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Engineering management, writing and coding. Learn.Share.Evolve.

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Filipe Mendes
8 months
A genie offers to increase your average output at work by two or three times. The only condition is that you accept to gradually forget how you do that work. Would you accept it?.
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I now realise that asking an LLM to create me the specifications and a delivery plan was a mistake. It helped set up the foundation but I had to change the techs used because I wasn't getting the experience I wanted. This rendered most docs useless.
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7 days
What do you want to know?.
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Filipe Mendes
7 days
When I see a well structured technical document with redundant words, reasonable/acceptable metrics and ambiguous sentences, I get suspicious of it being AI generated and immediately lose interest and start skimming over it.
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Filipe Mendes
16 days
Batch mode on Gemini is such a great option for businesses and products!.
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Filipe Mendes
18 days
"Credibility is built by doing" - DHH.
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Filipe Mendes
23 days
This is a great point! Simplicity in your stack also leads to better LLM outputs.
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24 days
Increasingly I feel I have a completely different experience with AI coding tools because I benefit from having such a ridiculously simple stack of mostly vanilla PHP code, some jQuery JS, etc. Not even any build processes. So AI really likes that.
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Filipe Mendes
25 days
RT @stevekrouse: Vibe code is legacy code. @karpathy coined vibe coding as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code eve….
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Filipe Mendes
26 days
I've had a long chat early in the design phase, but AI had no way of knowing what was a requirement for me, can easily be dropped given the right trade-offs. This is another important lesson and one to include in the requirements phase.
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Filipe Mendes
26 days
Days after being guided by AI on a specific solution, I ask what other approaches I could take to improve performance, and it suggests me a 10x simpler solution. When asked why it didn't propose before, AI told me “ you said you wanted X requirement” and all in me just crumbles.
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Filipe Mendes
2 months
RT @BlondB00: Not pouring your whole soul into your work is anti-life. In art, in business, in all endeavours alike. Do you think Dostoyevs….
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Filipe Mendes
3 months
RT @ThePrimeagen: everyone has a plan until you ship to prod.
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Filipe Mendes
3 months
(. ) to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.".
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
“(. )The fundamental attribution error is the tendency of humans to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviours of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviours to environmental factors.”-The advantage.
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
The higher the amount of custom libs, frameworks, processes you want to use, the lower the likelihood of a public repository to exist. Good LLMs coding models can help with that.
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
My new way of learning a new tech stack is to ask Gemini 2.5 pro to generate a to-do app with every tech I want to use in a future project and explain me along the way, then ask 2.0 for any syntax details I don’t understand. It’s a very targeted and hands-on learning process!.
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
And even though I find this situation fascinating, I somehow have mixed feelings about all of this. This same project took me many hours of tweaking back then, and now it is so easily generated. It is incredible how far we have come.
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
Then I thought, why not generate a 3D game with three.js just like everybody else is doing? And in two prompts, the first had a small bug, the game is fully working in a single HTML file (with css and JS). Quite cool! Source code:
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
However, I’ve found deep in my google drive that I had kept an .apk binary, so I decided to reverse engineer it with jadx and managed to get the .java files. As I ran it through Claude to read the code, claude outlined the game flow and its rules and explained that it was a.
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Filipe Mendes
5 months
With the ongoing vibe coding gamejam, I thought it would be cool to get that game up and running without spending much time. But unfortunately, I had forgotten about the rules and also lost its source code.
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