Tim Morgan 🙃🌯

Software engineer, commercial pilot, CFI. Thoughts are NOT my own; my employer has an alpha wave generator that injects opinions and tweets into my brain.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

If it hasn’t already been done, I am coining the term “trad-coding” to mean the opposite of vibe-coding.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

In the future, all performance reviews will just be reading what Claude stores about you in user_memory.md.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Lol, Anthropic registered “claude.md” as a domain. Clever.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

I’m sorry, but you’re just a regular prompt writer, and this company needs 10× prompt writers.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

A company I know just got “approved” to use AI after a “security review.” Which is ridiculous — no security team would ever approve the use of AI. AI is a security nightmare. The only reason we all use it is because if we don’t, we’d be out-competed by everyone else who does.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

These AI companies should probably stop calling it “Thinking Mode” or whatever, since in reality, it’s still an LLM, and no thinking is actually happening.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

It’s so quaint, these old time travel shows where they say not to touch anything in the past because “the timeline might be affected,” like our current timeline is so precious. If I ever end up in the past, I am shooting every dinosaur and stomping on every rodent I can find.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

How is it that the ENTIRE Claude Code system prompt fits into just 9.4k tokens, but your typical SaaS MCP (Sentry, GitHub, etc.) somehow uses 30k tokens??

Is it that Anthropic's engineers are just that good, or do MCP engineers not prioritize efficient prompt engineering?

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

I vibe-coded a menulet that helps you track your Claude Code token usage: https://t.co/z17ohkHFEo

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Man, there is no better feeling than preflighting the plane for a sunset joyride, while your inbox fills up with emails of GitHub CI failures because Claude is rage-committing trying to fix your broken pipeline. That used to be me, my AI friend. That used to be me.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Due to the overproliferation of icons, people using screen readers may actually have a better browsing experience. They get “Remove attachments over 20MB” while we have to stare at an icon of a paperclip with an inset bomb and anvil, trying to figure out what that means.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Cursor is like the perfect example of how VCs WAY over-indexed on AI startups. It seemed like a slam-dunk unicorn, raising almost $1B on $10B … but now that the industry has matured, it’s obvious that there's no moat and they’re up against a completely saturated AI coding market

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

@SilentTimbuktu Unfortunately no, it's written in native Swift + SwiftUI so it's not portable to the Android platform :(

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Who else here is on Team #bypasspermissionsalways?

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

All these CEOs announcing eng layoffs “because AI makes my engineers more productive” is highly sus. If your engineers are more productive now, why are you doing the same with less? Why aren’t you being more ambitious and doing more?

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

We all know the saying “reduce, reuse recycle”. It’s three ways to avoid generating extra waste, in priority order. I’ve invented a similar saying for writing fault-tolerant systems: “recover, resume, retry.” Also in priority order.

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Does the whole “You are a helpful assistant who…” prompt preamble actually make a difference, or is it just cargo-culted industry wide from one engineer who wrote it one time at OpenAI?

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Huge libraries of 4000+ icons are a Bad Thing in modern UI design, not a good thing. Now websites and apps have little icons next to EVERY. THING. Not everything needs a cute little icon next to it! You don’t have to vomit little icons all over your UI!

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Software engineer furiously typing, 2008: “Wow, a monster 10x coder!”

Software engineer furiously typing, 2025: “Wow, a dinosaur who still uses an ancient IDE!”

Real engineers go <TAB>, <TAB>, <TAB>, <TAB>, … now

[Tim Morgan 🙃🌯 @riscfuture]

Startup idea: LLM chatbot naming as a service. You send us a description of your LLM, and we name it.

Input: Our LLM proactively engages with customers to drive them through our sales funnel

Output: Your LLM is “Daisy”. Here's a stock photo of a smiling woman for its avatar.