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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 1d

Velocity:

Augment won handily here - I was able to execute the prompt twice in Augment before the next closest competitor executed once.

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 1d

Quality:

Augment beat Cursor on the margins - using full-screen views where necessary and scrollables correctly, for example

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 1d

Completeness:

Warp was the only tool unable to finish the task in a reasonable timeframe. Claude & Gemini were incapable of producing a working application on the first run. Augment and Cursor were code-complete and ran.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 1d

This month's adventures in AI assistants, the CLI edition...

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Augment (w/ Sonnet 4.5)
Cursor Agent (auto)

😐😐😐
Gemini
Claude Code (w/ Sonnet 4.5)

☹️☹️☹️
Warp (auto)

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 2d

Made my day 🤣

youtu.be/QU93N7saW_E...

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

Bad Bunny announced as Super Bowl Halftime performer and backlash immediately followed.Just announced more dates on The Flowers Tour! Check out https://joshj...

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 13d

Everything I ate in Austin

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Ramen Del Barrio
Ramen Tatsu-ya
Magnolia Cafe
Taqueria De Diez
Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que
Licha's Cantina

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Paperboy
Ike's Love & Sandwiches
Tacos Juanita
Korea House Restaurant
El Raval
JewBoy Sliders
Home Slice Pizza

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 14d

😄😄😄
Sisu: Road to Revenge
Bugonia
Decorado
The Creep Tapes Season 2

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Primate
Crushed
Dolly
Beast of War
Night Patrol
The Curse
Find Your Friends

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The Strangers - Chapter 2
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Angel's Egg
Disforia
Whistle

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 14d

🎬 Just survived Fantastic Fest 2025 yesterday! 7 days of cinema madness.

Everything I saw this year:

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 18d

A study of experienced developers found AI tools made them 19% SLOWER, not faster. Additionally, developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had helped them work 20% faster.

metr.org/blog/2025-0...

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

metr.org

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 25d

I read a review disparaging The Long Walk while comparing it unfavorably to The Hunger Games. One is designed for youth with a theatrical flair meant to entertain, while the other is an unflinching, brutal examination of mortality, hope, and an authoritarian, dystopian reality.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · 29d

Once every five years, I rediscover the nightmare of implementing file uploads using multipart/form-data.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm all in on Kumi Morrow after episode 5.

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I cope with my AI tool fatigue by learning a new JavaScript framework.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Alien: Earth is only 3 episodes in, but I think it might be the best SciFi show since The Expanse and the best horror show since The Outsider.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 11

Engineers who truly soar demonstrate great character. They are humble enough to ask for help, curious enough to learn new things, resilient enough to push through failures, and generous enough to mentor others. Their character sets the ceiling for their success.

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 11

"The talent sets the floor, the character sets the ceiling." This is as true in software engineering as it is anywhere else.

We all know engineers who can solve problems and write beautiful code. Their talent sets the floor for their career.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 8

A critical take on Vibe Coding with some valid points. Where I disagree is that the internet has always been polluted by low-quality, poorly documented code and misunderstood/misutilized patterns. Like a child, AI's output reflect it's environment.

pdelboca.me/writings/202...

Patricio Del Boca - vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering

pdelboca.me

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 7

JavaScript framework churn ain't got nothing on AI tooling churn.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Aug 5

Looks like the line to get access to Augment CLI is long

www.augment.new?ref=REF8NK6N...

Join the CLI waitlist | Augment Code

Sign up to be the first to try CLI.

www.augment.new

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Jul 23

When there's no hardware limitation, platform disparity is just poor planning disguised as "technical constraints." Availability should be table stakes. Ship with parity or don't ship at all.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Jul 23

We have Flutter. We have React Native. We have Compose Multiplatform. We have mature development practices.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Companies still struggle to launch Android and iOS apps simultaneously with feature parity. That's wild.

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Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Jul 16

Netflix is stretching out this last season of Stranger Things like they know I'm cancelling my subscription when it's over.

Ryan Edge @chimon.bsky.social · Jul 13

Musk accidentally turning Grok into MechaHitler is hilariously on brand.

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/12/x...

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ | TechCrunch

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as...

techcrunch.com

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Kevin Moore @kevmoo.com · Jul 11

Do you use pkg:http? We have a beta out that supports canceling requests! We'd love folks to try it out before it goes stable. This was a gnarly change and we wanted to be super careful to not break anyone.

See pub.dev/packages/htt...

Tracking PR github.com/dart-lang/ht...

http 1.5.0-beta | Dart package

A composable, multi-platform, Future-based API for HTTP requests.

pub.dev

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