Damus

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Ian profile picture
The best analogy I've found for coding with AI: it's a 3D printer for software craftsmen.

Yesterday I worked through four different database frameworks. Not reading about them—implementing them. Feeling the tradeoffs between security, sovereignty, and scale in working code. When I decided one wasn't right, the AI rewrote the entire data layer in minutes. Evaluate. Adjust. Repeat.

That kind of iteration used to take weeks. The mythical 10X engineer everyone chases? They were still bottlenecked by typing and context switching. This is a category shift.

The craft isn't gone. It's distilled. System design, debugging intuition, knowing which tradeoffs actually matter—that's still you. What's disappeared is the tedium of translating clear intent into syntax.

The keyboard was never the instrument. Your mental model was. Now you can finally work at the speed of thought.

Ian profile picture
Yeah I used go for the same reason. What I landed on was a hook/plugin system. That way my implementation isn't baked in just the hooks to execute our custom business processes

Ian profile picture
This is a great idea. Let's talk. ✊

I just built a custom relay so I would have my own foundation for an idea similar to this.

Ian profile picture
Love the art style. I think you're in the early days of something really cool. One request can I have the @nprofile1q... logo incorporated. Maybe on the eye patch or on the jacket or a medallion around the neck. Somehow if it is beat up along with me.