Dad x2. Lifelong Learner. Software Engineer. Digital Entrepreneur. Business & Software Humanizer. Occasional Lecturer. Hiker. Neurodiversity Advocate.

Canary Islands, Spain
Joined December 2009
Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment! youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?si=6Fsf…
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
A couple of trends I'm seeing across the industry. Which ones are you observing, that I missed?
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
I'm officially done reading AI-generated code. It's been two weeks since I looked at any of it. I think the IDE is officially on its way to the graveyard. The job is no longer about "writing code," so we need new tools that better reflect this new reality. While reviewing the code, I realized my only complaints were stylistic, and I wasn't finding any obvious bugs anymore. The more code I generated, the harder it became to keep track of every line. I found that my time is better spent designing ways to verify that the overall system works than looking at the code. State-of-the-art coding agents are better at writing code than I'd ever be, and I'm going to stop pretending otherwise. I still think these coding agents can't go too far without an experienced human guiding them, but we're past the point where we need to check every line of code.
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Wow. Extremely shocked to see the footage of the invasion in #Ceuta. Very concerning. And shocked to see our Government lack of appropriate response.
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
Replying to @ori_pomerantz
I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
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Romén Rodríguez-Gil retweeted
This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads. Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude. In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
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Great discussion yesterday with @fran_reyes during our talk in @agileCanarias: “Code Reviews: The Good, The Bad, and The AIgly” Recording available: youtu.be/UHa7JZQZbSM (in Spanish)
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Couldn’t agree more, @abreslav! The Engineering aspect of building software has always been the key element of it. …And “evergreen” skills matter now even more! Suddenly, my old article on the topic feels more current than ever before: romenrg.com/blog/2018/12/29/… #CodemotionMadrid @CodemoMadrid @CodemotionWorld
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