
Chris Edwards
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Chris Edwards
@ChrisEdwards357
Follower of Christ, Husband, Father, AI Enthusiast






For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.





It just always seems to want to add sub phases to a sub phase of a phase. It never really got anything complete. As part of normal conversation, you may mention something, next think you know its created a sub phase. Then your answering a question about the main phase, but then its tacked on 3 questions about this new subphase do this a few times and you're managing the flow instead of this meta framework managing it for you. It's hard to get 1 response that is a few paragraphs about what you are working on, where it shoves in issue F12 on SHA 12345, gives you 3 options to pick from to solve something then immediately starts talking about the new imagined phase from an off hand comment about the original architecture and how it just rewrote everything to accommodate your last off hand statement, and then give you another 3 questions (so 6 total now) asking for you to make a decision on it all. -- seems like i'm rambling, but actually happened today when building an AI Gateway backed by OpenRouter and me asking if we are OpenAI protocol compliant (i.e. can we use the OpenAI Sdk to interface with the new Gateway)



In the last four Claude Code CLI releases, we’ve shipped 50+ stability and performance fixes. Faster resume, stable auth, lower memory, fewer hangs: 🧵




I have probably never sent an email to an employee of Linear. Only when there is an external person involved. It’s Slack or Linear





















