David Zhou
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David Zhou
@dz
Tweets my own. Engineering Manager @netflix. Jokes probably stolen from Reddit. he/him.

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US theverge.com/news/899172/fc…



Two thoughts: 1-This is mind blowing 2-Imagine if you could do this for your whole operating system and the apps in it. Live re-style my OS so all UIs look as if they were made out of steel, wood, glass, cartoon, etc. Just because why not.

I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.

Our cracked team just used Software Factory to rebuild and replace Jira in a little more than a month. We first spent 3.5 weeks planning. This is Software Factory’s superpower. It allowed our lead PM, Designer and Architect to thoughtfully describe and detail exactly what they wanted. Software Factory then did the heavy lifting in filling in the blanks and allowing our senior tech folks to sharpen the direction of what they wanted. Then in 2.5 weeks 2.5 junior devs built a replacement. This will launch as an updated Planner module inside of Software Factory on Tuesday. It’s beautiful, clean and super useful. Try it here: 8090.ai

This is absolutely insane 🫠 People are yearning for a LOTR game like this. We’ve somehow normalized waiting 2 years for 6 episodes of a TV show and a decade for a game sequel. Imagine getting a new GTA game every year. AI will replace the bottlenecks, not human direction.

An alternate take on this whole thing: Asian cuisines are actually one of the most approchable ones for people with poor executive dysfunction! Soy sauce, mirin, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, etc are shelf stable and basically never go bad. Staples like dried noodles, rice, can live in your pantry forever too, and frozen veg and protein that you'd add anyway makes things really easy Meanwhile pretty sure even my dried herbs amount to vaguely plant-like flavors when i use them now...





