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André Staltz

@staltz.com
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I make softwarr. Working at @socket.dev Previously: Manyverse, SSB, Cycle.js, RxJS. Opinions expressed are my own.

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André Staltz @staltz.com · 12/09/2026
To those people who fear AI on autopilot will write worse code: It *can* write code better than you ever could dream of, in readability, organization. You just have to identify the principles to refactor your code, and now you can afford refactoring the entire codebase, eliminating all tech debt.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 11/09/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, this is DAD MODE. 🚖 Ship stuff with your voice from the car, the playground, in the grocery store.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 11/09/2026
I upset some people with this article. They think I'm being reckless or something. With all respect, their opinion of AI code is outdated by a year or more. Things have changed a lot.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 10/09/2026
New blog post: Farewell, programming. staltz.com/farewell-pro...
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André Staltz — Farewell, programming
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 08/09/2026
If you're still coding without AI, tell me you're at least not browsing a bunch of random low quality blogs riddled with weird cookie banners, desperately hunting for a little fix to a little annoying problem, right? Right??
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 30/08/2026
In 2019 I gave climate activism a real shot, joined Extinction Rebellion, glued myself to buildings, gave speeches at Helsinki's main library on climate science and crisis, marched on the streets. I quit all of that when I realized the climate crisis is a geopolitical deadlock.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 15/08/2026
The ratio of git conflict babysitting per actual development is a code architecture smell and (via Conway's law) an org chart smell.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 15/08/2026
Little thing I'm sharing: my microskills for modular prompting github.com/staltz/micro...
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GitHub - staltz/microskills: Modular prompts I use every day
Modular prompts I use every day. Contribute to staltz/microskills development by creating an account on GitHub.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 15/08/2026
"How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you" psalm 31:19 Fearing God means experiencing his goodness. You should only be "afraid" of God if you don't fear Him.
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Socket @socket.dev · 07/08/2026
Maintaining critical software now comes with a security burden that has outgrown what any volunteer can reasonably carry. That's why we're upgrading our open source program from the Team plan to the Business plan, full protection for maintainers at no cost. socket.dev/blog/free-bu...
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Free Business Plan Upgrades for Open Source Maintainers - So...
Open source maintainers are under more pressure than ever. We're raising our open source program from the Team plan to the Business plan, free.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 05/08/2026
Friends of mine in all kinds of careers (legal, interior design, artists, developers, business) are either (1) sad and gloomy about losing their craft to AI, or (2) having a lot of fun doing more with less, with AI. It's all a matter of perspective and motivation.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 29/07/2026
Former me loathed Rick Rubin. Now I'm realizing he was right and way ahead of his time.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 28/07/2026
Me as a developer/designer: let's do a redesign. We'll inform the user with a tutorial, it'll be fine. Me as a user on an app I just opened: BLERGH NOOOO WHY DID YOU REDESIGN EVERYTHING. SKIP TUTORIAL SKIP SKIP SKIP
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 24/07/2026
I measured, and I'm 7x more productive with AI 🤯 Blog post: staltz.com/i-am-7x-more...
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André Staltz — I am 7x more productive with AI
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 20/07/2026
@glauberkotaki.com o que vc acha de fazer joguinhos SNES homebrew? Tipo megacatstudios.com/products/lit... To usando AI ultimamente pra fazer todo tipo de side project no pouco de tempo livre que eu tenho, e tudo é possivel agora.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 13/07/2026
🎉 My blog is back, with a renewed layout, and a hopeful essay on the future of our profession in light of AI coding. staltz.com/from-coder-t...
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André Staltz — From coder to curator
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 04/07/2026
The Fable burger: 1. Fable plans 2. A cheaper model executes 3. Fable reviews the execution
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 27/06/2026
Jesus offers true freedom. It's a feeling that cannot be taken away, unlike the freedom to fulfill desires which is contingent on your ability and possibility to pursue those desires. The sweet presence of the Holy Spirit is freedom that cannot be taken away by anyone or anything external. 🤍
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 24/06/2026
My favorite little thing to add to prompts: "Respond tweet-like" "Explain this in 3 tweets"
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 23/06/2026
Took just 10 years, but I made it! Cycle.js is now on devdocs.io 😭🥹 Thank you anonymous contributor for valuing the framework still 🤍
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 16/06/2026
Looking at some C++ code I wrote in 2008, all by hand, formatted manually, without vim. It's mind blowing I had the patience for all this. Comments everywhere. What was wrong with me, this code is impeccable.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 15/06/2026
DM me to get 50% off first month on Cursor.com This is an "ad" and I earn credits, but I also legit think that Cursor is a great way of writing code nowadays. Pay special attention to its cloud/web features ✨
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 12/06/2026
Adding collaboration. Like git pull requests, but for spreadsheets
A screen showing two spreadsheets side by side. They are identical except for minor changes in one which are reflected in the other as a "proposal" which can be accepted, rejected, or commented on
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 11/06/2026
1 million interdependent cells (about 33MB) in the browser with very high FPS. Gonna keep trying higher numbers until it breaks.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 10/06/2026
I've been building something 👀✨
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 10/06/2026
"Haircut" in Finnish is literally "hair surgery" 😬
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Socket @socket.dev · 22/05/2026
AI has taken over open source, and the data is wild: • npm is now seeing 100k+ packages published per month • packages with em dashes in READMEs jumped from ~5% to 30%+ • AI is increasingly writing packages and choosing dependencies Awesome post by @staltz.com: socket.dev/blog/ai-has-...
