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As I walked off stage after my talk, I got pulled aside by a young CS grad who needed advice. What he said broke my heart. "I'm using the AI tools, just like you said. But it changes so fast. I don't know how much longer I can keep doing this. I'm so tired. I feel sick." He'd accepted that AI fluency is now expected to land a job. So he was trying to learn everything. Ralph loops, OpenClaw, graph engineering. Before he could finish learning the current thing, something new would drop. Here's the thing: he's right that AI fluency is expected now. But fluency doesn't mean chasing every release. I stopped him and repeated what I'd said on stage minutes earlier: "You're not behind. You won't be behind if you skip this month's releases, and you won't be behind six months from now either." Most of what's hyped today will be gone or unrecognizable by next quarter. So my advice to him: look at what was hyped six months or a year ago and is still standing. Then ask three questions. Is there a business case? Are companies actually adopting it? Are developers I trust using it? The market moves slower than your feed does. Let the early adopters test every new toy. Learn what survives. I sat down over coffee with @TasonJorres from JetBrains at the @CommitYourCode conference to talk about exactly this: the skill of ignoring things, and what it costs you. Full 36-minute conversation 👇 #CYC26
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A generation of developers is grieving. And that's OK. Full talk from @CommitYourCode #CYC26
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🤯 Big update just went live on start.dev! New course, a study Advisor?, interactive Git and SQL courses incoming, and a faster platform. Details in thread 🧵
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Two more courses are in production right now. Git, taught visually. Every command is animated so you can see what actually happens when you run it. We plan to make this one public for everyone. And SQL. You write a query and the result is visualized instantly. No database setup, no containers, no cloud services.
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Also shipped: - Your code state now survives new version deploys (we ship a lot) - Fixed AI Assistant errors - 16 new ranks and a public ranks page: start.dev/ranks - Speed improvements across the whole platform Premium users: connect your Discord in account -settings and you get access to the Premium Lounge and Premium Support channels automatically. Thanks for being here 🧡
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No jobs for vibe coders. Sorry
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Somebody thought our homepage at @startdotdev was vibe coded. It took me days to learn @splinetool to make our hero section. Not that using AI is bad, but whoever thought this was made by AI, really doesn't know what AI output looks like.
I seriously cannot stand these people anymore. I don't know what happened to a good chunk of the tech community. I used to connect with these people because they loved technology like I do. They wanted to learn, build, experiment, and talk about what was possible. Over the past couple of years, though, I've watched a huge portion of that curiosity turn into pure skepticism, pessimism, and hostility. There are two ridiculous extremes in the AI debate. On one end, you have people claiming that non-developers can vibe code anything and that anyone can instantly become a developer. On the other, you have people who treat AI like politics and completely lose their minds over anything associated with it. Lately, I see far more of the latter, and honestly, they are even more irrational and insufferable than the vibe coders. I also know that many of them use AI themselves. They don't actually care about having an honest discussion. AI is just their latest excuse to shit on everyone and everything while pretending they are taking some principled stand. I used to follow politics, but the audiences around political content, on both the left and the right, became so toxic and irrational that I eventually stopped caring about any of it. I appreciate level-headed people who can discuss complicated topics without turning everything into a tribal war. That is what I once believed the tech community was. It does not feel that way anymore, and it is incredibly demotivating and depressing. I am not saying this describes most people, but it describes a large and increasingly loud group. If you find yourself making stupid comments like this, take a step back and ask what you are actually contributing. Criticism is healthy. Skepticism is necessary. Blind hostility, personal attacks, and performative outrage are not. You do not have to love AI. You do not have to use it. You can question the hype, the ethics, the business models, and the effect it may have on our industry. But if you cannot discuss any of that without attacking people, assuming the worst, or turning every conversation into a moral crusade, then you are not protecting the tech community. You are helping destroy the very curiosity and openness that made it worth being part of in the first place. Sorry for the long post
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This week for Office Hours we're talking about standing out in the job market, whether you're landing your first developer job or hunting for your next role. Bring your questions for @dennisivy11 and @sulamitaivanov! Details: 🗓️ Thursday, August 13 🕥 10:30 AM PT 📍 start. dev Discord Stage Join 👇 startdev.link/X5DPD1P
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My first article on @startdotdev is live. Learning a new programming language used to cost months of lost productivity. AI collapsed that cost, and it is changing how developers choose their tools. start.dev/blog/ai-changed-ho…
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If you're a developer looking for a job in 2026 and are eyeing that $300k/yr position, avoid these 10 common mistakes and you'll instantly be at the top of the candidate stack.
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"The easier it gets to generate code, the more important it becomes to understand what that code is doing. Learning matters more now than ever." Watch the full video here where Brad explains why we built start.dev, the problem with modern learning, and the future outlook 👇 piped.video/gIUAY2lXnBw?si=rTPR…
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Beginner tips from @traversymedia spotted in our Discord server 👀👇 1. Do not compare yourself to other developers
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14. Keep going. Most people quit before they give themselves enough time to improve.
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