Sasha Thor

I fix what AI built. 25+ yrs building for the web. Pre-AI foundations, AI-era execution. React, TypeScript, design systems – end to end.

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@dw_russian Высокооплачиваемый работник с 4000 евро в месяц живущий в квартире своей арийской бабушки и работник с такой же зп, но снимающий жилье — это очень разные уровни жизни. Может, для начала, начать как-то этот аспект учитывать при налогообложении?

[Sasha Thor @schwarzman]

@TheChiefNerd Human intelligence my ass

[Sasha Thor @schwarzman]

This is my attempt to stay sane during high-churn, AI-assisted development. You can't lovingly review every diff when the codebase is growing faster than your coffee gets cold. Unit tests and classic E2E still matter – they're brilliant once you know what you want to keep stable.

But in the everything changes daily phase, I'm experimenting with something else: scenarios + a judge that demands evidence.

I'm exploring scenario-driven agentic E2E: the spec is deterministic, the execution is flexible. And I'm using rubric-based, evidence-only judging with a confidence-scored verdict. The intermediate results are amazing and very promising!

More soon, folks.

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The weird part is: the state can be super "efficient" when it comes to fines. But when it comes to delivering what it promises, suddenly everything is manual. School place delayed? Good luck. You can spend months pushing and still end up with no compensation, just the thing you should’ve had in the first place.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Because Western European governments suck you dry, take all your money and then spend it on non-natives who don't want to work and leech off the system, instead of natives who deserve it

I'm an immigrant myself and all I've done in the many countries I've lived is be a net contributor, that's not the majority in W-EU now, I don't think I should get any money as a non-native

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A rewrite is tempting because it feels clean. In practice it often stalls a team.

In 2016 I needed to move a production app from Backbone + CoffeeScript to React + GraphQL, and we had to keep shipping. The only way that worked was a gradual migration with a clear boundary.

We created a Backbone base class, ReactView, that still looked like a LayoutView but rendered React components. Backbone updated Apollo local state, and React re-rendered the right part of the UI. That gave us a stable interface between old and new.

For a while we lived with two build pipelines: Grunt for CoffeeScript, Webpack for React. Same repo, same page. Not elegant, but it kept the feedback loop alive.

Feature by feature, over months, we moved across. Users never noticed – which is exactly what you want.

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@alexoakdev I’ve recently noticed that too. I have a feeling that compacting doesn’t work properly. I’ve just started opening a new chat for each task and seems like it reduces the pace.

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@andi_losing @HeyItzaMi You can‘t just bring it. First — you have to get a Termin! There are no Termins available at the moment though

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@itsolelehmann After 10 years in Berlin we moved to Konstanz. It‘s right on the border with Switzerland (walking distance). Less than one hour to Zurich. 1:20-1:30 driving distance to Alps. About 4 hours to lake Como. Bodensee itself is really beautiful. Many young folks due to big University

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@DebayanBag Sora

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I've just entered this Paradise Lost contest and you can too, here: https://t.co/GRFmLIDKMY

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@kroshka_ke Не переплачивать в 2-3 раза за билеты на самолет в ЛЮБОЕ направление во время школьных каникул

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@OfficialPL @NMCLtd Awesome record! Took some time to feel and understand it.

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Wtf Germany?!

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@MichaelAArouet @econovisuals An open-air museum with real poor air quality

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@levelsio Fortunately, Bali is a big island (compared, for example, to Phuket). A few kilometres away from Canggu towards Tanah Lot, you may find the same vibe that Canggu had in 2011. Sidemen is what Ubud was 50 years ago, and so on.

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@nico_jeannen I've been using it for about 5 years now. Not the best for typing, but it works really well for watching, reading, and learning stuff. Cardio and education – a solid combo.

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@damnwhataname Мы существуем! 16 лет. Полет нормальный!

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@DRannaz @FilonenkoOles Есть видео с другого ракурса. Там видно, что этот чувак в синей куртке лупит другого чувака, который пытается скрутить исламиста. Коп мог подумать, что синяя куртка тоже из нападающих.

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Slayer‘s Divine Intervention is available on German’s Spotify. Finally! Blast from 1994 💥🤘

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@ValeriiZhyla К сожалению, на деле вопрос гражданства решается дольше и сложнее. В Берлине уже томится больше 40 тысяч заявок на натурализацию (и наше, среди прочих). Фактически, время ожидания выполнения поданной заявки может растянуться на те самые пару лет.