iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Willy @willy.life · 07/10/2026

Whats good for humans is good for AI. Get em’ some legs!

Willy @willy.life · 03/10/2026

I’m starting to suspect when youtubers say “comment dingo bellow & I’ll send you the recipe/link/pdf” vs having it in the description…smells like a scam.

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Willy @willy.life · 02/10/2026

Today, had a failed deployment cause AI slipped in one of those stupid long dash — instead of a normal dash - and IAM role descriptions don’t support non-ancii text, which none of us caught or the AI reviews. Secrets manager descriptions are totally fine though. Tricky one for my eyes to notice

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Willy @willy.life · 27/09/2026

I feel a new fun social game “Human Among us” where one on your team is selected at random to not use AI, but everyone else has to paste the team chat convo into AI to copy/paste responses and see how fast folks can guess who it is not using AI. Can also reverse this.

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Willy @willy.life · 25/09/2026

+1 seeing this daily. Teams with full ownership can build so fast.

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Willy @willy.life · 25/09/2026

Yep! It didnt make folks magically better at communication or see the forest for the trees…

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Willy @willy.life · 24/09/2026

I would love to see some of these benefits mentioned, but the social bureaucracy between teams brings the gains of AI to a stop. I see the next stage will need to be fixing the social contracts. I now work more and ship less than last year, mostly cause of people.

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Willy @willy.life · 22/09/2026

Bamboo A1 + multi color combo is like $400 and a workhorse. I spent more time trying get my ender 3 working than printing. Been a workhorse for a few years now and with the wifi + mobile app, its less friction to print so many things or bookmark stuff. Multi color print changes it allll

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Willy @willy.life · 22/09/2026

Its the haptics for the left pad, now I know why that is not work’n! What a painful part to fix. I’m not great with flux but am going give it a try

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Willy @willy.life · 21/09/2026

I broke this on my steamdeck. Curious if its the gyro? I might need to attempt to solder this back on

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Willy @willy.life · 20/09/2026

I'm curious if there is a neovim plugin to track your AI edits like a separate git change so you can more easily move through your codebase after an auto session to see where you need to focus on verifying crap or just more easily see the summary of work for easier review?

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Willy @willy.life · 19/09/2026

What about the ones that like your post randomly and have advertisement in their profile?

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Willy @willy.life · 17/09/2026

Backend serverless (lambdas), but also a canary test lambda specifically Frontend vite apps seems like a solid choice.

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Willy @willy.life · 14/09/2026

node test runner vs vitest

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026

Let’s try not to confuse AI safety with infra security. If the problem is that the networks are insecure then it seems like we make that the priority. If LLMs are answering “make this website” prompts with “the logical solution is to kill all humans” that’s a separate problem

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Willy @willy.life · 13/09/2026

I can tell ya, AI has not reduced my hours, but increased them when it comes to corporate side. I think AI tooling in gaming be best trying to focus on enhancing the creative process by reducing friction, same thing I wish for corporate side of things to help me.

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Willy @willy.life · 12/09/2026

I’m telling people, we trying so hard with AI to prompt code over and over to eventually be safe like rust instead of just using rust

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Willy @willy.life · 11/09/2026

I want someone to tell me again how to use AI their way with another custom in-house electron app so I can kindly smile say sure sure sounds cool and get back to using neovim + herdr + claude/kiro/codex This setup brings me joy building with AI. Its all I have left in this race man.

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Willy @willy.life · 11/09/2026

Its just crazy now. Just meat proxies for our AI to talk to each other but somehow, its not really creating a fully context aware review, so wont stop bugs

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Willy @willy.life · 11/09/2026

In Amazon IT, I’m working more than ever and shipping less. Code reviews are AI feedback loops on the most minor nits AI writes & finds, non-coders want AI to do everything with no human review, no one reads my docs but uses AI to summarize it, which leads to increase misaligned and waste time

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Willy @willy.life · 01/09/2026

Pretty much all programmers are going through a midlife career crisis. I’m seeing this org wide. Everyone has a spectrum of experience and concerns which are forming into a spectrum of where they land. Just know people might be struggling and just give em grace

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Willy @willy.life · 29/08/2026

Hackathon in my higher org top projects were rust based. Folks keep comparing rust to legacy java, but the unspoken gains I see are devs moving from custom in-house java to idiomatic rust tooling. Both those moves increase AI efficiency. Really cool to see rust growing faster internally

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Willy @willy.life · 28/08/2026

I want this dagnabit

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Willy @willy.life · 23/08/2026

I think we’ll settle on hybrid workflows and 100% gen no human review this flows. Will just depend. Then there will be folks using no AI coding at all and it’ll be totally fine, some industries need that.

