To add: I dont want to go back to writing semantic css.. no thanks - I dont go in time-back machines. This is a mess.
Just using tailwind and anchoring around a design system like shadcn is just way easier for a team to align around than somebodys made up css language.
Tailwind makes sense when you can use React Components to build a reusable design system. It is annoying as heck to use if you don't have that superstructure.
I was on gitlab up until nov last year. I don't really miss it; have yet to experience issues with github.
Gitlab pricing was bonkers. It always felt like their sales team were trying to play gotcha with us over the years with pricing schemes that would milk us for money.
Definitively something to be said for AI/ML library support. I find myself going with Rust / TS for a ton of my backend work lately though, even though I'm a huge Django fan for backend.
My mom would love this one :) .. she told me recently about a long-running chat gpt session that she's had for over a week, where she was going back and forth trying to figure out the source of some strange sound in the building.
> No this will not stop this and companies need to be held accountable for their lack of security investment.
I think in principle, its sound. Im also just baffled hearing anecdotes from friends that are in big corp world and hearing the type of incidents they have, and how they respond to it.. It makes me wonder if there is enough capable talent to go around for the "boring corp" crowd.
Hint: I don't think there is nearly enough talent to go round, but for these companies, its either that they think they have solid experts (and didn't), OR its not a real priority until you get hit.
As someone who is building an AI tool in this category, can you give examples? :)
I've tried to focus more on end-user use-cases in my own product positioning, even though security is absolutely at the top of my list. This was hard to watch because it felt it demonstrated a security feature that is really secondary to the purpose of an agent.
What would be a spin in this AI category that would excite or surprise you?
A rss is perfect, will definitively use that. Btw, I'm a long-time django developer as well - you have good taste, sir.
Honestly, I think if you had a push model for this, some folks would be willing to pay for it, but I don't know a whole lot about this space and your potential competitors. Happy to chat more if you want.
This is so cool - I am in the process of building an open-source "dark factory" ai platform and wanted to give my CTO agent a way to stay current on infosec and cves. You should create a MCP for this!
> as part of a responsible development process, taking full advantage of their existing expertise and with a goal to produce good, reliable software
Its shifted so much for me. I used to think that I had a solemn duty to read every line and understand it, or to write all the test cases. Then I started noticing that tools like CodeRabbit, or Cursor would find things in my code that I would rarely find myself.
I think right now, its shifted my perception of my role to one where I am responsible for "tilting" the agentic coding loop; ultimately the goal is a matter of ensuring the agent learns from its mistakes, self-organize and embrace a spirit of Kaizen.
Btw thank you for your work on Django, last 20 years with it were life changing (I did .NET before).
Or, you just explain the solution and save some typing and get the same thing. I find it refreshing to be able to just talk to Claude and have it generate the same thing I would have built.. It gives me more time to articulate and solve complex problems, and less time with the mundane writing, test loops etc.
> It’s not just the downstream stuff, it’s the upstream stuff as well. I saw a great talk by Jenny Wen, who’s the design leader at Anthropic, where she said we have all of these design processes that are based around the idea that you need to get the design right—because if you hand it off to the engineers and they spend three months building the wrong thing, that’s catastrophic.
This is spot on. I think the tooling is evolving so much particularly on the design side that its not worth the "translation cost" to stay (or even be) on the Figma side anymore.
Its trickling in slowly to non dev teams. Im consulting with a large fin-tech on Enterprise-wide AI adoption at the moment, and I'm seeing the same parallels though: you have power users that reap disproportionate rewards from it, and then you have the "tab complete" crowd that copy paste things into the prompt.
This was a huge motivation behind me trying to design an AI automation platform that comes "batteries included". I also think a lot of orgs, even engineering orgs do not know how to configure basic things like Claude plugin repositories into their installs.
For a lot of folks, I think its ease of deployment when using Next.js. I switched to astro, also doing a lot of cloudflare at the moment. Before that, I was doing OpenNext with sst.dev on AWS but it started feeling annoying.
So many people neglect the lack of TCO in Python, it’s like a beginner mistake you make when you try to make your Python read like the Haskell you just learned. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted though.
I agree with you there. We did email-based stand-ups for a while and ditched it. It devolved into a mechanical habit of "everything is going great" type answers that nobody payed attention to..
The async aspect of it is convenient, but for me as a team lead, often times the standup is also an opportunity to ask follow up questions, to see if stories are on track, or to determine if somebody would benefit from pairing for the day. These things become increasingly important if you have an uneven balance of dev experience or domain knowledge within the team.
Just using tailwind and anchoring around a design system like shadcn is just way easier for a team to align around than somebodys made up css language.