drew dillon

The founders' urge to rewrite the whole frontend from @chrismessina.me's feedback instead of shipping the feature you pulled and all-nighter for.

Who’s going to kintsugi all these cracked engineers?

If you told me Grok had achieved AGI, I’d still use Claude. Like who’s using this thing outside of Twitter trolling?

I say this after extremely bitter personal experience, but Cursor + me = the best Chrome extension developer you’ve ever met.

They basically have an Ohtani station here in Kyoto.

vibe coding over the pacific

lol, when the vibe coding agent has learned too much of your vibe

If only I had all the funding the AI SDRs in my spam filter think I do.

This is the single oldest story in the history of tech (maybe all) acquisitions: 1. Company is valuable because they work w/multiple providers. 2. Company gets bought by Provider. 3. Acquisition value decreases as Company eventually supports only Provider. Over and over until we die.

Woody: Can I get you a beer Mr. Peterson? Norm: Isn’t it a little early for that? W: Beer? N: Stupid questions.

Should be obvious, but how you remember yourself is not how others remember you.

Strawberry shortcake layer cake with isomalt sculpture.

Famous last words.

I was as surprised as you that the Nate CEO wasn't Forbes 30 Under 30, but listen, they've upped their game. Dude only raised 40m, you gotta be charged in the bills to make it these days.

So far, so good...

Just Cursor, using Claude Sonnet 3.7 Max, hallucinating a conversation with itself

I've been working on a large structural bug on and off and making no progress for weeks. A user reported a different bug, provided a stack trace, and the (easy) fix fixed the first bug. A micro-parable of getting users and listening to them.

man, who's pushing DB updates during peak vibe coding hours...

Was working for a copyright expert/legal tech founder 18 months ago and asked about this, “Oh, copyright’s fucked.” He teaches case law on Garfield’s Odie. The definition is pretty narrow. AI can create infinite derivative works up to and over the line of violation. Our courts can’t handle it.

Sure, Studio Ghibli pics are fun, but have you tried...

Neither follower nor poster be; For follower loses self in feeds, And poster risks the soul for likes. Engage with care, scroll with intent, And guard thy peace above the trend.

lol, carve it into my soul....

Where’s your precious daylight now….

Building a content strategy around signing up for free trials is a great way to get 5,000 phone calls a day 😅

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Apropos of nothing, the government doesn’t have like one checking account. Not spending money in one area doesn’t make the money go back into some big pot. As a fed employee friend said, “Congress didn’t like my travel budget, but the money doesn’t go away. So I just redid my office.”

The first in a new Mocksi video series www.linkedin.com/posts/drewdi...

There’s an old tech adage that the people who invent a technology never profit from it. I’ve been curious whether that would be true this cycle.

Sometimes I daydream about having a high paying job at Big Co., but I snap back to reality when I remember how absolutely miserable I would be.

pimp my codebase

In advance of a big push, my pal Cursor and I have been writing tests for the Mocksi Lite Chrome extension. Never used Playwright, know nothing about Javascript, but here's a full test run of Mocksi Lite customizing an enterprise social network called *cough* Blather. The present is f'ing wild...

Me + Cursor = pretty decent junior developer 😅

I feel like Claude's getting lazier, giving shorter responses (even without concise on) and timing out faster. Anyone else?