Todd Hatcher

@nick_matau Where do you think the margin for Trumps victory came from? Too stupid?

Massie lost because you guys aren't as popular as you think you are. You are popular online where foreigners get to boost your ego! So sure... Massie can try to run for president for him to be embarrassed again!

@unclebobmartin I experienced being a Vampire building this plus more in it without a plan. Went from nothing last Thursday to a feature rich UI by Sunday that far exceeds the Azure DevOps experience for a dev. This was a serious eye opener of an experience with agents and agile. 400-500 prompts

Yup.

@dbongino I really don't understand how anyone can consider themselves America first and be against Massie. What's next trash Elon Musk? Oh wait. Nothing like watching something eat itself. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders and AOC will be around for a long time.

Today is May 20, 2026 and Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States of America. And Tom Massie is packing his bags.

@w_terrence We don't deserve nice things. You get the government you deserve.

What was the first thing that came to mind when you heard Thomas Massie lost?

@realDonaldTrump @angertab Biggest causality in Congress. Meanwhile corrupt croks of shit who deal through... still have their seats. Voted for you 3 times... but taking down Massie was a terrible move.

Horrible Congressman Thomas Massie put out an old Endorsement, from many years ago, of him by me long before I found out that he was the Worst Congressman in the History of our Country. I endorsed Ed Gallrein, a true American Patriot, which Massie knows full well, so the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like HE is fraudulent. WITHDRAW YOUR FAKE STATEMENT, MASSIE, RIGHT NOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP

@allenholub Yup. Last Thursday this desktop app didn't exist. Now a few people including myself are using it and it works better from manage Azure DevOps like a productive person wants while keeping everyone else in org unaffected. Full blown working tool, notepad++ for a basic scratchpad.

At the top of the "are doomed to repeat it" category is the notion of "spec-driven development" (SDD). Though some claim that SDD is all about very tiny specs that encompass only a tiny amount of work, the vast majority of comments I see on the topic are hyping old-school waterfall big-up-front design as if that's a new, innovative idea. It's pushed by the most irresponsible of the vibe-coding crowd, who imagine that, if only the prompt were more detailed, they'd get better results. They won't. We stopped working from big up-front specs decades ago for a reason—the approach fails in every context but the most boring ones: either the same program written over and over again, or something that effectively implements a mathematical formula of some sort. In that last case, a spec-driven approach will probably yield a UX so bad that it makes the formula implementation irrelevant. People don't know what they need until they get something into their hands and try to use it. Any way of working that doesn't acknowledge that truth will fail. I suppose, if the only thing you've ever experienced is chaos, SDD seems like an improvement, but believe me, it's not. In my experience, incremental feedback-driven approaches always yield better outcomes. Collaboratively develop a strategic goal. Collect enough information to start. Start. Get feedback as you work. Adjust. Works like a charm.

@IngrahamAngle Massie has the credibility, period. Trying to associate a guy more rooted in conservative principles with loony left is cognitive laziness.

If Massie is a “true conservative,” then why does everyone on the Left want him to win?

@michaeljknowles How'd he do with "defending the United States constitution" though? 100%. I get the clash. But if Congress was full of people like Massie our country would be vastly better for it in every aspect. End of argument.

This term, Massie has voted with the GOP 77.7% of the time. That rate is much lower than the median GOP congressman, who voted with the party 95% of the time. Massie's rate of voting with the Republicans is also lower than his own record in the last term (91%), which itself was lower than the term before that (95%). You can like Massie. You can think he's right to buck the party. But you can't deny the trend, and you can't deny the VP's observation. t.co/xSFtLEwO4P

@RooferSteve21 @Rocket_Matteo @xgrantgamble @elonmusk I have AI Powered shoelace.

I predict when all the dust settles, assuming a revolutionary war against a.i. doesn't happen, there will be a premium on goods and services that doesn't use a.i. . It will even be a selling point like how the bacon bits in my fridge says Real Bacon in big bold letters on the front of the package.

Where will AI be in 1, 2 or 3 years?

@Rocket_Matteo @xgrantgamble @elonmusk And then what? One can afford to use AI for $20 / mo and figure out optiind. "How would I compete/disrupt {x}" Products and such still don't build themselves, X is variable. Find a growing company that is leveraging AI vs one working purely to trim people. AI will create theats.

@xgrantgamble @elonmusk Just curious what benefits you think we’ll be better off with? I can’t imagine how this won’t put nearly all white collar workers out of their jobs within the next 3 years. I’m an optimistic person, but the more I use AI, the less I feel fulfilled.

@BirdPerson283 @JP5671204772902 @elonmusk That's actually why we have congress. To ensure that 535 lawyers who want something stay locked in a room arguing all day and can rarely agree on anything.

@JP5671204772902 @elonmusk It's inevitable, we just need to make sure that it's 100% truth seeking & corruption proof, otherwise it'll be the beginning of a quick end.

