Engineering leader, AI tinkerer, DevTools fan & Evertonian who ❤️ getting strong, software, & learning. Lifts heavy things. Puts them down again. Views my own
Berkshire, England
Joined April 2008
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Claire Knight retweeted
Our job as engineers is to understand how a system works, identify the biggest problems, and fix them.
That makes the job about the understanding. It doesn't necessarily mean reading code.
I didn't want to like Grok Bot. But I really do. Especially with it being included on my Cursor plan. Anything where I have close constraints it's still a bit janky (like most AI), but where I just need a thing sorting, it's exceptional.
Claire Knight retweeted
I cannot stress enough that it's heavy duty testing infra that makes agentic coding reliable and feature development fast. Invested early on it for Mima, and now new features land with a quickness
Claire Knight retweeted
Following Chelsea’s 74 alleged breaches of FA regulations, Everton have been docked 10 points.
Claire Knight retweeted
We signed the Open Weights and American Leadership letter.
More thoughts in my blogpost below in the thread, but openness have always been a core ethos at Netlify and we believe the Western World wins through openness and freedom.
aka.ms/OpenLetter
Claire Knight retweeted
8 Years ago we launched Netlify Drop.
Just mentioning :)
netlify.com/drop
I just got a renewal cost cut to 52% of original quoted amount with no change in cover. AMA!
(Human talking to a human - amazing how that works; no skills or AGENTS.md involved 🤣)
Claire Knight retweeted
Agree.
It's going to end up being the other way around.
Good AX is good DX (since we all work on the code through agents).
Claire Knight retweeted
I wrote this because I keep seeing smart people confuse touching every step by hand with rigor.
The work that still needs you is judgment: what to trust, what to question, what to let go, and where your hours belong.
The Judgment Is the Job
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Claire Knight retweeted
The main thing I've learned as a programmer leaning heavily into AI tools is that programming is SO MUCH MORE than just writing code - and while I can get amazing results out of the AI it's taking every inch of my 25+ years of software experience
When @claudeai needs to figure out how to reply, much like humans trying to choose the best words. Is this AGI? 🤪
Claire Knight retweeted
Most Founder CEOs have never been a Senior Manager/Director/VP inside a company the size they are leading. They assume everybody else just says something and then it happens. When in actual fact, 70% of the future of work is about the stuff we call soft skills. In the post-knowledge era, they're going to be the only skills that matter.
Claire Knight retweeted
Been hearing wild stuff from folks inside big companies lately.
Promotions, firings, and perf reviews are getting decided by tokens consumed and skills/MCPs connected. That’s the metric. That’s how they’re deciding who’s “good at AI.”
It gets worse. People are literally running loops to burn tokens and look productive. Doing nothing, racking up “usage,” getting rewarded for it.
Meanwhile the person actually shipping with 2 skills and 50M tokens looks like a laggard next to the one who burned a billion tokens producing nothing.
These companies are walking into a death spiral and don’t see it.
The funniest part? Measuring actual output is easier than ever. You have AI. Use it.
In 18 months the same execs will announce “AI didn’t deliver ROI” and pull the budget. AI will have worked fine. They just measured the wrong fucking thing and torched millions rewarding theater over output.
Every company should be pushing AI hard. But this is how you guarantee it fails.
Claire Knight retweeted
Claude told a user that PlanetScale had shut our service down. This is unsafe by any definition and Anthropic have made no effort to correct this situation.
Claire Knight retweeted
We have these running daily on our Rails app. This morning it opened a PR to make a composite index more efficient while I was sleeping.
Go set this up at work, you'll be an app perf improving god.
