Developer extraordinaire who loves all things Laravel and Ballroom Dance.

Spanish Fork, Utah
Joined June 2011
Derek Caswell retweeted
A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI. When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this. When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term. Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while. As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.
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Laravel Prompts will be heavily used within the framework itself. Just look at this gorgeous "vendor:publish" output. Mind blowing stuff from @jessarcher #LaraconUS
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Trying to reproduce that production bug locally
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Join us online tonight at 7pm for our monthly meetup! @DancingTechGeek "I'm not dead yet! - CodeIgniter", see meetup.com/Utah-PHP-User-Gro… for more details.
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“Are you Mormon?” “Nope, he died along time ago. Want to read his book?” #GeneralConference
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UPHPU meetup tonight 7pm at Younique in Lehi UT, Coding Standards by @tom_h_anderson plus pizza by Alex Clark at TEKsystems and extra prizes provided by Younique! bit.ly/2vvjnKt
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Thanks to everyone for making #ZendCon2017 an amazing event! Fantastic ZendCon A fun community learning Unleash #501ElePHPant
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The winner of this year’s Elephpant design contest at #ZendCon2017
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Me trying my hardest to find a way to enjoy watching my team this year. #BYUfootball #BYUvsMSST
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HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS
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Whoever did this at the river woods on Sunday.......😍💯🙏👌@BYUSportsNation
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May we cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in deed.
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Code that can be understood is code that can be secured. Readability is not just a developer experience feature. - @jreskew #skiphp
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This morning @funkatron wrote "Why I still use PHP" - 24daysindecember.net/2015/12…
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"Keeping a clear perspective and seeing beyond this world is not easy when you're in the midst of trials." -Elder Anderson #ldsconf
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If everything is going perfect for you, just wait. #ldsconf
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“Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.” #ElderPearson | #ldsconf – at Salt Lake City, UT
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Religious freedom means the freedom to: 1. Believe 2. Share with others 3. Form a church 4. Live our faith #ElderHales #ldsconf
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