Python/Django, Go, TypeScript, Lua developer https://nitter.cf/t.co/rQdSFpu6pm
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Hey, hey! 👋 I'm Matt.
I'm a Python web developer with 15+ years of experience building on the web.
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With any luck, the constant security vulnerability exposure will force businesses to prioritize cleaning up their legacy software (you know, that VM sitting in the corner of your Cloud infra that no one wants to touch).
As always, code is a liability as much as it is a benefit.
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I, for one, consider 4 a perfectly fine integer between 1 and 39402006196394479212279040100143613805079739270465446667946905279627659399113263569398956308152294913554433653942642
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if you havent seen the new cal.com/font page you are missing out!
tons of new sizes, brand new Cal Sans UI font too
Hyperbolic comments get more attention on X.
As presented, this seems like 1 dimensional analysis. For vibe coding, perhaps the statement is true (though many Cursors devs probably disagree).
How about legal work? Or electrical engineering? In both of those categories, Grok seems to perform well.
I love that AI will just keep going.
Maybe you've heard of the 5 Whys as a technique for finding the root cause of a problem. This is can be very hard.
But with AI, I can just keep asking "Why?" like a curious child and it will happily keep digging with you. I love it.
Fantastic way to learn.
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don't be a doomer, be a bloomer
It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment! youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?si=6Fsf…
DHH said "pencils down" on writing code manually. My own experience agrees.
He speaks of using Rust and treating it like a black box. I'll take his word on that.
How long until AI models start writing machine code directly instead of going through a programming language?
I go to meetups. I often encounter new devs who are just getting into writing software. When I ask how they are learning, most respond with "I'm building a personal website."
Why is this still a thing that we anchor to?
I mean, build if you want, but surely we can do more now!
I watched this talk earlier today (as part of a bigger stream). I found the talk to be inspiring and convicting. It makes me want to press harder for languages like Rust that agents are good at, but I haven't been comfortable with. Users deserve faster and we can give it to them!
It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment! youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?si=6Fsf…
Whoa, this sounds like an awesome application of a classifier like Jev! I suppose it would have to be paired with the slower mode as a fallback in case a data center serving something like Jev was down.
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Our house in Toronto had this fancy glassed wine cellar, but we are not big wine drinkers.
Anyways, it had good climate control so here is my rack cellar.
At work, I optimized a *terrible* query that would *average* 30+ seconds and, with a bit of denormalized data and a well-designed index, got it down to 6.7 milliseconds for the *biggest* customer by data volume.
30+ s ↘️ 6.7 ms
I'm channeling my inner @DanielLockyer today.