Vic Stan

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

AI chatbots are definitely going to replace search engines, but it won't matter.

Example:

Couldn't solve an issue I was having in Spring Boot and defaulted to the usual path of googling, StackOverflow, docs, tutorials but to no avail.

Asked JetBrains AI assistant (uses GPT models), it spluttered an answer with code examples that helped me understand what's going under the hood, but the code example caused an endless loop.

Asked Gemini, it gave more or less a similar solution.

Asked Claude, it suggested a solution which worked! The difference between this one and others was two lines of code.

"Wow, amazing! I'm going to ask Claude next time."

I noticed an interesting keyword and decided to search the web once more.

Turns out there's AN ANNOTATION that does exactly what I wanted to achieve.

Tracing my steps back, I realized that my search terms and prompts were not very specific at the start but got better each iteration until finally finding something.

I asked all the wrong questions and got all the wrong answers.

Which leads us to the age-old struggle of the "XY problem" where you ask questions about your solution rather than about the root problem you're trying to solve.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Integrating with a provider's API might seem easy on the surface level but it gets complicated really fast.

- spending time getting to know the docs which won't be enough
- figure out what steps lead to what results by experiments
- pick only the fields you need from their responses
- find a weird behaviour and ask if it's a bug
- once you're 90% done, you'll remember that error handling is a thing

Can't we just make the servers talk to each other and figure it out? Sigh...

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Do you remember when you joined X? I don't! #MyXAnniversary

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Here's an easy fix

Plan downtime for "maintenance" to remind business people you're still around.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

When the app is running smoothly, no one acknowledges the developers. But when it glitches for two seconds, suddenly we're the most popular guys in the building.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Should I just start a new account?

It feels like my posts are just vanishing into thin air.

I have a large percentage of bot followers and get tagged in some crypt0 spam posts a lot.

Is my account messed up or something?

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

If you want to see the code in question, it's here

https://t.co/MOyOmSg7Fs

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

AI chatbots are definitely going to replace search engines, but it won't matter.

Example:

Couldn't solve an issue I was having in Spring Boot and defaulted to the usual path of googling, StackOverflow, docs, tutorials but to no avail.

Asked JetBrains AI assistant (uses GPT models), it spluttered an answer with code examples that helped me understand what's going under the hood, but the code example caused an endless loop.

Asked Gemini, it gave more or less a similar solution.

Asked Claude, it suggested a solution which worked! The difference between this one and others was two lines of code.

"Wow, amazing! I'm going to ask Claude next time."

I noticed an interesting keyword and decided to search the web once more.

Turns out there's AN ANNOTATION that does exactly what I wanted to achieve.

Tracing my steps back, I realized that my search terms and prompts were not very specific at the start but got better each iteration until finally finding something.

I asked all the wrong questions and got all the wrong answers.

Which leads us to the age-old struggle of the "XY problem" where you ask questions about your solution rather than about the root problem you're trying to solve.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

The golden rule of experimenting:

Only change one variable at a time

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Hot take, you don't need an AI coding assistant, just a well integrated IDE

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@florinpop17 Like dark mode, maybe?

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@florinpop17 A lot but only if you add 5-10 mins warmup and already have noted where you left off

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

The best performance optimization happens when you sit next to the server so you can hear if its fan spins up or down.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Watching YouTube videos won't teach you anything.

But at least you'll learn the general direction and if the advice you're given IRL is sh*t.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@catalinmpit "Haters gonna hate"

People have said it times and times again but it takes a while to get the true meaning.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Supabase just changed the game by combining PostgreSQL and ChatGPT.

What's more amazing is that Postgres runs in the browser and can also generate charts.

It's awesome for quickly doing an analysis of a CSV file and plotting some nice charts.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@florinpop17 I call BS. That dollar bill in the background should be Bitcoin

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@florinpop17 How did you come up with the goal number? I'm struggling to keep a consistent schedule of mountain biking and want to set a realistic goal.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@stijnhommes Any particular experience you want to share?

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

Digging around passkeys leads me to the conclusion that one of the biggest issues right now is syncing passkeys between devices.

[Vic Stan @vstanchev]

@tdinh_me Passkeys next?