Tony Ennis
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I help people build good software Now: @usescoutai @rlygoodsoftware Prev: @websummit, @editmodelabs (yc S21) https://t.co/7lWI7Jnq2V
Joined March 2009
The arc is complete. Kudos to @shl for sticking to his promise and keeping an open mind. Turns out you can change people’s minds on the internet! 😊
I take this back. Rails is not a form of technical debt. It’s actually a perfect choice for shipping certain kinds of web apps. We’ll be sticking with it at Gumroad!.
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Incredible work by whoever rebranded "Trying to be cool" (weak) to "Aura Farming" (strong).
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RT @julianweisser: Incredible to see @daylightco get discussed for five minutes on Joe Rogan. @AnjanKatta is a big @solofounding inspirati….
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We have 10+ codebases with no typescript and AI can reliably contribute perfectly fine but thanks.
Imagine that, a few years ago, you got tired of build steps and checks in your codebase, so you remove TypeScript. That one (seemingly) small decision just made it so no AI agent can reliably contribute code in that codebase. Great work. I bet you feel smart now.
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It feels like The Boiling Frog effect should be much more mainstream - potentially taught in schools. It's very hard to discuss slippery slope scenarios with people who are unfamiliar with the concept, and seems there are going to be more and more of them with AI.
Beyond state-vs-state conflict, Hendrycks identifies a more subtle threat: the gradual "erosion of control." Economic & military pressures create powerful incentives to cede authority to AI systems without clear limits. As the paper notes, this is not a sudden takeover: "This
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Agree with this. Lots of people using the opportunity to tell their timeline how good of a person they are, at the expense of Varun who managed to achieve something every founder dreams of *and* look after his people it seems.
In a week or two, everyone will be mad at the FTC for creating a situation which caused these optics. Nobody will apologize to Varun and team (they should!). And everyone will realize the sub-1 year employees ended up fine. Then on to The Next Thing.
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It's true that you can do way more in a browser, but a browser on a user's computer is still very limited vs a browser in the cloud, or an OS in the cloud. .
Aravind Srinivas says the MCP vision makes agents too fragile. Comet avoids third-party protocol dependencies by giving agents a browser of their own. “You don't have to rely on someone else doing engineering well on their end.”
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I'm still firmly in the bracket where for standard crud type stuff, cursor is still slower than simply coding by hand.
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Anyone want to try a very cool beta that does exactly this?.
Bearish on AI-first browsers because I don't think people want to sit there watching their AI do stuff. Apart from the authentication issue, it feels like all these use cases would be better done by an agent operating in a cloud-based browser while you go do something else. So.
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I’m not pro dishonesty and would be pissed if this guy had wasted my time and drawn a salary, but the Soham saga is so crazy I can’t help but be impressed. What a crazy thing to decide to do - the sheer amount of people popping up is wild. Wonder what his income looked like.
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JavaScript developers man. Very little discussion about the trade offs or when adding a new obfuscation layer makes sense, just dogmatic “here’s the newest best practice that everyone should be using”.
This is why Effect smells so much. Look at line 27. `const firstUser = yield* Array.get(users, 0)`. - you have to use custom method to get first element from Array .- you have to wrap it with yield. A simple operation has 80% of characters due to wrapping. Instead of.
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There's a building in Amsterdam that looks like a big @kit office. Today I remembered ConvertKit are remote - turns out it's a museum that has an almost identical logo - very confusing.
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😂 Imagine being a brand designer when every startup is obsessed with the same color palette.
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I've spent way too long thinking about platform-native component primitives that feel nice. Am I crazy or is this idea of a <state> element extremely nice?
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Forgive me father for I have cooked.
Announcing Scout: AI that can do more than just chat. A few months ago a major milestone passed (somewhat) quietly: AIs can now competently control a web browser & reliably complete multi step tasks. Now that the tech is there, there are a few products in the space, but we're.
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What’s hilarious is this was my exact qualm when I went to America. Every app - DoorDash, Uber, Airbnb, - you see one price and then when you check out it’s 30% higher. What places/countries are people visiting in Europe with this problem?.
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Interest piqued with the first line - “oh wow someone managed to vibe code an app that makes real money”. Nope, turns out its a “$1.7m Saas” because that’s what replit told him it would cost to build it 🙃.
I built a $1.7m+ SaaS product using @Replit - solo - and I’ve never coded before!. My previous startup was a unicorn in the BNPL place (Quadpay) however I wanted to see how far I can get with Replit - no staff, just raw agency and curiosity. My idea was to create a tool that can.
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This is one of the best finished AI products I’ve seen - the conversation tone, personality, the way the AI guides the chat - you can tell it wasn’t just “let’s just wire together the APIs and get it out there”. The app also gets the important details right. Very impressive.
Introducing Dino . An AI talking toy for kids. No screens or addictive algorithms + a transparent parenting app @_magicaltoys
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@Replit Workflows, run commands, nixfiles. None of it works out of the box, no feedback on what's happening, preview still displays old (cached?) version
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