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I'm Nolan Lawson, a programmer living in Seattle. Facts about me: works at Socket ex-Salesforce, ex-Microsoft, ex-Squarespace lived abroad in Ottawa and Geneva former contributor to PouchDB creator of pinafore.social I also love to write.
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The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-known luminaries like Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel N
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You can just choose how many bugs you want now
There's a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I've been trying to put my finger on, and I think it's this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now. We discovered this first with security, because of course security bugs
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Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build - and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them
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The diminished art of coding
Programming is an art. It's less like fine art or music and closer to architecture or carpentry - combining form and function - but it is an art. If you don't believe me, consider code reviews. I've definitely done code reviews where I admired the mastery
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