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cyprxon Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

it won't work when every single PRD now has the word "extensible". i think overcomplexity often comes from requirements/ business usecases first

cyprxon A single line of code cost $8000

meanwhile the CTOs plan to apply AI into their production codebases :)

cyprxon Migrating away from Rust

wow every rust topics have uncountable number of comments, it's indeed a successful language

cyprxon Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster

i tried grok 3 with Think and it was right also with pretty good thinking

cyprxon "Normal" engineers are the key to great teams

totally agree a team with full of 10x engineers would just introduce new techs every month, if not they would get bored pretty fast and leave the team anyway. most of the time normal engineers are more suitable, especially during maintenance phase where there are many boring/ repetitive tasks

cyprxon I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

I had been using Cursor for a month until a day when my house got no internet, then i realized that i started forgetting how to write code properly