Mike Britton

I bet brontosaurus got struck by lightning pretty frequently.

@om_patel5 @Plinz Great, now they’ll adjust their pricing model to be each prompt submission or something :) Thanks for this though - gonna try it

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens. normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task "I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops. no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words "result. done. me stop." 50-75% burn reduction with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

@SledgeDev It is strange to think that all of the tech we summoned over the last thirty years will be as relevant as punchcards soon, as new AI-driven processes and languages spring up. Shipping more has helped me deal with this.

I think since coding is so easy now that I find myself wasting time building dumb stuff where as before i built dumb things i thought they were a good idea now. Im wasting much more time shipping these days

For me, happiness has to be earned

This is a fucking great post and it’s a damn shame it’s received no awards or recognition

When someone rips a site, torches light, but if you step back and consider, the best designs trigger our pattern recognition. "Rips" constitute efforts to unify design the same way musical covers represent an acknowledgement of base origin and genre

@kenwheeler This is an incel bot

this guy just called me dumb and blocked me so i just want to let 66k people know how fucking dumb this guy is

@lennysan @flosalihovic This. The job is harder now because there is so much to review. We need tools to help us converge on a design through tuning.

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

@forgebitz You could adopt a persona to represent the “founder”. I don’t know if that’s been tried, but I’d sure like to see what happens.

if i was running a one-person billion-dollar startup i would not tell anyone

If you feel uninspired as a dev, try another language. Build something bizarre and useless as a sort of punk rock response to the limitations and gating being foisted on you.

Just because you’re a Yes fan doesn’t mean it’s safe to use 90125 for everything

Spent 7K on "subscriptions" last year. Github, Vercel, Figma, Prime, Netflix, Adobe ($69/mo!), many others. I look through the list and it doesn't feel like my life would be much different without many of them. But I want them.

We'll become performance tuners and our value will be determined by our specific expertise across a particular stack. Wonder how design skills will re-factor in? Will this skillset emerge as a benefit to these future SAs?

@ChristianHeiens It’s the universal human myth taken from many sources and presented with a preternatural sense for shelf life

Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the collapse of the Galactic Republic in the Star Wars prequels is one of the greatest plots in all of fiction, and Palpatine himself is one of greatest villains ever written. The grand story arc itself is as close to perfection as you can get, but much of this is overshadowed in popular discourse by the prequels’ poor dialogue and attempts at comedic relief that backfired.

@JadenJTW Contractors

We need a slur for people who use Microsoft products

@kenwheeler @thekitze These are lyrics

@thekitze wake up, coffee, shit, modafinil, orange juice, trainer, coffee, shit, vape, work, coffee, shit, vape, work, $43 doordash lunch, nooner, vape, shit, coffee, vodka, steak, red wine, steak, wonderpets, blippi, tarkov, vodka

if I do this for more than 3 days in a row I'll shoot myself ppl are parasites

@catsen 2001: A Space Odyssey Project Hail Mary Dune

Just re-watched Interstellar. I have been reborn. Any other space movies even half as good as this?

@TheGeorgePu Just accidentally threw my own away. It was the perfect phone and its battery life was fine, even as it tumbled into the garbage can at a local movie theater

I still use an iPhone 13 Pro Max. My friends think I'm crazy. It does everything I need. Am I crazy?

@flyosity It’s just crap you’ll have to haul around, but if it was me I’d want to follow through to achieve the vision

I wanna buy this $80 Mac Pro case off eBay then put a Mac Studio inside please tell me that's a stupid idea

@kenwheeler Yeah, that probably means it’s time

guys should i shave my head again, this hair shit is expensive and i look like public defender

@YatYas1070 @XFreeze I think that about IT all the time. So yeah

@XFreeze Is it just me or does anyone else think the AI space absolutely flooded with high functioning psychopaths?

> be Anthropic > run by doomers who literally think humanity is a plague > mass-suspend any account you don’t like for literally zero reason > entire business model: "we tell you exactly what code to write, how to use it, and how to breathe, peasant" > absolutely despise open-source AI and dedicate entire divisions to strangling it in the crib > because you can't stand the idea of code you don't explicitly own and control > “accidentally” leak your own Claude source code on npm in the biggest tech own-goal of the decade > immediately panic, DMCA the entire planet, and nuke the accounts of anyone who even looked at the link > act like digital North Korea on bath salts Nothing screams "we own you and will destroy you if you disobey" quite like punishing your own users for your incompetent leak 🤡

@rezoundous @sickdotdev Problem with metaverse was it represented a lack of imagination. We’re already in it to a large degree, and the vision didn’t meet expectations

@sickdotdev Metaverse lol