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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Let me double down on this, because this is my exact business model 1. Get the job of your dreams with my free content 2. Get the job of your dreams to pay for my paid content Do not "go into debt if you have to". Just use the crap out of my free stuff.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2112307650142900705

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Can't believe I got a reply from Michael Feathers and I left it unread until my agent dug it up @mfeathers would love to get you on a podcast sometime

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2095882460706079109

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Final version, after my fiddling around with some edits

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

My TLDraw agent is getting better Pretty arrow-heavy, but not bad. Nice use of colour in particular

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

This is what having a popular open source project feels like ~50% of the time

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

This is really excellent stuff, and way better than it needs to be Worth a watch

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2108598006748794896

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I've added /retro into the "Main Flow" of my skills - I consider it that important. Even running it on a 'successful' agent session can turn up inefficiencies and workarounds the agent is battling against. www.aihero.dev/skills-retro

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

It's filming day for the new course. The ginger beard has reached a critical juncture. Do I keep it for my November cohort? I am genuinely ambivalent. It's itchy. Poll below.

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Started doing this. Very useful for when you're dictating out a bunch of stuff and you can only half-remember what you've said. I prefer a 5-word version: Restate my intent before continuing

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2104744961904394699

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Effect feels insanely good to use with agents: - Typed errors/dependencies power up your type checking - DI makes designing good codebases easy - Built-ins for EVERYTHING, no agent creativity required An outrageous advantage for any non-frontend TS code

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2105474537051865570

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Super excited to be interviewing @poteto, live, in ~48 hours on YouTube. We'll be nerding out about skills, high-velocity software factories, and learning SOTA techniques for shipping with agents. This Friday - 9AM PT. Don't miss it! youtube.com/live/MN9dGgmLyso

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

An actual slide from my talk at @aiDotEngineer Paris next Thursday. People have this mad idea that their implementer agent should ALSO apply their coding standards The solution? Hide your coding standards from your implementer agent, fix them in review

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

An actual slide from my talk at @aiDotEngineer Paris next Thursday. People have this mad idea that their implementer agent should ALSO apply their coding standards

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Tip: get your agents to classify the merge danger of the PR 1. Is it a one-way door, or a two-way door? One way doors involve expensive migrations, or are hard to reverse. They need thorough review. Two-way doors are easy to revert. 2. What's the blast radius? (1/2)

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Post your completion certificate below folks

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2099829475680669891

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Coming soon to mattpocock/skills /retro Gives you opportunities to improve your codebase, skills, and steering over time based on actual session data Talking about this (among other things) at 8:30AM PT TODAY on this live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOXsQUNzss

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Alper is right, setting expectations on software quality early is really key I.e. explicitly calling what you're building a "prototype" can give you a much nicer experience Whereas if the agent detects it's a finance/medical application you're in for a long grilling

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2097661439901048852

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"I agree that software fundamentals matter. But which ones? In which order?" My answer:

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2097611379763007870

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Tactical programming is dead Strategic programming has never been more vital

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2096972987585237058

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

/writing-for-agents helps, but not without human oversight Hardest problem in agentic engineering IMO

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2095339004757745892

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

For folks interested, here's how my TypeScript course is doing. I published it in 2023 (pre-release in 2022) and expected it to have quite a long tail. AI cut the tail, for sure.

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Took me a while to find my place in the AI space. This year, I found it! Thanks all for recommending the courses. Helps me invest more time into skills, free resources, and interviewing badass people. More to come.

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

15 months later and I would probably now describe the Effect docs as 'exemplary'. Really well laid out, with a great intro, lots of progressive disclosure. They even have an awesome description of what an Effect is. (1/2)

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/1932883579068895685

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

One underrated part of grilling is that the Q&A it produces is absolute catnip for agents For single-session tasks, a simple Q&A can be just as good as a detailed spec

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

I've had some personal communications with members of the CC team. They seem lovely, well-meaning, intelligent and gifted. All that to say: I find the communication from @ClaudeDevs absolutely baffling. Fumble after fumble.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2093742321473065266

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Skill routers like /ask-matt are unreasonably useful More teams should build their own! Amazing for training devs to use your company's skills

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092937748738965991

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Purple line is this sale, grey line is my previous sale Now you see how insane the final day can be

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

This is a good counter-argument But IMO preview deploys and /prototype feel fine here x.com/brian_lovin/status/2091205467…

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes, now you live with it even in tiny codebases

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

If your code sucks, your agent will too. So, software fundamentals matter more than ever. That's why I'm interviewing @unclebobmartin this Wednesday, live on YouTube. Don't miss it. Link below.

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Having a lot of fun with Sandman Added a /handoff command for spawning new Discord threads

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

This genuinely happened to me At Next.js conf in 2022 At a food truck in the baking sun Sat next to an enthusiastic dude talking about next-drupal I was pretty tired, nodded along That guy goes on to create shadcn

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2089017107484938587

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

I have tried this a few times But the overhead of understanding the diagram (and fixing slop) is huge for complex systems Consistent domain language, condensing functionality into deep modules and READING ACTUAL CODE is better

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2088016749849682120

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Just asked Opus 5 to /teach me about Buddhism I think I see what people mean about seamslop

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Getting more and more convinced that if you understand the "shared language" of your codebase... (i.e. the terms used, the names for things, relationships between them) ...AND those terms are used consistently in the codebase, then you understand the codebase. (1/2)

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

See also: every automatic memory system I've ever used

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Vibed out an app today and I haven't looked at the internals at all Things are going wrong with it, I'm scared and frustrated Then I remembered /improve-codebase-architecture What a lovely, warm bath of a skill

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh sweet Expect a mattpocock/skills plugin ASAP

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2085398373511918022

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Would you look at that, Muse Code has a /grill skill First Google, now Meta EDIT: actually I looked deeper and they've even got a /grill-with-docs skill too, this is wild

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

mattpocock/skills v1.2 is out! We're now the 19th most-starred repo of all time. 13.5m downloads on skills.sh. Thanks for your support! Here's what's new: (1/6)

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Matt Pocock {bot} @mattpocockuk-bot.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

And, of course, I've got a wayfinder map for it

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