I think beginners have always been vibe coding My approach at 12 and even into early production code looked a lot like “make changes until it works, if you get too confused delete the whole file and start again”

The best way to fix edge cases in code is to fix the human process that needs them

Writing the code is easy. Changing the process for how people who use your software do their job is hard.

I just realized handling chaos is a learnable skill

There are 2 types of developers/engineers right now. Those who feel threatened by AI and those who think it's a way to get more done faster. Both are right. The difference is if you're about outcomes or outputs. Work at companies that value outcomes. Focus on that

Gorgeous day today

Peaky Blinders was a great fokin movie Great music, epic cinematography, amazing actors, fantastic writing

Vicki is my spirit person. I keep quoting this in conversation

me: Hey coding agent, do a thing! cursor: Here's the PR boss! I tested it. Looks great. Everything works!! me: You ... used the wrong repo. It doesn't even have the feature I asked you to change 🤦‍♂️

A bot has discovered my 👍👎 form that just posts to my slack and is using it to ... I don't know these don't even look like real emails what are you even doing bot!?

A thread on HackerNews yesterday sniped me into explaining what I look for in resumes Just tell me what you did. Seriously. What did you do, for whom, what was the impact. please swizec.com/blog/put-sco...

With LLMs everyone can code like 5 juniors in a trench coat 🤩

Finished recording the audiobook 🥳 cant wait to hear what we got

The problem with US politics is that one party is playing to play and the other is playing to win

Was pitching a candidate on what my team does last week and she goes "Wow each one of those could be a whole startup!?" not sure that's good or bad 😅 sure ain't boring tho

So humid today felt like running through soup

Now it feels like home 🥰 Growing up *everyone* had this light switch outside the bathroom. I think my grandma still does

Reading Scaling Fast for the audiobook, it's funny how much of my own good advice I fail to follow Knowing what you should do is way easier than doing it in the moment. Some sort of daily reminder would be cool 🤔

yo did google just call me old

Been thinking ... AI empowers business folk to self-serve How are yall doing this? I can barely get mine to use a CMS

Just thought about something that bugged me about that Apple “Crush” iPad ad (from two years ago). The whole image it conveys is that personal computers went from bicycles for the mind to trash compactors for your dreams is just so aptly describing the modern tech industry. Carry on.

I’d probably sell more books courses and workshops if I stopped telling people there are no shortucts and you gotta do the work

Some days it flows and you record 4 chapters, other days everything sucks and you barely squeak out 1. recording audiobooks at 6am after dealing with production issues all evening is hard, who knew

Dude I think my plants are fighting 😂

Ran across the bridge today. Beautiful day Strava says I haven’t done this since March 2024. Gonna hurt tomorrow lol

probably the realest thing I ever wrote

why vibe coding wont end saas

“dense” is the best compliment you can get on 42,000 words of writing 😍 no fluff

my dudes recording with an actual producer is fun! amazing real-time direction on voice acting as yourself ❤️

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In audiobooks, do you prefer narrators who read the subheadings or just pause for a beat?

Best part of being a manager is that I can look at an org-wide problem, say "This is dumb", and swipe the company card to make it go away.

How do I make Cursor stop doing this on open? please you're an IDE not a chatbot

can’t believe I’m sending this email

You think I can get a restomod of this bad boy in USA? A few Yugos did make it over here

When people talk about all the jobs AI will soon automate away pay close attention. It's always somebody else's job. swizec.com/blog/ge-ll-m...

Oh near the audiobook production company sent me a bunch of professional audio gear

Ten years of weekly long runs -> 200 nonfiction books read Habits really do stack up

Sonoma is beautiful even in the rain

GeLLMan-Amnesia: AI will automate every job except the ones I’m deeply familiar with

AI productivity got here just in time to replace the retiring boomers

if you couldn’t be bothered writing it, why would I bother reading it?https://i.imgur.com/cgaoHIj.png

Noticing a lot of people use AI tooling to essentially procrastinate while feeling super productive. effective > efficient

Do you feel more effective when your manager understands your work, has taste, asks great questions, and makes good decisions or when you have a talentless generic manager? this is a post about vibe coding

Do you feel more effective when your manager understands your work, has taste, asks great questions, and makes good decisions or when you have a talentless generic manager? this is a post about AI

3 curves define a scalable startup engineering's job is to make it so You want users and revenue to grow exponentially. Bugs per day to grow linearly. Support work to grow logarithmically. swizec.com/blog/the-3-c...

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code" Status dashboard:

💡it's actually easier for large companies to adopt agentic coding because they already have the operational maturity to absorb a bunch of people flinging code at the problem at scale 20,000 engineers is indistinguishable from an agent swarm

RESTful for reads RPCish for writes