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Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
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Usesrcmnd.app
AmpTheir words
I particularly like to combine this with slower, more thoughtful models like Amp's deep mode (which is basically just GPT-5.2-Codex) which can take upwards of 30+ minutes to make small changes. The flip side of that is that it does tend to produce very good results.
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Usesrcmnd.app
GitHub CLITheir words
Agents are good at using gh (GitHub CLI), so I manually scripted a quick way to spin up a bunch in parallel to triage issues.
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Likedrcmnd.app
GeminiTheir words
The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
3 February
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Lovedrcmnd.app
NVIDIA GeForce NOWTheir words
Anyway, I've been very impressed with NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
MoonlightTheir words
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
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13 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
AmapTheir words
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
Google MapsTheir words
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong
3 December 2025
25 November 2025
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Framework DesktopTheir words
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
24 November 2025
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Usesrcmnd.app
DropboxTheir words
Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data
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Likedrcmnd.app
StarlinkTheir words
If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
17 November 2025
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Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.Their words
I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world
11 October 2025
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Their words
This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.
12 July 2025
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Their words, before
I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life
Their words now
those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.
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Their words, before
it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer
Their words now
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby.Their words, before
static typing is the one thing I will literally die on the hill for for Ruby
Their words now
It's the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby. This is why I don't fully understand when people call for Ruby to add static typing. 'Cause to me, it's the bedrock of what this is.
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Their words, before
I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro
Their words now
I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
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On changing their mind
I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.
13 April 2025
22 November 2024
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FeaturebaseTheir words
Featurebase.app bug and feedback board
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StripeTheir words
Stripe Billing Portal for changing and canceling subcription
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ChatGPTTheir words
1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)
20 August 2024
From one piece Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
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An idea is only validated when people take out their credit cards and pay for it; signing up proves nothing.Their words
And I check if there’s demand and if people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money. They need to take out their credit cards, pay me money, and then I can see if the idea is validated.
22 July 2024
27 June 2024
18 June 2022
2 July 2013
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Usesrcmnd.app
Google ChromeTheir words
I browse the internet using Google Chrome.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Seagate 1 TB external hard driveTheir words
I carry around a 1 TB SeaGate external hard drive that has saved virtual machines of almost every version of every major operating system imaginable
16 September 2010
27 November 2008
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