Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

engineer @ycombinator likes penguins, bikes, javascript, lua, redis, sql, devtools, numbers, making stuff go faster SF Joined December 2011

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

3 hours ago

you wouldn't believe how many times i've seen good companies with good engineers end up getting this wrong biggest mistake in the book. instant jail. whatever justification you think you have - no, wrong

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Garry Tan @garrytan

21 hours ago

I think people do decide to adopt early or not because of the strength of the person behind it I want to spend time in gardens tended to by the most dedicated gardeners

Y Combinator @ycombinator

a day ago

I think people do decide to adopt early or not because of the strength of the person behind it I want to spend time in gardens tended to by the most dedicated gardeners

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

a week ago

we're all spending an order of magnitude more time getting up to speed and reviewing diffs, right? our interfaces for code review could be *so so so* much better

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David Cramer @zeeg

2 months ago

Everything we _should_ have done (albeit low ROI) to make it easier to maintain software is about to have a lot more reason to invest into it. Docs, testing, isolation, etc. will finally become common place simply because it will enable us to achieve more via agents.

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Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko

2 months ago

It says something about our industry that important quality of life improvements in developer tooling is now taking place because it helps agents. That it helps developers too is now a footnote.

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

2 months ago

“everything is downstream of iteration speed” only becomes more true with time

Gabriel. @gabe_guerra_

2 months ago

“everything is downstream of iteration speed” only becomes more true with time

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iris @irisivanyi

2 months ago

omakase software in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value convenience and and others’ taste way more than we think. even in systems designed for flexibility like notion, people buy templates to…

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

3 months ago

stay in school

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

4 months ago

if you’re building an AI-enabled prompt-involved product, you need to read this

Pete Koomen @koomen

4 months ago

if you’re building an AI-enabled prompt-involved product, you need to read this

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

6 months ago

i got a new bike and i love it

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

7 months ago

cursor vs windsurf is the new vim vs emacs

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

7 months ago

because it’s true 🙃

Bucky Moore @buckymoore

7 months ago

because it’s true 🙃

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Lewis Ellis @LewisJEllis

7 months ago

interesting exercise: open up @windsurf_ai and just ask it to find some stuff in your codebase that can be deleted

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Pavel Asparouhov @Pavel_Asparagus

7 months ago

If your entire world view on ai is dramatically shifting every 3 weeks maybe you just don’t know what’s going on

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Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper

7 months ago

nothing better than having o1 output a plan for a big feature update, pasting it into windsurf and then going to take a shower while it works the future of coding is here