
VP Eng @AxisCareUS // Champion of healthy software teams that make a big impact and happily stick around for the long haul. // I love puzzles.
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Kevin Smith retweeted
Given the acceleration Anthropic is reporting in coding, it is amazing that you still cannot change your email address in Claude and the official advice is that if you need to change your email the only way to do that is delete your account.
Kevin Smith retweeted
The most valuable thing you can do right now is find a way to make an unverifiable domain verifiable by AI and let it rip.
notes on using AI productively:
- you can separate most work into two buckets: AI-verifiable and not. how you should work depends on which bucket your work falls into
- "verifiable" boils down to whether AI can independently tell (verify) if work that it completes is good or not.
- if your work is verifiable, design a verifier or system of verifiers and "let 'er rip." use as much AI as you can and get out of the way. you're not the bottleneck anymore, so no marginal attention is required as tasks scale.
- if it might be verifiable, you can try building an AI judge. but you need evals to test the judge's competence. @hammer_mt is my go-to on how to do this well. if you can get your judge good enough, you have verifiable work. back to throwing as much ai at your work as you can
- sometimes a good judge is easy to build, sometimes it's so hard that you may as well not bother.
- if your work can't be verified by an AI, that leaves you or someone else as the judge. treat it like the olden days but with AI help. one or two tasks at a time, avoid context switching, protect your focus
- sometimes, there are verifiable sub-tasks within larger pieces of work. The same process re: judgment and eval-building applies to these sub-tasks. The more you can automate these away, the more you can focus on the pieces that you're uniquely suited for.
Kevin Smith retweeted
That's what I mean by "transparency." Ask anybody else who computes their own secret sauce computer rankings to share their code, and they'll act like you're trying to steal the nuclear launch codes.
Kevin Smith retweeted
By the way - if you're a coder with curiosity, @_KevinSmith maintains a GitHub contain all the source code here:
You could download it, audit it, tweak it with your own marble transfer rules, and/or use it for you local high schools, etc.
github.com/kevinsmith/CFBMar…
Kevin Smith retweeted
Replying to @iowahawkblog @cfbmarbles
Maybe it's just me, but I feel this is a superior way to select a playoff field than surveying the collective idiot opinions of hungover journalists.
Complete 138 team marble standing from @CFBMarbleGame at cfbmarblegame.com/?season=20…
and @cfbmarbles at collegefootballmarbles.com/s…
Kevin Smith retweeted
Give your agent a way to verify its work. This can dramatically improve the quality of output.
With this process in place, Claude Code was able to write 90%+ of its code itself. When generating software at a faster rate than you can review it, the bottleneck shifts to proving that it works. @bcherny and team invested enough in verification, we've been able to move fast while maintaining stability.
Code reviews aren't going away, but you need to think of it differently. One human reading through line-by-line is no longer going to work as a gate, it needs to evolve into a multi-layered verification system, built with fast deterministic feedback loops for your agents.
This is where e2e tests, feature maps (as @poteto has been advocating), property tests and multi-agent adversarial reviews come in. These all provide opportunities to catch errors early and fix them before things get out of hand.
You don't have enough eyeballs for the amount of code being written so your focus needs to be on product intent, risk assessment and evaluating evidence rather than reviewing code. Delegate the code checking work to your automated tests, scale your approvals based on risk, and turn your test failures into living evaluations. This approach helps maintain speed without losing reliability.
Let the agents do what they do best and let you focus on what makes you irreplaceable: judgement, direction, and ownership. We tried to capture how we handle code review and verification in this writeup. Hopefully it's helpful.
ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevsOct 16United States
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Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's code.
From June to September, merged PRs more than doubled while the share reverted fell by more than 40%.
We wrote about how we changed code review to get there, and how to adopt it:
claude.dev/blog/solving-code…
Kevin Smith retweeted
“Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.” — The Pragmatic Programmer
i remember early in my career wondering why most people missed out on building early internet products
but i look around now and i get it
so many people fiddling around with "my custom agent setup" and so few using this miracle of a tool to actually do anything
Kevin Smith retweeted
“How did you keep the development of this secret for so long?”
“I didnt. I simply told everyone and nobody believes us”
Lmao
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Replying to @MKBHD
I’m not. Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.
Kevin Smith retweeted
You get better at doing things by doing things
— @yacineMTB
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Guillermo Rauch@rauchgOct 16
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Kevin Smith retweeted
HERE IT IS. The Next Generation Roadster developed by SpaceX and Tesla!
There is a fan-suction system at the bottom of the car that can pull up to 2 gs allowing it to stick upside down.
It just flipped UPSIDE DOWN with cold gas thrusters and landed. HOLY SHIT.
Replying to @abimaelmartell
• comments go stale very quickly and confuse agents and people
• they are often used by agents to explain workarounds that would've been better off actually fixing the code instead
• they are not enforceable and waste your agents' tokens
my point is that moving prose (comments, rules, agent.md, skills) into deterministic lint rules, better API design/types, is far more effective, enforceable, and token efficient.
comments are simply a crutch that agents will happily misuse






















