Sam Reaves

Hey fellow internet traveler 👋 How many of your own thoughts have you had today? I don't mean reactions I mean unprovoked thoughts during a period of silence Your health, social circle, and career depend on you listening to your thoughts But first you have to be in silence

@mattpocockuk The content has been profoundly useful though. I wish you the best 🫡

@mattpocockuk 1. We already have a similar Claude Code workflow at work that we have to follow (because it works) 2. Most of the course content (from what I can tell?) has already been posted for us to peruse 3. I use opencode at home

Folks who looked at my Claude Code cohort and didn't buy it: What stopped you? All feedback is a gift. The more brutal, the better. aihero.dev/cohorts/claude…

@mattpocockuk Though the FIRST game changing moment was seeing tool usage. The connection between deterministic realtime functionality and AI was the beginning of a massive shift towards utility

@mattpocockuk Cursor eliminating the cognitive toll solving semi-complex bugs, especiallly when spinning up a new project. My recent example was MiniMax eliminating a vulnerability in the new google workspace cli. The early cost of these annoyances was much higher

I'm collecting stories from folks who've had a genuine 'this changes everything' moment with AI coding. What was yours?

Multi-tenancy of AI is a thing you have to think about now. This is why I @opencode

@Lrawsignal @mattpocockuk Also stopped personally paying for Cursor at home after realizing that I'm more useful parallelizing local Opencode requests w/ GLM 4.7 Flash. For more complex tasks requiring more than a local model, Zen open source model pricing is immensely cheaper than Anthropic. Wild times.

@Lrawsignal @mattpocockuk dude – it's silly. I've been pulling kanban velocity reporting, drafted a release process & pertinent skills for release notes & risk assessment to make releases more structured with no overhead, and it of course has made code review + coding itself so much faster.

This course is going to be my best one ever I always think this, but this time it's extra-true

@mattpocockuk Is it still worth it to you considering #9 is significant? If so, why? As an Engineering Manager who was AI pilled a long time ago, I'm now wondering how much gain we're getting since we now not only still have to track tech debt, but cognitive debt as well.

I have been at 100% AI-contributed code for a few months now. Here are 9 ways it's changed my brain: 1. WAY more time thinking about integration testing 2. Friction via pre-commit hooks/CI/strong types is now super desirable 3. AI has no taste for UI, prototype extremely aggressively before committing to a PRD 4. AI has no taste for software architecture, be extremely explicit about the modules you want and think about their interfaces 5. Deep, grey-box modules with simple interfaces are the KING - let AI control what's in the box to decrease your cognitive load 6. Huge reliance on Effect.ts for dependency injection and strongly typed errors 7. Much more meta-programming, turning my skills into repeatable SOP's 8. First I thought MOAR DOCS = BETTER but 'doc rot' is real. Better to just let the AI generate JIT docs during plan mode. 9. Much higher cognitive load to keep up with the changes the LLM makes to the codebase

@shadow_419 Happy birthday, fine sir :)

@SamReaves memories

@shadow_419 My mom just sent me this. Did Facebook send you this as a memory? haha thesamreaves.blogspot.com still exists, but my Facebook Notes were deleted after Meta discontinued them </3

People: “Why do you keep doing all those risky stuff?” Alex Honnold:

Some uncomfortable math: Your bank account is a record of your decisions Your body is a record of your habits Your relationships are a record of your priorities None of this is luck. All of this is compounding.

Maybe AI was just some elaborate ploy to get engineers to finally write tests and documentation

Every result is data for the next action. Use it and move on. 💪

@thdxr Perhaps an agent showcase? Community is already thriving on Twitter & Discord Courses are boring if they don't drive immediate pragmatic application What better to drive education, community, and immediate application than a showcase of Opencode customizations / applications?

we own agents.​dev what do we do with it

Thinking about a free Ralph tutorial Start with the basic loop, then layer on top: - Containerization - Feedback loops - Testing - Formatting - Linting/types - Skills (for steering) - To plan or not to plan? All using it to build an actual production app. WDYT?

A rule that will lower your anxiety: Don’t replay conversations you can’t change, and don’t pre-live ones that haven’t happened. Focus on the next right action. Most stress comes from living everywhere except the present.

I shared this in my newsletter yesterday, but today, I want to share it right here in the belly of the beast. I’m asking all of you to go on an extreme crash diet. This is not a crash diet for your nutrition…those don’t work. This is a diet for your mind. It will work.

@thdxr That's quite the big pickle you've put yourself in

we're in a funny hell like a lot of opensource projects we're getting purely vibecoded PRs but then the author is like "yeah i did it with opencode"