Philipp Steinrötter

cofounder @hellomateode • hacking on a postgres language server • os hobbyists • postgres fan

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

I have been meeting up with most of my local friends once a week to play magic the gathering for almost two years now and few routines have had a bigger positive impact on my life.

[MAP @map_agustin]

Con mis amigos arrancamos a hacer 1 juntada x mes donde hay un anfitrión que elige plan, día y hora. Sí o sí entre semana (salvo casos extraordinarios) y se toma asistencia. 1 falta = 1 strike. 2strikes se pierde la próxima. Ayer fue en la Rondinella y ya hubo un strike.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

incredible series

[Peter Pistorius @appfactory]

https://t.co/gHoAUUfHAR - boot once, run everywhere.

A MicroVM that runs on hardware you already own.
Close your laptop and it hands off to another host.
Works across macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. (aarch64)

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

find someone that loves you the way gpt-5.5 loves python

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

thanks @OpenAIDevs! this came just in time for a new project I am starting with 🫡

[Sam Hogan 🇺🇸 @samhogan]

All the best programmers I know are starting to write code by hand again

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want.

This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes feels very impressive.

Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes almost impossible to guide AI there. And you definitely can’t one-shot it.

[Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy]

it's how i creep on my internet friends

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

great post by @badlogicgames

https://t.co/kcRdkJbDZq

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

offline for three weeks for the first time in years. can attest the single best way to get rid of ai psychosis is to slow down and touch grass

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@SanfordMarshal @tannerlinsley same issue! „solved“ by forcing a reload. only happens sometimes and not with every deployment though. did you find a proper fix?

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@jarredsumner what do you need from me to reproduce and fix this?

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

i am going crazy with claude code recently. it consistently does not start to work until i interrupt and send the same prompt again. the status does update when its done and i have to 'esc' again.

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

i’ve been fighting a bit of “ai brain fry” lately and realized it mostly comes down to discipline.

as a tech leader, the roi for certain tech debt projects has dropped because coding agents make things possible that i probably would not have started before.

as a developer, there are tasks i am genuinely happy to give to agents. they are great at resolving merge conflicts, updating dependencies, and chipping away at tech debt.

they are also incredibly useful when building and designing systems because they speed up early iteration, help retrieve knowledge quickly, and can write down ideas faster than i can.

but when it comes to validating ideas, creating a system and shipping a product, it takes a lot of discipline not to skip over the details, especially when time is limited.

it feels a bit like playing age of empires with cheat codes. it is fun for a few minutes when a blue shelby runs over everyone, but the game quickly stops being interesting and you feel disconnected from it and learn nothing about it.

[Mo @atmoio]

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@SanfordMarshal @tan_stack @tannerlinsley we have a separate backend. the 800$ were for their managed build pipeline.

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

we were still on next 14 and decided to switch to @tan_stack instead of upgrading.

results:
• hmr: 2–10s → almost instant
• fixed several long-standing issues during migration because it nudges you toward better patterns
• vercel bill: $800 → $0

thanks @tannerlinsley! 🏝️

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@tyteen4a03 @MoodiSadi @tan_stack @tannerlinsley ah lol yeah true. still improving my ai detection skills 🥲

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@tyteen4a03 @MoodiSadi @tan_stack @tannerlinsley spent my morning coffee answering everyone with my own hands. 🥲 why does it feel generated to you?

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@ward_lavrijsen @tan_stack @tannerlinsley we still host on vercel! sorry, I did not make that clear enough. The 800$ were for their hosted builders. We moved it into our blacksmith.sh-hosted gh runners now. it has much better cache locality for the monorepo packages and barely adds anything to our cpu time.

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@greypixel_ @tannerlinsley @tan_stack I used both mainly because I needed both limits 😅 but in general I find codex smarter. claude is great for crunching through repeated tasks though.

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

@ugbahisioma i think thats the tweet with the highest engagement for me

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

well.. that struck a nerve apparently

[Philipp Steinrötter @psteinroe]

we were still on next 14 and decided to switch to @tan_stack instead of upgrading.

results:
• hmr: 2–10s → almost instant
• fixed several long-standing issues during migration because it nudges you toward better patterns
• vercel bill: $800 → $0

thanks @tannerlinsley! 🏝️