Remember 13-ish years ago we told designers they should learn to design in code? Great designers started designing boxy layouts for a hot minute because CSS was hard - way harder than today. Thankfully that didn't last long.
Nowadays designers armed with AI bring not just code but occasional tech stack and implementation decisions to the table. Not all bad, just uninformed and mildly frustrating sometimes. I don't see it as a stay-in-your-lane problem. Lanes are merging. I'm learning to merge gracefully.
As a developer, my goal today is to be the thinnest possible layer between designers and clients, to preserve the fidelity of design that the client signed off on. Full circle, I'm on a project where our designer prompt-designs in the project's repo. This is the way
I haven't engaged much on Twitter/X in years. It's refreshing to see old friends and colleagues popping up in my X feed these days. 👋 Here's a pic of Ellie to brighten the day. She got old. So did I. #AnatolianShepherd
This is a topic I think about **all the time**. Love the casual conversation and great insights. CMSs will evolve against the backdrop of AI, but I expect the next couple of years to feel wonky. The first CMS to concretely frame the question will set the standard... maybe
In a few hours me and the @pineworksco crew will do another installment of our newly sprouted livestream: We Should Talk About This On the Internet.
We will talk about if the CMS as we know it is dead in the age of AI.
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💯 AI occasionally misunderstands, overshoots, has opinions, makes arbitrary judgment calls, notices undiscovered issues, is eager to expand current scope… **just like me**. I am now a macro level PM managing agents astronomically smarter than I am. I ship months of work weekly
Kids, back in my day, we did human code review.
I know. Can you imagine?
If things got complex, I would pull in more humans. Imagine how expensive a code review would cost.
Sometimes a week would pass. And the developer would forget all about the PR. I'm taking about human context window. It was prone to forgetfulness.
Anyway after all that, sometimes we would not approve the code. Which meant another round of revisions.
Now, we just ask the AI to be an isolated judge and review the code. And then the AI would fix it too. You pay $3 of tokens. The whole thing is completed in 6 minutes.
After using Claude Opus 5 for a while, I don't want smarter models. It has opinions, decides to skip part of a task without a good reason, and tells you it's time to stop and pick up again tomorrow even when the thing is due right now. There must be a sweet spot for IQ level
Agentic-first development seems to amplify ADHD symptoms because you never get into flow. Rather, you wait, wait some more, then try to get your head back into the game to validate a (sometimes overwhelming) pile of code output. Still, I prefer it
Apparently, last year was the last year I spent architecting software, writing code, and collaborating with teammates to establish consensus on such things. Now I direct agents to do that. The shift was sudden and felt oddly natural
A life well lived. Rest in peace, brother. God bless your family. Hope to see you on the other side
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"Much of what is called 'social problems' consists of the fact that intellectuals have theories that do not fit the real world. From this, they conclude that it is the real world which is wrong and needs changing."
— Thomas Sowell
Ditto. The political spectrum I'm concerned with is totalitarianism vs liberalism, not left vs right. The "hate speech" obsession is a the totalitarian urge to crush political dissent. It does not belong in the conservative/classical liberal vocabulary
What I love about TypeScript is being able to refactor hundreds of lines of front-end code or write an entire feature without firing up the browser, then having only two or three bugs to fix. But I still hate TypeScript
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. - Ecclesiastes 3:11
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good, like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.” ― Marcus Aurelius