Chris Wickens

Mobile Engineer at Track24

[Saoud Rizwan @sdrzn]

TIL of SlopCodeBench, a benchmark for how coding agents slowly turn codebases into slop.

instead of single shot tasks like swe-bench, the agent gets several tasks one after another so eg bad architectural decisions early on lead to worse results for the later tasks.

compared to 473 human written python repos, agent code is:
- 2.3x more verbose (redundant)
- 2x more eroded
- degrades 5-7x faster per change than humans do across their git history

we are now anti slop engineers

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.

JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.

https://t.co/y5El5FUj7v

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

the difference is that we don’t *hype* giving 12 year-olds bulldozers.

*of course* it’s a kind of user error when a model destroys all of user’s data and they didn’t have a backup. that’s the point.

vibe coding without considerable experience is like driving without a license.

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

Sustainable organisations undergoing radical restructuring will be factoring the strain of working with agents into their processes and expectations. Assuming AI enables a 10x boost to developer productivity with half the manpower is a recipe for mass burnout.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace - Washington DC

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@simonw Huge leap! The pelican riding a bicycle benchmark may have just reached saturation.

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@piersmorgan Elon thanks you for your service

[LeanCode 💙 @LeanCodePl]

🌟 Is Flutter worth it? The numbers say YES! 🌟 A stunning 95.7% of CTOs, Tech Leads, & Engineering Managers would choose Flutter again! 🚀 Want the details? 🔗 https://t.co/ZqY1CD500c

With an NPS score of 73, #Flutter users are enthusiastic advocates. As @craig_labenz notes in the #FlutterCTOReport, this high satisfaction level aligns with broader data on Flutter’s recommendation potential, showing that professional experience with Flutter significantly boosts the likelihood of recommending it.

[Filip Hráček @filiphracek]

LG is announcing Flutter support on their TVs.
https://t.co/pMYkDiBQKD

Consider reading the full article, it's short and full of delicious snippets like these.

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@NorfolkWT After signing the link to share via Facebook is broken.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Rishi Sunak - The Movie🇺🇸

[GDC Festival of Gaming @Official_GDC]

The GDC Main Stage: A Developer's Concert full show is now on GDC YouTube! Watch @awintory lead a group of talented composers, musicians, and more. #GDC2024
https://t.co/FBzN2vM5oK

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@FlutterDev UK devs waiting for Gemini API access

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@_woahthatscool_ Somebody check on the gorons!

[Chris Wickens @rekubot]

@_woahthatscool_

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Sunak and Starmer need to scroll this website (7,000 kids added since we first published it) https://t.co/w5KMXolwsm

[Tim Sneath @timsneath]

One of the clearest explanations of "how all this AI stuff works", thanks to the @FT: https://t.co/841xFRak2r

[@johnthiriet @JohnThiriet]

As we say: if you have nothing to say, stay silent.

This is why my blog did not receive any new post since I started working on Flutter a few years ago.

But now I have an interesting story to tell about migrating from #Xamarin to #flutter. #flutterdev

https://t.co/XFFnyelQ6B