Greg Ellis

Unpopular opinion: AI’s worst code doesn’t even come close to the absolute garbage I’ve had to clean up from humans. Post your worst inherited code story below👇

@junonewscom reckless immigration, never ending foreign aid, Bill C-22, stealing a majority through floor crossing, and actively working to destroy relations with our largest trading partner wasn’t the mandate of Liberal Party either but they did it anyway.

CBC REPORTER: "Did you try to persuade her [Danielle Smith] not to put a question on separation to Alberta voters in October?" PM CARNEY: "Is it helpful to ask these fundamental questions? No, it's not helpful... [this question] wasn't in the mandate of the governing party."

@CarlosBBuild It should probably be increased to $999/year

The $99 Apple Developer fee is a form of quality control

@badlogicgames and no one outside of X gives a shit anyway so don't worry about it

if we see this, we know

Music videos died because creating them was too expensive. AI is about to bring them back. Every song can now become: • vocals only • drums only • bass only • instrumentals only in real time. This is running live inside ClubDJ Pro.

@0xDesigner Must be a skill issue then. My AI coded apps work just fine and i ship faster than ever. I have been writing C++ and many other languages for 30 years... but i haven't looked at code or wrote any code for 6 months, but I'm still shipping high quality software.

@cubesol_greg i mean obv need code to build an app, but whether it works or not is not necessary

"the app store is going to be flooded with vibe coded apps" brother, have you ever tried vibe coding with xcode? i'd rather learn to write swift by hand. i think the app store is going to have the opposite problem: no one is going to want build native apps anymore because it's a total headache. normalize PWA's or something. idk i can't take it anymore.

@0xDesigner i mean obv need to push the build to a device, but otherwise xcode is not necessary.

@cubesol_greg so how do you vote and test changes

@SD_Ashira @Thomasbcn There are many… they survive by buying fake 5 star reviews

@cubesol_greg @Thomasbcn Going back to the long and short term aspect, I have never really seen an app that launched bad and found success ... continue to stay bad. Those that do are replaced very easily and very quickly

The app slop is out of control... Legit devs trying to provide value are hindered by scammers who ship lame tiktok>onboarding>paywall flows that overpromises and don't deliver anything... but short term revenue. Apple needs to act and push them back into the open web

@asaio87 …and they will soon be replaced by businesses that don’t 😂

Believe or not there are still many companies where devs write 90% of the code manually. I can’t believe it either.

Unpopular opinion: Apple should raise developer fee to $999/year. If $999 ends your “business,” it wasn’t one. Every indie dev complaining about App Store slop is also the reason it exists. Zero technical barrier. $99 financial barrier. No quality barrier. No skill barrier. No capital barrier. No other industry works like this. You can’t open a restaurant for $99. You can’t get shelf space at Target for $99. This is why the store is drowning in AI-generated garbage with predatory paywalls, surviving on TikTok traffic because they can’t survive on merit.

The barrier to entry when the appstore first showed up in 2009 was massive. You needed to learn objective-c and memory management etc… It was technical barrier to entry that protected the app store from garbage. Now we need financial barrier to entry to replace it since technical barrier to entry is gone

@cubesol_greg @Thomasbcn And price indie devs out? How would a small developer / business be able to afford that when just starting out? That's a huge risk to take. I do agree that Apple should have tighter controls around slop apps and scummy tactics

The App Store stopped being a curated marketplace and became a dumping ground because the barrier to entry is basically zero. A serious software business can afford a lot more than $99/year. The current pricing was designed for a pre-AI world where people weren’t uploading 500 garbage apps a week.

@asaio87 I wrote code for 30 years… it was never writing the code that I enjoyed. I just enjoyed making things. So I’m fine not going back to coding by hand.

I don’t want to go back to code by hand. I have 15 years of experience and I loved writing code at first but got to be tired at some point AI offers you the perfect way to ditch the code typing. I don’t think we are going back to code by hand ever again And I am glad even if I enjoy software development and always have

@SD_Ashira @Thomasbcn I don’t think so. The best products don’t always win. The best marketed products do. That’s the whole problem

The free market solves this already. Good apps will continue to succeed in the long term, bad ones will fail in the long term. The short term is just noise that you shouldn't worry about. People don't want to pay for apps to begin with, good or bad, so I don't think anyone should be worried that people will continue paying for crap that doesn't give value

@AghBlargh @segun_os_ Thanks, I appreciate the compliment. Means a lot.

@cubesol_greg @segun_os_ oh that is pretty cool. Good job

you literally cannot vibe code c++ char is an 8 bit string that can also be an unsigned 8 bit int depending on how you use it. the level of precision required to write c++ is too high for vibecoding. there are just too many quirks in the language.

@gilbert_jc no need for one

my engineer friends here, are you guys still using an IDE? hearing more and more than lots of developers simply don’t even use one anymore i guess lots of my former customers still are, considering they’re in air-gapped deployments what do you say ?

@n3crafter @AnthropicAI Total C++ (.cpp and .h) for desktop build. cross-platform win/mac. iOS is a separate swift codebase sharing same audio/video libraries

@cubesol_greg @AnthropicAI Is that total line count and is it cross platform?

Same. 30,730 lines of C++ DJ software, all @AnthropicAI Claude Code. And to the "you can't vibe code C++" crowd... receipts 👇

My tech stack for the DJ software i created with Claude Code is actually very complex technically. Claude Code does a great job. I just had to build it slowly, incrementally. And, yes Claude Code writes beautiful code, much better than most human developers.