Roman

Software engineer with impostor syndrome figuring out the indie SaaS game

[Roman @romxdev]

@rezoundous As always

[Roman @romxdev]

@AlyaBlt_ Bots

[Roman @romxdev]

@ash_twtz There is a reason

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@pricefoulger Can't wait to see this in real life

[Roman @romxdev]

@itstoorhamza Honestly, the only validation I really trust is getting the feature in front of real users

[Roman @romxdev]

Great 👍

Now we have:
- 10x more code
- 10x more dependencies
- 10x more confidence in decisions nobody validated

[⭕ AI & Design (Marco) @AIandDesign]

You're a dev. Your skills + AI => 10x dev.

Stop crying. Start building.

[Roman @romxdev]

If your review comments are mostly about formatting preferences, minor style choices, or rewriting working logic just to match your personal taste, you're not improving the codebase. You're just wasting everyone's time and slowing down production.

[Roman @romxdev]

@darekgusto Yeah, I think that's how a lot of developers got started.

Nobody wakes up one day wanting to learn databases and distributed systems. They just want to build something they care about, and the technical stuff comes later.

[Roman @romxdev]

@wesbos You forgot emojies

[Roman @romxdev]

@Zhuinden The weird part is that X says it wants creators, but most of the incentives seem optimized for people reposting the same meme in 12 different formats 😕

[Roman @romxdev]

Well, summer is here and Spring mission failed.

Hitting 5M impressions without engagement farming is harder than building a distributed system 😂

[Roman @romxdev]

It is spring outside - everything turns green eventually ✅

[Roman @romxdev]

Today I was reviewing CVs for our team, and I'm officially rejecting anyone who lists 10 different frameworks but can't explain how to fix a basic N+1 query problem.

I don't care how many hype tools you know if you don't understand the fundamentals of the platform you are building on.

Am I being too harsh here, or has the industry's bar for actual engineering skills dropped too low?

[Roman @romxdev]

@igorfomich That's the distinction a lot of people miss
Writing code is only one part of software engineering

[Roman @romxdev]

Full-stack used to mean you deeply understood SQL, CSS, backend architecture, and how to optimize a system.

Today, it feels like people think it just means you know how to glue three different AI APIs together and prompt an agent to build a landing page.

If you take away the LLM autocomplete, can you still build a production-ready application from scratch by yourself?

[Roman @romxdev]

Prediction:
By the end of 2026, the most valuable and highlypaid skill in software engineering won't be prompt optimization or managing multiagent workflows.

[Roman @romxdev]

@trav12037911 If you create music with AI, none of you are artists

[Roman @romxdev]

@peterrhague One of the most useless features

[Roman @romxdev]

@jangiacomelli This is an unsolvable problem 😂

[Roman @romxdev]

@darekgusto I use "For you" because that's where discovery happens

Unfortunately algorithm has discovered that AI posts generate engagement and now refuses to give me anything else 😄

[Roman @romxdev]

I'm not anti-AI, I just want a balance in my feed. But look at this. 5 posts in a row.

The algorithm is so incredibly biased toward the hype cycle that it actively suppresses everything else. Every technical keyword gets interpreted as "give me more AI".

I need to find the secret settings to show me some simple, manual development content. Does it even exist anymore?

[Roman @romxdev]

@ishtwts If I'm not mistaken they moved this part in a different place 🤔

[Roman @romxdev]

@NehraWorkss Perhaps because people don't use laptops only to rotate apps on the screen?