Panic! In the kennel
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Panic! In the kennel
@kennel_panic
Senior Software Engineer @SpeechifyAI
Confession: if I had kids, they'd be screen-free until they're practically teenagers, like 15
We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds. We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers. We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate. The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best. That's not education. That's sabotage. The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying. Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.
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:
While everybody seems yolo'ing it with Claude & Co., the more I work with Claude, the more I feel knowledge of the elders matters more than ever to avoid slopocalypse: TDD, refactoring, patterns, architecture, clean code, ... @KentBeck, @martinfowler, @Grady_Booch, @unclebobmartin, ...
