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14+ years experience developing software, primarily JavaScript web applications…
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Matt Harrison شارك ذلكView my verified achievement from Anthropic.Claude Certified Architect - Professional was issued by Anthropic to Matthew Thomas Harrison.Claude Certified Architect - Professional was issued by Anthropic to Matthew Thomas Harrison.
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Matt Harrison أعاد نشر ذلكMatt Harrison أعاد نشر ذلكDax (co-creator of OpenCode) with yet another banger on the reality of LLMs in the actual workforce. All his claims are backed by research, by the way: https://lnkd.in/eSsFqrS2
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Matt Harrison شارك ذلكI am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I reached halfway through my master's degree in AI/ML without truly grasping the bias-variance tradeoff beyond an abstract level. The dartboard analogy never really helped either. It finally clicked when looking at learning curves, and I decided to make a poster (yes, with AI). Hopefully someone else finds it useful too.
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Matt Harrison نشر ذلكThere's a lot of feelings in Software Engineering right now. Excitement. Fear. Incredulity. Sometimes all at once. I think where you sit on that spectrum depends on why you got into this field in the first place. For me, it was never about the job title, or the potential salary. The first thing I built was a Flash soundboard. The kick I got from having an idea in my head, seeing it on the screen, and showing my friends - I was hooked from that moment. Is my job safe? Honestly, I don't know. Will the profession change? Undoubtedly. But I still have ideas. I still want to see them exist. I still want to show people. And I've never been able to do that faster. So if you're feeling uncertain right now, remember why you started.
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Matt Harrison نشر ذلكI'm trying a new way of reading research papers. I often skim them to get the most important insights and gloss over some unfamiliar terms or scary looking formulas. Or sometimes I use the SQ3R method, where I write down questions and answer them through reading. I think there's still value in that, however getting a really deep understanding is infinitely more rewarding. My new approach is an extreme form of Deep Reading; the single rule is you can only read the next sentence when you fully grasp the current one with no holes in your understanding. This is very slow and painstaking and can have a high branching factor because each question can mean you need to read several other sources first. Working with an LLM can help to prune this tree though by comprehensively resolving tangential questions in one place, meaning you don't sacrifice depth and keep moving.
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Matt Harrison نشر ذلكI need to admit something difficult...I'm guilty. I've been too dismissive of Vibe Coding. Non-developers are talking about how this makes everyone a developer now, maybe we won't even need any engineers soon. Meanwhile, experienced engineers argue that Vibe Coding is like taking the fast lane to technical debt, creating a hairball of code with no consideration for architecture, and letting all the non-functional requirements (maintainability, scalability, security etc) go out the window. On reflection, I think they're actually both right. However if we stop there, we're missing out on an a big opportunity to improve how we build products. A major bottleneck in product teams is the disconnect between what users need and what engineers build. Vibe Coding, i.e tools that let people "build" by describing intent rather than writing code blurs the line between ideation and implementation. Instead of either blindly embracing Vibe Coding to produce our products or dismissing it outright, we should focus on how we can integrate this into the development lifecycle thoughtfully. Given that a large % of your ideas aren't going to actually solve your users needs, we need a way to quickly evaluate ideas with minimal cost. These tools let customer experts, designers, and product managers go from idea to prototype in minutes, not weeks, no waiting on a ticket in your backlog to be groomed to "ready". But here's the critical thing: prototypes aren’t products. We still need engineers to turn validated ideas into robust systems. The challenge then is to figure out where Vibe Coding ends and engineering begins and how to smoothly transition between the two. Imagine a workflow where: - Non-engineers prototype with Vibe Coding tools to explore ideas and gather early feedback - Once an idea shows promise, engineers step in to validate and re-architect it with the right patterns, performance considerations, and non-functional requirements. - Product and engineering collaborate closely, informed by data instead of assumptions about what users need If we can get this right, we can spend less time building the wrong thing, and more time building the right thing right. And nobody worries about being replaced by robots.
