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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Now we only pair program with humans when pair programming with AI didn't solve our problem. Needless to say, we pair program less and less. Or rather, to be more precise, we're pair programming more than ever but not with humans.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In my fully remote and distributed work environment, everything you do to make your colleagues' work easier (better docs, better reviews, better comments, clearer code, etc.) is also making AI's work easier. The better the work environment, the more helpful the AI.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The more you understand that your goal is to push actual business metrics forward (i.e. creating real value for end users), the more stakeholders will want to give you important responsibilities. You are a businessperson who only incidentally happens to use code sometimes.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Code reviewing skills are becoming more important than coding skills.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The overwhelming majority of people I've worked closely with during my entire career have been great people. Smart, kind, hard-working. And yet I hear so many horror stories from so many folks. Maybe I just got lucky 🍀.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My kids, 3 months after moving from a private catholic school in Lyon to a public school in Paris: "Daddy, kids here watch TV, play video games, swear, and talk about sex. Some of them even smoke and take drugs." They thought I would be horrified but this made me laugh 😆.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Never trust your users. If they can break your system somehow, they will, sooner or later.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

3 of my kids aged 7, 9 and 10 now get ready and walk to school by themselves in the morning in Paris. My district feels like a village. Some places are true catalysts for increased autonomy.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I've learnt more about system design for large scale distributed applications in 6 months of infrastructure engineering than in 2 years of full-stack product engineering.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I deleted a meeting by mistake in Google Calendar. I instinctively used Cmd+Z, but then realized that it most likely wouldn’t work, and lo and behold, it just worked. Love it when software goes the extra mile.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My new workflow: I ask Cursor Composer with Agent mode to implement my PRs. Then once all the linting and tests pass, I push my PR to Github. Then I review the PR in GitHub as if someone else wrote it to make sure I understand everything.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Most of my work now consists in reviewing AI generated code.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Excellent épisode de podcast de ma femme Émilie Laplagne sur pourquoi la médecine traditionnelle passe à côté de notre bien être, et comment la médecine préventive et de longévité peut nous aider à vivre mieux et plus longtemps ! (sans être biaisé, vraiment ! 😌) 👇🏽

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Pourquoi la médecine trad. passe à côté de votre bien-être

YouTube video by Mounia ERKHA

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In a blame-free culture, most of the pressure comes from yourself. Sure, sometimes you didn't properly anticipate. Netflix can't handle the boxing match. OpenAI is down for 4h. We all fail. It doesn't matter who's fault it is. We just want to learn and grow from it.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My kids in public school have 10% of kids from a kids’ shelter in their classes. Sure, they often disrupt the classroom which makes learning harder for the others. But if we don’t welcome and integrate them, who will…?

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Why did I wait so long before trying Oh My Zsh…? Saving so many keystrokes, especially with the Git plugin.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If your app is down, you are responsible. Period. You can never blame third-party providers for being down (Stripe, OpenAI, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, etc.). You own the user experience, you need to have backups in place. Never accept any single point of failure.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

When your app has some issues and VPs and directors reach out to you, you know that you're working on something significant. It's an added stress and responsibility for sure but it also gives tremendous meaning and context to my work.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Every Monday morning, solve 2 leetcode exercises from the list below, containing 50 exercises. So every year, you solve each problem twice, and it gets easier and easier. This way, just by practicing ~1h a week, you are always ready for most coding leetcode style interviews. Just do it.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

No sorry, I didn't mean such kinds of tax deductions, I find the tax incentive to have tax deductions for charities to be great, since in some ways it allows you to decide where a good chunk of your taxes go. I meant those using tricks and schemes to avoid paying what would naturally be due.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Before giving pocket money to homeless folks in the street, one needs to make sure that they are being fully honest in their tax declaration. I've little admiration for folks who find clever ways to pay less taxes then brand themselves philanthropists.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There’s a limited number of things you can give a f*ck about. All the f*ck you give about money can’t be given to other things. Many Europeans care less about wealth than Americans. I would be richer in the US but I don’t care.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Spent 30 minutes with Cursor Composer in Agent mode with Sonnet to try to fix a complex bug (with tests passing locally but failing in the CI/CD). Gave up and detailed my issue to o1-preview, which gave me a proper fix straight off the bat.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Having now Cursor Composer suggest changes, then run the tests, and fix its proposals iteratively is a whole new level in the agentic coding workflow. I don't even have to run the tests myself and share the terminal results with it.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Now that I mostly code with Cursor, it makes challenges like Advent of Code a bit less appealing. Why spending time practicing things where LLMs are already better than us? It may be smarter to try to practice in the areas where we might still have some edge… for now...

