Sandy Smith

@trumwill Fuck those weak high cholesterol Zocorheads

Profit!

@aarondfrancis Profit!!

ok now what

@CaseySoftware @laracasts 2 things: - Vibe coding works best with clean etc. code if you’re not starting from scratch. - People describing their problems accurately and being able to communicate solutions in a way AI can understand didn’t work with offshoring code; I doubt people have improved.

@laracasts I've been thinking along the same lines for a few years and working with the assumption of "what if this code isn't for humans to read" for almst a year. Finally turned it into concrete ideas here: caseysoftware.com/blog/developer…

I'm done.

This, 100% and, in order: Cut your expenses Build reserves Leverage that income to accelerate revenue in the new business.. equipment, contract staff, whatever Starting is HARD, but this will make it both easier (financially) and harder (schedule)

@vir_innominatum I’m also available at @SandyS1@phpc.social on Mastodon, but I’m rarely on there either. I think Bluesky can access that.

@SandyS1 I'm rarely here either. I got an app notification that you posted here for the first time in a while or I'd likely never have known. I'm moderately active on Blue sky. Same user name. Handle has a hyphen instead of an underscore. No fb account. Take care.

I know a few people still hang out here who aren’t FB friends and may not know: I’m undergoing treatment for the most common type of lymphoma. Fortunately it was symptomatic immediately and was caught extremely early. Already it’s responding to treatment, and there’s every

@vir_innominatum No. I’m rarely here. I mostly just post silly memes on FB.

@SandyS1 Good luck. Are you on Blue sky?

I was at many manufacturing security conferences in '25 and this was one of their top concerns.. If the machine itself is designed to work against you at a hardware level, you lose You have to design for malicious equipment inside the most sensitive part of your network

@_KevinSmith Huh. Sounds like a “them” problem. Apparently Gen X uses semicolons, and this triggers some people. 🤷‍♂️ Apparently I’m going to be seen as a Gen X AI. 😆

@SandyS1 Whatever I wrote will immediately be assumed to have been generated by an LLM.

I feel like I can't use em dashes ever again.

The more you use other package managers, the more you’ll appreciate PHP’s Composer.

all my homies hate pip

I am sick of the constant lies

@jwage Finally!

I have an announcement

@tjlytle …Of the last disease you’ll ever get?

Things I didn't expect to hear in a meeting today: "Rabies is a great example."

Noticing myself adopting a certain rhythm in AI-assisted coding (i.e. code I actually and professionally care about, contrast to vibe code). 1. Stuff everything relevant into context (this can take a while in big projects. If the project is small enough just stuff everything e.g. `files-to-prompt . -e ts -e tsx -e css -e md --cxml --ignore node_modules -o prompt.xml`) 2. Describe the next single, concrete incremental change we're trying to implement. Don't ask for code, ask for a few high-level approaches, pros/cons. There's almost always a few ways to do thing and the LLM's judgement is not always great. Optionally make concrete. 3. Pick one approach, ask for first draft code. 4. Review / learning phase: (Manually...) pull up all the API docs in a side browser of functions I haven't called before or I am less familiar with, ask for explanations, clarifications, changes, wind back and try a different approach. 6. Test. 7. Git commit. Ask for suggestions on what we could implement next. Repeat. Something like this feels more along the lines of the inner loop of AI-assisted development. The emphasis is on keeping a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge of software, but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for good code. And emphasis on being slow, defensive, careful, paranoid, and on always taking the inline learning opportunity, not delegating. Many of these stages are clunky and manual and aren't made explicit or super well supported yet in existing tools. We're still very early and so much can still be done on the UI/UX of AI assisted coding.

@RayPaseur Any exceptions for life of the child? And do, e.g., Christian Scientists get to refuse, say, insulin for a Type 1 diabetic?

At last: A voice of common sense from a Government!

@CaseySoftware @joedevon That said, it’s also an indictment of the length of copyright in the US. Right now they can grab a few things from the 1920s, but Google has access to…everything (except news articles in some countries). That discrepancy seems off. Maybe something like robots.txt?

@joedevon Allowing a company to ignore the law for "national security" isn't going to work out (again) They need a better model, preferably something that compensates the creators in some way but hopefully gets some sort of confirmation/opt in But the scale & complexity of that.. whew

Thoughts?