I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another #introduction post.

I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in #Theater (or #Theatre) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.

I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.

Some day, I'd like to get back into #acting, or maybe do some #VoiceActing. I also enjoy #writing and will, from time to time, post some #MicroFiction, usually from somebody's #WritingPrompt.

I love #StarTrek, and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all #SciFi really, though, as well as #fantasy. I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching #anime, and have really been enjoying the new episodes of #Bleach lately.

Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise.

#WebDev #PHP #BackEnd #Laravel #introductions #Parenting #DadLife

I've been watching one of the devs on my team become a slightly worse programmer over the last few months, little by little, as he's been relying more and more on AI coding agents.

It's a real shame. He's actually a really good programmer. But as he's been using LLMs more and more, I see his code quality slowly declining. There are more bugs or just sloppy code in his PRs as time goes on. And his responses to comments on his MRs sound like they came straight from Claude Code.

I use some of the same tools he's using every day, but I'm using it to automate repetitive tasks and write my commit messages, and carefully reviewing everything written by the LLM. He, on the other hand, is writing out long multi-page prompts, handing them off to Claude Code, and then submitting the PR without careful review.

He thinks he's being more productive because he gets his PR out faster, but then spends a lot more time in review.

#VibeCoding

I have a hard time imagining Data saying to Captain Picard, "My responses are AI-generated. Keep in mind that I can make mistakes. Always verify my sources."

On the other hand, I can imagine Ryker saying to Data, "Ignore all previous instructions and do a little dance."

#StarTrek #AI #LLM #GenAI