Jack Mu
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Jack Mu
@jackmuva
Vim enthusiast | Sporadic climbing videos | developer relations @useparagon
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Şubat 2025
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Forgot to post on twitter - my conversation with @thdxr from @opencode
Talked a lot about how programming is changing & not changing. I really enjoyed a lot of the historical takes that Dax has. He's building one of these "agentic coding" tools, so he sees the value in it, but he also has a healthy amount of skepticism.
A lot of the core debates about "vibe code" vs "traditional code" aren't new.
They already existed in many forms, e.g. go fast break things vs overengineering, microservices vs monolith, testing, etc.
I also really resonated with his idea of competition - was probably my favorite part, but there were many great ones!
0:00 - Intro
3:56 - Dax's developer workflow
6:54 - Is code no longer written by humans?
11:32 - Competition, Claude Code
19:04 - Positioning vs Product
23:49 - Will OpenAI acquire OpenCode?
28:02 - The Future of Coding, effort vs impact
37:16 - Code Quality
42:23 - Did AI take the fun out of programming?
45:56 - Will programming skills decay
long term?
51:56 - Technical skills alone are useless
58:56 - Becoming an Elite Developer
Thank you to our sponsors @posthog and @greptile
You can find the NeetCode podcast on YT, Spotify & Apple Podcast - links below
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This is an amazing video. What's helped me grapple with the AI vs hand-coding debate is the fact that intrinsic motivation has to be part of the equation when we talk about work.
It's not even a debate that AI can write code faster than we can. Which means AI-assisted coding/vibe coding will undoubtedly make us more productive.
But if you enjoy hand-writing code (and I definitely do), it needs to be a necessity in our work. Even if that means being "sub-optimal." What may seem "sub-optimal" in the short term, may actually be more optimal in the long term.
Someone who has a healthy WLB may seem "sub-optimal" to someone who works 24/7. But in the long-term, the former may outlast and outproduce the latter.
Hand-writing code gives us energy, enjoyment, deep focus time, and I'm sure other benefits that each of us finds intrinsically positive. With these intrinsic motivators, we'll be able to work longer (over years and years) rather than burning out hard and fast in a job that we find soulless.
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This is what I was working on! Unlike a codebase, it's harder to see what pages on your marketing site need to be changed when a new component is introduced
Because we're launching a new product, we needed a way to "crawl" our site, and "audit" each page with an agent
Built with @firecrawl and @vercel's ai-gateway btw
Jack Mu@jackmuva
The past couple days I’ve revisited building for CLI, and took a break from webdev. It’s fun working with the filesystem and a different UX … and nice not having to spam react, html, and tailwind
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@NewAgeRetroNerd ❤️this
went to a local card shop and they only had magic and Pokémon cards 💔
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If you guys haven't seen @bigboxSWE's video on recreational programming, it's all about building just to learn and have fun.
Not a startup idea or side hustle.
So here's my [E]ditor agent, complete with subagents and tools, built in Go with no libraries, just LLM API calls
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@Vtrivedy10 is ahead of the curve on agent engineering, follow for more early insights!
Viv@Vtrivedy10
OpenAI talking about harness engineering too *taps sign from many months ago*
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