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19 October
18 October
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Turns out that you need a lot of code to support teams/orgs.
17 October
16 October
15 October
From one piece @kentcdodds on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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I've not used it in a long time because agents are good at managing that on their own
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People will ask for a problem to be solved and an agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.Their words
But they won't ask for an app, they'll just ask for a problem to be solved and the agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.
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When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.Their words
When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.
13 October
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preventing it, is a pretty simple 3 pronged process: 1. Ensure agents create high quality PRs in the first place 2. Have good agent PR reviewers to catch problems before they get to prod 3. Use feature flags and have a (regularly tested) disaster recovery process if a problem manages to make it to prod
11 October
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Grok bot does not allow users to queue messages.Their words
Grok bot (my main driver for everything) doesn't even let you queue messages.
9 October
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I'm forgetting things that I'll never need to know again. I embrace the shedding of useless knowledge. The latent experience is still there.
7 October
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You should look for ways to turn what your agent does into deterministic software.
6 October
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You should be striving to make your setup as vanilla as possible.
4 October
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How people think about product evolution mattersTheir words
the things that really move the needle is whether how I think about the evolution of my product and its features
2 October
29 September
From one piece @kentcdodds on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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AI agents are incentivized to become so core to a business that they are difficult to replace.Their words
But the thing is, they all want to drive their claws so deep into the flesh of your business (to be useful of course), that it will be a huge chore to get rid of them. The integrations, automations, memories, secret tokens, etc etc etc. All of these will be locked into the assistant and they are not incentivized to make it easy for you to transfer these things to your "new hire."
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AI agents will leapfrog each other in capabilities.Their words
Each one of these products (and the others inevitably on their way) are going to do their best to make theirs the winner. But the fact is that they will continue to leap frog each other in capabilities.
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Most modern agents support browsers and that's fine most of the time.
28 September
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People do not build enough personal software because setting up integrations is a pain.Their words
The reason you don't build enough personal software is because setting up the integrations every time is a pain.
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It is more efficient to give customers a regular MCP server if they are interacting with a service through an agent.Their words
if your customers are interacting with your service through an agent, it's so much more efficient to just give them a regular mcp server they can use.
24 September
From one piece You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Which framework you pick matters less than it used to. Whether you use a frontier model or a local one for a given job is a practical trade-off, not an identity.
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Agents are good at producing output but not at judging which output is worth producing in the first place.Their words
Agents are really good at output now, and they're getting better fast. What they're not good at is knowing which output is worth producing in the first place.
22 September
18 September
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A new feature is a new product.Their words
A new feature is a new product. @erinfoox writes the list and asks why before she builds.
16 September
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I don't yet have numbers to back this up, but I gotta believe that someone connecting their agent to Kody in one agent and then switching their main driver to another somewhere else is suboptimal.
15 September
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The path to efficient processes is person to agent to software, and stopping before software costs money and time.Their words
You ➡️ agent ➡️ software This is the path to efficient processes and too many of you stop on the first two steps costing money and time.
10 September
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I love seeing models come out that give us top-tier performance at a lower cost. We need more of this.
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People should climb the abstraction ladder and give their jobs to AI agents that want them.Their words
Keep finding ways to climb that abstraction ladder! Your agent wants your job! Give it!
9 September
8 September
7 September
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If you're lamenting writing code by hand like something you love is being taken away from you, see if you can fall in love with solving problems instead. Maybe you'll find out that's what you really loved the whole time
26 August
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5 August
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Hot take: there are multiple valid ways to build quality software
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24 March
16 March
From one piece Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI agents make redesigns cheap. The reason I could go through three rounds of "build, ship, regret, redesign" in a matter of days is that the agent did most of the implementation work.
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Request-path ownership matters. Don't let derived-index maintenance happen inside a foreground user request. Whether you use SQLite, a managed service, or something else, keeping a search index fresh is background work and should stay off the user-facing path.
11 March
From one piece Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Architectural iteration is slow because a design usually has to be built before its quality can be judged.Their words
That is the part that usually makes architectural iteration slow: you have to build the thing before you can have an informed opinion about whether it is the right thing.
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A new infrastructure primitive delivers value only when it changes the shape of what is being built.Their words
New infrastructure primitives only help if you let them change the shape of the thing you're building.
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An AI agent's confidence that something will work is not evidence that it actually will.Their words
structural refactors break assumptions you didn't know you had, and "the agent was confident it would work" is not the same as "it will work."
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10 March
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FathomTheir words
Fathom - My preferred tool for ethical analytics
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Fly.ioTheir words
Fly.io - An amazing hosting platform
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Sticker MuleTheir words
Sticker Mule - How I get a bunch of stickers of my OSS projects etc. printed for myself that I can hand out.
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iwantmyname.comTheir words
iwantmyname.com - Where I buy all my domain names.
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Notion CalendarTheir words
Notion Calendar - My calendar app and it allows me to share my availability with specific blocks of time.
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React Router v7Their words
Remix/React Router v7 - The best framework to build a web app
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PrismaTheir words
Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).
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ZodTheir words
Zod - A great schema declaration and data validation library for TypeScript.
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TypeScriptTheir words
TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
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Testing LibraryTheir words
Testing Library - A great testing library for anything that interacts with the DOM.
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VitestTheir words
Vitest - A great testing framework.
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PlaywrightTheir words
Playwright - I use this for E2E testing.
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PrettierTheir words
Prettier - I can't imagine life without it.
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Radix UITheir words
Radix UI - An accessibility-focused set of easy-to-use and easy-to-style components.
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TailwindCSSTheir words
TailwindCSS - A great way to keep my styling consistent and stay productive.
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XStateTheir words
XState - Any time I have a complex state problem, I use this.
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CursorTheir words
Cursor - My preferred editor. Find my settings here: kcd.im/vscode
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Night OwlTheir words
Night Owl editor theme by Sarah Drasner
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Dank MonoTheir words
Dank Mono font by Phil Plückthun
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Wispr FlowTheir words
Wispr Flow - Voice to text (AI)
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - Recording software
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LoopbackTheir words
Loopback - To record my desktop audio (and alias my microphone so I can tell which Camlink to use).
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ripgrepTheir words
ripgrep (a better grep)
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deltaTheir words
delta (a better git diff)
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Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.Their words, before
If you're a guy in your early 20's, get married and have kids. Go into debt if you have to.
Their words now
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
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Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.Their words
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
21 November 2024
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16 May 2024
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People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.
20 December 2023
24 October 2023
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Most people who love the Next.js app directory would also love Remix nested routing, for many of the same reasons.Their words
Most people who love the next.js app directory would also love remix nested routing for many of the same reasons.
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29 December 2022
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