Coffee creates snark and code
West Loop, Chicago, IL
Joined November 2008
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Kevin Decker retweeted
Within Amazon we are placing a huge emphasis on getting system architecture and boundaries right upfront. Claude can help with that but that requires human judgement. Your domain models, API contracts, architecture, DB schemas etc all need to be really solid…
Kevin Decker retweeted
This division between folks who read AI code vs. those who don't doesn't make sense. It 100% depends on the context.
If I'm building a simple local tool, I'll use twice, ofc I won't read the code.
If you're contributing to a banking software, damn right you'll read the code (twice).
But everyone just ignores that and keeps on arguing about the "right" way to build software.
Software is 1000 things, not one.
Kevin Decker retweeted
I'm now past 50 anecdotes on the job market, and it feels there's a catch-22 position repeating:
1. Companies struggling to hire certain profiles (product-minded engineers, devtools infra etc)
2. Inbound apps are SUPER noisy, so most co's give up on them
3. Devs with the above skillset are submitting applications... but rarely ever make it thru the massive noise of inbound applications
So #1 never finds #3 and both #1 and #3 wonder what is going on
Kevin Decker retweeted
Tried giving Claude Code runtime access by writing a simple Chrome DevTools Protocol MCP server (that's a mouthful). It worked shockingly well for the effort needed. Did a writeup here for anyone curious: autoconfig.io/devtools-mcp-s…
After using Augment for a few months, I can say it's been a game-changer for our small team. We're able to build features with fewer people, in less time, with more test coverage to boot.
Kevin Decker retweeted
Push Safety with Vite
I ran into push safety issues with Vite: Every time when I deployed a new version, users on older clients would receive dynamic import() errors because Vite appends random ids to JS bundles, and when you deploy a new version without keeping the old ones on your CDN, those imports of files failed.
There is no good solution for this built into Vite because it is more of a deployment infra issue than a build infra concern. I would like to keep old bundles around, but I deploy 10+ times a day and it's a hassle to keep every version around.
Instead, for now, I implemented my own wrapper around `React.lazy`: If an import fails, it will reload the page once. If it fails again, it will show an error message.
What do you think of this solution? What other options do I have?
Kevin Decker retweeted
the 55,000-line regex is aware of its own existence and has desires and goals. primarily it wants you to delete it.
Kevin Decker retweeted
Adding GitHub comments to individual lines in your own PR is pro level.
And no, I don’t think they should be comments in the code. The point of PR comments is to talk about the *change*, not the code itself. This only makes sense with both old and new code visible side-by-side.
Kevin Decker retweeted
Beware the Prosperity Gospel of Tech Twitter.
This whole system is algorithmically designed to make you feel bad about yourself and your progress. Measure only against your previous self.
Don’t worry about people’s cars or houses, focus on you, then send the ladder back down.
Kevin Decker retweeted
The skies over Chicago's skyline after the tornado warning are truly impressive tonight
#IlWX
#OnAssignment for @BlockClubCHI
Sorta cool how simple it is to implement search with @OpenAI.
github.com/openai/openai-coo…
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Kevin Decker retweeted
AI.
No one's asking the right question:
"How much do customers *actually* care that your product has "AI"?"
I wanted to know, so I collected data from 2.4k customers.
Here are the surprising results 👇
Kevin Decker retweeted
Introducing Type –
An AI-first document editor that helps you write remarkably fast.
Writing with Type is like sculpting. Type generates high-quality text that you can effortlessly refine in a beautiful doc editor.
🪄 type.ai
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