Seth Barton

Every time I waste the night staring at a screen, the next night I spend reading a good book. And then I realize how much better life would be if we all read a good book more often. It's a better use of time. Signing off.

@github I’m predicting a growing movement of self hosted everything companies. “The cloud is too expensive and complex. Enterprise version control can’t be trusted. Let’s just do it ourselves” types. And they might not be wrong? There are some attractive looking options.

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I feel bad for him, but also you’d think he’d pick a more careful topic. The optics around AI are not good right now, especially for newly graduated students! Nobody wants to hear about how they will get replaced after spending all that money on school. And even if that’s not what he’s saying that’s what they will hear.

@ThePrimeagen Probably not a good idea to promote this with students who just graduated.

dude... this is brutal

@Samaytwt Not in the list but I think the first one I really ever used was Visual Studio (not code!) we used it for our CS assignments in school.

Be honest As a developer what was your first code editor?

The only way to really tell if a certain methodology or technique will work is to try it.

Yo big PSA: Asking an AI if it likes something does not prove anything. Case in point: asking if it likes clean code means nothing. It’s going to say yes because that’s the most statistically likely response.

@rand_longevity @DavidShapiro98 This will quickly lead to misery and destruction. People need a meaningful burden.

@DavidShapiro98 to live life the way you want

400 days from now, nobody will be waking up for work or school

@ryanflorence Frickin nailed it. Too easy to spot these days.

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@JoReBall @unclebobmartin cleancoders.com

@sethwbarton @unclebobmartin Any link/s to the videos?

Holy crap! @unclebobmartin I was just watching the Agentic Discipline videos and gave acceptance tests a try with Rails and cucumber. I've never written anything like that before - it was before my time, but I foresee a comeback happening! I think this might *currently* be the only safe way to work fast with agents. Everything else I've done turned into instant slop, but this seems like it could work.

@JLarky Is this a trick question? Are we sure we're working in a binary heaven / hell system here? Blue.

Everyone on Earth must choose one button: If your religion is correct, pressing red 🔴 means only people from your group are guaranteed to go to heaven. Pressing blue 🔵 means all humans are guaranteed to go to heaven. What do you choose?

@ThePrimeagen To be fair… you can make something like this with tool calls and a framework like Google ADK. Wrap the tool calls in auth so it can’t blow everything up. But that’s just a chat bot. He’s describing a chat bot.

what does this even mean? Planet Scale insert this shit into the db and delete the other stuff, glhf

But… still haven’t figured out how to get it to nail the CSS and I don’t want to write tests about it. I like CSS so maybe I’ll save the fun part for myself? Prompting to fix small visual things is such a drag.

Vibe coding produces pink elephant syndrome. Does the pink elephant look happy? No, because he doesn’t know anything. He's been convinced that he can't, and that it's not worth it. He's addicted to the AI slot machine. Similarly, ignorant and addicted people aren’t happy. They’re miserable, because their life is out of control. The first step to gaining control is to name the problem. Then you can fix it. Keep learning. Keep pace with the AI as you code. Understand what is going on. Try hand coding a bit so that real learning can take place with real friction. It might be our only way out of this mess.

What your children really want for dinner is you! In an age of constant online connection, we may need to disconnect from technologies and other distractions to truly reconnect with our families. Families grow stronger when they set aside these distractions and spend meaningful time together—learning eternal values like the importance of marriage and children, the purpose of life, and the true source of joy. Parents also have a duty to teach their children practical knowledge apart from gospel principles. Families unite when they do meaningful things together. Happy family experiences strengthen family ties. Camping, sports activities, and other recreation are especially valuable for bonding families. Some may say, “But we have no time for any of that.” To find time to do what is truly worthwhile, many parents will find that they can turn their families on if they all turn their technologies off. What those we love need most is simply time with us. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, is our ultimate role model. He will help us as we strive to build these family bonds.

@ThePrimeagen Pink elephant strikes again.

I feel today, again, vindicated on never using Claude models

@Dynatrace found a typo in your Dynatrace University course. Tiny thing, but I figured you'd want to fix it.

@stolinski It is more fun to be competent!

100% hand coded a project for a couple of days and felt great, accomplished a lot and have a really awesome product at the end of it. super productive. Vibe coded something today and have been endlessly more frustrated. Codex spinning up endless dev processes, ignoring specific instructions just writing shitty code in general.

Yes! Please stop this nonsense. Actually…. Maybe keep going because it will give us all more work in the future. 😆