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@dexhorthy
building @humanlayer_dev, YC alum, @aitinkerers sf lead, prev @replicatedhq @SproutSocial @nasa ai that works pod @
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incredible banger of a talk @danshipper
- exploring the frontier vs building a product can be super opposed, but you can’t afford not to be exploring
Nice work @lennysan as usual
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For opus 5.5 in humanlayer - Just pick opus as model and if you have latest CC cli installed you’ll get 5.5 (ignore the context window warning)
@dexhorthy having to use rpi in claude code tui like an animal. When opus 5.5 support in HL? 🙏
Accidentally said CI/CD instead of software factory and they kicked me out of SF
accidentally said microvm instead of agent sandbox and they kicked me out of SF
@dexhorthy Fighting slop together on a tandem
this guy gets it
We're entering a new phase of AI psychosis - factories.
To visualize it, compare these two numbers:
1. Gross developer productivity: how much code you ship
2. Net developer productivity: how much code you ship EXCLUDING WORK ON YOUR FACTORY
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@sloppenheimer @dexhorthy We will fight slop in the halls of montezuma
@dexhorthy we will fight slop on the beaches
fighting code slop at home and abroad
Super stoked to team up with @swyx and @tylerjdunn on Thursday sep 24 to put on a series of “software factory show and tell” round tables at the @heavybit long horizon dev stack devguild
Come show off a small tactical thing that helps you ship better/faster/cleaner
45 minute sessions w/ small break
~12-20 people per session
Quick intros, 30s to intro yourself and what you want to show off
Organizers pick the first speaker, who presents and then picks the next speaker, and so on - audience driven!
2-5 minutes to demo, 2 minutes for questions
No pitches, show us something YOU do internally when building!
Have some free ticket codes still, DM if you want one!
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lol i'm out of claude limit and my codex harness has a bug where mcps don't get loaded but astra is happily just speaking MCP over curl/jsonRPC now. so much for context engineer
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everything piper just said is correct
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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great post by @seldo on the front page of hackernews today - how NOT to get OSS maintainers paid (and how we might actually do it in a sustainable way)
am I the only one from whom this rhymes with social media creator payouts? The content network (X, Youtube, Tiktok, etc) incentivizes creators to publish "valuable" content to their network because it improves the value of the network to users, which means more eyeballs, more ad revenue.
what are the parallels? What are the differences? If registries pay maintainers, those costs land on consumers - what stops some other registry from spinning up that doesn't?
interesting few years for oss in either case
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No more AI slop, says @dexhorthy 👍🏽
who wants to alpha test my new jg CLI (yes, jevgrep)
he's beginning to believe
In April he said AI was a multiplier and everyone has to use it.
If they're now facing a slop problem, that start's at the top.
AI is a multiplier. If it's being used to create slop grenades it's multiplying the things the leadership rewards.
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leave it to your boy opus to add 10 unit tests to ensure a constant string contains various substrings
Super stoked to team up with @swyx and @tylerjdunn on Thursday sep 24 to put on a series of “software factory show and tell” round tables at the @heavybit long horizon dev stack devguild
Come show off a small tactical thing that helps you ship better/faster/cleaner
45 minute sessions w/ small break
~12-20 people per session
Quick intros, 30s to intro yourself and what you want to show off
Organizers pick the first speaker, who presents and then picks the next speaker, and so on - audience driven!
2-5 minutes to demo, 2 minutes for questions
No pitches, show us something YOU do internally when building!
Have some free ticket codes still, DM if you want one!
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very cool demo of how @marcelfahle uses humanlayer for large engineering tasks that need design and planning (with openclaw and @AmpCode orbs for the smaller stuff)
The almighty @saasmakermac shared his dev process with me yesterday.
Here's some of mine. Messy, constantly changing, but fun! Featuring @AmpCode @humanlayer_dev @coderabbitai and AL 🫡
Also probably outdated by the time this video is encoded.
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