@davidfowl copilot --yolo "Edit this + save in prod"

How many of you have a single step, fully automated release process?

@Grady_Booch If sonnet 4.6 was all I had for the next 20 years, I'd be perfectly fine with it. I assume at some point something comparble will become trivial to run locally. I'll need strong convincing that the few percent gain better than my Corolla is worth the Ferrari price.

The number of people in the world who will need to know the details of successfully training state-of-the-art LLMs will be a tiny fraction of the number of people in the world who will simply use out of the box LLMs and/or treat them as a minor subsystem in the context of a larger software-intensive system. Both skill sets are necessary; both have very different purposes. In the fullness of time, LLMs will become a commodity, and the vibrant heat and smoke and noise and murmuration of large piles of cash you see now will settle down.

@ScottLilly @nickchapsas It's an agnostic tool in that respect. You want it to work with some provider and an existing integration does exist, you can make one. No cares what K8s is written in or a lot of there helpful clis, just that it does the magic it claims to do.

@nickchapsas I liked the idea of it, but it looks like it only ran on Azure, which my clients don't want. So, I didn't bother with it.

Man, does anyone care about Aspire outside of Microsoft? It feels like the AI hype has overshadowed one of the coolest projects that launched in a very unfortunate time, solving a problem everyone already had a solution for

@wdolek @nickchapsas How long does that take to start locally? Getting test data? Writing end to end tests purely in C#. It's pretty powerful for local development.

@nickchapsas After seeing post by David Fowler recently, I was thinking for myself that even after year(s), I still don't know how I would use Aspire. We have many web API microservices, each own git repo, deployed to AWS. We use OTel and collect data in CloudWatch & NR already 🤷‍♂️

@kristijan_kralj I like the: good abstractions hide complexity, bad abstractions are the complexity. Most abstractions are done badly and wall off the escape hatch for the scenario they didn't anticipate. Sometimes the testability is driving design and architecture. Data access + repo + ef, yuck

The hidden cost of "enterprise" .NET architecture: Debugging hell. I've spent 13+ years in .NET codebases, and I keep seeing the same pattern: Teams add layers upon layers, to solve the problems they don't have. IUserService calls IUserRepository. IUserRepository wraps IUserDataAccess. IUserDataAccess calls IUserQueryBuilder. IUserQueryBuilder finally hits the database. I've seen a lot of classes having one-line methods whose sole purpose was to call the next layer and that's it. But to change one validation rule, you step through 5 layers. To fix a bug, you open 7 files. The justification is always the same: "What if we need to swap out Entity Framework?" "What if we switch databases?" "What if we need multiple implementations?" What if this, what if that. The reality: Those "what ifs" don't come to life in 99% of cases. I haven't worked on a project where we had to swap the ORM. But I've seen dozens of developers waste hours navigating through abstraction mazes. This happens with both new and experienced developers. New developers asking on Slack all the time: "Where to put this new piece of code?" But senior developers are too busy to answer that message. Why? Because they are debugging through the code that has more layers than a wedding cake. The end result? You spend more time navigating than building. Good abstractions hide complexity. Bad abstractions ARE the complexity. And most enterprise .NET apps? Way too much of the second kind.

@csharpfritz @James_M_South This 100%. I still don't even know what's being discussed. I try to follow latest dotnet content. Even music artists are canceling tour eg. "blue dot fever". Overstimulation with noise determined and served by an algorithm, constant hunting of signal is fatiguing.

I think we're seeing a real attention issue - TikTok, Reels, and YouTube shorts have people trained to get hooked in the first 5 seconds of a video or move on Now more people aren't reading social media, but having an AI analyze and report back to them what's important Also: your demo is about winforms. I haven't had luck reaching that audience on Twitter in a long time

The #dotnet community really is dead, isn't it? I share something absolutely mindblowingly awesome and its tumbleweeds. An equivalent in JavaScript garners thousands of shares and likes.

@DanBerger_ @allenholub agility != Agile The casing is what is being emphasized.

@allenholub Huh? Lots of companies died because they were too “agile” and focused on the wrong strategy? Is this a real post?

No organization ever failed by not being Agile enough. Many organizations fail from a lack of agility, however. These are very different things.

@MattWalshBlog If anything it's the other way... how would you continue believe intelligent life comes not from God but from inert random interactions of collections of dust molecules and murky water?

I'm a lot more open to the possibility of aliens than many people here, but the idea that anything related to aliens or UFOs could have "Bible-changing" implications is totally ridiculous. There is no reason why it should shake anyone's faith to find out that God created other lifeforms on other planets out there in the vast cosmos. There are like a hundred billion galaxies. My faith does not demand that I assume they're all completely empty.

@mcuban Kinda what makes it work so well though. Nondeterministic discovery of new novel answers that previous generations missed entirely.

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time. Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output. Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable. Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second. Am I wrong ?