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The thing I've struggled with most is the existential crisis that comes from losing my grip on the craft. Productivity gains and speed are prioritized over craftsmanship. It's even affected how we train, onboard and collaborate with each other. To me, this is our greatest loss
Jun 5
Coding was never the hard part.
My advice: calm down. Take a walk and leave your phone behind. Try to make a friendly conversation with a stranger.
Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Maybe buy some bonds.
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I'd like to think we still have some semblance of the pay it forward, let's help each other culture though this happens largely *outside* vc and profit margins
May 29
I feel bad saying this but tech in the 2010s was the luckiest shit ever in your 20s
> jobs paid well and didn't have too insane hours or travel
> they would actually give 20 year olds responsibility and take chances on people train them up
> tech was viewed largely positive by society
> everyone helped and knew each other with a very pay it forward culture because everything was growng
> VC subsidized lifestyle for everything like Ubers and food delivery
> set up exactly at the right point for AI wave where you're still comfortable and excited to learn new tools but have enough subject matter or managerial expertise
I am very self aware of how lucky threading that needle was
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Building for AI coding agents in 2026 feels eerily like building for the web in the early aughts. Multiple vendors. No shared standards. Different implementations.
So I built caniuse for coding agents to take the guesswork out of picking one: caniuseagents.com
ALT A matrix comparison table of coding agents and whether they support session lifecycle management for a website called caniuseagents.com
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I've been noodling over how agents should do infra and I kept landing on the question of how to translate intent and reasoning over architecture decisions to an agent.
Turns out that's not as easy to do since all our primitives focus on desired state.
shortdiv.com/posts/infra-has…
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10x years of bad sex to anyone who blindly trusts an agent to find the cheapest option, ETL the data and put it in the other thing *and not care*
Mar 19
Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone.
Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation.
"I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody.
It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code."
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From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)
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BuT hOw ElSe Am I GoNnA bE a ThOt LeAdEr???
Feb 20
everybody’s just having takes on takes on takes
just any excuse to shit out 2000 words in an “article” to gain legitimacy
bro it’s the most exciting time of discovery and invention and you’re claiming to know the answers?? this early in the game? offensive
but anyway
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It was such a privilege to speak at Elixir Conf about my journey into metaprogramming, macros and plugs in Elixir! Link to slides and code for all interested parties:
Slides: noti.st/shortdiv/k9LYP5/phoe…
Code: github.com/shortdiv/chuckwag…
#ElixirConf2024
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