John Crickett

@johncrickett

Helping software engineers become better software engineers by building projects. With or without AI.

South West, England

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Joined April 2010

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John Crickett
@johncrickett
Nov 6, 2023
Thinking about following me? I'm a software developer with 27+ years of experience. Some of it as a software engineer, some as a manager and some as an entrepreneur. I also have a couple of free newsletters for software engineers👇
John Crickett
@johncrickett
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I spoke to Anton Arhipov about Spec-Driven Development at JetBrains' KotlinConf earlier this year. We discussed whether Spec-Driven Development is really “waterfall in disguise”, and why Anton sees it instead as a much faster, iterative process. Rather than spending years
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John Crickett
@johncrickett
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They're working on making Claude Code support AGENTS.md ? Surely CC can make that change trivially!
Thariq
@trq212
Aug 25
Replying to @tobi
Hi Tobi, thanks for the feedback! We are working on making Claude Code more hackable, which will include being able to easily use Agents.MD or make other system prompt modifications. I’ll share more here when it’s ready to roll out. Our reasoning for this was that we don't think
John Crickett
@johncrickett
19h
That's nothing, my business sees over $126T potential revenue! Aim high! For those that don't know, $30T is approximately the GDP of the USA. Or approximately the sum of the GDP of the next four biggest countries by GDP. $126T is approximately the GDP of the world. These are
John Crickett
@johncrickett
Aug 25
And just on time there's an announcement about new Macs with loads more RAM. Now everyone wants to but a $10k Mac to save a $20-$200 subscription.
John Crickett
@johncrickett
Aug 25
Software engineers have a weird relationship with money. We’ll spend thousands on a laptop, then dress almost entirely in free T-shirts. We expect to be paid well for our software engineering expertise, but get strangely offended when software costs money. We’ll object to a