Raja Asyraf

Software Engineer | NodeJS | LAMP Stack | Vuejs

[TypeSafe AI @typesafeai]

we announced Jev 1.14 on 10.14 at 1:14pm PT 🔥

a new and improved model, along with experimental features for our dreamers:

• images
• a new box type
• longer context

surprise, Jev was already able to see you! 👁️

BUT our bar for production-grade intelligence is quite high, so builders beware, these are preview features.

enter the ~*~ danger zone ~*~ at your own risk. 🚨

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.

Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December. i.e. I really am mostly programming in English now, a bit sheepishly telling the LLM what code to write... in words. It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful, especially once you adapt to it, configure it, learn to use it, and wrap your head around what it can and cannot do. This is easily the biggest change to my basic coding workflow in ~2 decades of programming and it happened over the course of a few weeks. I'd expect something similar to be happening to well into double digit percent of engineers out there, while the awareness of it in the general population feels well into low single digit percent.

IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now. The models definitely still make mistakes and if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly sloppy, hasty junior dev might do. The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic. Things get better in plan mode, but there is some need for a lightweight inline plan mode. They also really like to overcomplicate code and APIs, they bloat abstractions, they don't clean up dead code after themselves, etc. They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it's up to you to be like "umm couldn't you just do this instead?" and they will be like "of course!" and immediately cut it down to 100 lines. They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't like or don't sufficiently understand as side effects, even if it is orthogonal to the task at hand. All of this happens despite a few simple attempts to fix it via instructions in CLAUDE . md. Despite all these issues, it is still a net huge improvement and it's very difficult to imagine going back to manual coding. TLDR everyone has their developing flow, my current is a small few CC sessions on the left in ghostty windows/tabs and an IDE on the right for viewing the code + manual edits.

Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.

Speedups. It's not clear how to measure the "speedup" of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn't have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn't work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it's speedup, but it's possibly a lot more an expansion.

Leverage. LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals and this is where most of the "feel the AGI" magic is to be found. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and watch it go. Get it to write tests first and then pass them. Put it in the loop with a browser MCP. Write the naive algorithm that is very likely correct first, then ask it to optimize it while preserving correctness. Change your approach from imperative to declarative to get the agents looping longer and gain leverage.

Fun. I didn't anticipate that with agents programming feels *more* fun because a lot of the fill in the blanks drudgery is removed and what remains is the creative part. I also feel less blocked/stuck (which is not fun) and I experience a lot more courage because there's almost always a way to work hand in hand with it to make some positive progress. I have seen the opposite sentiment from other people too; LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building.

Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it.

Slopacolypse. I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of github, substack, arxiv, X/instagram, and generally all digital media. We're also going to see a lot more AI hype productivity theater (is that even possible?), on the side of actual, real improvements.

Questions. A few of the questions on my mind:
- What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot*.
- Armed with LLMs, do generalists increasingly outperform specialists? LLMs are a lot better at fill in the blanks (the micro) than grand strategy (the macro).
- What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music?
- How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work?

TLDR Where does this leave us? LLM agent capabilities (Claude & Codex especially) have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

I condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. These vessels carried unarmed civilians and life-saving humanitarian supplies for Gaza, yet they were met with intimidation and coercion.

By blocking a humanitarian mission, Israel has shown utter contempt not only for the rights of the Palestinian people but also for the conscience of the world. The flotilla embodied solidarity, compassion and the hope of relief for those under blockade.

Malaysia will use all legitimate and lawful means at our disposal to ensure that Israel is held to account, especially in matters concerning Malaysian citizens. The safety and dignity of our people are paramount, and we will not allow them to be compromised with impunity.

As long as the Palestinian people are denied their fundamental rights and aspirations, Malaysia will stand unflinchingly with them. We will not relent in demanding an end to the injustice and dispossession that have plagued Palestine for generations.

Photo : Reuters

[Martin Joo @mmartin_joo]

🔥 Most applications need to export and import large amounts of data.

It is very easy to:
- Waste lots of memory
- Perform hundreds or thousands of unnecessary DB queries

You can avoid them by learning some pretty simple techniques.

🧵 Keep Reading

[Vikas Rajput @vikasrajputin]

SOLID principle is one of the most important design principles in OOP languages like Java, Python, C#, etc.

Sadly, most of the programmers find it super difficult to understand.

Here's the simplest guide to understand SOLID principles:

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

PHP 8.3 is just around the corner. Ready to take it for a spin? Vapor's got your back 💪

It's as simple as changing 8.2 to 8.3 in your config and redeploying. Docker support is ready too 😎

https://t.co/80B9C2zXrY

[Cory House @housecor]

Software development is intimidating because there is no "arrival". There's no day I can say "I fully understand".

A career in software development feels like watching a river of information flow past every day.

I can't possibly absorb it all.

So, here's my approach:
1. Ignore nearly everything by default (so I can get actual work done)
2. Subscribe to sources in my niche
3. Learn a few useful things in my niche each week

[Raja Asyraf @RMAsyraf]

@jclermont Listening all the way from Malaysia 🙌🏻

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved."

There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.

[Nikki Siapno @NikkiSiapno]

CI/CD is a must-know in DevOps.

Here's a dead simple guide to understanding it:

[josh @joshuakelly]

Google is done.

Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dear Twitter Advertisers

[Sunil Kumar | Freelancing Tips @sunilc_]

A backend developer roadmap (2022):

1. Python / GoLang / Node.js / Java
2. SQL/NoSQL
3. JSON
4. REST
5. Microservices
6. CDN
7. Caching
8. Web service provider
9. Unit & Integration Testing
10. CI/CD
11. Nginx
12. SSL
13. Cors
14. Security
15. Hashing
16. Containerization

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

gm - laravel forever 🍊

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[Raja Asyraf @RMAsyraf]

"Everything is difficult until you know how to do it."

[Leo Cavalcante @leocavalcante]

SOLID Principles in PHP by Backend Developer https://t.co/MlDu1noH4R

[Swastika Yadav @swstica]

JavaScript concepts you need to know before getting into React.

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[Library Mindset @librarymindset]

100 Books To Read In 2022

[Brent @brendt_gd]

This is how I wrote a basic data transfer object back in PHP 5.6.

Quite a lot has changed since then, keep on reading…