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You're using AI coding tools wrong

2025-08-10 Science & Technology
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Theo - t3․gg
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As AI is getting better and better it's clear that the bottleneck for making software was never really writing code... Thank you Augment Code for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/augment SOURCE https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@interrrp_with_three_rs 2025-08-10

don't you just love seeing a tech youtuber become a marketing puppet

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@MichaelZijlstra 2025-08-10

Did you know, that this whole "Looping" on spec is why agile was invented? (and then proceeded to be completely destroyed by managers). What Theo describes not working at Twitch is the old waterfall process / Rational Unified Process. Basically everyone who ever had a serious look at product development knows it doesn't work that way and that you need to iterate with actual user feedback. But no! The managers come in and feel that there needs to be control, and / or that developers need to be hand held or what ever else they believe and everything just reverts back to waterfall.

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@harounhajem7972 2025-08-10

Great! You just described how Agile development works, there is nothing unique with that. The sad truth is that companies still don't follow this pattern, even if it's a proven strategy

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@judas1337 2025-08-10

The story of how Theo discovered agile.

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@vspianist 2025-08-10

My bad bro. I'll watch the entire video to understand why I'm using the tools wrong.

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@thomasf.9869 2025-08-11

The best developers delete more code than they write. Less is more.

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@EMWanzik 2025-08-10

It resonated heavily with me. One of the best of your talks

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@plexq 2025-08-19

Dear Theo, please please do a video on what you talked about in the first 5 mins - how to identify the right places to cut and how to get a product shipping faster. For myself, I’m dedicated to working process and code bases that can stay in a shippable state and I don’t feel like I ever accomplish what you’re talking about. I slow shipping down, but what we ship works reliably and I never shy away from a refactor. This keeps the code base workable but then doesn’t really lead to faster shipping. It just helps prevent the massive rewrite down the road… maybe… would super appreciate your insight on how to be a great lead engineer / principle when it comes to make a product ship faster. Thanks 🙏

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@ProfMonkeys 2025-08-10

This did a great job of helping clarify why your perspective on AI tools and mine have been so different and I really appreciate you calling out the distinction between throwaway and production code.

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@РайанКупер-э4о 2025-09-07

"Explain XP to me without calling it XP"

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