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Willy @willy.life · 23/08/2026

My problem I’ve found: 1. I don’t remember the code as well, so it reduces my ability to speak about important parts in meetings 2. CRs are huge and still buggy 3. Code Slot machine syndrome I want a hybrid realtime vim-AI flow in my editor, I want better auto suggestions vs copy paste flow

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Willy @willy.life · 22/08/2026

AV engineer in me cringes at that conf space with the logi ptz mounting job, but I appreciate the googly eyes

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Willy @willy.life · 22/08/2026

I don’t know why teams at Amazon will do all their CDK in typescript and then use python for all the backend stuff instead of just…using node typescript? like whyyy switch languages to make api calls or use aws sdk do basic stuff I use python only when I have a specific library in mind and its rare

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Willy @willy.life · 22/08/2026

Being on extra immune suppressor meds cause my other ones are not working, finally causing issues with another cold after only few weeks of being free of the last one 😫

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Willy @willy.life · 21/08/2026

gotta spray some pine oil around to get rid of any lingering envy

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Willy @willy.life · 20/08/2026

Now these devs save my butt countless times ie find so many bugs in my code that AI can’t, but sometimes I have good gut instict If anything, AI is making me want to pursue improving my coding skills more cause it robs critical thinking to easily.

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Willy @willy.life · 20/08/2026

Wayy smarter devs on code review tell me to add some logic I ironically took out cause it was a footgun. I decided to add specific alarming for it then, compromise, but took out like 2 days. Ironically, the devs now discovered the exact silent bug I told them this would cause in their prod app.

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Willy @willy.life · 20/08/2026

Just batch ssh/sftp commands with some rest/http stuff. Some security concerns. The bigger problem is just lack of internal tooling support. Functional PS solution but not a great business decision. But now I have 2k+ lines of AI go to review 😋

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Willy @willy.life · 15/08/2026

I’m starting to love golang lot more. Someone sent me like 2k lines of AI powershell for cli tool. I used AI to rewrite it in golang. It was much easier to follow. Then started cleaning up the code, the bad parts stood out like sore bits Now I need to learn more golang cause plz no more powershell

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Willy @willy.life · 15/08/2026

I’ve been using this daily for last 3 weeks, love it. I tried tmux years ago, but wasnt ready. Now with multi agent stuff, this was great timing.

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Willy @willy.life · 09/08/2026

I had this sign made (cringe 🤏). Walking back to my car post workout, I was over-stressed with life and the coming workday. This question cut through everything in my head outta nowhere. I looked up at the beautiful sunny sky. I decided this was a good day. And that made the entire day 100% better.

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Willy @willy.life · 08/08/2026

I never finished the book when I realized he probably wouldn’t finish the next one I hope for Joe Abercrombie to be tapped to finish it if he was willing

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Willy @willy.life · 04/08/2026

Have ya been held vibe code review hostage yet? Any feedback is pushback which is an escalation? It sucks.

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Willy @willy.life · 26/07/2026

Herdr is exactly what I wanted in my head instead of tmux

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Willy @willy.life · 26/07/2026

This looks slick! I spy that fancy ratatui 🐀 in there Will give this a try, I love todo lists for my projects. I use Things on ios with a big widget on my home screen to help manage my life 😋

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Willy @willy.life · 25/07/2026

I’m going give neovim another try with focus on a solid AI workflow. I like zed a lot but I fight it here and there. I feel like I just want to stay in the terminal and make a custom workflow Helix is nice, but I find that I want to stay native vim and there is just way more support

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Willy @willy.life · 15/07/2026

Curious how folks keep their code reviews/pull requests so small I’m like starting to do stacked feature branches but I hate having to split up stuff into 3 CRs before its a “done” feature vs here’s the working thing The problem has been building stuff on just main branches solo for 5+ years

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Willy @willy.life · 15/07/2026

I do like some good beans! I do think/hope I’ll be able to eat beef again once I have working meds to chill my immune system down #beefyhopes

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Willy @willy.life · 14/07/2026

As someone who started getting sick eating beef 5ish years ago…I miss burgers so much. Fake burgers taste good, but also make me feel meh But I think I’d risk getting bedridden sick to eat a damn good burger

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Willy @willy.life · 12/07/2026

I really wished I had more wisdom to navigate the bureaucracy. The silly things I have to deal with because of non-technical leaders trying to get promoted are pushing would never happen if anyone with good taste saw what was happening. I just need way more growth before I’m ready to lead

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Willy @willy.life · 10/07/2026

Ahhh my weakness

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Willy @willy.life · 10/07/2026

With cdk, I’ve been leaning into config based design and scaling So now I can generate my infra via configs and its really nice aws pattern. Now thinking I need to create a lambda that generates monitoring alert based on resources deployed so I can keep my scaling fancy. Maybe. Will sleep on it

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Willy @willy.life · 10/07/2026

I went on a boat happy hour thing & forgot my hat and sun screen so im burnt My poor head and nose

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Willy @willy.life · 09/07/2026

I find its best to give myself space to think. Swim workout = thinking time. Commute to office = thinking time Should be asleep at 1am = thinking time

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Willy @willy.life · 04/07/2026

I signed up my kids for the ”Trump Account” cause free $1k and easy investing setup, seems like a fine program. But we all know that calling a savings account for children buy your own name is totally Epstein Island level vibes

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