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Robert Schaap

@rejschaap

Chaotic neutral software engineer. I like buttons and pixels. For information in Dutch please press 5. Star{Craft,gate,Wars,Trek,ry Night}

 The Hague, The Netherlands
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Joined March 2011
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Since Web3 failed, let's rebrand Web 2.0 as the Agentic Web, vibe code some APIs, bolt on delegated auth, and call it Web4
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All this PHP news is making me nostalgic Notepad → FTP → Production → F5 We've spent 20 years engineering our way back to this
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Alex Blechman@AlexBlechman8 Nov 2021
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Forget story points and T-shirt sizes: is it a five-prompt task or can we one-shot it?
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cli or die
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mcp or die
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Coding interviews were broken long before AI arrived, but they are even more broken now.
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If you thought changing the time of your VCR was hard, try to change the year of your LLM
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@XFreezeJan 6
2026 is not working great for Google 😑
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New WebGPU terrain build with color painting tools: sebbbi.github.io/LimitedDeta… This concludes my single week prototype. It was a blast! I really enjoyed doing it. Prototyping continues on Christmas vacation: - 2nd week = full 3d voxel system - 3rd week = 10,000 player multiplayer
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Wait, Gen AI doesn't refer to the generation that is growing up with AI?
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Open Source reduced the cost of software, AI reduces the value
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Watching what's happening in big tech... feels like having 'AI' in my job title might buy me a few extra months
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We have LLMs that can use Slack and Jira, do we really still need PMs?
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GenAI is to art what fast fashion was to high fashion: accessible, fast, and cheap, but often derivative, ethically murky, and environmentally costly
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The Americans are still sleeping. Quick everyone, generate some Ghibli images!
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Adding "Cloud Engineer" to my resume
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Ah, software development in a large organisation: 1 day to figure out the problem 1 hour to explain it to the dev 5 minutes for the dev to fix it 2 days to test it 3 months to release it because of schedules Guess which part we're trying to optimize with AI?
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The distilling will continue until responses improve!
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Pushing the boundaries of #OpenAI 💀
DeepSeek pushing the boundaries of open AI

ALT DeepSeek pushing the boundaries of open AI

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Why are so many Rust devs jumping to Zig after grinding Rust for 3 years? They were almost halfway to becoming productive in the language…
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