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Everyone thinks they are a 10x engineer. Forty questions will tell you what you actually are. 100x.iamdevloper.io
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2010: -hired to build the product 2025: -hired to build the product -actually spend the week explaining to an agent why it deleted the product
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today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com
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signs the rewrite is coming: someone says "legacy" someone says "greenfield" someone says "we'll migrate incrementally" nobody migrates incrementally three years later, still on the old one, now calling it legacy too
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At what point in your career did you stop being able to explain your actual job to your parents?
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how do you feel about the business model: - sign up - get $5 in credits for free - use the platform fully (by using credits) - buy more to continue use Essentially a free trial, but credit based vs. time based
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me turning to claude when I'm asked for my standup update
rory stewart turning to intensely stare at ailbhe rea bbc newsnight
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I Am Devloper retweeted
I redesigned my personal website for the fourth time this year it finally feels truly personal; i've never been so thrilled about anything i've made. and that's all that matters ✧ jem.computer ✧
A personal website should feel like you’ve briefly left the rest of the internet
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It would be really cool if Jev could also generate text and images
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worst naming sequencing than the fast & furious films
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
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if I was Dumbledore I would've hid the philosopher's stone in the aws console
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company idea: an insurance company who offers protection against acts of AI (deleting data, etc)
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I told the interviewer I had three years of production Kubernetes experience. I had one weekend, a YouTube tutorial, and a desperate need to leave my current job.
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PREDICTION !== ENDORSEMENT
mark my words, developers will delete entire files of logic and replace them with a HTTP call to Jev's API
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its only downtime if anyone notices
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"fine, I'll do it myself"
doing a marvel marathon is funny cause you get to see all the end credits scenes that went absolutely nowhere
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