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Alessandro Giannone
@AleGiannone
Daily @MamboIO. Assisting @CocoaBlogging. Sold SambaStream to @Alfresco.
Universe Katılım Şubat 2010
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I discovered that adding:
And as Confucio says, do not fuck this up.
to the end of every prompt, makes the quality of the response 3x better
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@VicVijayakumar An endpoint can't even take a lunch break these days
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Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS:
" In a year or two; you'll get to a place where a lot of the current organizational tools that companies are using, you could build your own version.
It would make so much more sense to you as a buyer. The code will be yours, the data will be us. You'll be able to adapt it, to your needs.
There's no one size fits all. There's no like feature bloat."
Do you think vibe coding will kill a lot of the SaaS market in this way @dharmesh @nicolasosharp @zackkanter @carlrivera?
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This is absolute nonsense. Only companies that are destined to fail would take on this kind of stupid endeavour.
Companies that succeed are focused on delivering value. Building their own accounting software, ERP, CRM, etc just detracts sources from creating real value for their customers.
People think building software is just vibe coding for a few minutes but there is a reason there are entire companies dedicated to building just one type of software. It's because it's much harder than it looks on the surface.
Of course, naive people exist. I'm sure some companies will try this approach. I'm also sure a lot of them will abandon their projects and go back to SaaS :-)
Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings
Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS: " In a year or two; you'll get to a place where a lot of the current organizational tools that companies are using, you could build your own version. It would make so much more sense to you as a buyer. The code will be yours, the data will be us. You'll be able to adapt it, to your needs. There's no one size fits all. There's no like feature bloat." Do you think vibe coding will kill a lot of the SaaS market in this way @dharmesh @nicolasosharp @zackkanter @carlrivera?
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@theandreboso Everyone in Italy needs 3 children, 1 notaio, 1 commercialista and 1 avvocato
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Today a lawyer told me that if you’re based in Italy and want to do a giveaway you need to notify the Italian department of the Treasury, post a surety bond, have a data server physically located in Italy, file the terms and conditions with the authorities, call a notary or the Chamber of commerce to certify the winner, submit an official closing report and a few other things 🤌
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The irony is that they still require you to print forms! Super eco 😂
@levelsio@levelsio
Today I had to go the Netherlands Embassy to renew my passport and had to print a form I was wondering why my new Brother printer kept printing everything double sided? So I tried to disable it in the printer's own display menu where it's hidden 6 levels deep: > Settings -> All Settings -> Printer -> 2-sided -> 2-sided Print -> Off But it still printed everything double-sided, then I Googled and discovered it's a forced default by the European Union, of course for 🍃 Eco reasons: "To comply with EU ecolabel, the default setting is expected to be duplex (double-sided) in new printers sold in the EU since 2022” I then discovered it's defaulted at both levels, AGAIN in the printer's drivers too, where you have to disable double-sided too on MacOS, again hidden 6 levels deep: > System Settings -> Printers & Scanners -> Brother -> Options & Supplies -> Driver -> Disable duplex Realistically few people will go 2 menus 6 levels deep to disable this and are just stuck with printers that print double-sided in the European Union This is another example of their famous "nudging", they don't make it impossible to print like a normal printer, they just make it highly annoying and difficult for most people to change the defaults Thank you @vonderleyen, very cool!
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@unclebobmartin Hold on, you did a full rewrite?
The sequence of words that makes good software engineers shudder.
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Don't worry, apparently we're only minutes away from AGI
@levelsio@levelsio
I hate ChatGPT 5, it's so bad, it's so lazy and it won't let me switch back to 4o cause I'm on Plus, this might really make me switch to Anthropic's app now, I'm actually annoyed by how bad it is, it's making my productivity go 10x lower cause nothing it says works
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I must apologize publicly for never believing in SEO, this thing is serious.
On track to breaking the record on calls received on a single month this November. 🙏
Miami Lakes, FL 🇺🇸 English
After MCP, the new LLM revolution is TOON. So many useful contributions to software engineering, it's hard to keep track.
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@asmah2107 Fire your CTO. Shutdown the company. Become a farmer.
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Quick question :
You have 50 microservices, each with its own API.
The frontend team is losing their mind.
To render a single page, they make 10+ network calls.
The app is sluggish. Users are complaining.
How do you fix this ?
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@joshmanders @enunomaduro we managed to get our CI down from 3 hours to 45 minutes. no messing about, just migrated 3000+ system tests to integration/unit tests. that was a fun quarter.
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Alessandro Giannone@AleGiannone
Facts. We uad in the range of 3000 system tests (mind you, most of them not brittle) which took anywhere between 2 to 3 hours to run. Last year we spent an entire quarter migrating all of these tests over to a combination of integration and unit tests. We cut down the system tests to a few hundred which mainly check that endpoints are alive and kicking for the most default inputs. The integration and unit tests run the full suite that was previously done by the system tests in roughly 10 minutes locally. Now, we moved from system test to integration tests mostly because we have a similar DSL framework for testing, so it was easier to migrate. However, we're slowly moving off the integration tests and onto unit tests with massive speed improvement and coverage of our business logic. We aim to get the full suite to run in under 2 minutes locally over time. You have to set those goals high! :-) Currently migrating a domain as a weekend project that started at 69 seconds to run 190 tests and now runs 259 tests in 39 seconds.
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longer CI times is actually a source of relief for me. It means I know the stuff is being actually ran and tested.
If a CI ran for upwards of 20 minutes and then someone claims they can get it down to 1, I suspect a lot of caching and tomfoolery that may make me feel less confident in my tests
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as a company that currently waits 5/10/20 minutes for your existing CI… how much would you pay to have that exact same CI run instantly?
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@joshmanders @nikitabier @elonmusk no way, then you could cut to the chase and spend less time scrolling!
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Hey @nikitabier && @elonmusk can we get a sort on replies? I want to sort by most likes on that thread and read the bangers
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I have no comment, I just want to add to the numbers of this epic ratio.
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I think a key to being an entrepreneur, is knowing (or discovering) who you are and what you want.
If I had listened to all the advice and opinions fed to me over the years, I'd still have a 9-5 or I'd be chasing some crazy goal.
When you run a business, other peoples opinions are mostly irrelevant. Unless they are your customers' :-)
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