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David Wells

@DavidWells

Fullstack dev. Writing https://t.co/DiwV1jc4Mw & building https://t.co/rLboZAvqqf @Netlify, @goServerless, @Mulesoft, @VendiaHQ & @HubSpot alum Have fun & build awesome.

San Francisco Katılım Şubat 2008
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David Wells
David Wells@DavidWells·
🆕 Excited to announce the Cognito book I've been working on for the past several months. Learn how to use one of the most powerful, scalable, and affordable user authentication services around. cognitobook.com
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David Wells@DavidWells·
Pretty sure this CAPTCHA is training weapons systems to become more efficient elephant-killing machines, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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David Wells@DavidWells·
Don't worry I'm fixing it
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Tobias Schmidt
Tobias Schmidt@tpschmidt_·
AWS CLI v2.34.0 finally shipped structured error output 🎉 Errors now include the actual useful details by default. Before this, you'd get a generic "The specified bucket does not exist" message. Now you see which bucket name caused the problem right in the error output.
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David Wells
David Wells@DavidWells·
Woke up & chose v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ slop-fork today
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David Wells@DavidWells·
@mattpocockuk You have to buy the mac mini windows app that comes with a peripheral box you plugin 😅
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Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock@mattpocockuk·
What alternatives are there to docker sandbox for sandboxing Claude Code? It's unreliable as hell on WSL. /sandbox doesn't do what I want - cc can always get around it and it doesn't allow for properly AFK workflows.
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David Wells@DavidWells·
@kmelve ooooo i like every. they are doing cool stuff thanks dude
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David Wells@DavidWells·
I need a collaborative google docs but for markdown only product very badly... Comments, live edits, Markdown for the devs, WYSIWYG for the non-devs. Collaborating in beautiful harmony. Do you exist? I'm writing markdown and then shoving that in the notion, and it ain't it, Chief.
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David Wells@DavidWells·
@Doomlaser Yeah. Thats the next phase 😅 Mans search for meaning TBD
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Mark Johns / Doomlaser@Doomlaser·
@DavidWells Aren't the same kinds of trends that built the models of today coming for those types of tasks that you've "moved up the chain" to as well?
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David Wells@DavidWells·
I went through this exact thing about ~8 months ago. Everyone must pass through the phase of AI existential dread and developer ego death. After much internal deliberation I've come to the realization: The genie is out of the bottle, and instead of just three wishes, it comes with 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 😅 So, the focus changes from the artisanal line by line code crafting and shifts into deeper architectural & product decisions, that 𝗜 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲. It's now 99% product planning & research around edge cases/what's possible/competitors and like 1% typing syntax. Instead of the 75% code / ~25% planning of yesteryear. Once you see it, you see it.
Mo@atmoio

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

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David Wells@DavidWells·
If you've worked with API gateways, MCP Gateways are a similar concept. Centralized auth, rate limiting, observability etc. but built for agentic workflows talking to your (I'm sure) large array of SaaS systems. The key differentiator? They can redact sensitive PII fields before data ever reaches the LLM. Essential infrastructure as enterprises scale AI agents. Stitching together [SaaS tool XYZ] with [SaaS tool ABC] with [Data lake tool 123] shouldn't be a vibe-coded experiment with API keys floating around all over the place 👀
VendiaHQ@VendiaHQ

An MCP gateway is an API gateway that "speaks MCP"—purpose-built to safely connect AI agents to enterprise systems. Read the article 👉 vendia.fyi/3MVnyaK #MCPGateway #APIGateway #AIArchitecture #EnterpriseAI

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David Wells@DavidWells·
This is the elephant in the AI room. The whiplash from internally vibe-coded applications is going to be biblical. From where I'm sitting, this only works for very trivial tools. The ones where your company is probably only utilizing around ~5% of the features. These things hit a wall, and only someone with 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 domain expertise and pro knowledge of how to work with agentic tools/harnesses can clean it up. Now, it's possible we break through this but... we ain't there yet.
Andrew Gazdecki@agazdecki

“So you vibe coded HubSpot and Slack replacements to save $500 per month” “Yes Dave” “And it cost you $25,000 worth of tokens to do this” “Yes Dave” “And it costs your company $50,000 per year to maintain” “Yes Dave” “And your startup is at zero revenue” “Yes Dave”

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David Wells@DavidWells·
Foundationally, you 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 an API spec (REST/GraphQL/whatever). API Spec — All the Lego pieces of your thing. ↓ SDK/CLI — Pre-assembled bricks for ease of use. ↓ MCP — Just an SDK/CLI with a hat on. Skills can be derived from any of the above. Having a JSON Schema-backed API is the base layer. Don't sleep on it.
swyx@swyx

Let's say you are an agent builder and want to integrate a promising new vendor you found. What would you be happiest to see in the docs (not based on twitter hype; you personally for your situation right now):

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David Wells@DavidWells·
@aarondfrancis if you smooth over the worktree setup (eg auto deps + env setup) they work great. Most people hit a wall with them tho for this reason. "whys this worktree branch not work but normal branches do?"
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Aaron Francis
Aaron Francis@aarondfrancis·
Why do people like git worktrees over discrete checkouts? (This isn't bait, it's research)
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