Max Ng

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira." The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before. The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for. And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house. Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real. Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses. If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production. The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines. It never was.

@timurkhodyrev @FroozyyP Take all the time you need. Gothic deserves to not be rushed out for once!

@FroozyyP We mean it! Just a little bit more patience ❤️

@robotaxi @robotaxi Can you handle Boston?

The next cities for our Robotaxi service

@dmitri_dolgov Come to Boston! If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere.

We’re getting ready to serve snowier cities – leveraging Waymo AI and 6th-gen HW, informed by years of data from diverse winter conditions. We’re applying the same rigorous approach that allowed us to operate rider-only operations in fog, rain, and haboobs today, to soon serve riders in snow.

iOS 26 looks amazing

@gothicthegame Please fix the shifted camera. It should be centered as in the original.

We are thrilled to invite you into the brutal world of Gothic 1 Remake with a standalone demo: thqn.net/g1rd-steam Launching as part of #SteamNextFest, Nyras Prologue is a unique introduction to the unforgiving world of Gothic.

@randomrecruiter Offshoring and outsourcing of the tech jobs is a big national security threat.

Whenever I tell people about Fake Candidates in tech, they immediately think I’m full of it. But trust me, they’re more common than you think. The million dollar question though: How do these guys get a job? While its never happened to me, here’s my theory: (1/9)

The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see. Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time. To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge. Much appreciated, @US_FDA!

@KamalaHarris 25,000 towards down payment means for a typical buyer the buying capacity will increase by $100,000-$125,000 making homes less affordable and increasing average homeowner’s debt load.

Even if aspiring homeowners save for years, it is often still not enough. My administration will provide first-time homebuyers with $25,000 to help with the down payment on a new home.

@timurkhodyrev Glad you are sticking with the original atmosphere of Gothic.

In the trailer we showed you a little bit of Nameless Hero, mostly from his back. What do you think of his appearance? #Gothic #GothicRemake #Готика #ГотикаРемейк

Prisoners, it's time to face reality and embrace your fate. Make yourself at home in the Valley of Mines, a place full of danger, crime and greed. You will stay here for a very. Long. Time. #Gothic #ReturnToTheColony #THQNordic2024 youtu.be/-pwcnbZtATQ

@MikeConnollyMA @MIRACoalition @SomervilleCity x.com/wbz/status/177…

Delighted to meet with constituents, advocates, and service providers at @MIRACoalition’s Immigrants’ Day at the State House today. I’m proudly pro-Immigration — I support housing and health care for all!

Good news for home buyers and sellers! cnn.com/2024/03/15/eco…

@MikeConnollyMA Make them do public service works in exchange for shelter. At $245m for 3 months, and at $2,000/months rent, we could house 40,833 American families for 3 months!

This week, the House approved $245 million to fund the family shelter system for the next 3 months. I am proud of our commitment to the Right To Shelter law, but I think we can spend more efficiently, without imposing a time limit for families in shelter. youtu.be/t-pmyy_w0Rc?si…

@MikeConnollyMA How about we make them do public service work in exchange for shelter and food they are getting? If you need shelter - fine, everyone deserves a roof over their head. But you have to pay back to the community by doing work - clean streets, repair infrastructure, etc.

Today, I voted “No” on the House bill to impose a time limit on the right to family shelter in Massachusetts. The House plan would limit a family’s time in shelter to 9 months and allow an extra 3 months if a family member has a job or is in job training or is pregnant. I agree “something needs to be done” about the unprecedented strain on our budget, but the biggest hurdle to exiting the shelter system isn’t an unwillingness to work or a lack of initiative, but rather, it’s the ongoing lack of affordable housing. Just because you find a job doesn’t mean you can afford housing in Massachusetts. Putting an arbitrary time limit on shelter eligibility won’t change that. As it stands, we are spending way, way, WAY too much on the shelter program — roughly in excess of $100,000+ per family, per year (and this is the cost at scale). In today’s House Democratic Caucus, I expressed my concerns and suggested that our focus has to be on pushing the Administration to seek greater efficiencies on the spending side — while at the same time, doing more to address the lack of affordable housing that has been keeping families stuck in system for 13 to 14 months on average. What are we going to do now? Have the Administration continue to spend $100,000+ to shelter a family for 9 to 12 months, and then put that family back out on the street when they can’t find affordable housing? To be fair, even with the temporary changes that passed the House today, our Right To Shelter law is still the nation’s strongest, and on the floor we also took action to require competitive bidding on food services, which should do more to help control costs. The bill now moves to the state Senate for further consideration, and for my part, I remain committed to defending our Right To Shelter law and working with colleagues to address the actual problems with the current system.

@Apple why are the new emoji the highlight of the OS update? The "security updates" and "bug fixes" deserve being listed first. You should not need a full OS update to deliver new emoji.

Fools vs the future. Naive fools who do not realize they’d benefit from automation of mundane tasks including driving and would rather go back to the Stone Age.

@elonmusk Parody is a strong reaffirmation of one’s recognition

To fear parody or criticism is a sign of weakness

I think that this may be eversource’s finest work.

@MikeConnollyMA Please study the foundations of economics and the impact of price ceilings. The only real solution is to increase housing supply. Rent control will create yet another problem of housing shortage: youtu.be/1EzY4Vl460U?si…

Rents are up 15% to 23% over the past year in Boston. It’s unbearable. Please visit rentcontrol2024.com to help put rent control on the ballot in 2024.