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Matt Harrison أعاد نشر ذلكMatt Harrison أعاد نشر ذلكI've spent about four hundreds hours testing "vibe coding" (or what I used to call conversational programming) to the extremes, and I've been telling people that it's great but not useful for anything other than prototypes. For this, I've got a lot of earache from some saying that I just don't understand it. The guy who created the term "vibe coding" finally bothers to try and build something end to end with vibe coding - "MenuGen is my first end-to-end vibe coded app" - https://lnkd.in/e9PqWwv6 - and comes to a conclusion that "Ultimately, vibe coding full web apps today is kind of messy and not a good idea for anything of actual importance." - https://lnkd.in/e9PqWwv6 Nothing wrong with the conclusion but, hang on - for the first time! Did the entire industry lose its mind over a term created by a person with no actual experience of doing what the term means!?!?? Talk about cult and a cult of personalities. Nothing surprises me in the world of AI these days. Let us hope that Gene Kim and Steve Yegge have actually tried to build entire applications before they finish the book - https://lnkd.in/eer2Pcb4 Vibe coding is a really poor choice of name. This is more wrangling than coding. Yes, people often confuse it with software engineering + AI (where a person inspects and reviews the code) but that's a different field to one where "I wrote none of the code directly (Cursor+Claude/o3 did) and I don't really know how the app works, in the conventional sense that I'm used to as an engineer". The confusion stems from the use of the word "coding" (hence my preference for wrangling). Technically prompts are code, they are just non deterministic and result in deterministic code. Hence I understand why people have used "coding" along with the vibe term. An old friend of mine Simon Willison nailed the confusion with this post - https://lnkd.in/ewXWwdX7 “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced” is vibing. Well, technically it's more "generating code with AI without being involved in the decision making" as we discuss in rewilding software engineering - https://lnkd.in/ek9MF7P3 Vibing will be important and bizarrely enough ... it is a skill. I'll write more on that later, I just need a few more hundred hours of experience to nail down the practices or at least to be able to have a good first stab at them. Even then, take them with a pinch of salt - we are still learning as the practices emerge. #vibing #vibe #ai #cult -- addendum X : Will it ever be useful for more than just prototypes? Me : Of course. For now though, we haven't developed the practices and we have to rely on software engineering i.e. reviewing the code. Those practices are emerging and the boundary of where to vibe (or not) will change over time. But it will take time. X : This year? Me : You've been listening to Eric Schmidt? Now that's a person I can almost guarantee hasn't used this stuff in anger but still pontificates about it.
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Matt Harrison نشر ذلك"You don't need to prepare anything, just speak off the cuff." People say this because they think it makes life easier, but for some, myself included, the idea of speaking on a topic coherently with no preparation is akin to baking a soufflé blindfolded: chaotic, nerve‑wracking, and almost guaranteed to be a flop.
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Luca Lanziani if you give me a pencil
and paper and tell me to draw something I’m going to freeze so I get it.
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكWe have a new website. Built natively in Next.js and Three.js. Because we don't do shortcuts and workarounds. We raised our pre-seed earlier this year. There's been a lot of changes since then. A new website is perhaps the most obvious. If you are on the list for access to PRISM, or signed up to our Networks Activity Summaries, this will be your portal. Get in touch if you want to know more about Valent, sign up to our summaries or anything else.
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلك2026 marks my 10th year at Nearform, as well as my 45th birthday. I find the symmetry somewhat fascinating, and I've decided to honor it by taking a break from Nearform, software engineering, and work altogether. Staying would have been the easy choice. In ten more years I'd probably have more experience, a higher role, and considerably more wealth. But I would also be 10 years older. I wrote down some thoughts that don't fit in a post. They are in the article below.
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكQuite happy with this little side quest - check out the free version here, featuring occasional industry commentary: https://lnkd.in/dP3Bzmxt
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Matt Harrison تفاعل مع ذلكMatt Harrison تفاعل مع ذلكI've found my nerd tribe! Having loads of fun and already digging many rabbit holes 🕳️ 🐇 as I joined Nearform 🤓 Just a happy face Friday photo, sweet humans. Much love 💚 #convolutedM #languagenerd #EngineeredDifferently #AINativeEngineering #AIAgents #LLMS
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكThe fact that Agatha Christie had access to ChatGPT is undeniable proof that time travel is real ________ photo credit: fio D.
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكI’ve got three kids, so a work life balance is non-negotiable. (Just ask my wife!) 👀 However, getting that balance right did not happen quickly. It took years of getting it wrong, a couple of tough periods, and some honest reflection before I figured out what actually worked for me and my family. Now we're pproaching 15 years in business, we've moved past the times where I need to be so 'on'. My focus is mostly on looking after our clients and overseeing our wider growth - but I've been stepping back to allow my team to shine. This presents better opportunities for them to grow, and gives me and my family the time we need. Hallelujah! 🙌 Any other parents and business owners in my network, how are you finding striking this balance currently? #mobileapps #appagency #business
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكRemember when we used to care about comma first?
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Matt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكMatt Harrison أضاف إعجابًا إلى ذلكAI did everything but discover a bug I was searching for today. You know what found the bug in the end? console.log and a pair of eyes. AI is a fantastic tool but it will be a while before humans are out of the loop.
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المنشورات
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hapi.js in Action
Manning Publications
عرض المنشورhapi.js in Action teaches you how to build modern Node-driven applications using hapi.js. Packed with examples, this book takes you from your first simple server through the skills you'll need to build a complete application.
الدورات التعليمية
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Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms
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