Chris Goodmacher

Why does every customer support system make you type your question into a chatbot, connect you to a human, and then the human asks "what's your question?" You already have it. It's right there. On the screen.

@helen_min Claude Opus > Gemini Pro all day for me (at least for right now). I also need projects - and Gemini doesn't have those or I'd try using it more

@cgoodmac I switched to Gemini Pro, and I might stay here???

The Claude outage forced me back to ChatGPT this evening. The gap is not subtle.

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@rmcentush What's the difference between red and yellow

the most long AGI bet is buying land here. revealed preference of the rich is sailing the med or sipping rosè in nice. post-scarcity is bullish europe. it’ll be easier to mass-produce robots and chips than to recreate an italian piazza at dusk. leisure is the final good.

@levelsio Give the city to whoever runs SFO

👍 Respect for whoever made this amazingly fast WiFi at San Francisco Airport possible 620 Mbps! Never had internet this fast at an airport outside Asia Nature is healing

@SlackHQ Why doesn't this email have an unsubscribe link?

@aviflombaum I thought it was interesting this video from YC recommends @rails for LLM coding x.com/ycombinator/st…

I don’t remember who just said this but they said they pick languages and frameworks based on how good LLMs are at them, noting it’s best at JS, Typescript, React. First, if you plan on maintaining or writing some code yourself and not entirely let the agent drive, and those aren’t your preferred stacks normally, I think pleasing the LLM rather than yourself and your team isn’t the right move. Second, if that stack is simply not the best tool for what you’re building, same thing. Third, if you are going full stack JS, you’re still going to trip over the insane dependencies that LLMs add to you app. Just insane. You’ll have to prune it. Fourth, with full stack JS, you’re probably locking yourself to next.js meaning your hosting choice is probably Vercel so get ready to pay a bunch in hosting. Fifth, with full stack JS, you will still not have basic observability, good logging support or error detection and most likely no tests. And finally and most importantly, I actually find LLMs to write insanely bad React and Next.js code. They are able to get things working but I’ve seen it create the same component many times rather than reuse and extend. I’ve seen it do the same for the api routes. While LLMs look good at this stack, the reality is because they were trained on so much JS and well, the quality of that code given the volume and version differences of React and next, just make it even more likely to generate crap code. The absolute lack of standards and conventions in the JS ecosystem mean the LLM will switch between patterns constantly, like where it puts new files, what conventions you like in your components, etc. As your app grows in complexity this problem will only compound and your app will be unmaintainable and most likely the Llm will start getting more and more confused and just making it worse if it can get new things working at all. While LLMs still need work with @rails at least the conventions and standards in Ruby keep it way more sane and I believe Ruby is actually a better language for LLMs given its expressiveness. This will only improve.

@anothercohen How'd it do?

Wake up babe, new Roomba killer just dropped

@thepatwalls I'm so sorry for your loss - dogs are the best

My silent cofounder, my best friend, I love you. RIP Demi 💔

@julianweisser Great video/aesthetics

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@rohindhar Why Redfin over Zillow?

Redfin is absolutely my favorite consumer app for home searching. I love it! That said, I think there are easier ways to monetize a home search app than purely running a brokerage, and hopefully this acquisition facilitates that for them.

@maiab This is amazing - is the whole inside just blank?

my coworker just got a fake book in the mail with a big portrait of his face on it - what would you think if you got this?

Blown away by using @Starlink on @HawaiianAir - incredible compared to spotty/frustrating normal airline wifi and going to affect my choice of airline going forward. Which airlines are next? ✈️

Congratulations to @cgoodmac, Co-founder of @uprisemoney on their $3.3M seed round led by GBxer @hchelkowski, Founding Partner at Blank Ventures. Uprise provides an embedded financial advisory platform tailored for small businesses. 👏🇬🇧

We’ve just announced our $3.3M seed round, featured in TechCrunch!

@bensmithlive What if you have some of these issues but still need the caffeine boost to be effective? Recommended alternatives?

You shouldn’t drink coffee if you have ↓ • Anxiety • Sleep issues • Adrenal fatigue • Digestive issues • Histamine sensitivity • Fried adenosine receptors • Increased caffeine sensitivity due to genetic makeup But, if you want to treat it as a tool for:

→ High Brain Stimulation Drinking excessive coffee over time can: • Reduce GABA • Over-produce cortisol • Deplete dopamine (low motivation) • Increase norepinephrine release (fight-or-flight) • Increase glutamatergic activity (heightened neuronal excitability)

@tonyennis @shl @rails Love the idea of the side-by-side

Had a good chat with @shl about the future of software dev and whether @rails is tech debt. We agreed on way more than we disagreed on - he’s given it a lot of thought and is much more nuanced than comes across here. (I also don’t think he *still* thinks rails is tech debt, but I’ll let him comment on that) His first point is that you get much more out of the box with next/react to build polished, slick frontends. Which you kind of have to figure out in rails apps (I agree). His second point was that having everything typed makes it much easier to work with AI, and makes you much less worried about breaking things. I can see this but I think there are non-obvious trade offs to adding layers on top of the platform that become more of an issue over time - so this really depends what you’re optimising for. We’re gonna do a live stream where we both build something out - me in rails and him in @nextjs, to let people see the benefits/trade-offs of each. Should be fun!

@ChKashifAli ~80% Perplexity running Claude, 10% ChatGPT, 10% Google

My Google search consumption has gone down 90%. Default is ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity What is your experience?

@RealEmirHan Is he wearing white socks with a suit?

Best villain performance by actor who always play the hero? I’ll start: