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Kris Walker

@kixxauth.bsky.social

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Building Kixx: A rapid web development framework for humans, and our AI tools Kixx: https://kixx.dev Website: https://www.kriswalker.me/

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Working on Kixx - a concept for a rapid web development framework using AI

I want to be able to build blazingly fast without generating piles of shit code I’ll need to rewrite later.

www.kixx.dev

Kixx is a rapid application development framework for human coders -- and our AI tools.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 9h

overheard from table next to me:

"All these Chat GPTs are taking away entry level marketing jobs"

Is "ChatGPT" becoming a noun and a verb? Like "why don't you google for that?"

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 21h

The Boomer Cloud; Ouch ... LoL

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”

Crude but also accurate

Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's true. I'm halfway joking about the cup of coffee, but taking 5 - 10 minutes to sit back and think about the project is really helpful.

But, I've found that orchestrating more sophisticated agentic workflows is really hard, and *expensive*. There is more opportunity here.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

By the time 20 talented and well paid programmers and managers have:

- created the requirements docs
- gotten the estimates
- approved the budget
- refined the requirements
- debated who owns it

One programmer could have just done it in 1/20 the time.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

What would you need to see on the home page of an open source web development framework to think "damn, I really need to try that"?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about rebranding the nascent little Kixx web framework

www.kixx.dev

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the core problem for agentic coding:

I get the best results asking an AI agent to implement little things here and there ... which leaves me with just enough time between tasks to ... make a cup of coffee?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about rebranding the nascent little Kixx web framework

www.kixx.dev

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Slop is always in you. You just need to be an honest critic of yourself to see it.

AI (or any platform shift) simply provide new mechanisms for puking that slop out into the world.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators [Podcast]

One of the great nuggets of the Web on today's edition of Kixx News

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

A new edition of Kixx News today:

www.kixx.news/editions/202...

Kixx.News | Tue, Oct 14, 2025

The Kixx.News edition for Tue, Oct 14, 2025

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

The payout for being extraordinary has never been higher.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Why do corporations exist?

Specifically with software technology, big companies:

1. Are slower to act
2. Less innovative
3. Add layers of unnecessary complexity
4. Have collaboration costs which *should* outweigh the benefits.

So, why aren't we just building software as a bunch of freelancers?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

A new edition of Kixx News today:

www.kixx.news/editions/202...

Kixx.News | Tue, Oct 14, 2025

The Kixx.News edition for Tue, Oct 14, 2025

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

The web is breaking:

"It's not even worth figuring out what any one user's problem is, it's better to just mark them off as X% lossage while trying to find new users elsewhere."

neugierig.org/software/blo...

Tech Notes: Account disasters

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm much happier when success is achieved in a highly dynamic environment where my "we'll just figure it out" attitude is seen as a virtue instead of a detriment.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman in 2018 "How to Succeed with a startup"

How's it going now?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJK...

Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup

YouTube video by Y Combinator

www.youtube.com

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2d

Typescript is just JavaScript for developers who don't want to talk to each other

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful little software projects get bloated and complexified once they get into the hands of large engineering teams.

How does this happen? How do we stop it from happening? Is it inevitable?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2d

I've built big projects in JS this way.

The challenge is keeping all the cruft off for years to come. That's really, really hard to do in a large software organization.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2d

We don't need TypeScript or large JavaScript frameworks to build software at scale with large teams.

Building with vanilla JS keeps the codebase smaller, easier to understand, more performant, easier to maintain, and easier to add new features.

Reposted by Kris Walker

Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 2d

The market for humans cleaning up AI-generated garbage is going to be enormous.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 5d

I avoided shipping a bug today because my type system yelled at me for passing the wrong type into a method.

Wait, no, that actually didn't happen.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6d

Building AI agents is just scripting. It's new clothes on an idea that's been around for decades.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6d

I'd find a paid product in the mix somewhere. Laravel Forge and Tailwind Plus are good examples.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6d

I say "yes" to good, paying customers.

I say "no" to people who want me to add features to my tools and framework for free.

Also, my corporate job doesn't really care much about my open source stuff, so I get to use it at work only when it fits a need.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6d

I don't buy into this idea that corporate greed is killing open source software. And I think Matt Mullenweg set a bad precedent by trying to make the case.

If open source maintainers are burning out, that's on them for saying "yes" too often.

Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 6d

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading news.itsfoss.com/open-source-...

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

An unprecedented threat looms over open source.

news.itsfoss.com