Travis Pomeroy

Human. He/Him. Software Engineer in FinTech. Cat daddy to one cat on a diet.

[Cult.Repo @CultRepo]

Spring: The Documentary arrives 7th May! 🍃

Spring didn’t start as a framework, it started as a reaction to complexity in enterprise Java.

What followed was a movement that redefined how modern applications are built, from Spring Boot to the cloud era.

This is the story behind one of the most influential technologies in software.

[Trisha Gee @trisha_gee]

I'm looking for work, so if you want an experienced devrel person/leader, if you need a technical educator, or if you want some consulting on how to help your devs work more effectively, ping me.

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

So AI only helps the 1x engineers?? Yeah hard disagree. 10x engineers are already in high demand….that demand will never end and will only grow.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone.

Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation.

"I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody.

It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code."

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From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

[Christone "Kingfish" Ingram @callmekingfish]

From Mississippi to the Movies. Last night was unforgettable. @TheAcademy

Was an honor to share the Oscar stage. Congrats to the SINNERS fam for their 4 Oscar wins. Such a cool ride.
Big shout out to all of the behind the scenes legends that made this all possible 🏆🎸

[Santosh Yadav @SantoshYadavDev]

A lot of engineers I know, go into defensive mode when asked questions, remember no one is questioning your skill, someone looking at the code from a new perspective will always have questions, and this is how you can make a great team culture, by sharing what you know, by discussing what's new.

This always worked for me, yes I used to be defensive when I was early in my career. This is something you learn as you gain experience.

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

we just released 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚜-𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝-𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜, inspired by Vercel's 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝-𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜

these are the Agent Skills that we use on the supabase platform - including performance, security, & schema design

details ↓
https://t.co/7GOYpuin6e

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

January 21, 2026
After one year. Decisions, decisions.

Which hat to wear today?
( 48-hour poll )

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

@therealdanvega @ai_for_success Lols, 🤜🤛

[Simon Martinelli @simas_ch]

@TheVixhal No. They're wiping out coders. A software engineer does much more than just code. In fact, programming is the thing a software engineer does least of all.

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

@marktechson What’s your gear dude? Are you rocking a practice guitar in one of those clips?

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

How does Claude not know Java 25 is the latest version without reaching out to web? Can any AI or Prompt Engineers answer this q?

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

I wonder if this is what Windows devs felt like during the dot com boom?

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

@springrod What is a “20% project” in this context? Do you mean just implement the first 20% of a project?

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

Breaking down the AI deals between $NVDA, $AMD & OpenAI

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

DataGrip is now free for non-commercial use!

Feel the difference with one tool for many databases.

Learn more ⬇️

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

@callmekingfish Can’t wait to see ya when you come back! Also, dope shirt!

[Christone "Kingfish" Ingram @callmekingfish]

Going live tonight at 7pm ET ✌🏾 @talkshoplive

We’re talking about my new album, my new label Red Zero, & we’ll have a signed photo for everyone that buys the record. Too stoked!!

🔗 https://t.co/PgWbUuDZT5

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

I was super lucky to see @MJMcKean in Glengarry Glen Ross earlier this year. Now I get to see him in Spinal Tap II! Geez, what a year I’m having!!

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

Rails is the fire/aim/ready of mvc frameworks.

[Travis Pomeroy @TravisPomeroy]

Jumping out of the Java/Spring world into Ruby on Rails is quite interesting….and now I’m thinking which part has to win me over first?