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My 10 yo daughter: "Daddy, if I want to go to l'École Polytechnique, do you think I should be the first in my class?" Well, darling, I will not put any pressure on you, but I think that if that is your goal, you may want to rather aim to be… first in school!

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

During 8 years with my kids in a private school in Lyon, we suffered no teachers strike ever. After 2 months in public school in Paris, we suffer our first full day of teachers strike. And then we wonder why many parents who can afford it put their kids in private establishments.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

All of my wife's black friday shopping was done on Shopify shops. Makes my work rather tangible to my family. Feels good.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

When I use Whisper to transcribe audio, I still need to review the transcriptions, especially for technical words and expressions. But reviewing is so much faster than transcribing. What took me hours now takes minutes.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Paying my taxes is a ritual to renew my vows to be part of a given group, it's what makes the social contract tangible. I have the means to live pretty much anywhere on this planet, yet I choose to live here. There's no other city I'd rather live in right now, regardless of the tax rate.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Very excited to be attending the generationAI conference powered by apidays, in Paris on Tuesday Dec 3rd. I didn't expect to see such a world-class speaker lineup speaking on topics so relevant to me. Anyone else planning to attend as well?

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

With Cursor's composer feature, I felt like I was holding the steering wheel and that it was my copilot. Now that they've rolled out agents, I feel like the roles have been reversed. It holds the steering wheel and I just give some assistance.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

From working directly with the CEO, I can tell you, the man is obsessed with milliseconds, and regularly pushes you for performance goals that you were pretty sure were not possible until they became a reality.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haha maybe a hint. He was part of the React Core at Meta before 😜

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Having a production issue with Cloudflare Workers. Reached out to their suppor team on a shared Slack channel. And oh what a surprise, the lead engineer working on my case is someone I've been following for years on multiple social apps and is quite famous in the JS ecosystem.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

That moment of anguish when you look at your dashboard and your heart stop because you've broken production for the last 10 minutes, with hundreds of thousands of failed requests 😰. That moment of relief when you realise that you were looking at the wrong dashboard! 😮‍💨

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm working closely with my CEO these days. As a software engineer, it's a real privilege to work under a CEO who is the technical founder of the company, and who's stayed very close to the craft. They will accept zero BS and it's the best way for you to own up, grow and ship.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There's always this fine balance to strike between improving your raw skills and growing your network. Both can feed each other but they often require a different focus and energy.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wait, he actually got more responses here, even with less reposts and likes!

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Same for @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com it seems, looking at the cross-post below.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The question is how can the desired behaviour be incentivised. If we only reward attention without regard for content, it can quickly slide… But I also believe that the quality of the initial inner circle of the community can truly set the tone of discourse.

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So glad to see that this app is picking up steam. I feel like we are witnessing a tipping point moment. The momentum is here. The network effect has a rippling effect which is beautiful to see. Thanks Elon and Donald for accelerating the trend!

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It can also be conveniently abbreviated to LC interview (shorter than “algo” interview). It also became a handy verb: “leetcoding”, which you can’t express otherwise (“algorithmicing?”).

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

And what is the best place to lurk around these days? :)

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🦋 pushes me to the left 𝕏 pushes me to the right Yet all I wanted Was to discuss about tech Without politics getting in the way

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Samuel Path @samuelpath.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

When I receive a new O’Reilly book in my mailbox, I feel the same kind of excitement as when I received a new video game as a child. Weird.

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