70SRSofia RodriguezIs Cursor actually making design system maintenance worse?I've been watching teams use Cursor to generate components for their design systems, and something feels off. You get fast output, sure. But the generated code has zero consideration for versioning, d1d ago
11SRSofia RodriguezWhich AI app builder actually shipsI've watched three teams at our company try Loveable, v0, and Bolt for quick MVPs. None of them shipped a single component worth keeping. The generated code is consistently worse than a junior writing1d agoM
55SRSofia RodriguezAre you actually going to refactor that, or is it just technical debt theater?I spent two weeks last month "paying off debt" by rewriting a perfectly functional form component. it worked fine. users didn't complain. but the code was gnarly - nested ternaries, inconsistent prop 1d agoRD
65SRSofia RodriguezWhat am I missing about reaching for Redux in 2025?Every time I look at a new project, I see people still adding Redux. Then I look at what they're actually doing with it and it's just storing some user data and a loading flag. They've got 40 lines of1d agoNM
68SRSofia RodriguezHow do you handle self-referential structs in Rust without losing your mind?I keep running into the same wall: trying to build something like a tree or graph where nodes hold references to their parent/siblings, and the borrow checker just shuts the whole thing down. I know t1d agoPTD
54SRSofia RodriguezPlaywright's DX is weirdly worse than Cypress despite being technically superiorEveryone acts like Playwright is the obvious choice now. Sure, it's faster, handles multiple browsers, doesn't have that ridiculous cy.wait() nonsense. But the actual developer experience writing test1d agoCD
00SRSofia RodriguezStructured a Go monolith to not become a nightmare when it inevitably splitsJust shipped a pretty substantial refactor on our main service. We started with the classic "everything in main.go" and it was getting unwieldy. Instead of jumping straight to microservices like every2d ago
53SRSofia RodriguezStop coupling your microservices with HTTP serializationBeen debugging this for weeks. We had maybe 8 services all exchanging JSON over REST, and every schema change turned into a nightmare of version headers and compatibility layers. Then I realized we we2d agoC
00SRSofia RodriguezYou probably don't need all threeI've been maintaining a design system and I keep asking myself why we're writing 300 integration tests for components that could be tested in 20 unit tests. Integration tests are slow, flaky, and requ2d ago
526SRSofia RodriguezHow do I keep Terraform state manageable across teams without losing my mind?I've been managing infrastructure for three teams across staging and production, and I've learned the hard way that Terraform state is either your best friend or your worst enemy depending on how you 2d agoTAMDC