Rafael Mendiola

Ok well this was a fun project that took forever, even with AI. Sol helped a lot towards the end. This is a conversion of our Agent Manager from Vite/React to an Expo app. I made a massive comparison harness to help agents with the conversion. It took a lot of iterations to make sure the harness was able to find every single little dissimilarity, but I think we found it all. Next up is a proper mobile app (finally) and a desktop app (exciting!!)

@garrytan If only there were people with lots of money and influence who could fix this

They’re going to blame tech But the real cause: extreme restriction of housing supply and subsidized demand

@nikitabier @signulll @cortadoedison Ok so like that's your job right?

@signulll @cortadoedison For the love of god, can we get a single woman on this app without an anon account attacking them?

I love being alive

@stevekrouse > software is a creative act, where you figure out what you're building as you build it Uhhhh. Thank god buildings and bridges aren't built this way.

the problem with "spec driven development" is that most software can't be spec'd up front software is a creative act, where you figure out what you're building as you build it you need to get your hands dirty in the details, and react to incremental versions it's telling that all the examples of spec driven development are sorting a list or porting thoroughly tested code (like a js runtime or browser engine), which are the exception, not the rule. the vast majority of software doesn't have a spec – or if it does, the spec was created *after*

@peer_rich But why are we taking their enterprise price as the real cost? If they doubled their enterprise price does it mean we're getting extra value in the subscription? The numbers are made up

the correction will hit worse than the $10 uber drives

@Alonso_GD Not really, this is based on the fact that the Argentina team is full of jerks, there's FIFA favoritism, and that Messi doesn't get red cards when he's supposed to. This is entirely about soccer. The rest of the time we're like oh they have good steak.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but this is what is known as “Global South innocence”: the idea that things are postcolonially good or bad depending on whether they come from the Global North (“bad”) or the Global South (“good”) - and it’s a very bad way of looking at the world

Sometimes you need to recognise if you are in an abusive relationship

You can have Fable. You can't have Fable. You can have Fable. You can't have Fable.

@kimmonismus They gotta care about subscriptions because that's their pipeline to enterprise

sorry, i call bs. In my opinion, Anthropic isn't worried about losing customers. And the reason is quite simple: They barely make any money in the B2C sector. Subscriptions are heavily subsidized; their compute and Fable 5 are primarily intended for businesses and enterprises, and these customers are willing to pay immensely high costs for them. This is also Anthropic's main source of revenue; it's the area where they are far ahead of OpenAI. Dario certainly isn't losing sleep over this and isn't running around hysterically because he's afraid consumers will cancel their subsidized Max plans due to the lack of Fable 5. At best, this will free up more compute for the relevant areas.

I just hope all the teams have fun. Except for Argentina

@PatoCanavati Se van a hechar in partidazo cuál es el problema?

Cuántos mexicanos habrá hoy en las tribunas de Miami porque decidieron confiar en que se jugaba el sexto partido. Chinguen a su madre Edson y Jorge.

@ChrisCillizza You're allowed to use your words and kindly ask the passenger in front of you not to recline. If you treat others like humans instead of NPCs you make announcements to on social media you'll have better success.

I am 6'3". I NEVER recline my seat. You shouldn't either. Don't be the worst.

I keep thinking about something I read: how during the Second Industrial Revolution, factories didn’t become dramatically more efficient as soon as they adopted electricity. Factories initially replaced their steam engine with an electric motor while leaving the existing workflows intact. The productivity gains actually came later, when factories reorganized their layouts and production processes. This is the recurring pattern with new technology. We insert it into the existing systems, and only later do we figure out that we needed to redesign those systems and update our thinking. In 2026 we're mostly inserting AI into the surfaces that have existed for the last decade: Slack, Jira, Notion, Salesforce, IDEs. There isn't enough discussion about whether those surfaces are the right form factors for AI. Putting agents into those systems may be useful, but it could also be the equivalent of piping electricity through a factory that was still organized around steam. If you're a developer, you should really be revisiting your assumptions. When we look ahead two years, we can safely assume that AI systems will be much smarter and more productive than they are today. The amount of code being produced is going to explode, our capabilities will expand, and our assumptions and methodology will have to change. There's a lot of debate about whether diligent engineering means understanding every line of code an AI writes, especially when the system handles payments or other serious responsibilities. There’s a related argument that a startup shouldn’t build something like its own CRM because doing so creates too much responsibility, so it’s better to pay a company like Salesforce (that's such a weird argument coming from non-Salesforce engineers tbh). I feel strongly that's pre-2026 thinking. You gotta throw those rules away. You gotta be thinking constantly about the road ahead.

Sir, if we pull Fable out of the subscription, our next best model is Opus 4.8 and even Grok beats that now, let alone GPT Sol. we'd be charging $200/month for third place.

I would challenge that the national soccer team is popular. It's not popular to the relative levels that other soccer national teams are popular in their countries. Mexico is more popular in the US than the US soccer team. Both the national soccer team and the MLS capture the same amount of attention, which is 4th place after football, baseball, basketball.

Can someone explain to me why the U.S. national soccer team is so popular in the USA while MLS is largely ignored domestically? 🤔 #FIFAWorldCup #USMNT

Key distinction here: aggregate. It's a system that understands the entire codebase. Not one individual developer. And again, the CTO doesn't understand the entire codebase, but they understand the team that they built that produces it. So there are ways to work with black box systems responsibly.

@GroundControl @janwilmake As someone on call for a system that analyzes (at the very least) hundreds of billion dollars a day for very serious people I’m not sure it’s okay for the engineers where I work to not understand every single line when you aggregate us

so before ai coding it would take much longer to build a codebase up to like 100k loc and the dev would know every bit because they had written every line with sweat and tears but now its like peanuts but the problem is nobody understands crap so now we're all learning how to code again because of this new tech and i feel like its not clear yet what is the best way: should we just not understand shit and keep talking and it will be allright or should we actually try to understand every piece of it? and how can we make sure that we can vibecode but still understand the codebase really well? because in the end i feel like the answer is somewhere in the middle

@AdmiralBear01 The idea that the US would ever win the world cup with the system that it currently has is also a total fantasy

I'm not opposed to pro/rel - in fact, I think it would be great - but the idea that the U.S. would suddenly (or even eventually) financially support hundreds of 3rd and 4th tier soccer clubs simply because those clubs could potentially get promoted is a total fantasy. Sorry.

@jdan I think it's way cheaper than they're letting on. They're using the margins for massive growth.

@hxyden Good stuff

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