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This Reddit post is a great example of using AI the right way.
Learning by doing with guardrails.
AI is a tool to improve productivity, code quality, and problem solving, not a shortcut to avoid thinking.
https://t.co/rR26MhY4nG
Using Hexagonal Architecture in a side project.
Goal: keep business logic independent from infrastructure so I can swap implementations and try different stacks.
Ports & adapters make this surprisingly practical.
@TAbrodi One counterargument: Convex has more lock-in due to its proprietary backend and programming model, while Supabase is built on standard PostgreSQL.
That makes it easier to migrate away from Supabase as your app scales.
I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.
One rule I follow when working with AI:
Never let it write code before agreeing on a plan.
When AI jumps straight into coding, it often produces something that looks correct but isn’t aligned with what you actually want.
Instead, I use this workflow.
Watching the Enterprise UI workshop live on @FrontendMasters today!
Lots of great topics lined up: microfrontends, monorepos, design systems, scaling TS and more.
Great excuse to dive deeper into large-scale frontend architecture 😄
It’s funny to see engineers putting so much effort into writing detailed prompts for AI.
I just wish we had put the same effort into writing clear tickets instead of one-liners nobody else could understand.
Started a little AI experiment last weekend. I'm building my own expense tracker app.
Spent half a day planning the MVP + technical decisions before writing any code. No “one-prompt magic” here. I want AI to have the full context and see if it can help me build something scalable
I’m contributing to a project built entirely with AI-driven specs. The app works decently, but the amount of garbage code is overwhelming. Contributing without AI is painful unless you’re willing to spend hours debugging AI-generated code.
Today I used the @zeddotdev Agent with a locally installed qwen2.5-coder model via Ollama while on a flight. Having an AI agent help me code without an internet connection felt like having superpowers.