mattgreenrocks

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by mattgreenrocks 6mo ago
Yep, up there with ActiveRecord as the finest ORM I’ve ever used. What seals it for me is the low coupling it imposes on entities.
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by mattgreenrocks 7mo ago
Perhaps we're in an AI summer and a tech winter. Winter is always the time when people hole up, dream, and work on whatever big thing is next. We're about due for some new computing abstractions to shake things up I think. Those w
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by mattgreenrocks 7mo ago
Yeah. Oftentimes get crickets here when I talk along those lines. Can't tell if apathy, learned helplessness, or obliviousness. Regardless, devs seem like an extremely docile labor group based on how they react to this and other econom
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by mattgreenrocks 7mo ago
The defensiveness is almost as interesting as the meeting itself.
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
So much projection these days in so many areas of life.
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
It’s not about perfectly architected code. It’s more about code that is factored in such a way that you can extend/tweak it without needing to keep the whole of the system in your head at all times. It’s fascinating watching the sudden
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
Which makes me wonder: how is serving static content at all nondeterministic?
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
Yet it still fumbles even when limiting context. Asked it to spot check a simple rate limiter I wrote in TS. Super basic algorithm: let one action through every 250ms at least, sleeping if necessary. It found bogus errors in my code 3 times
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
If you think AGI is at hand why are you trying to sway a bunch of internet randos who don’t get it? :) Use those god-like powers to make the life you want while it’s still under the radar.
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
IMO, you need to have the capacity to write Good Code to know what Good Enough Code is. It's highly contextual to a particular problem and season in a codebase's life. One example: ugly code that upholds an architecture that confe
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
> Plus, it makes natural moat against masses of normal (i.e. poor) people, because requires a spaceship to run. Finally intelligence can also be controlled by capital the way it was meant to, joining information, creativity, means of pro
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by mattgreenrocks 8mo ago
Popularity’s flip side is that it can fuel commodification. I argue popularity is insufficient signal. React as tech is fine, but the market of devs who it is aimed at may not be the most discerning when it comes to quality.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
It’s wild to me that we both see people like Jensen as great while also tolerating public whining of the sort in the linked article. Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are far worse! But why do we put up with a billionaire whining tha
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Indices are fine. Fixating on the “right” shape of the solution is your hang-up here. Different languages want different things. Fighting them never ends well.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
The right job for a person depends on whether they can rise above the specific flavor of pain that the job dishes out. BigTech jobs strike me as having an inextricable political element to them: so you enjoy jockeying for titles and navigat
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
> That productivity may not be visible. I'm not sure what your take is, but this reads like goalpost shifting. If one of the biggest orgs that practically mandates some amount of LLM use cannot surface productivity gains from them a
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
IMO, the world simply functions better when we strive for virtue.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
How do you handle the dogs ignoring the deacons and going after the polecats though? Seems like the mayor should get involved to me.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
> What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief? The status quo, which always require an order of magnitude more effort to overcome. There's also a substantial portion of the population that needs we
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
This framing neatly explains the hubris of the influencer-wannabes on social media who have time to post endlessly about how AI is changing software dev forever while also having never shipped anything themselves. They want to be seen as co
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Sam Altman’s real job is pushing AI hopium on execs who will believe anything in pursuit of that nirvana.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Alternate take: what agents can spit out becomes table stakes for all software. Making it cohesive, focused on business needs, and stemming complexity are now requirements for all devs. By the same token (couldn’t resist), I also would argu
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
You made the choice to change your development workflow to that. You chose to abdicate thinking to the LLM. If it’s working for you, then great. But don’t pretend like it is some natural law and must be true everywhere.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Remains to be seen for production settings. My guess is no. I’ve seen people talk about understanding the output of their vibe coding sessions as “nerdy,” implying they’re above that. Refusing the vet AI output is the kiss of death to veloc
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Isn’t the next.js build system known for being slow/memory hungry?
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
This is insane to me, and validates my irrational dislike of next.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Hope that SSR remains first class as time goes on. I think Astro’s DX is superb overall, and am bullish on server-rendered components in MPAs with a sprinkling of hypermedia libs for better UX. Some features of my SSR-based side project fee
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Very apt for the current moment. Adults push back on aggressors when necessary. Children cower behind the adults.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
It's a key component for many webdevs even if it isn't literally foundational.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Webdev has overvalued DX to the detriment the user experience for the past 10-15 years. A correction has been long overdue.

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