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Optimist. Elixir maximalist. AI determinist. Investing Enthusiast.

Atlanta, GA
Joined September 2011
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I’m retired. I’m not, but I might as well be. #ai #harnessengineering
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I can do all things through tokens that augment me
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I can’t send a text and walk at the same time
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I've been coding all year. Haven't written a line of code all year.
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You either take risks or work for somebody that did
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All Wikipedia pages lead back to Philosophy
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“Today; you can use grok/gpt4.5 as the planner and claude code as the executing agent and get work done completely hands free. I can't believe it. We're actually finally here.”
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If you don’t know what you’re doing, coding with AI is a cancer. If you know what you’re doing, coding with AI is jet fuel.
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After going all-in on using AI to assist with software development, it’s obvious to me that fundamental understanding and real-world context can’t be replaced by AI.
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I met a Catholic priest with 2 phones
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Software is never finished
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Because life is ever changing
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And software models life
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I’m 4% into Annie Duke’s book about decisions. It is incredible.
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Can’t remember the last time I hit up Stack Overflow. I throw most things in ChatGPT. And it nails it most of the time.
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All things come to an end. Except Javascript
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No code is the best code. No one has to read it. It doesn't have to be maintained. It has no bugs.
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You can’t learn to code by watching videos.
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Joshua Plicque retweeted
If people understood that you can do all of this with a single language & codebase, there would be many more Elixir developers.
10 System design concepts you should learn. 1. Caching 2. Sharding 3. load-balancing 4. replication 5. fault-tolerance 6. high-avaibility 7. Performance 8. scalability 9. Performance 10. Indexing learn more on Design Guru - bit.ly/3pMiO8g
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The much requested Deployment to Digital Ocean just dropped on LiveView Mastery! youtu.be/Dw7RPqSIv-0
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And I understand why this was requested so much. There were about a half-dozen gotchas and subtle problems. But we got there!
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