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I'm working on the backend your AI doesn't have to build https://saasufy.com/ For vibe coders. With a focus on: - Security - Analytics - Advanced data sharing scenarios - Realtime …

I lost faith in my career long before AI.

This article describes exactly the quantum-resistant stateful signature scheme I implemented (from scratch) for my blockchain project about 6 years ago; including the Merkle 1979 v…

I'm feeling quite confident that AI won't be able to produce quality code in the foreseeable future. Because the bottleneck is not technology, it's people and incentives. Firstly, …

I used these words jokingly and also, I don't mean sycophant in a literal sense. I mean more in an AI context as a kind of config/slider you can dial up or down to make it more col…

In software development, good taste translates to readability, succinctness and maintainability of the code. It also translates to intuitiveness, reliability, security, performance…

In my case, I need my AI to be sycophantic because most of my contrarian ideas are correct. So it's a waste of my time and tokens when the AI keeps making weak arguments which I pr…

I have 3 long term online friends which I've kept in touch with for over a decade but I never met them offline (only 2 I met over video chat).

Whilst the UI provides visibility and guardrails, it also reduces flexibility. But now with LLM coding agents, it often gets in the way. Working with text/code is easier.

When I use Claude to write code for my own projects, the code it generates is exactly the same code that I would have written had I done it by hand. If there is any deviation, I as…

People who enjoyed riding horses in the past would not see the benefits of cars either. Multi-pass rendering with multi-pass template placeholder substitution is very useful becaus…

Yes, it still does authentication. It's just about hosting the data, which might make sense for niche scenarios with well defined scope. Unfortunately, many data-driven systems nee…

Web Components are great for doing multi-pass rendering with template placeholder substitution happening at multiple levels in the component hierarchy. The entire element HTML hier…

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You can substitute the word 'interactivity' with 'statefulness' and it makes the statement more intuitive IMO. Concurrency + statefulness means you can't have mutability because th…

This is a good article. I've been working on infrastructure to facilitate safe vibe coding with a focus on data synchronisation with simple access control and analytics. See https:…

Yes, agreed, that quote is not as relevant to software development. Some would make the case that software isn't good unless it's perfect. Engineers will use the word 'correct' (e.…

Yes they do. The contract says $X and Y stock options per year, Z hours per week.

I try to find an embarrassingly parallel solution to most problems I encounter. Not only because such solutions scale, but because they often produce a simpler, more robust archite…

It's a terrible metric, it's kind of like companies paying employees by the hour for white collar work. Most people here probably don't know what it was like to work a contract job…

I love vanilla JavaScript. All my personal projects are plain JavaScript. No Typescript. But in a company setting, it's almost impossible to find plain JavaScript roles. Plain JS i…

This is neat. I've been dreaming of something like this to host frontends connected to my backend platform https://saasufy.com - I can get Claude Code to create a data-driven app e…

I agree that AI does well when the patterns in the code are predictable and consistent. That said it can work surprisingly well with custom frameworks and tools provided that they …