@dotariel

Thoughts expressed here are mine alone.

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Joined February 2014
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Grady Booch
@Grady_BoochSep 14
Shipping more code is a profoundly stupid measure to celebrate. Shipping useful and high-quality features is why we deliver software intensive systems.
Addy Osmani
@addyosmaniSep 14
At Anthropic, Claude now writes 80% of our code. Engineers ship 8x more code per quarter. Side effect: Tests grew 10x. CI jobs up 25x in 6 months. Here's what helped us scale: claude.com/blog/agentic-codi…
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This is what I call gain of function.
Dexerto
@DexertoAug 25
KFC is releasing a new Oreo chicken burger The collab features cookie-style buns, mashed potatoes covered in crushed Oreo pieces, a fried chicken fillet and launches in China on August 28
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Replying to @OrionSeven
Our participation in the syntax generation of software engineering is gone -- and good riddance. However, the rest, and most important part, of software engineering is still in full force.
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Replying to @ThePrimeagen
When the dust finally settles, and we all realize the discipline required to properly use agents, I think we will be looking at a productivity increase on the order of a factor of 2 to 5.
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Ariel Alonso retweeted
John Crickett
@johncrickettMar 16
I spent the weekend actually reading the Claude Code docs. It's a rabbit hole. CLAUDE.md files. MCP configs. Skills. Subagents. Hooks. Plugins. Agent Teams. You could spend more time configuring Claude Code than building software. All of it is productivity theatre. The only thing that actually matters: think first, then give it focused, relevant context.
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Ariel Alonso retweeted
Branko
@brankopetric00Mar 7
Microservices are just monoliths with networking problems.
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Why did it have access? If a junior engineer takes down prod, it's never the junior's fault. That's an access and SDLC issue
Alexey Grigorev
@Al_GrigorMar 6
Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…
A console screen shows a critical warning about a destroyed database and missing backups, outlining deleted infrastructure components.

ALT A console screen shows a critical warning about a destroyed database and missing backups, outlining deleted infrastructure components.

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When you’ve had a really productive session and you’re about to make a breakthrough
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Ariel Alonso retweeted
Matt Pocock
@mattpocockukJan 10
I just nearly fell into a 50-year-old trap: waterfall. "I'll plan everything upfront, feed the spec to the LLM, ship it all." But specs→code isn't like a compiler. Some questions only get answered in code. Note to self: Validate the risky parts first.
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Claude’s session limits are this generation’s Pomodoro timer.
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Ariel Alonso retweeted
Branko
@brankopetric0023 Dec 2025
The best DevOps tool is a calm, experienced senior engineer who's seen this problem before. All the automation in the world can't replace someone who knows when NOT to automate something.
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How did we all decide that “pull request” was perfectly fine terminology? It’s a merge request and I’m tired of pretending otherwise
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Hear me out: We should standardize rules files as... CONTRIBUTING.md Not CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, copilot-instructions.md and all that BS
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Don’t react. Respond.
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Pro Tip: “You didn’t fix shit” is a powerful prompt.
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Ariel Alonso retweeted
Ethan Mollick
@emollick14 May 2025
Many of the most important “prompt engineering” skills are management skills: clearly understanding the task to be done & what information is needed to do it; explaining the task to the AI; giving useful feedback to improve outputs; & generalizing lessons learned into a process.
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
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It is difficult for me to take any software update seriously that puts anything related to emojis in its top 10 of its release notes.
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I’m still waiting for the iOS update that autocorrects “ducked”.
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It bothers me a lot that I feel less able to create a full working web app in an hour today than I could 11 years ago. It feels like it should be *much* easier now!
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