@HughxDev

🛠 Full-stack Engineer (React/Node) • 🎛 UI/UX Designer • Passionate about 📂 open source, ♿️ accessibility, 🦸 using tech for good. Personal→@LordPancreas

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Joined April 2018
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I was interviewed for this article! Got quoted a couple times. It’s a small achievement but very validating. Almost as if I’ve become an expert in my field after all these years… 🤯 builtin.com/ux-design/infini… #software #design #ui #uidesign #ux #uxdesign #appdesign #appdevelopment

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AGI arrives every fiscal quarter it seems
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@JensenHuangSep 6
Replying to @ChaseLochmiller @OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.
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Hugh Guiney (Software) retweeted
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@0xBOYDJul 23
Twelve years ago an Adult Swim sketch on Cartoon Network accurately predicted the future of programming.
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Ricco@riccojaJul 22
When Claude comes to me with a wall of text like “I smoke-verified the config-guarded ‘one authority per tibble‘ materialization core (clean), but the metadata-bearing patches (no-op) are spec-shaped—and that’s a call that’s genuinely yours.”
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The idea that LLMs allow complete novices to build 0–1 products is pernicious. As I further lean on Claude Code as a daily driver, I’m finding the real value-add is tackling a specific class of programming challenges that show up at late-stage startup & medium+ enterprise levels.
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What’s more, the deeper your understanding of a codebase; the more you’ve documented and tested it over time, the more context a future coding agent is going to have have.
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It will be able to draw on your Git history, your READMEs, your code comments, your onboarding tutorials, etc, etc. Like getting ripped, being “AI-first” is not something you can just proclaim into existence, it’s an end-state you can only achieve by putting in the work.
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The future does not belong to people who forget the tenets of their discipline b/c they long ago outsourced all executive function to a machine. The future belongs to those who stay sharp enough in a trade that automation becomes a force multiplier rather than vendor risk. #AI
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Just learned that in #TypeScript, you can use the non-null assertion operator on `null` primitives. Which is hilarious.
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#NextJS’s insistence that you HAVE to use their inbuilt `Image` component over an `img` element is so patronizing. As if I couldn’t possibly optimize load times myself. Inelegant, too—who wants a bunch of inline styles and `position: absolute` added to every image by default??
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Correction: `position: absolute` + inline styles are only present when using the `fill` attribute. But point still stands that adding a bunch of redundant, high-specificity rules to every single image on a website is a pretty gnarly approach to achieving responsive images in 2026
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Github Copilot: At times useful, e.g. when completing rote tasks (long switch statements, etc.) with a lot of surrounding context for the bot to draw from, but often cumbersome.
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In a recent side-project I asked Copilot to convert a bunch of CommonJS files to ESM, and it succeeded, but it was way too many clicks to add all the files I needed into context, and even then this was orders of magnitude slower than just doing a RegEx-powered find-and-replace.
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Copilot’s also less clever when you’re working on something novel, likely because there’s little to no lookalike code in its training set. This is an interesting phenomenon, as a lack of suggestions may imply patentability (or that you are working on something with no market lol)
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Whoever took over Product at #Quora these past few years should be ashamed of themselves. Took one of the rare web apps still acting as a social good in the modern age. Turned it into Yahoo! Answers 2.0. No descriptions anymore. Ads galore. Responses are to DIFFERENT questions!!!
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Sure, you got a handful more ad impressions by cramming a unit where it doesn’t belong, but at what cost? Does that really sound like building a sustainable enterprise to you? Serve customers’ actual pain or interest points and they will keep coming back to you.
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Don’t know why this isn’t obvious to today’s leaders.
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