Tim Bendt
@sirtimbly
Web developer, FPV hobbyist, backpacking.
Needed a vacation. Heading to the jungle. Don’t worry I left several “agents” in charge of every part of my life for the next week. What could go wrong?
Who guessed this was the year text-based browsers would become super relevant to every business again?
Need this for daily video-game progress updates from my kids.
Need this for 1:1 with my manager
inject the ackchyually directly into my veins
The thing that will make little sense for non-software engineers is how software professionals WILL use the same tools this guy failed to use (eg ChatGPT, Cursor) and complete the same work faster than before! Difference between a pro using a tool for work vs an amateur fumbling
I keep thinking about this idea of a company or organization realizing they are not in control of their own destiny. They figure out that their customer has too much power over their actions, or their distribution channels or primary marketplace has too much power over their…
Long road-trip realization: I'd rather add custom instrumentation and developer tool functions during development in the browser rather than writing all the ceremony and mocks necessary for "unit" testing in vitest or whatever. Something like
So maybe the danger wasn't un-feeling perfect logic of the machine... rather its sycophantic enabling.
The future was way cooler when it looked like this