Christian Findlay

And here it is!!! My new programming language Osprey! This has been a 20 year long dream, finally made possible with AI assistance. So stoked this is finally possible! 🎉 Stars and shares appreciated! ✨ ospreylang.dev

How does one build a React based ecommerce site with some static content features like blogs these days?

@zfcflower AI is masterful at Rust No need to push through that learning curve I’ve built tonnes of stuff with Rust and I know very little

@CFDevelop I've struggled, tried Rust and Zig languages occasionally, and found that it's still more important to solve the problem

Writing code was never the point Solving problems was always the point Time to let go of the desire for control You’re not a coder anymore You’re a software developer and that’s better

@inforhino Trust is not a component of software engineering or any kind of software engineering Actually, the whole point of engineering is to eliminate trust Is this your YouTube video? I’d like to do a YouTube session with this person

@CFDevelop Am very much in the middle camp. You see there are a few rational voices that seem to be lower level, explaining things in an imbalanced view. Their view is they cannot trust AI but do use it for many tasks. youtu.be/UDk54j7JX9I

@Dorizzdt lol, you should see my chats

@CFDevelop "grant me the serenity to let go of the things i cannot control..."... but we still get to yell and beat the AI agents when they screw up right....

I’m building a complex system with many moving parts I have a support agent on each repo polling for Too Many Cooks messages every 5 mins They all stay in there lane and work together to get the system running It’s amazing

@LyalinDotCom Same. It almost feels like a crime to not be creating constantly I get guilt from not using up all my tokens If people knew what they could be building, I think they’d be stunned

In the last 12 months I built and reasonably used and/or shared my first ✅ NPM package ✅ Electron project ✅ multiple CLI tools including three different CLI coding harnesses (mostly for learning) ✅ designed/contributed code to over 5+ Gemini CLI features that shipped ✅ had a GitHub contributions graphic worth sharing ✅ small games (good enough that my kids, at six, liked them) ✅ working project in Go ✅ built my own AI agent ✅ integrated with Telegram to automate my own agent ✅ learned how to run offline models And a ton more. God, this is too much fun.

@simas_ch I literally get agents in one repo to log issues for other repos and then message the other agents in the other repo on Too Many Cooks. Those agents pick up the issues, write failing tests, fix the bugs and redeploy.

AI is changing how we contribute to open source. A detailed issue with clear context and acceptance criteria might now be more helpful than a PR. The maintainer can use their own AI tools with full project context to implement it well. The value shifts from writing code to describing the problem clearly. This is what Spec-Driven Development is about.

@LyalinDotCom Deployment is still the thing that burns time I spend more time debugging deployment issues and figuring out how to work around OS issues than actually building the apps

You can just cook any basic MacOS, Electron app or CLI tool you want in a few hours now using the top models. Its just crazy. In a week you should be able to ship it customers. Not everything is possible yet, there are limits, but i mean... This still feels unreal.

@LyalinDotCom I know exactly what you mean

Sitting at a pool, while my kid and grandpa swim, working on my MacBook Air to build some new concepts using AI, while connected to my Pro device at home running a long goal agent watching it over cell tether. Imagine how this would have sounded to someone in 2001.

@iMBA I see what you mean. Actually I have done that as well, but that’s not what this is in the diagram. This is for a dev tool that’s on its way

@CFDevelop Of course, I'd checked out typeDiagram sometime last week when you had tweeted about it. I know this. With today's post, I just misunderstood that you've created an agentic orchestration layer on top.

typeDiagram is really awesome. All my extensions communicate with IPC messages across processes and now I've delegated all the code generation to typeDiagram so I don't need to write models for each language. So good

@Dorizzdt @JPaddo It’s good but I still wish it had XAML

@CFDevelop Recently took a spin with Flutter. @JPaddo pushed me to try it for a work project, so I took out for a test spin and it's performance once I tuned it was like way out in front on the rest for mobile. Plus its DOM language lends itself naturally to quick design tooling bridging.

10 years ago, this would have been amazing win for everyone involved. Today, I do not see any upside anymore for feeding this beast especially with AI giving you native go big or go home moves. UI Development in the Microsoft community has been an absolute disaster, it has fragmented and scattered to the wind in so many directions since WinForms was told "not cool anymore" (despite it still being used today). Broken promises, strategy shifts, more broken promises and it going dormant has made targeting Windows somewhat a bit of a "why bother?" when react / shadcn for day to day business applications can absorb most of the body blows. Then if you *have* to target Windows Desktop, sure I can see you biting into this cherry, but tbh I'd probably ask the question outloud "whos this for and is a thick abstraction layer framework heavy client really going to give you return on costs?" As remember the ONLY reason you would head down this path is because you have a team of devs who are skittish about UI development at the best of times and you need a common meeting point of minds. You need a way to retain your C# skills but do the UI heavy lifts. You need a way to bind that data to that control and not get stuck in theology wars over MVC? MVP? MVVM? wtf?? Like I said 10 years ago, easy sell. No brainer. Today, by far the hardest thing you have to do now is convince a team to even weigh up the consequences of NOT touching a Windows only client. There just isn't an incentive I can see at even enterprise level anymore.

@Dorizzdt But as a Flutter dev, I barely have to do anything to build amazing UIs. But that’s not even the biggest issue for me. The bigger issue is that these apps are not even sandboxed by default AFAIK. Even web is a better experience. Hard to understand why it went so pair shaped

@Dorizzdt I’ve tried again and again to build modern UIs with AI and XAML. I’ve gotten nowhere. Don’t get me wrong. I think Silverlight was on the right track and if it had continued, we might have modern XAML UIs by now…

@iMBA This Is deterministic. It’s more less just a language for defining types

@CFDevelop This will certainly have its own quirks and failure patterns. So, you'll probably have to have correctness review layers with each node having a combo of deterministic+prose acceptance criterion definition.

@iMBA No, it’s just a markdown language for defining algebraic data types and they get rendered as diagrams. But also generate code

@CFDevelop So, is it like a recursive agent tree DAG with hyper focused narrowly scoped node agents? If that's so, it's such a cool idea with typeDiagram already solving for design parity. The node agents could actually run on low end models here!

@weswinham It’s the same principles. Just a different approach.

@CFDevelop Definitely learnable

ML is a genuine discipline AI is not a discipline There is no special skill involved. You just send and receive text I don’t understand how people can get paid so much for this

@Plebian_2 I just say 500 LOC max for every file in the instructions

@CFDevelop Yep, all abstractions are leaky. If it's hard for a human it's hard for the AI. My first attempt at building my chess app resulted in a monolith that's impossible to fathom. Every agent says, that is a big file!, and struggles. AI works better with many small primitives.

It’s the exact opposite. Code is more expensive than ever Code is a liability and AI is the firehose pointed at your business’s ROI I’ve seen it first hand My days are mostly DEDICATED to code rationing. This is in every repo I touch: “TOTAL CSS budget : max 1.5k LOC”

@weswinham I totally agree. A lot of my tests involve using invoking an LLM to verify the results of an agent It’s painstaking work. It’s probably 2-3x more time consuming and flaky. It’s also a lot more expensive But, I still maintain it’s not a special skill. More of a hurdle

@CFDevelop Building reliable non-deterministic systems is not easy, though Because building reliable deterministic systems is hard enough :)