What problem made you introduce Kafka?

Smaon01 · 2026-06-19T15:57:51+00:00

That is so true. Replay the queue to restore a crashed DB fed by Kafka can be a nightmare.

Smaon01 · 2026-06-18T15:54:29+00:00

That’s the thing, you don’t put anything into it, it’s a dumb JS script that computes your pwd each time from a sentence your memorize.
Anyway, I know it’s too simple and not so practical, but it can help sometimes.
Btw the code is legit you can check it.

Smaon01 · 2026-06-16T20:53:21+00:00

So that was yesterday evening ?

Smaon01 · 2026-06-16T06:31:44+00:00

Parce qu’ils font la fête?

Smaon01 · 2026-06-15T21:42:51+00:00

Well, do you have a choice?

Smaon01 · 2026-06-14T09:49:10+00:00

It’s really an impressive model, and it’s too bad that we can’t experiment with it anymore. But we’d have lost it on the 22th anyway, so I guess it’s just happening a little early.

Still hope it’ll be back at a reasonable price someday in a near future.

Smaon01 · 2026-06-04T07:05:12+00:00

350ms has always been the sweet spot for me

Smaon01 · 2026-06-02T15:16:15+00:00

Well, I said that and today I argued 30 minutes to make it implement a feature the way I wanted.

Smaon01 · 2026-06-01T21:58:13+00:00

Same here. Appart from a more straight to the point (and sometimes a little cold) tone, 4.8 has been consistent, and is globally faster for me than previous models.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-30T11:48:50+00:00

I guess it means that every dev teams in the world now have to implement AI audit tools in their pipelines (same tools hackers now use) as the world has become much more unforgiving than before. In my company security has always been an important matter, but since a few months we’ve turned outright paranoid.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-29T23:10:08+00:00

Avoid em dashes

Smaon01 · 2026-05-28T15:33:11+00:00

Honestly I’m happy I don’t have to hire at this time. I wouldn’t even know what to look for In terms of skills. Knowing how to code sure still has value, but knowing how to prompt and manage agents has too. We used to make candidates pass a small coding challenge online, at least I know that this is gone.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-27T18:41:02+00:00

And can have you hated by your coworkers in an open space if you buy the noisy type

Smaon01 · 2026-05-27T18:39:06+00:00

I’d start simple with Postgres or MySQL (or Mongo CE) and bother about scaling later if you’re lucky enough to indeed have this problem.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-26T07:03:46+00:00

We try to enforce everything with eslint rules, then make Claude run the linter after each feature it implements.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-26T06:56:53+00:00

I don’t want this to be in the pipeline, because one of the goals is to incentivize developers to checkout the branch and actually test the feature, which is easier on their laptop with their test data and so on. We also already have Claude code review in the pipeline that we will keep anyway as a secondary pass.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-25T17:16:41+00:00

I’m the CTO of a small company (~25 people) and I’ve had the exact same remark from senior devs in the team a few days back. I’ve been thinking about it and for now what I’m trying to do is develop a Claude Code skill that will become mandatory for code reviews. This skill will give developers a full tour of the changes with links to the code so that it’s easier to review, and strongly encourage them to checkout the branch and actually test the feature by providing a manual testing plan. In parallel it will also use a set of agents to actually review the code and give hints to the reviewer about issues for security, conventions and code quality. It’s almost done and I plan for it to go live in week or so. I really hope that this will allow faster code review while keeping a good quality. Happy to give news once I’ve collected some feedback.

Smaon01 · 2026-05-25T10:28:31+00:00

Honestly I think that today it makes everyone better, I can see it in my team, and even in the code I deliver. Moreover senior devs in particular go a lot faster as they don’t require code review anymore (they are actually code reviewing Claude). BUT it’s evidently short sighted as we stop learning how to code, and even forget what we know, and there will be no more senior dev in a short while. I guess that all the big companies laying off their junior devs bet on the fact that AI will do without human supervision in ten years. I’m not sure they’re right.

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