Chris Rickard
@chrisrickard
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Better software specs == better software. ✨ Founder and CEO of https://t.co/sJvlacs3qu ✨ Software & AI engineer ✨ Helps people build better software
☕️ Melbourne, Australia
Joined January 2009
RT @allenholub: As we lurch into a place where AI-assisted programming becomes possible, it's ironic that actual documentation (in well-cra….
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RT @OpenAI: GPT‑5 is available to all Plus, Pro, Team, and Free users starting today with access for Enterprise and Edu coming in one week.….
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Vibe code is legacy code. (A great article from @stevekrouse mentioned this yesterday - link at bottom). Essentially:.• Letting AI crank out code you barely read = tech-debt on fast-forward. • Legacy code → complex, no one understands it, nightmare to maintain. • Vibe code
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Specs are the new code. Collaborative, living, versioned, software specs are more important than ever. The future is Spec-driven development implemented by AI coding agents.
I've come to realize that one of my discomforts with AI at the program-creation level (as compared to small-snippet-of-a-program level) is that it's a fundamentally waterfall process that produces a black box solution. You need to come up with a highly detailed specification up.
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What the METR article should have said “If you give Cursor to a bunch of developers who barely know how to use it, set no prompt or context guidelines, and ask them to use AI to fix bugs in a million-line codebase they already know well, many will be faster without the AI.”.
Okay this is pretty wild: . "When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed.
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RT @GeoffreyHuntley: RFC 👉�: The Universal Agent Configuration File. Developer tooling companies are building AI age….
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RT @karpathy: +1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an….
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RT @blader: cursor with slack integration has made cursor so productive that code review has become the bottleneck.
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A customer told us that by using and they went from idea to requirements to a working app in under 90 minutes. The future isn’t just about AI writing code, it’s about:.👩 Humans provide business context. 🤖 AI turns that context.
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RT @awilkinson: Stop what you're doing for a few minutes. Outrage porn about Trump, Mamdani, and P. Diddy can wait. None of that matters….
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RT @abraham_ri50093: To the guys who are using Cursor/Windsurf,. Please try out @AmpCode. You will thank me later.
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RT @GeoffreyHuntley: With no offence to the ycomb chads but a couple days ago was down at a bar and it was full of alumni and current intak….
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RT @adamwathan: Alright, really cooking now…. ✅ Pixel-perfect compared to Figma design.✅ Supports light and dark mode.✅ Includes responsive….
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RT @nurijanian: every UX designer & PM should check this out: a collection of AI UX patterns. 🔗 shapeof. ai
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RT @johnlindquist: As much as you love Claude Code, background agents are going to win. Local, single-branch dev is too limiting. The work….
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Software developers who can’t find time to learn AI will, sooner or later, have to find time to look for a new career.
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RT @Steve_Yegge: I just put up a new blog post about the current rapid rise of Agentic vibe coding using autonomous agents. It's called "Th….
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