@BordedDev Yes. And then I can stop focusing on fonts and colors and start focusing on making my clients actual money. Because they're still never gonna learn the tools and how to use them the right ways. Even if insert prompt make website works flawlessly. They'll still insert stupid prompts and make stupid websites.

@AlgoRythm Funny. Especially since NASA was successful every single time they ever built and launched a rocket. That’s why we landed on the moon with Apollo ELEVEN after over a decade of purely academic research into how rockets work with no hardware needed because the theory was all solid.

@CaptainRant Define cultural bias. Does anyone really believe, in 2025, that creating anything that doesn’t have, or can’t be accused of having, cultural bias is even possible? What would that even look like? I’ll tell you: a completely silent AI that won’t dare to answer ANY questions because someone’s feeewwwwings might get hurt.

@lorentz There are two kinds of bad code:

1) Code that has bugs
2) Code that never ships

#1 has always existed. It will always exist.

Same with #2.

But there are inefficiencies with humans (like sleeping, eating, having a life outside of work). And businesses generally like to ship the stuff they build. The faster, the better. Through computers, even. If there are bugs, the humans will be hired to intervene and even architect better ways of working with the computers to make them ship better code faster.

In other words, this new development of AI doing stuff is really no different from all the other allegedly employment-ending technologies that have come about. We just need to adapt, again, like we did before.

Here's a way to keep all the agents straight and in one file. https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md

I don’t understand how coding on drugs is supposed to improve the code. I think of it the same way I think of driving impaired. Nobody thinks doing that improves driving. Except maybe the impaired person. Help me understand (I’ve never done any drugs and I don’t drink).

@devdiddydog Yeah, I don’t care about titles. That’s stuff that I cared about once but it never amounted to anything. I still got laid off multiple times through no fault of my own due to quarterly earnings being low or some stupid shit. People VP and above all kept their jobs, though. In the end, title is about ego. I just want to ship software. And, like you said, if I need a coding purist to tsk tsk over the code later and fix it, there’ll be plenty of unemployed ones to choose from. And I’ll finally have revenue from my software sales to hire one vs. trying to wear the dev and the owner hat at the same time.

@AlgoRythm Re: vulnerabilities, I’ve started a side hustle using Claude to track down vulnerabilities for bug bounty programs. Too early to tell if it’ll be productive, but so far it found 5 in just one go at one piece of software.

@AlgoRythm Try using .md files to define architecture, if you haven’t already. It’s life changing.

@AlgoRythm That's an opinion, but not my actual experience. I've never found a situation I haven't been able to get out of using vibe coding. In many ways, it frees up my wetware compute cycles to see the bigger picture and understand the root cause. Sometimes you're staring into the abyss of mismatched brackets when you need to stare into the abyss of the architecture.

@YourMom Nobody should use GPT for coding. It's not good at it. At all. Claude 4 is the best I've found so far. Here's a good (and long) article about someone else's experience. https://wordfence.com/blog/2025/...

@YourMom GPT is terrible. Claude is so much better. I just tell it to write the tests (and dozens of other things I never used to bother to do because it was so tedious).

@Lensflare I'm the owner of my business. I'm trying to be a better boss to myself and let myself out to play more. And that's the reason I started this business...to escape the tyranny of the typical dev shop.

@whimsical Exactly. I remember in 1990 being told in my earliest college-level computer programming courses that "someday" we'd have an nth-generation language system that we could make programs in with natural language English. Nobody could describe just how that would work since, as everyone knew, anything resembling artificial intelligence was decades, or hundreds, maybe thousands of years away. I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my whole career, where I can get shit done and finally go outside and touch grass. Being locked in a lab, a cubicle maze, or a room in my house, slaving away at a keyboard over some damn missing semicolon is so yesterday.

@YourMom The game was running in Chrome in full screen mode. When you go into full screen mode there’s a pop up that says “press esc to leave full screen” But when you do, nothing happens. You have to hover near the top of the screen and then an X in a circle appears. Clicking that gets you out of full screen. Insane.

@retoor Yeah. Because the guy was totally gonna do 32,000 resumes so we can all feel good about the sample size even though wokeness is everywhere and nobody needs 32,000 data points to prove what’s objectively true.

The presenter is retired, and apparently he just has a really old PC that hasn’t been updated. But yeah, gotta do a test run before. The venue also isn’t sophisticated enough to properly do audio through room speakers. Have to hold the mic up to the laptop.

@Demolishun So sorry for your loss. We cremated our Golden because our yard wasn’t diggable for a grave. For this one our yard was more diggable but we still had 4 people using a pickaxe to get to the required depth of 2 feet. We built and decorated a pine box and wrapped it in a thick plastic and felt table cloth to protect it from rotting in our wet climate. My only worry now is when we eventually move and the next homeowners want to dig a pool. 😢 Maybe I’ll warn them after the house sale papers are signed.

I didn’t know images were broken. Wish I could upload a photo. My dog was so cuddly, gentlemanly, and pure. Best little office, couch, and road trip buddy ever.

@CaptainRant It was frowned upon to refuse to join in. “We need team players.” “We’re a family.”

I have a family. They’re at home and related to me. Ya’ll are just people I know from work.

@retoor It’s weird that it falls down in this one thing.

It just recently hit $100,000.

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@Hazarth This. It’s a devil’s bargain. If I’d have known how this would go, I’d have found a way to be independently wealthy by 30.

I’m a shit coder. I have this mental block I’ve never been able to shake where I don’t know where to start and what to type to start any project. AI has _saved my bacon_ in that I can ask it to help me get started and it does. Amazingly well. But it’s still not smart enough to just tell it to create all the code for a full application. Humans are still needed for that. For now.

@feuerherz Yup. After 28 years, making websites and helping dozens of people run their businesses is exhausting.

You have money. I want some of that money. I will trade my skill and experience for it. But within limits. And with a likely chance of getting more of that money, and more prestige and time off, the more value I provide.

It’s too late for me. Save yourselves.

@Wisecrack I lived in a really cool time and in a stunningly beautiful area of the Southwestern U.S. There are nights when I can’t sleep that I relive that era and place in my mind and wish I could go back. So much about today is amazing but also so, so screwed up.

This is righteous indignation and justifiable as self-defense.

I’m more referring to my capacity to completely forget unused EC2 instances.