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David Cramer
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David Cramer
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Did this guy ever open source… anything?open source everything- I cant get over the fact that so many engineers still dont grok the fundamentals of what an LLM is. Repeat after me: its just pattern matching, it doesnt "know" anything
- Still can’t believe we all got tricked into using graphql
- GraphQL's adoption issue in a nutshell: "It's great that my frontend can decide what data the API returns!" What an experienced engineer sees: "It's terrifying that end users can change the performance characteristics of our service on the fly"
- dont condone this kind of thing go to school, go to college, learn some things, experience some things, then decide what you want to do even if you're brilliant (you're probably not), you're making decisions that impact the rest of your lifei'm leaving Lovable at 16 y/o to build AGI. the bottleneck isn't smarter models, it's the tools and context around them. more soon.
- I'm so sick of authentication in 2025. I spend no less than 30 minutes a day authenticating to services. Passkey is awful, yubikey has gotten replaced by it, we havent removed the infinite OTP flows, corporate SAML is a tire fire. This thing needs completely gutted.
- remember graphql?
- I really dont understand where all the revenue is coming from for Bolt/Lovable/v0. Who's paying for these? Let alone at the scale of revenue folks are reporting? I just dont see data from my peers on adoption (and dont see it at Sentry). Is it consumer?
- I'm ~8 weeks into this experiment of "write every line of code using an agent". For a production service at Sentry mind you. Yesterday I was finally broken and had to open my editor. Here's what I've learned so far...
- The problem with engineers making decisions is so fundamentally simple: person: "this doesnt make sense" engineer: "its that way because [literally irrelevant]" You will find this in your day job. In technology you are frustrated by. Its everywhere.
- Every time I see these APIs I have minor panic. An interface that requires a return value, with a function call that implicity [does something] but does not return early. It violates most things I believe in wrt software design.
- Does anyone who actually writes code for a living use neovim
