marc

marc

@hrmn.dev

Product-minded software engineer at feather-insurance.com. Ex-Netflix, ex-Amazon (subscriber). Core graduate at Launchschool I ❤️ logic.

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"I don't fear the #developer who writes 1000 lines. I fear the developer who writes the same line 1000 times." - Bruce Lee

Every month there’s a new layer: agents, tools, memory systems, skills, orchestrators, vector stores, prompt frameworks. It feels like you need a small DevOps team just to ask a question. But most of it is scaffolding around one simple thing: You + a language model.

Strip it down and there are only three moving parts: 1. The model 2. The instructions you give it 3. The context it can see Everything else — skills, rule files, plugins, orchestration apps — is just a way of managing those three pieces at scale.

One of the reasons I often prefer Claude over Gemini or ChatGPT is the typography. It is always a pleasure to read Claude's answers in a serif typeface. #claude #anthropic #chatgpt #gemini #typography

At a workshop today we had to draw our job. This is me, a software engineering knight, entering the forest of unknown unknowns: #softwaredevelopment #ambiguity #unknowns #typescript #softwareengineer

Is it true that, in the United States, when you meet a #backend #developer, you should say "Thank you for your services"?

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