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Tai Vu

@taivu

Software Engineer

 Planet Earth
github.com/taivu
Joined April 2009
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No Meat Proxy

AI is a tool. You shouldn't be.

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Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

It’s 1 pm on the final day of the Hackathon, 5 hours left. For the last 2 hours, we made ZERO progress. I’m cursing the day Lovable was born. As soon as I…

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Software engineering is about the process from researching customer needs, gathering and refining requirements, breaking up and estimating work, following through with doing the work, adapting to change, deployment, getting feedback, addressing issues, maintaining the project,,,,
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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

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Turns out you can flash the riddim firmware onto EP-133 hardware! Supertone, multi-samples, loop pads working on 64mb version. linecross.ing/ko-ii-boots-as…

My K.O. II boots as a riddim now. It took four bytes.

Teenage Engineering sells the EP-133 and the EP-40 as two products. On my unit, the wall between their featuresets turned out to be a four-byte field in a firmware file.

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The Gauntlet Loop: The Prompting Method Behind Claude of Duty

The Gauntlet Loop: The Prompting Method Behind Claude of Duty

The prompting method behind Claude of Duty: give an agent a bar it can't talk its way around, split the work, and never let the builder grade itself.

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A fun read davidpoblador.com/deep-dives…
The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching

The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching

The last time you wrote one it was a and an FTP upload — spare twenty minutes and get up to speed on everything the web did while you looked away.

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🤦‍♂️ No good deed goes unpunished 🪦
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USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers | WerWolv

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers | WerWolv

A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire

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"okay" vs excellent engineering teams

7 small gaps

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sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that
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Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.

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This was a great read. lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-…
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I Built an AI Team That Codes Itself, And You Can Too

I Built an AI Team That Codes Itself, And You Can Too

No prompts. No babysitting. Just real coding agents, building full-stack apps while you sleep.

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Year 2 of loudly lifting story bloks.
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