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c'est la vie

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@KhAneeqIftikhar Hello Aneeq!

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@catalinmpit it's your process issue, build the process that works for you, and keep improving it, never reading code is gonna take some getting used to.

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@poteto @thsottiaux 👀

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@AlastairGrayson @cheaf25master this is the way.

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@mattpocockuk how to not be a tactical tornado tho

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@milan_milanovic we live un dark times, specially for SWE

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@kamilbaranek_ the task estimation Claude gives are always funny, like what do you mean this will take 2 weeks, why pretend like I'll be the one writing the code, give me the work rn, we are so spoiled it's not even funny anymore.

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@poteto is absolutely right here, as much as it pains me to say this, but i believe us devs need to disassociate from the code now, our objective should be results, not how clean the code is.

[lauren @poteto]

it's very interesting how many replies i've gotten about maintainability and clean code being still important. i would argue that that is no longer true and we all need to update our priors on what Good Code really means in 2026.

clean code has always come at a cost - performance. indirection and making code readable/understandable for a human is not free, it often comes at the cost of worse performance. we have historically been okay with this because of Moore's Law and the fact that most code is not on the hot path.

these principles also came from a time where humans maintained code. it made sense to optimize for humans then, but it makes less sense now when agents are already writing all the code. we will in fact probably discover and come up with new principles: principles of agent friendly architecture (i plan to write more thoughts about this soon)

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@moeedahmed not going to, it already is, traditional web/app dev freelance is kinda dead, look at fiverr there's fewer and fewer buyers everyday

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@forgebitz serious question; let's say the bubble bursts, the subsidies and piles of money investors are throwing at it, go with it, how these frontier labs survive, without these?

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@IndependentEco gotta map the codebase first

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@iam_zachi Please Mythos Senpai be gentle 🥺

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@EbiThinks coders aren't the only expense in software dev tho

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@catalinmpit how do these people have so much in the backlog if they're shipping 100+ PRs a day, max I've gotten was 10 and that was a big day

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@cljack Rules for thee but not for me

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giving age old "works on my machine" energy 😁

[Zed @zeddotdev]

works for us

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@AwanRose @Tactical_Tipu Indeed India did get a piece of the Pakistani F-16, a missile fired at Indian jets

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@RealAirPower1 lie, lie through your teeth

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@divya_gandotra how did he lure a neighbor's 6 month old