Darian Moody

Darian Moody

@darian.net

Dev! open source, local-first, llms, elixir, python & django. all sorts. 🧑‍💻CTO, @yunojuno.com 🌍 darian.net

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Three potential candidates have submitted CVs with their website (great!) containing clearly LLM-generated blog posts. Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.

Darian Moody
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Prompt: Analyse our Python code and write a Cursor rule to ensure that future LLM usage sticks to Python guidelines and style in our codebase. Look at what version of Python we use for instance, and pick up other common style and usage. Stick to language features itself.

Darian Moody
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Most developer CVs could be improved by switching from "here is a list of technologies I know" to "here are the features I am most proud of building".

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When you work with shared spreadsheets at work you realise the power of the common database is actually in it's ability to stop people changing data rather than making it easy to add it.

Darian Moody
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The rise of LLMs will only cement TypeScript & Python’s position at the top of the “what is most useful and hireable in the widest sense” list.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Most common tech stacks at early-stage, VC-funded startups in the US. This is how Coastal Recruitment sees tech stacks shared by startups. They are a recruitment co working w 100+ startups per year to place engineers from the first to ~no. 20. More: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/startup-ma...

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Phil Hawksworth
@philhawksworth.dev

I can't figure out if Oracle is being a bully or just a clown with its latest response to the petition to release the JavaScript trademark. I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others. Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories See the latest 👉 deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Deno@deno.land

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored #FreeJavaScript deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

deno.comOracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignoredOracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...
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We’re looking at places LLMs can improve the product at the minute (who isn’t) and val.town has been invaluable with getting some working UIs going quickly to experiment. Full recommend.

Darian Moody
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I'm not sure the arguments for TDD live on in a post-LLM world. I always disliked TDD zealotry so this doesn't sadden me. TDD was useful for defining interfaces upfront, but the people that decried any code written before tests were damaging to the whole movement.

Darian Moody
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My workflow now is to write a decent stab of what I want the thing to do and then ask for full coverage tests written in <insert style> from Claude with an additional request for it to evaluate any things I may not have thought about. This is the easiest it's ever been to gain 100% coverage.

Darian Moody
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The critical rule that has always applied still does though: read the tests carefully and ensure they fail assertions when making a deliberate change that you expect a fail with. Only way to ensure they're doing what you think they're doing.

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fofr
@fofr.ai

I tried to see how Kling v1.6 would handle the trolley problem. But it just backed away slowly.

Darian Moody
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I can’t remember the last time I lost code-related work. And yet twice tonight I’ve lost progress with audio production. These software synths are meant to be creative tools and yet they make you fearful of experiments in case you forever lose which exact combo of buttons you twiddled.

Darian Moody
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TIL Atuin sync is backed with Elixir. No real surprise it works incredibly well.

Ellie Huxtable@ellie.wtf

genuinely think Elixir is slept on, so many problems that we spend time solving elsewhere just don't exist

Darian Moody
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Yes. And the only way to fix that is learning new things again, which will be fun - I promise.

Michael Nielsen@michaelnielsen.bsky.social

Adaptation strategies that aren't going to work as standalones: denial, disinterest, lack of curiosity, rage, anger, cynicism. They're tempting (and common). Denial is especially interesting - most "But LLMs are terrible" post I've seen merely convey the author's ignorance or lack of skill

Darian Moody
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LLMs, great for pasting in club promoter listings and asking what genres to expect. I don’t know why electronica is so collectively bad at putting that info on the flyer. How to avoid a house night 101.

Darian Moody
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Agreed “LLMs are bad”, “LLMs give you junk”, are all just various forms of skill issue.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really? I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

Darian Moody
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My language on this is harsher than it would usually be because I don’t think most developers have woken up to what’s coming. There will be a huge divide between those that get it and those that don’t.

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Jamie Matthews
@mtth.org

What I’ve been calling “carbon leverage”: “if AI helps bring forward the electrification of heating, transport and industry by a single year, that would more than offset any negative climate impact from its own relatively limited power demand.”

Michael Liebreich@mliebreich.bsky.social

What happens when techno-optimism meets energy system realism? My latest for @BloombergNEF is a long read on AI, called The Power and the Glory. So that's Boxing Day sorted! about.bnef.com/blog/liebrei...

about.bnef.comLiebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory | BloombergNEFThis year will go down in history as the year the energy sector woke up to AI. This is also the year AI woke up to energy. Is the data center power frenzy just the latest of a long line of energy sect...
Darian Moody
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Nice to see so many familiar faces, I promise to sort my face soon. After 2 weeks of being here I have realised I completely lost any incentive to post to X and that it’s going to take a while to pick it up again.

Darian Moody
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Does anyone have any opinions on documentation publishing tools? We're looking between Mintlify, Redocly and Gitbook. In particular for hosting a REST API + Webhook setup. Readme.com is a no for us, I have not personally enjoyed using their interface at all.

Darian Moody
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How Google ploughed millions into research just for others to take it and turn it into to a product will be studied for many years to come. It’s one thing to miss the ball, but it’s another to build the ball and hand it away for someone else to basket. I hope it doesn’t mean less public research.

R "Nearest" Nabors@nearestnabors.com

Yeah, traditional search is gonna die in five years, and that it sneaked up on Google shows that the company has entered into its Microsoft Era—so narrowly focused on one stream they missed another: www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-just-te...

tomsguide.comI just tested Google vs ChatGPT search — and I’m shocked by the resultsI may never Google anything again
Darian Moody
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Mastodon was fine but there was one issue I could never get over and that was the ability to see the best replies regardless of which server you were on/they came from. Twitter made the exact same mistake but by preferring blue checks regardless of the quality/engagement of their response.

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