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by TonyAlicea10 6mo ago
True, though I'd say more bug impact than bug free-ness. If the 2% of bugs is in the most critical area of your app and causes users to abandon your product then you're losing ground. That's one thing I think is good to learn
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by TonyAlicea10 6mo ago
I prefer peanut butter over jelly.
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by TonyAlicea10 6mo ago
Yes, of course, but a culture of “good enough” can go too far. One may work in a lower-risk context, but we can still learn a lot from robust architectural thinking. Edge cases, security, and more. Low quality for a shopping cart feels fine
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by TonyAlicea10 6mo ago
When I was first starting out as a professional developer 25 years ago doing web development, I had a friend who had retired from NASA and had worked on Apollo. I asked him “how did you deal with bugs”? He chuckled and said “we didn’t have
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by TonyAlicea10 6mo ago
I've noticed this as well. "Now you should stop X and go do Y" is a phrase I see repeated a lot. Claude seems primed to instruct me to stop using it.
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by TonyAlicea10 7mo ago
1986. Shows how little has truly changed. I think this quote from that paper is one of the most apt for the LLM age: "The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build."
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Why AI-Assisted Development Is More Exhausting Than It Should Be(tonyalicea.dev)
3 points by TonyAlicea10 7mo ago|3 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 7mo ago
“No hallucinations allowed” unfortunately suggests a misunderstanding of how LLMs work. It will work great until it doesn’t.
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Trace: A Declarative Modeling Spec Format for the AI Age(tonyalicea.dev)
1 points by TonyAlicea10 7mo ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 7mo ago
You can find approaches that improve things, but there's always going to be a chance that your code is terrible if you let an LLM generate it and don't review it with human eyes. But review fatigue and resulting apathy is real. De
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The Future of Self-Paced Online Education(tonyalicea.dev)
1 points by TonyAlicea10 8mo ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 8mo ago
React compiler adds useMemo everywhere, even to your returned templates. It makes useMemo the most common hook in your codebase, and thus very necessary. Just not as necessary to write manually.
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by TonyAlicea10 9mo ago
https://tonyalicea.dev
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by TonyAlicea10 10mo ago
I've been an instructor on Udemy for a decade. Lots of web devs tell me they got their career started on my courses there, which is something that is very dear to me. Udemy got me started in online dev education. I'm very sorry to
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by TonyAlicea10 10mo ago
One thing this (and any browser-embeddable data store) are fantastic for is vibe coding interactive prototypes for user research. AI-generated code that doesn’t need to be production ready has been a real boon to usability and design work.
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by TonyAlicea10 11mo ago
This article is brave. It is also is an example of a general issue: we assume our personal experiences are representative when they are, in fact, unique. “Follow Scrum, Lean / Kanban, or eXtreme Programming to the letter” - there are p
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by TonyAlicea10 11mo ago
I'm the OP. I can attest that I am not an LLM model creator! :) I consider myself an LLM pragmatist. I use them where they are useful, and I educate people on them and try to push back on all the hype marketing disguised as futurism fr
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by TonyAlicea10 11mo ago
I think there's a difference between using an LLM as an editor and asking the LLM to write something for you. The output in the former I find to still have a far clearer tonal fingerprint than the latter. And whose to say your idiosync
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We're losing our voice to LLMs(tonyalicea.dev)
354 points by TonyAlicea10 11mo ago|402 comments
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Stop Adding AI to Bad Process [video](youtu.be)
1 points by TonyAlicea10 11mo ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
Tools like bolt.new from StackBlitz and Cursor have brought about a new way to prototype that has some distinct advantages over traditional tools like Figma. This blog post gives 9 principles to guide what I'm calling "Generative
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
A deep dive into the internals of React and NextJS to form an accurate mental model of RSCs.
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How to Rewrite a Web Application(tonyalicea.dev)
5 points by TonyAlicea10 2y ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
No, not necessarily. I’m referring to consistent behaviors across a wide range of circumstances and contexts.
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
I’m not really referring to particular situations, but consistent behaviors that manifest across many interactions under many contexts. I too think that real jerkish behavior is rare, versus needing to apply soft skills to a person who has
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On The Why Down: How to do better than MVP(tonyalicea.dev)
3 points by TonyAlicea10 2y ago|0 comments
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
I thought someone would mention this. I believe these are the exceptions, not the rule. They just get the press. Far, far more people fail because of those same qualities.
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
100% agreed. Talking about "needs met" is actually a fundamental part of the course I produced (I did put a link to it, but at the end because I really do think this is a problem in general. Also, I think education for devs on the
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
In the post I referenced that I wasn't trying to say that communication differences mean someone is a jerk. Intentional, obnoxious, aggressive and choosing not to change even though they are aware of it is how I define a 'jerk&#x2
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by TonyAlicea10 2y ago
This is true, in fact I thought about that when writing this post! But I think the Roddenberry's "no conflict" has been out of favor in storytelling for quite a while now. Star Trek is the exception. And not all Star Trek fol

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