Serial experimenter, looking for the next big thing to do. Prev VP Eng @JupiterExchange, Co-founder & CTO @coinhall_org (acq by Jupiter).
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Minister asking you to grow some filter in your lungs. Please adapt.
Health Minister urges the public to adapt to the ongoing haze crisis caused by forest fires.
(youtu.be/tLjrKOTrGrM?si=yQVj…)
Very nice, and about time!
In the next version of Bun
`bun fmt` is a 320x faster Prettier alternative
Passes 99% of Prettier's test suite & supports 20 languages
ALT Poster for bun fmt, a Prettier-compatible formatter built into Bun. Headline: 320x faster than Prettier. Bar chart of wall-clock time to run --check on microsoft/vscode (10,148 files, 8 cores): bun fmt 0.43 s, oxfmt 0.72 0.85 s (2x slower), Biome 2.5 3.6 s (8.3x slower), Prettier 3.9.9 139 s (320x slower). Formats 20 languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Flow, HTML, Vue, Angular, Handlebars, MJML, CSS, SCSS, Less, JSON, JSONC, JSON5, YAML, TOML, GraphQL, Markdown and MDX. 99% of Prettier's tests pass (9,728 of 9,821). 5x less memory than Prettier (183 MB vs 972 MB).
Imagine studying CS right now and having your syllabus change literally every week because a faster or more efficient algo is being discovered faster than your Prof can explain how it works...
AaronCQL retweeted
We are one! Honestly it's been great fun so far and we wouldn't have gotten here without the community - your feedback has contributed to the development of several unique features.
Teams like marketing and QC also made it so that we had all the support needed. It truly takes a village to raise a child, and we're just getting started! Give us a go, and let me know how we can improve the experience for you!
Jupiter Wallet just turned one.
You made that happen, so we want to give a little back.
$50 in cake money for 10 of you 🎂
Open your X profile, pop open the extension, screenshot it and reply here as proof of wallet.
10 winners picked at random, announced Oct 6th.
Everyone's invited. Download now: jup.ag/wallet
Now is a better time than ever before to be a generalist.
Ditch mastering one niche and start asking your agents to make no mistakes, but know enough to know when they're making a mistake.
I've always seen coding as a means to an end. Is this why I'm not at all affected by AI?
What exactly are the software engineers in my timeline so afraid of or so tilted by?
AaronCQL retweeted
It does seem like pushing back against management as software devs in the age of AI is a lost art.
I have never had a job or a project that wasn't in the shape of "what corners can we cut so we can ship this last week? Is that a prototype, welcome to production..."
It was my job to push back and set pace and I don't see how that is not the case still today
Interesting observation: Opus 5.5 reaches for bash+python waaaay more often to edit files than the edit tool.
Did a small benchmark and the bash calls actually use 5-10% less tokens than the edit tool.
Time to delete the edit tool?
The speed at which Opus 5.5 works is insane. Gives the same "wow this shit is crazy" feels when Opus 4.6 first launched.
Opus 5.5 indeed seemed to have solved the needlessly complex language present in earlier versions. It actually sounds so much better now.
What a time to be alive!
Just because we can move faster, just because it's easier to write code than ever before, just because it's just a prompt away, doesn't always mean we should.
This is especially prevalent in crypto, especially after talking to many folks in the space. Moving faster, shipping new things you *think* will help, isn't actually going to help move the needle if it doesn't even attract net new users.
And yes, the act of writing code and of implementing something may be solved. But taste, design, maintainability, marketing are things that still aren't solved by AI, and which still require a ton of effort in order for a product to do well.
My advice for the leaders in the space: the number of stupid ideas one can have will always outpace the resources it takes to build them, even with AI. Your "innovative" product/feature is also hard-capped on the intelligence of your users. Now, more than ever, does taste and a clear understanding of the space matter - so focus on that. Talk to your users, talk to your haters, talk to people outside of the space, learn what ticks, not just what you think is cool.
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.