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TonyAlicea10
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https://tonyalicea.dev
- One thing this (and any browser-embeddable data store) are fantastic for is vibe coding interactive prototypes for user research.
AI-generated code that doesn’t need to be production ready has been a real boon to usability and design work. Testing with users something that actually saves and displays data, and seeding the app with realistic-looking datasets in both shape and size, reveals usability issues that you just don’t discover in Figma prototypes.
If a product team isn’t performing user research with interactive prototypes as a core part of their dev and design lifecycle, they’re doing themselves a real disservice. It’s so easy now.
- This article is brave. It is also is an example of a general issue: we assume our personal experiences are representative when they are, in fact, unique.
“Follow Scrum, Lean / Kanban, or eXtreme Programming to the letter” - there are plenty of failed projects and unhappy devs that have done just that. And these methodologies are not tuned for the LLM-generation age and, talking to lots of other devs around the world, I think it is showing.
In regards to remote work, I’ve worked for shops that have been fully remote since before the pandemic and are wonderful experiences. They’ve figured it out. The OP’s feelings on remote work, to me, say “the companies I’ve worked for are really bad at supporting remote work”, but if you believe your experiences are representative then you say “remote work is bad”.
- I'm the OP. I can attest that I am not an LLM model creator! :)
I consider myself an LLM pragmatist. I use them where they are useful, and I educate people on them and try to push back on all the hype marketing disguised as futurism from LLM creators.
- I think there's a difference between using an LLM as an editor and asking the LLM to write something for you. The output in the former I find to still have a far clearer tonal fingerprint than the latter.
And whose to say your idiosyncratic expressions wouldn't find an audience as it changes over time? Just you saying that makes me curious to read something you wrote.
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- Tools like bolt.new from StackBlitz and Cursor have brought about a new way to prototype that has some distinct advantages over traditional tools like Figma.
This blog post gives 9 principles to guide what I'm calling "Generative Rapid Prototyping" (or GRiP).
- A deep dive into the internals of React and NextJS to form an accurate mental model of RSCs.
I'm very sorry to see it go.