Madalin Popa

Haha, pretty much

Was open source ever only about the code? Now you can maintain a project for a long time, get a lot of contributions and never really talk to a person.

I read it and liked it a lot. What I found really cool is that many of the practices mentioned still apply even today, in the AI era.

As a backend engineer who doesn’t like frontend development at all, I find AI a blessing. Anyone else feel the same?

Finally got access to the Rex beta from @superlogical yesterday. I have to say I’m impressed. After a few hours of using it, I don’t think I want to go back to anything else. Once again, @mitchellh and the team have shown they do great work. While exploring and enjoying this tool, I had a thought. In the future, the people behind a piece of software will matter more than ever when we choose a product. At least for me, this already matters a lot. Having followed Mitchell and his work for so long, I was almost sure I’d get a quality product. And I think this will become even more important as AI makes building software easier and faster. We’ll probably have more software than ever, but more choices don’t necessarily mean better products. Knowing who’s behind a product, their track record, how they approach engineering, security, and long-term maintenance will increasingly influence my decisions. Of course, reputation doesn’t guarantee quality. Every product still has to prove itself. But when almost anyone can build software, knowing who you can trust to build and maintain it becomes increasingly valuable. Writing code is getting easier. Building something worth trusting is still hard.

They're literally empty posts. They say nothing, they're just there for the algorithm. I'm also trying to get rid of posts like this. If you figure it out, let me know.

...while letting Claude work on it. Just kidding. Never do that.

From the beginning, software development was about solving a problem that you or someone else had. It was never just about "building." Now everyone is just building.

The same way applications were deployed before DevOps engineers existed.

True. Being a junior is the first step toward becoming a senior engineer. What will change is that companies won't be willing to invest in juniors anymore. So you have to invest in yourself. With AI, you can now get enough experience to take that first step.

People look through your projects to get an idea of your experience. If your one project covers what they need, that's enough.

Back in the day: Senior = knowledge + experience Now: Senior = experience + trial and error

I decided to invest a little in this platform, hoping to find real human connections: people with real opinions based on their own experience. But to be honest, I'm tired of these "nonsense, just make noise" posts. I'm old enough to remember the times when people only posted when they had something to say.

The credit card.

Same. That's because I use Jujutsu (jj) and I love working with it. I made a skill for my agents too, but it feels like it takes too much time.

These things make me very optimistic about the future of software developers. There is still a lot of work to do and a lot of issues to fix. If someone tells you that you don't need to read the code anymore and can rely only on a tool to write it for you, they are just doing marketing.

Unfortunately, yes. Building is cheap now, but the cost just moves to infrastructure and operations.

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