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AI Has Taken Over Open Source - Socket
Vibe coding at scale is reshaping how packages are created, contributed, and selected across the software supply chain
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 22/05/2026
I just wrote a new article on the Socket blog: *AI Has Taken Over Open Source* Shocking charts and data to let sink in. Please read socket.dev/blog/ai-has-...
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AI Has Taken Over Open Source - Socket
Vibe coding at scale is reshaping how packages are created, contributed, and selected across the software supply chain
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mixmix @mixmix.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Proud to be working to improve the safety of FOSS ecosystems. It's also great to see this work so well resourced. Socket Security also offer free accounts for any Open Source projects - we give back to the commons
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Feross @feross.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today is a big day for @socket.dev. We raised a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by Thrive Capital. 20,000+ orgs, 1.5M repos protected, 1,000+ supply chain attacks blocked per week. 3/5 FAANG companies are customers. We're just getting started.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 26/04/2026
My biggest struggle with AI coding is that I haven't answered these questions yet: (1) how can I reduce the time that it's idle (overnight, overweekend), and if that happens then (2) how can I keep up with the reviews?
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 04/04/2026
Why does Anthropic not offer Claude in the cloud (Cowork in the cloud, scheduled tasks etc)? Why why why why why Why are they telling me to keep my macbook always awake why why.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 02/04/2026
Microsoft had this very handy app for scanning documents called Lens. I use it for years. I refrained from updating the software version out of fear they would paywall it. Well, guess what, I accidentally updated.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 11/02/2026
Somehow developers have been convinced that the future of computing is to leave their computers busy doing something with a swarm of "agents", going to sleep, and then accepting —without reviewing— the garbage output after they wake up the next morning.
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Sarah Gooding @sarahgooding.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My colleague @staltz.com and his team are at it again, working magic with UIs to reduce cognitive load and make security information easier to explore. Excited to see this launched! 💜
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 14/01/2026
git commit -m'Did what AI did not, because this is the future'
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 08/01/2026
Solution for Greenland: split into North Greenland and South Greenland. Trump is going to do this anyway, so why not find a compromise where most of the population (southwest-concentrated) remains untouched, while the USA can do their world policing thing in the north.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 10/12/2025
Want to work with me and a number of world-class JS open source developers at @socket.dev protecting ALL open source libraries from supply chain attacks? We're looking for stellar frontend developers. DM me
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 09/12/2025
For some reason, humans like – and have always liked – anthropomorphized animals.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 04/12/2025
Doom-scrolling generation looking back at the early 2000s: we were happy, and we didn’t realize it. AI-slop generation looking back at the doom-scrolling era: we were happy, and we didn’t realize it.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 29/11/2025
If you ever wonder where did Andre Staltz go
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 08/11/2025
I select "Light Mode" in Tahoe and the header "Appearance" fades away, while the Back/Forward buttons remain in dark mode. 👏
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 01/11/2025
I think spreadsheets as a concept are brilliant. Can you imagine computers *without* them? They are simultaneously databases and user interfaces. Manipulation is direct: the input is the output. Reactive programming and no need to reason about outdated state or cache invalidation. Simply brilliant
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 28/10/2025
The slop is everywhere. Even Google with infinite budget can't make a dropdown work.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 26/10/2025
Even the pagination UI is utterly broken in this product. Seriously, vibe coding is one of the worst things that happened to our industry. We were going in a pretty okay direction until AI came along. It made products worse, programming frustrating and code review miserable.
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 25/10/2025
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 24/10/2025
So I gave Suno (music production AI) a try and I was mind blown and inspired. It remixed/improved one of my song demos and that gave me fresh ideas for the song. So within a few minutes, I pulled out the credit card and got the premier plan. Then I'm playing around with it, until...
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 18/10/2025
Just had a thought yesterday, which I can't promise will happen: to rebuild/reboot Cycle.js from scratch, getting rid of some support for legacy things, and building on top of React exclusively. I miss streams
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 11/10/2025
Cursor -> Curser Claude -> Fraud ChatGPT -> ChadGDP Gemini -> German eye
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André Staltz @staltz.com · 25/09/2025
Back in the days I tweeted something along the lines of "programming is primarily about reading and understanding code, not writing code" which went a bit viral. In the age of AI coding, this couldn't be further from the truth. Vibe coding is just modern day StackOverflow copy-paste spaghetti.
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