Aaron Muylaert

@nbevans Is this just like your opinion or someone in the team wrote about that?

Everyone is finding out Claude Code is slop, finally They openly admitted they just vibe coded it, and now they can't move forward without introducing regressions

@kenwheeler So.. socialism. Tax and divide wealth. But we’re all too worried about our own three cars, 7 flat screen tv’s. So we keep going for the bag.

solid post. the bag won’t save you.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

State machines are always the answer! 🚀

I’d advise to stay away from RLS unless you have PSQL experts in your team. We used RLS on aurora PSQL for 3 years. The query planner has a lot of trouble choosing the correct indexes. We wasted hours and hours trying to get it to use even the most straight forward indexes.

Which is basically a workflow engine using messages and queues under the hood. Right?

@RogerAlsing @gregyoung Can’t imagine that ever working out. I think McGregor is worth a lot more and his brand would be seriously damaged by losing to an influencer.

@gregyoung He can win.... depends on how much he pays :-)

LOL is Jake Paul really now trying to fight Connor McGregor in the octagon. Some people learn very slowly.

@mjblacker @sabine_s_ @dillon_mulroy @teej_dv Despite slow compilation, it’s still super productive.. especially when dealing with large existing code bases. Being able to relatively safely move things around is $$$

@mjblacker @sabine_s_ @dillon_mulroy @teej_dv Sure. But it trickles down to tooling as well. Open a couple of bigger files and intellisense starts lagging. Add in a little bit of dotnet watch and intellisense straight up freezes for long periods of time.

Instead of using OCaml (tooling was bad) I went F# and now I'm wondering is there really any advantages to OCaml? It compiles faster? This deserves it's own post. #OCAML #fsharp @sabine_s_ @dillon_mulroy @teej_dv

Resharing this gem

Picked up on some amazing community work to make rich diagnostics for #fsharp fsi/fsc reality: github.com/dotnet/fsharp/… Want to get it into main (flag is unlisted), so we can start playing with format, additional context, etc.

@obscvrityy Yeah please share some info. I’ve tried surfer decks so many times but always feels so awkward.

Hey everyone! Just hit infinite again and wanted to share the deck I used for it! Surfer is an absolute meta wrecker! If anyone would want an explanation or some of the lines let me know down below! #marvelsnap #infinite #marvel

@texoport__ @DanielW_Kiwi The one with the super smart spiders is the first book in the series. That book totally blew my mind :D

@DanielW_Kiwi is this the book with the super smart spiders?

Best ending of any series that I've read.

@mostlyobvious What's that keyboard? Looks nice!

Late to the party, catching up 🙃

@GergelyOrosz Startup founder using .NET here! Used PHP before. No difference in costs. I already paid for JetBrains products before 🤷‍♂️

Of course, you will want to pay for the right tools. It's what JetBrains created a great business on (and the only major IDE competitor to VS). But choosing the Microsoft stack means you pay *for so many things* even before you even have product-market-fit, as a startup!

There's this question of why the majority of startups don't use C# to build their software (an amazing language). To use C# to its fullest, you need to buy Visual Studio licenses (Pro/Enterprise), per developer: $$$ To use TypeScript or Go to its fullest: you don't need this.

F# support is getting better than ever. F# needs more ❤️

@DanielW_Kiwi Think ERP is just very complicated for a lot of companies.

Every SAP roll out that I hear of sounds horrible. Why does it seem to be so hard?