3 things I believe are true - LLMs changed how we build software - we're never going back - good engineering is more important than ever
Swizec Teller
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Best selling author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through The Hockeystick book ⏵ https://scalingfastbook.com prev book ⏵ https://swizec.com/senior-mindset blog ⏵ https://swizec.com
Greate writeup – Just Talk To It works great if you're already an expert. Have seen a similar trend at work. The more tokens you burn the less likely you are to produce a good outcome. www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-...
LLMs reward expertise
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after 6 years of thinking about it I finally cracked and bought a pair of sonos speakers for the house. this better be good
I just did a quarter’s worth of work in 5 days and honestly I’m shook to the core of my 20 YoE Agents are changing the math on big bang migrations. Why strangle the fig when you can rip the bandaid? swizec.com/blog/agents-...
Agents change the math on big bang migrations
I just did a team's worth of work in 5 days. Honestly I am shook to the core of my 20 YoE
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achievement unlocked, shipped an unreviewable PR on acceptance testing only
Skills make pretty good documentation for repetitive tasks. Something about writing for models tricks people into being concise and to the point. No fluff
I had Fable revamp the information architecture of my blog (1969 posts across 20 years) and it found ~8 core categories then Fable decided to write an intro blurb for each (good idea, I didn't ask) this is shockingly good writing
In the 80’s and 90’s it was obvious that programming was solved. Compilers, OOP, and later MVC frameworks + Java meant that “if you think hard enough and make a plan, you can just delegate implementation to cheap non-engineers” sound familiar?
Ran a solidarity half today because I didn’t sign up for the San Francisco Marathon. Maybe next year, I need a new shirt
one day I will learn how scroll restoration works until then I'm happy framework authors think of this stuff for me
Been thinking about leading software teams when everyone’s also using agents Architects have two failure modes: - ivory tower -> useless and annoying - code janitor -> burnout To be effective you need to build systems of humans and computers swizec.com/blog/how-to-...
How to be useful as a software architect
Software architects have a weird role: Think about the code _tomorrow_. Today's code is what it is, how do we make it good tomorrow? Without slowing down, losing business, or falling off a cliff.
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this is hilarous – web search with correct link in AI summary and pure seospam in results
The best team you can have right now is a high agency product engineer with a token budget and freedom to cook give them tools, say yes, and get out of the way
Protip: Have your code review bot drop stacked PRs with the suggested fix. Working well for us
outsourcing: They do task, you think and worry delegation: They own outcome, you build feedback loops this is a note to myself
The bleeding edge world of web frameworks persists! There's dozens of us, dozens Oldest post on my site captured by the wayback machine is from 2006-05-03. There's been many rewrites, here's the latest cool urls don't die ❤️ swizec.com/blog/swizec-...
swizec.com is now on TimberJS, a new React framework
swizec.com is 20 years old and has gone through many rewrites. Here's the latest
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I still think it’s crazy I’ve been posting on this domain for 20 years
this sparks joy love that @saewitz.com's new framework made it easy
The computer scientist says “The halting problem cannot be solved, I have proven it” and the software engineer goes “30 second timeout, if the answer’s not ready by then we don’t need it”
