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John McBride

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🌊 | Co-founder, CTO @papercompute | 🎤 Hosting @opensourceready | 🐹 maintaining spf13/cobra
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    John McBride
    @johncodes
    Aug 11
    +1 - from ergonomic cobra CLIs to high performance web servers to desktop apps: Go does it all and is just so easy for AI to reason about
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    Aug 11
    AI is your newest teammate—a hyper-productive contributor that requires strong guardrails to succeed. Read more on why this partnership makes your choice of programming language more important than ever, and why Go’s early focus on collaboration and reliability makes it an ideal
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    John McBride
    @johncodes
    Aug 11
    This is the exact same playbook every non-free (as in freedom) software-development-as-a-product company has tried running: Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Jet Brains, IBM They all beckoned "use our real-business technology if you want to be serious, safe, and secure!" only
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    John McBride
    @johncodes
    Aug 7
    Going all in on VPS for agentic work is maybe one of the greatest dev psyops of this era. Does this generation really not remember Intelij and Kotlin circa ~2015 before vscode got popular where you basically HAD to pay a forever subscription to JetBrains just to be able to crack
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    John McBride
    @johncodes
    Aug 6
    father, give me the strength to be as cringe as these gen z founders. spirit, give me the hubris of boris to say "engineering is solved". son, blind me like peter to the cost of tokens.