If you identify with this post and you are in a manager position, please heed my warning. Throw away your prototypes. Stop vibing “quick fixes to unblock me”. Stop trying to help your devs because you think you’re superman now. You are only pissing everyone off, I promise. The devs who didn’t stop coding while you were off doing important manager/product stuff are the ones who understand what’s best for the codebase. And yes, they also know how to use LLMs.

Just because you feel like you have a new superpower doesn’t mean that everyone needs to be saved. Follow the damn engineering process.

And it was incredibly affordable compared to today.

Do you want to live underground?

Although it might seem contradictory, something can be abstract and concrete at the same time. These are relative qualities.

Relative to anarchy, the state is abstract. It depends upon a socially shared model of thinking that gets acted out by individuals. Take away this layer of abstraction and you are left with anarchy, i.e. the precursor of the state.

Prison is itself an abstraction, though its consequences feel very concrete to a prisoner. All of your thoughts and feelings are abstractions, and yet they seem concrete to you.

Yeah. I wouldn’t model my lifestyle after his per se, but he is definitely an inspiration.

Babylon Berlin

You better believe I was degaussing as many CRTs as I could.

What’s their op ex though? I feel like there must be a sizable portion of that which isn’t actually necessary to keep the service up.

Seriously. If Google really wants to shove ads down our throats, they could at least regulate them so they’re not constantly horny scams. But that would cost them money, oh the humanity.

A mix of gpt-5.5 and claude opus 4.7, wrapped in my own mobile web UI that doubles as planning software and document editor.

The reason for the mobile focus is I’ve been trying to detach from my home office as much as possible, meaning I do a lot of up-front planning via ADRs and task/story writing, then I spawn agents to actually work on coding tasks. The only part that really requires sitting at a desk is code review, manual testing, and deeper human-in-the-loop coding or debugging sessions.

If you are able to max out the $100/mo plans from either OpenAI or Anthropic, then that is already a very cost-effective option.

You should file an issue.

idk man the doner kebab I had in Berlin was way better than in Istanbul. Istanbul still had excellent food, just not the kebab for whatever reason. Maybe we just didn’t try the right place.

Had some amazing Indian food in Bordeaux.

This place: https://rajistan.fr/

Seems pretty similar to DBOS

I never hear the end of complaints from my mom about how her EV’s range is too short and takes forever to charge.

Doesn’t Matrix do everything you just listed?

Where did you get the idea that Zig is an “easy” language?

Copyparty. Or any other web file server.

Most of these takes seem pretty agreeable to me. I would push back on the premise a bit in specific cases, like when you have a manager that always seems to want something new and changes their mind all the time. You need to insulate yourself from that stream of wasteful work by just not doing it until it’s obviously necessary.

speed alone doesn’t make someone a good programmer

OP didn’t make that claim. They said all else being equal fast is better than slow. They also said that in their experience, the best programmers they knew were good because they were fast (not withholding other potential reasons they were good).

Your point is consistent with the OP’s thesis.