Ronan Berder (SF + SG)

Talking to smarter folks than me, I'm convinced many of the AI folks in my timeline are full of shit.

Nobody is "running 20 agents over night" and building stuff for actual users. Maybe some are building internal tools or disposable software. Maybe.

But building software people like using? That doesn't get hacked on day one or blow up after the 3rd user? Nope.

I don't even understand what that's supposed to look like. Do you work out a 57 pages document that perfectly describes what you want to build and then summon 14 agents and have them run wild for 6 hours? And what comes out on the other end isn't a broken pile of shit?

Nope. Not buying it.

PS: it may also be that I have an IQ of 82 and can't figure it out.

Media Temple of course…

New rule: no more ORMs.

I've had it with the Drizzles of the world. They're expensive, create their own kinda-like-SQL-but-not-really syntax, and don't make it any easier to switch from one db to another.

The only remaining advantage was handling migrations. AI can do it for me now with 0 overhead.

New rule: never use React SSR.

I convinced myself that things would be different this time, but SSR still sucks. It adds a ton of complexity, increases your bill, and solves no problems (for apps).

I've been working on a performance cleanup for 2 days with Codex... I keep running into a wall. Sol, Terra, and Astra are complete midwits. One prompt with Opus 5.5 and I get answers to ALL of my questions.

Time to upgrade my Claude subscription.