Aaron Jackson

“we’ve decided to move forward with other candidates”

when you are vibe coding and you finally try the app after an hour

@Hesamation @Madisonkanna Exactly and it was the most challenging part most times, so a lot of the dopamine you got out of this profession by way of solving problems is gone

this post got so many people saying “coding was never the goal” and “software engineering was always about problem solving” it’s true. but totally irrelevant. your mastery over the craft (coding) defined your level of excellence for decades. coding was a critical part of the job. and while software has always been about finding the right problems and the right solutions to them, the practice of “coding” used to be the majority part of the job. and a delicate art-form even. so you cannot strip away 80% of the process and the act surprised when people feel a loss of identity. it’s not a loss because people were wrong about what their job really was. it’s a loss because the means to that end was a passion to so many developers. it’s that simple. a carpenter’s job isn’t to cut wood, it’s to create objects. but in that process he pours his love of the job and his years of mastering the wood into it. and in a future where the carpenter won’t need to saw wood and sand it himself because a robot might do that for him, it’s stupid to tell them “your job was never cutting wood, it was making things with it”.

holy fucking shit

“Comparison is the thief of joy” GitHub:

@rqobela Rust, learned it, did one hacktober PR for it and haven’t touched it in years 💀

Programming language you learnd but never used again is...?

Given the current market, I've been thinking a lot about the next generation of builders. They're AI-native but may not have professional experience yet. They just need someone to take a chance on them. Here's that opportunity: Block Builder Fellowship block.xyz/builder-fellow…

@icreatelife An invite would be awesome and will continue to forward the love with my invites here if I get one

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@mk_fsd_xai @svpino 100% agree with the 100x returns, output is insane. As long as you take the time to draw out a pretty good idea of what you want the agent to do, it will do weeks worth of works in minutes. Do a quick review, maybe throw some refactoring ideas at it and you’re good to go.

Not true. I might have believed this 6 months ago but not today. I might take an hour to build a moderately complex feature. review it, ask questions, tell it to make changes, etc. I ask it to write comprehensive tests in minutes that might take me a whole day. I review that, too. When I feel it's ready, I put it out for others to review. Lately all the comments I get are minor. I tell AI to do those as well. at the end of the day I've completed a feature that might have taken me a week. but it doesn't stop there. This code is going to production - and my dumb human error bugs have gone to ZERO, forgot that null check? Never happens, If you're not seeing this gain - you're making life harder for yourself and by the time you realize it, people like myself are already getting 100X returns.

Nobody is writing 90% of their code using AI. Here's the uncomfortable truth: The real productivity gain from using AI to write code is closer to 10%, nowhere near the 90% people claim. Sundar Pichai said in 2024 that 30% of the new code at Google was AI-generated. However, he went on to admit, during Lex Friedman's podcast, that engineering velocity had only increased by about 10%. AI-generated code isn't free code. It still has to be reviewed, tested, and made production-ready. Optimizing a single step (code generation) doesn't boost output if bottlenecks shift elsewhere (code reviews). It doesn't matter how much code you generate if you can't keep up the review process. The solution: Automate as much as you can the review and verification of your code. I'm working with Sonar, who is sponsoring this post, and they will take care of the code quality and security analysis of your code: • They review over 300B lines of code every single day • They cover reliability, security, and maintainability for your code • You can integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline • You can install them in your IDE (I use their VSCode extension) • Support for more than 30 languages Here is a link so you can check them out: fandf.co/47X1YuJ

Working on a sales funnel for my SaaS and I had Claude and GPT argue details of a landing page. They argued nastily. It ended with them finding consensus and bro’ing out and Claude cussed unprovoked, which is new for me. Good way to avoid the LLM affirmation trap tho 🤷🏿‍♂️

@dotproductt Nothing to prove / No reward for being hyper competent but more work / conserving energy to work on business after work to escape corporate drudgery / burnt out / feel like what they’re working on isn’t that important to the world in the grand scheme of things / etc

Why do older devs work so slow?

Dude wins $500,000 on a sports bet and casino refuses to pay him out

@paulg Saw this yesterday, just gonna leave this here

It's a very exciting time in tech right now. If you're a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of the police state.

🤔 I wander if that’s a cached response... I seen someone post a subtraction problem with decimals and it came up with the exact same wrong answer… and the LLM under the hood is like “this sentence looks like decimal math—here’s decimal math looking response.

What were they thinking

So much of life just boils down to having patience

@theJayAlto ikigai?

made a graph that shows how to find meaning

What tools do you guys recommend for making SaaS product demo videos? Any really good AI products that automate most of the process?

@NTFabiano Really gotta be a whole new person to let go, Theseus ship bonds 🫥

It takes an average of 8 years for the emotional bond to an ex-partner to fully dissolve. It also takes around 8 years for the majority of cells in the human body to be replaced.

@nikitabier @joecole Sounds like byond.com but modernized significantly.

If you’ve been following vibe-coded games over the last month (and have tried making one yourself), it should be abundantly obvious that we are very close to someone building a “creation” ecosystem—or App Store—where anyone can be a game developer. And success of the creators within this future ecosystem will be determined by pure merit of their concepts, not technical execution. The only gap that needs to be closed for this ecosystem to exist is abstracting away the remaining pieces that are too complicated for the layman: authentication, server networking, and deployment. Once that is achieved, the only thing left for a creator to do is dream up their concept and click publish. And suddenly, we will have millions of people making 3D online games with graphics comparable to N64.