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The other day I used agents to convert a dollar field to a cents field. I’ve wanted to for a literal decade. But this is dangerous territory. You don’t want to 100x your users’ bills.

Using agents I felt safer than I ever would without.

Agents…

  1. Investigated the necessary changes and their consequences
  2. Confirmed that this would generally be a good idea – to standardize and to remove the risk if hitting float math troubles.
  3. Made the necessary changes to code and unit tests.
  4. Wrote the data and schema migrations.
  5. Did manual testing in Chrome.
  6. Watched the deploy.
  7. Ran spot and full diagnostic checks on db backups of before/after to verify.

Not only can I work faster, I can also be extra thorough, be my best developer self.

The best time ever for juniors

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What if AI is the best thing ever to happen to junior devs?

When I was coming up what held me back was not knowing and having to find the right apis, googling for errors, wasting time on the wrong abstractions, missing blind spots. All of this can be done at 10x the speed with AI now.

To be useful (ie. get a job) practice unblocking yourself. Be like an AI agent++. The further you can go without needing help or guidance the more useful you are. Has to be in the right direction of course or close to. So also practice business sense, actually listening to your lead, understanding the company direction, dabble in design, SEO, marketing. Just enough of everything and don’t tell yourself anything is “not for you”.

You can be more than twice the speed of an anti-AI-maxxing senior dev at a fraction of the price. That’s a great bargain.

Maybe it’s the best time ever to be a junior?

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I wish I could justify using only Amp. With Opus 4.5 it is incredible.

I have it set to buy tokens for the same price as a Codex/Claude subscription every month but it only lasts a fraction of that 😭

Sponsorship deal if I put your logo on my wedding suit maybe?

Sadly I married before I knew we had options like that.

My mind is also starting to shift towards this.

Both because of increased belief in human ingenuity and because of decreased belief in human ability to downgrade comfort expectations.

Degradable plastic, lab meat, carbon removal tech. It’ll work out. I hope it will. It has to.

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Started a thing 5 years ago. Spent a few days, realized the scope made it unrealistic, walked away.

Coding agents have made it feel within reach.

In the evenings, on the side, I am making 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.

journey to hell
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I bet you didn’t consider the wurst case

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The only bad thing about Sketch is how impossible it is to google for shit and not hit tons of generic “sketch” stuff.

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New Aerospace 0.20 can print the current window’s layout mode. Means we can add icons to Sketchybar.

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I wonder if, in this new agentic coding world, the old we can’t justify both iOS and Android apps is obsolete? What if you now make the one you prefer first, but faster with AI, then when demand is there, make the agent of the moment clone it to the other platform – or maybe 85% there – and you just bring home the details?

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

They call these feeds “For You” but it’s not for you. It’s for them.

Powerful stuff as always from Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.

Some open questions of course – like, how would Patreon try and filter stuff if it had as much as say X or YouTube?

Also, ads are actually kind of great for funding internet distributed digital stuff.

They aren’t the enemy, they’re just ads.

The reality is that creators want as many eyeballs and earholes as possible. And only so many want to - or are able to - pay. Bless their hearts, they’re the best. But because of the scaling of digital media, you don’t actually need everyone to pay.

My take is Patreon (and my own 10er!) are super important, wonderful services that work great on their own or alongside the ad-bound platforms.