amount of times i forgot to decode the input hex in cryptopals is embarrassingly high

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its funny how in the agentic coding world grep and sed are the fastest growing “editors”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

AI can make work faster, but a fear is that relying on it may make it harder to learn new skills on the job.

We ran an experiment with software engineers to learn more. Coding with AI led to a decrease in mastery—but this depended on how people used it.
https://t.co/lbxgP11I4I

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@benfurkankilic guvenli mesafe kesinlikle en sagliklisi 👌

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@brankopetric00 spot on. decoupling is not always needed or valuable

[Özgür Tanrıverdi @otrv45]

when it comes to using LLM’s in software, one thing almost everyone seems to agree on is that we still need a human in the loop.

this is why due to amdahl’s law, it cannot improve productivity as drastically as people claim unless it gets rid of this limitation.

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@jorandirkgreef the portion of the system that can be made parallel

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@matteocollina @MichaelArnaldi @nodejs @fastifyjs while i agree what i cant get out of my head is: due to amdahls law, if a human is in the loop then these tools will never live up to the productivity increase claims people make

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@T_Zahil if you dont want to change your entire workflow but rather fit LLMs into it incrementally, CLIs give you that option

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2026 is gonna be the year of composable software options like arch linux and @Neovim

LLMs are quickly closing the UX gap that made such software niche

[Özgür Tanrıverdi @otrv45]

Abstractions scale code. Bad abstractions hide constraints and break decision-making. https://t.co/imbQ39KdDF

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI.

When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this.

When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term.

Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while.

As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

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@thdxr they recognize and leverage the human factor which is very rare for engineers in general

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@_trish_xD interesting. to me the compiler errors is one of the weakest parts of Zig for now