Brandon Olin

@russelljkaplan @GergelyOrosz You must be joking. Software engineer = human who builds software. Prefacing that term with AI implies that it's an AI that can do the same thing, and by extension replace them. Acting like it doesn't imply that is at best ignorant, at worst intentionally misleading.

Hey Gergely - grateful for your feedback. We really don't view it that way, so I'd love your thoughts on what would help clarify. Curious: which part of calling Devin an AI software engineer suggests that it should/would replace human engineers? That's roughly the opposite of what we see in practice. Every customer we work with has so much more they want to build than bandwidth to do so. Greater engineering leverage from tools like Devin make it *more* valuable to hire more human engineers (each hire is more leveraged!) We expect the future to have more human SWEs as a result of AI, not less. Writing assembly is ~mostly automated now, yet there are more programmers than ever before. The nature of the job may evolve, but there is just so much more to build. And this is pretty much what we've been saying since we started! E.g. youtube.com/watch?v=OvBiqm…

It continues to sit poorly with me that this company is advertising its LLM product as a direct replacement for software engineers - calling it an “AI Software Engineer.” This is sleazy marketing, targeting nontechnical CEOs and execs - suggesting they can replace devs with it.

Nothing feels better than muting a viral tweet and coming back a few days later and seeing absolute carnage in the replies. Everyone yelling at everyone and you don't even notice. Unbothered. Thriving.

@bazalinco @alexanderhupfer @gilgNYC Or they might just buy it from him: techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/sho… If you build to a high enough degree of quality, the platform will turn your product into part of their product.

@alexanderhupfer @gilgNYC Kinda risky though as often the next step for Shopify will be to build it into their UI, making your app redundant. Which is potentially going to be the case now for any competitors of Checkout Blocks, or even apps doing a much narrower scope at a lower price.

What @gilgNYC did to got from 0 to $10M in two years with Checkout Blocks: Take a new Shopify API, repackage it as a no-code solution. New Shopify API = use case validated by Shopify No-Code solution = large market

Beware easy validation.

Prophets of doom profit from gloom. Be skeptical of those whose incentives are contrary to yours.

@hamadamahdii @kylegawley `mx-auto` applies `margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;`. From a speed/characters written standpoint that savings adds up. Also I work at an agency where we frequently have to work with legacy code and inconsistent designs. It's very useful in this context.

Okay I just double-checked and you are right. Most of them are one class for one CSS property. My bad for the oversight! However, let's take bg-red-500, bg-red-600 etc. as an example. It allows me to quickly apply different shades of red without manually defining each shade in my CSS. The shades look great out of the box. I'm not the best with shades of different colors so this works great for me!

I've never understood the appeal of Tailwind The power of CSS is reusable classes Style once → apply anywhere Modifying a Tailwind style means doing a find and replace on 100s of instances of an HTML object What am I missing?

NO CHEATING. Type your name in the GIF bar and see what comes up.

@babysoftluke @AJA_Cortes I got myself one of these which has been incredible beneficial for ankle strength/overall balance: roguefitness.com/slackblock

@AJA_Cortes best ankle strengthening exercises? (and improves flexibility of ankle)

LATE NIGHT FITNESS AMA: I got to stay up for a client call whose in Asia Until then, Lets get some questions answered reminder that "thoughts??" is not a question

@venturetwins @gbrulte This is either South Park level satire (in which case I love it), or someone wrote that copy non-sarcastically, which...🤦‍♂️

@gbrulte goody2.ai

Someone finally made a chatbot for the EU

@heyalexfriedman Starting a men's support group has been phenomenally beneficial for my mental health and that of my friends! brandonolin.com/supporting-men/

I’d say almost 50% of the men I know have very few friends or no friends they see regularly. How do we encourage men to make more friends?

@dannypostma Love the concept, but given that Hisense is a Chinese company I feel Hisense is going to come with a lot of the privacy/backdoor issues that a Huawei phone will have. Do you think that's a reasonable concern?

TIL e-ink phones are a thing and I now absolutely want one Seems like the best way to curb phone addiction while still being reachable, have access to podcasts and have a pocket sized e-reader

Ban it!

This is exactly correct and why the middle in this graph feels lost. The far left will prey on that because they will now tell you that you are a racist nazi and everything else under the sun, but make no mistake, they are the ones wanting to silence speech, control your movements, and destroy freedom in this country. A divided house doesn’t stand nor does a country. Democrats - take back your party.

@0x15f This is what we use for new devs at my agency: udemy.com/course/shopify… - from @weeklyhow We use tailwindCSS as part of our standard setup so it's particularly relevant, but it's a solid course all around.

Who has the best content/courses for someone new to building Shopify Themes? Compiling a list of content for a colleague who is a full-stack developer (primarily backend but knowledgeable with html/css/js)

What platform risk?

@WarrenDavidson I generally try to reserve judgement on such things until I've had a chance to sift through the details myself, but that is...concerning, to say the least.

@WarrenDavidson Fun that when you try to access the full legislation PDf to see what it actually says on the site for it: digitalequityact.org It looks like it's been taken down.

Having failed to pass the RESTRICT ACT, the authoritarians have used other means to fully control the internet. And no one is even talking about it… “Not with a bang but a whimper.”

My rule for life: Don’t complain about anything. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, complaining is just a waste of energy.

@harleyf As a Shopify agency dev: people realize that with online shopping the date is somewhat arbitrary, and if you launch your sale early you can potentially capture customers limited holiday budgets before your competitors.

It looks like Black Friday / Cyber Monday shopping is well underway.... I’m seeing discounts start way in advance of any other year. Anyone else noticing the same?

@RyeMcKenzie Startup. Korean drama about a startup accelerator. Obligatory KDrama love triangle aside, the tech and entrepreneurship aspects of the story are very good.

What’s the best tv series with a business spin (Mad men/billions/succession/etc…)?