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graying engineer, observer of things

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@Eleffterios I barely recognize the country anymore. It literally feels like Brazil now.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

Jack Vance uses this to move things forward in the Cugel saga. Cugel is always strapped for cash, and spends most of his time scheming and swindling to earn the day's room and board

[Oliver Dahl @OliverWDahl]

The more I think about this the funnier it gets

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@wolfaidev @levelsio It's like the vim of coding agents. Relatively minimal but infinitely extensible

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@kemishrafael @levelsio Nope. Vast majority of Italian immigrants in South America were before WW1

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

I wrote a short piece on the ancient human practice known as ape coding.

https://t.co/oSN6zZvuUo

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@GregorySchier Someone tweeted something like "what if you were a time traveler with Claude Code in 201x?" a while ago and I immediately thought of him

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@niklassheth @luciascarlet I got `hunter2`. Looks pretty good?

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

I think any kind of marketing using the word 'vibe' is a bad move. It has too many negative associations

It's an unfortunate term in retrospect because while it was an accurate description of most LLM-generated codebases when it was coined, models progressed to the point that saying something is vibe coded doesn't necessarily do it justice. Vibe coding was fundamentally unserious then, but it isn't now

When I think of vibe coding, vibe-anything, I think of slop

It's better to communicate it as declarative programming, spec-driven development etc

Call it a declarative programming engine that runs on GPUs or something like that

[mrinank @MrinankSharma]

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned.

Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@burkov I haven't used other harnesses in a while, but Claude Code does 50 tool calls every time I sneeze. Does Cursor do that? It feels excessive but it also feels like it actually makes a difference

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@tannerlinsley Cheers! It's a great framework.

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The TanStack Start deployment docs are really missing a $5 VPS target

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@luke_leisher_ @grok give me some sci-fi book recommendations for each quadrant here.

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@levelsio Not Lindy. It will have a comeback

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@Andercot It's a great book and along with Deepness I feel it's underappreciated. In particular because Pham Nuwen is a great take on a pulp hero, and it's a shame Vinge didn't write more stories featuring him.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@cursor_ai would really benefit from official Linux packages for the major distros. AppImages are still wonky as hell

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@oguilhermemora @AkitaOnRails Você quase acertou, mas a lógica é exatamente inversa. É grande a chance de que o Itaú vai durar mais 79 anos. Se o Nubank vai durar mais 11, não sei.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@othm_g @craigzLiszt Curiosity is a necessary trait for a good engineer. And that often translates to a wide range of interests.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@ayubio Isso me lembrou a Locaweb, que só pode ser cancelada por telefone, ou os inúmeros "hostings" que fazem revenda de cPanel... é deprimente. Por enquanto vou ficar na AWS mesmo.

[Rômulo @rsaksida]

@ayubio Não duvido da capacidade dos brasileiros de criarem esse tipo de infraestrutura. Porém, a Magalu Cloud já começou errado. Cadê os preços? Por que não posso abrir uma conta e criar uma instância? Quando vi o formulário de contato, já desisti de usar. Voltamos 20 anos no passado?