Jeff Loucks

@adamwathan Was looking at using horse stall mats in my home gym to avoid stuff like this tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/ut…

Spent the last 2.5 hours on my hands and knees smoothing out every connection in the interlocking rubber floor tiles in my gym with a tiny screwdriver. Even in the age of AI it’s still satisfying to do the brainless tedious work yourself sometimes.

@GergelyOrosz @karrisaarinen If you want to be a main character, gotta work on the main quest.

Sage observation from @karrisaarinen (CEO of Linear) It now makes SO MUCH sense why I see a bunch of eng teams rebuilt a SaaS vendor in-house with AI, brag about and feel good They are doing side quests... and they don't even know it. And they are not helping their co win!!

@ThePrimeagen @toddsaunders I will happily pay a premium for software that is highly available and does not risk my personal data being exposed. If AI alone can build and maintain today's software (it currently can't), just imagine how much better software will be tomorrow when humans use AI responsibly.

@toddsaunders name the vc and name the company

We all knew this was coming… but today I heard about it actually happening. A seed stage company backed by a well known VC openly admitted (in a board deck) that their strategy is to get access to a large incumbent’s software from a customer, clone the entire thing using Claude Code, and offer it at 90% less. Not “build something better.” Just copy it and offer it for less. The VC endorsed this as the GTM strategy. And even wrote back in writing that it was a good idea. Using a customer’s licensed access to reverse engineer a product and clone it is ethically bankrupt. I don’t know how else to put it. It likely violates terms of service. It may violate trade secret law as well (but I’m certainly not a lawyer). And a reputable VC putting this in writing in a board deck is genuinely insane. But it’s going to happen anyway. Everywhere… all the time. I don’t know where this ends, but we all knew this was coming and now it’s here.

@mrpopov_com Posts like this are what get me to keep opening this app

At 1703 we migrated a production SaaS from Python/React microservices to Elixir Phoenix monolith 3 apps → 1. 4 languages → 1. 5 frameworks → 1. Thread with quick numbers breakdown:

Can someone explain what it means to have to pay $50 for free usage?

@zeeg I like the idea of mcp uis. I imagine chat app interfaces and “traditional” ui’s will both exist. Browser app, mobile app, chat app. Just more apps…

respectfully I disagree if you actually use these kinds of things in your day to day, most of it ends up significantlly worse i also dont think everyone DIY'ing their own chatbots is the answer, but I dont think this is the future what you're seeing is prior art, reinvented with new jargon. we're just going to build a variant of oembed all over again. we want to be able to embed snapshots, summaries, previews. we dont want to reduce complex interactions to a featureless chatbot with a crippled interface. we want integrated flows that can get us to answers faster, and that means using the best tool for the job.

Ok, guys. I like Claude.

@ryanflorence Because everyone is trying to ship so fast 🙃

why is nothing on the mobile web animated like this? anyway, i'm going to buy this course

@zeeg Thank you. It's driving me mildly nuts that people are speaking with such finality about not writing code anymore. AI is impressive, we are all using it, but understanding the code still matters today. Maybe not tomorrow, but I got shit to do today lol.

Not yet it isn’t. It’s probably coming (maybe even by next year), but if you value getting shit done, prompting alone is not the most effective solution. We should be honest about this. It’s more fun to exaggerate, but let’s be real.

@rough__sea How much of new Deno code is generated by AI? And how much do you intervene? I am 100% onboard with the shift that is happening, but as of today I don't see a path where we can responsibly ship code that hasn't had some human intervention, at the very least, in review.

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

I had all these app ideas that I knew would be huge if I just had the time to code them. Now with agentic coding, I officially can see that they were all bad ideas

How about instead of only coding super fast, we sometimes code super slow. Like coding but chopped and screwed.

My claude usage window reset right when I was almost at 100%, and I have never felt this kind of joy

Me too, Claude.

@wesbos When I got my first fulltime dev job in 2021 I was constantly referencing both of your courses. Wes taught me js basics and maximilian taught me vue. Thanks to both of the homies.

Oof

@wesbos @syntaxfm You gotta buy some bulk lots and just vibe build

What would one use to design a custom LEGO set? Is there software? Are there people? Any @syntaxfm fans pretty good at making things?

@charliermarsh IMO, the best of the JS full stack frameworks is SvelteKit because you can have "Server Only" Modules that error out if you try to import server code into the client. Not sure if any of the react frameworks have that concept, but it's easy to leak secrets in some of the others.

Standing up my first front-end stack in like two years and wow things remain incredibly complicated. New challenge is to identify what's supposed to be running on the client vs. the server.

@thdxr never heard of it

woah have you guys tried chatgpt it's pretty crazy

@thdxr The 2 things intersecting: scope creep and corporate bureaucracy

why is every company at the intersection of two things these days what happened to just doing one thing

@zeeg I think even if an AI generated app somewhat works as intended that it should come with a warning label for users.

This should be obvious, but I'm sure its controversial. Codegens - application-focused ones (v0, Bolt, Loveable, Same) - should target the education space, rather than pretending enterprise value exists today. It may exist someday, but the tech is not there yet.