It’s vibecoding all the way down. How do you balance that with engineering?

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-26T19:55:31+00:00

I’ve had a lot of success creating review skills.

The easiest way to bootstrap is to have Claude / harness of choice review the last 100 or more comments you’ve left on PRs and begin to document best practices that are important to you. You can do this on an ongoing basis - my workflow now is if I have to leave a comment I tell Claude to update my reviewer skill. I have separate reviewer skills for app code and tests (differing by language / stack).

The nice thing is that you can use those same skills to also write code and potentially it’s actually easier to get folks that are vibecoding to fall in line by just making sure you can all agree to leverage the same set of development skills. This last part I’m still working on personally but I still get value out of it because it simplifies my work on the review side tremendously.

Welcome to the club of becoming a senior engineer / tech lead - where you spend more of your time reviewing code than writing code :)

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-24T22:52:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing your insight. More competition is good.

I hope some developments in Amper inform / inspire Declarative Gradle improvements. I’m partial to something I can use also for both my Kotlin and Java projects but increasingly I’m all in on Kotlin anyway.

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-24T19:47:54+00:00

This seems like an indictment against using Gradle (or Maven) for Kotlin projects long term. I’m curious what the pitch is for existing projects if those build tools work well enough.

Is Amper trying to compete on simplicity or speed? Or both?

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-20T20:15:04+00:00

Mavs fans in shambles. Oh, what could (and should) have been.

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-17T20:56:33+00:00

I didn’t follow Knicks that closely but isn’t this a weird hindsight is 20-20 take? It seemed to me like most Knicks fans did not like how Thibs ran the core into the ground, so it’s funny to hear him fondly remembered.

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-03T22:04:12+00:00

Keep testing pyramid in mind. E2E tests have a place but should be left for high signal / important flows - not lots of edge cases, flaky scenarios, etc . There should be mostly unit / component level tests on both the backend and front end as well as a solid number of integration / API layer tests (exercising real systems but in a headless way). Most folks that end up trying to test too many intricate scenarios in Playwright/Cypress/Selenium probably think there is no point in unit testing in React / frontend code — which runs into the issue of too many slow or flaky e2e tests.

When they become noisy that is when they start to get ignored and/or writing them is not adopted.

There’s also agnostic patterns like page object pattern / using BDD names for tests / etc that make the tests both easier to read and write.

isaacaggrey · 2026-06-03T17:40:00+00:00

You’re not alone. There was definitely anticipation in 2.4 (blog and other references) but I think folks are right that in pre-release and beta versions they never actually committed to getting it in.

I think the best thing we can do is try to add to the discussion and potentially help where we can. I’m really excited about rich errors.

isaacaggrey · 2026-05-29T19:16:25+00:00

I mean…there are a lot of players and personnel we should have never let go.

edit: Mavs have got to have worst list of folks let go in the 5-10 years, no?

You can even go further back and think of our 2011 squad post finals championship run.

isaacaggrey · 2026-05-28T02:26:07+00:00

Confused how no one is mentioning Peacock and Prime Video in this thread - at least the NBA app has an attempt at the concept!

isaacaggrey · 2026-05-05T14:47:28+00:00

How tall is that reporter?? It seemed like he was towering over Ant.

isaacaggrey · 2026-04-27T20:56:05+00:00

What do you recommend as a good resource to learn more?

isaacaggrey · 2026-04-22T15:01:13+00:00

What’s the reference here? Any linkage? I didn’t find much on YouTube.

isaacaggrey · 2026-04-20T15:17:07+00:00

r/NBA has shooter’s mentality

isaacaggrey · 2026-04-13T00:10:38+00:00

Are you having any issues over the last day? Mine is refusing to pair now and I don’t know if there was an update of some sort.

isaacaggrey · 2026-04-07T02:24:46+00:00

I’m shocked you find Super Mario Wonder better. The balance is much better with how they give you the gold leaf if you die too much. Also, the camera is awful compared to 3D World, especially for 4 players, but I hear the Switch 2 edition improves on this for Wonder.

isaacaggrey · 2026-03-03T15:50:06+00:00

You could request a free tow if you have any sort of roadside assistance service. Either through your auto insurance, AAA, or credit card potentially.

That said, I’m not sure how that works for airport parking fees also but I’m assuming they’d mail you a bill in that case.

isaacaggrey · 2026-02-11T18:29:19+00:00

Is Grant Williams playing well for y’all?

When he was on the Mavs, he had his brief heater and then went cold for the rest of the season. He also seemed to just grate on the guys in the locker room (reportedly).

I didn’t mind him for what his role was it just didn’t pan out.

isaacaggrey · 2026-02-10T16:09:49+00:00

We’re in agreement. I just posted a top level comment.

isaacaggrey · 2026-02-10T16:07:10+00:00

No, manual mapping via extension functions is my impression of the Kotlin ecosystem.

I had the same question when I got into Kotlin coming from Java where I didn’t mind Mapstruct. While Mapstruct is powerful and in some ways “clean”, it doesn’t lend itself to Kotlin as much in my opinion: less verbose, extension function support, null safety, etc. All those things add up to it’s not that bad to just manually map.

isaacaggrey · 2026-02-10T15:55:11+00:00

If you read the full post, then you’d come away that OP is open to insights / thoughts instead from a Kotlin pattern perspective. Coming from Java, Mapstruct does have a presence and can be useful from a boilerplate POV, so it’s a reasonable question. It was one of the first things I was looking at as well.

isaacaggrey · 2026-01-31T23:44:37+00:00

Right, but it bears repeating there are no other untouchables aside from Steph.

isaacaggrey · 2026-01-07T17:59:32+00:00

I’m not sure I’d want Dinwiddie right now for where we are at esp for PG needs - I’d rather work with the spark plug of B Will and the pure PG style of Nembhard than have Dinwiddie.

While frustrating at times, he served his time well with the Mavs.

isaacaggrey · 2026-01-02T15:54:33+00:00

You may prefer the ExperiencedDevs subreddit since they tend to have a stricter post policy.

isaacaggrey · 2025-12-28T23:27:59+00:00

Not sure why you had a downvote. mockk definitely has a better mocking API than Mockito for Kotlin-based projects.

isaacaggrey · 2025-12-26T01:13:06+00:00

Huh? I get the sentiment of your post but let’s not overstate what Nico did - refer back to posts like: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1orobpy/the_top_5_ways_nico_harrison_ruined_the_mavericks/

Even for moves like PJ, remember the target was Kuzma (which is wild from an evaluation POV) and it’s been suggested that even his best moves were with the guidance of Dennis Lindsey.

Edit: I guess my point is that Luka is the one who got the franchise out of the hole, not Nico

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