William Roush

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William Roush

William Roush

@StrangeWill

Founder, Investor, Engineer @RoushTech | Building @RaptifyApp (and a ton others). Software, virtualization, storage, networking, VOIP & more.

Soddy Daisy, TN Katılım Ekim 2011
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
Everyone checks site speed the same way. Run a test once, get a number, feel something, close the tab. Then nobody looks again for two months. Your site changed 8 times in that window. You measured 3. Wrote up why that math never works: raptifyapp.com/blog/how-most-…
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beckett‼️
beckett‼️@ecombeckett·
1,000 merchants with Affilitrak!
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@bendee983 10x? No But we're seeing many businesses take advantage of "Well we had a budget of $50k and we no longer need to cut out $a $b and $c" Which makes sense, it *is* intensifying work.
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Ben Dickson
Ben Dickson@bendee983·
AI coding agents will enable software engineers (and AI engineers) to do more with less In existing markets, this means that companies can 1) either do the same amount of work with fewer engineers who use AI 2) hire more engineers (e.g., double their staff) and do 10x more with AI But another effect of the falling cost of software is that many industries that previously couldn't afford bespoke software can now hire small engineering teams that can build software for them. In other words, the market for software will expand with the help of AI. Bottom line: Software engineers will be in more demand, not less. It might take some time to get there, but it will happen.
Sam Altman@sama

so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact. it is possible this direction keeps going!

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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
> We'll just write good specs! I've watched like 100 teams say they'll do that, and fucking suck at it, but good luck my dudes.
Steve Krouse@stevekrouse

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*

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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@MichaelArnaldi Stupid and industrious has always been dangerous. We just made a lot of stupid people industrious.
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Michael Arnaldi
Michael Arnaldi@MichaelArnaldi·
This will piss you off but it's true
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
> Being the bottleneck is ok, your ideas are not that great. This x1000, all the sudden we can ship every idea easily, what does that result in? A bunch of $0 MRR apps. If your idea isn't going to take a solid 6+ weeks of effort, *with AI* it still doesn't have value.
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen

I find that is you are going to generate a bunch of code, knowing the interfaces, structs, and functions will lead to much better outcomes. Being the bottleneck is ok, your ideas are not that great.

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Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance
Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance@ClassicGamerTWR·
The last 20 years of Software Engineering can be summed up as, “My problem is hard. Let’s keep adding abstractions until I don’t have to think about how hard my problem is.” The problem is still hard. We’ve made it harder by scattering the logic across frameworks and dependencies so we don’t feel the pain as acutely.
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@trashpandaemoji The entire point of lead engineering was to focus on design and have others do the bulk load of implementation All we did was change that offload
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Trash Panda 🦝
Trash Panda 🦝@trashpandaemoji·
Is it really that baffling that people get into the field of software engineering and don't like to code?
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
As someone that's paying for the teams using this stuff: No, but it's helping, we won't be able to afford enterprise rates but early reports of large corps moving to open models is positive for large cost savings. It's the sweet spot we need to be in for when the subsidies stop.
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camsoft2000@camsoft2000·
Has AI actually made us 10x developers or even 2x? Sure we can pretend we do more by pumping out AI slop and I do my fair share of this but production quality work feels more painful, spend too much of my time either waiting or reviewing AI’s incomprehensible code and summaries. I’ve got AI burnout. Maybe this is just a phase but I want to be able to relax in an evening without doom scrolling on X reading about AI this AI that.
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@TalktoHenryJ There's some things I *think* it struggles with less (we'll see) but I've accidentally had it on for a total of like 12 sessions and didn't notice lol
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Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson@TalktoHenryJ·
I keep using Fable but honestly... I am not sure its worth it. It's eating all of my credits but is it actually good? Im honestly not sure if its any better than Opus lol
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@lenatron33 Opus found it okay to just... *remove* a critical column that it thought wasn't needed until I reviewed and asked it about it. If I vibed it, I would have toasted a SaaS. This would have got an engineer in hot water. You can't really fire the LLM (nor does it care)
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Lena
Lena@lenatron33·
People act like developers weren't breaking production in much dumber ways long before AI.
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@mSanterre Lately?! We've had that issue for decades, it's just even easier now (so even worse), I'd say it's above 80% easily. Many times before AI people would just be regurgitating things their *team* did that they had maybe a marginal contribution (and understanding of)
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SE Hozaifa
SE Hozaifa@SeHozaifa·
Software Engineers 👋 How many unfinished side projects do you have? Be honest. 👀
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@piq9117 The number of bugs we find and fix by adding type safety is absurd.
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piq and 69 others
piq and 69 others@piq9117·
nah. I love types, I've worked with TS for years(since 0.8) and I still write TS. and I agree I do not see a lot of benefits to it. So far Purescript(Phil Freeman era) and Melange is where I got a lot of benefits from
stupid tech takes@stupidtechtakes

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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@_dylanga Open/easy voice channels are nice, better than Slack's calls for quality and stability. We actually use it, but I wish we had something better, and at some point we'd probably bite the bullet even if we didn't find something as nice for voice.
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Dylan Garcia
Dylan Garcia@_dylanga·
Slack > Discord for work. Discord has no reason to add any features you need for your company. They’re building for gamers. Gamers don’t care about anything business do.
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@Jackdoesai It is if you don't care. If you care you start hitting walls and frustration.
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Jack Gray
Jack Gray@Jackdoesai·
Unpopular opinion: Vibe coding isn’t as easy as everyone makes it out to be.
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William Roush
William Roush@StrangeWill·
@0xIlyy I mean it's a bias issue: AI lowered the bar, so by its very nature it's going to produce a lot of slop output. It also allows bad developers who used to be slow, to be fast and bad. Top devs are more efficient but you're massively outnumbered by bad devs who are now faster.
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ily⚡️
ily⚡️@0xIlyy·
It makes me cringe when people talk about AI code as "slop". AI is garbage in garbage out. If your AI code sucks, it means YOU suck as an engineer. You couldn’t even explain what you want to an AI that has been RL’d on millions of similar chats.
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