Daniel Philip Johnson

Redundancy it is… my position isn’t value for the company given the ability of AI 🫡

Coming back from a nice holiday to be told as soon as I start. We have a call booked in for you with HR 🫡

Is there nothing you can do when a company says 100% remote on the application. Repeat it throughout interviews and then in the final interview drop… So there is 1 or 2 days in an office per week. Its false advertising.

Currently rewriting lots of internal web apps from create react app to vite. Is it worth writing a blog about it all. So far biggest impact before to build on a small project was 3.9s it’s now 0.25s. Bundle size saving about 12% on average.

New blackbird joins the ranks 😀. Lots of hidden pumpkin seeds in the grass 😅 and meal worms

The layoffs AI causes by failing will outnumber the layoffs it causes by working.

”Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem"

AI hasn’t eliminated the attack surface it’s multiplied it. Now companies are deploying the same agents that can infiltrate codebases to defend them. We’re creating new vulnerabilities, then using AI to protect against AI. Progress, or just an arms race with better marketing?

ChatGPT please turn these 10 bullet points into a document. Received document: I’m not reading all that… ChatGPT condense this to bullet points

I need motivation to clear out my blog draft backlog 😂 28 and counting 😭

Cloudflare issues are preventing me from building 😂

Why is there an api route for each status 😭

Got a huge architecturing day today and documentation 😎.

Culture is set by actions and not words. A culture is what you do, not what you say.

I’ve been put on documentation duty 😭

We don’t give senior titles out because everyone is one…

We are going to shift from one bullshit story estimation of t shirt sizes to token estimates aren’t we 🥲

Today is the day I’m fighting the pipeline. Finally got approval to switch everything to pnpm 😎

Could I make my return to nuxt and vue. 🤞 hopefully

Pay lots of money to get AI to push crappy code? YES!! Pay for visual regression? NO!! Too expensive!! Invest time into pipeline to make sure AI code is governed. No!! Makes merging to production slower. Make it faster to push code to production by removing stuff from the pipeline? YES!!

Ironic watching Microsoft build goodwill through VS Code and GitHub, then start rug pulling trust in the AI era. Google too: years building strong developer ecosystems, now “progress at all costs.” Everyone racing to be first to AI(LLM). Stability and trust become optional.

Returning to my roots. Building an assembly game to run on raspberry pi.

The four day work looks more and more likely. I’ve ran out of tokens!!! Go home 😂

Who should we layoff to boost our stock prices.

In a meeting someone asked if I knew Monte Carlo. I confidently said, “Yeah, repeated random sampling.” They stared at me and went, “No… the one with yachts.” 😬

Ai generated text tends to feel robotic and lack emotion. Sorry that’s just how I write 🙃 it seems.

Short term pain…. Long term pain….

Time is a flat circle.… We can now move faster. But the problem isn’t moving slow. It’s now moving completely in the wrong direction.

People keep asking if I’m back… I didn’t really have an answer. But yeah. I’m thinking I’m back.

We added 200 new tags to Microsoft Clarity so we can be more data-driven. Every meeting:

Had to build an agent network 🙃. Sub workers are named mr meeseeks. The longer it runs the more unhinged it gets

Extra, extra: In 6–12 months we will once again hear next year that AI could replace software engineers in 6–12 months

No internet and no electricity until 8am. Books in candle light it is then :)

Windows 10 an OS with spyware Windows 11 spyware with an OS

Stuck in review duty after the code freeze the changes and commits are insane 😭

Today I got to sit back and build a command line tool. No AI just going through the motions 😁

"Microslop 365 Copilot"

it involves being consciously unconscious