allan_s

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After 15 years as CTO and Tech Lead in startups, I switched sides. I've been the person you're trying to hire, the one who bridges developers and executives, turns chaos into shipping, and makes boring architectural choices that actually hold up at scale. I step in when :

* A startup needs hands-on technical leadership without a full-time CTO * A team ships too slowly and nobody knows exactly why * Tech debt has become the elephant in every product meeting

I'm a proponent of the boring stack: ingenuity should reflect in the simplicity of the solution, not in its complexity. Currently helping companies use AI without the BS.

contact: [email protected]

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Comment · 1 month ago
Shameless plug,

I created an opensource unofficial mcp/skill/cli here [email protected]:allan-simon/figma-kiwi-protocol.git

Its based on a reverse engineering of the kiwi protocol and it works for read/write , comments etc. and it does not require anything except a cookie session ( I usually automate this part by having a isolated chrome with CDP activated)

I created sometimes ago because I had to work with some customers who didnt want to pay for a full seat for my account so the official mcp was not possible at all.

Comment · 1 month ago
Both are true, a lot of people are multilingual but a lot are also not.

I know a lot of foreigner for which the feature is really useful (local department store, booking a doctor appointment etc.)

Comment · 2 months ago
As somebody new to this and with a use case very similar to yours , what would have been a more suitable solution for this ?

The guy who first built the architecture made the same decision as yours (I.e one local duckdb for each tenant to work as a copy of big query/their data warehouse) and I dont know what the state of the art for this kind of use cases ?

Comment · 2 months ago
There's actually a setting.json key to not have to put the option
Comment · 3 months ago
Is it better than letting claude code use python directly ? Especially on those 3 metrics: 1. better prompt adherence 2. visually more pleasing 3. token consumption

Especially as I think claude code got some reinforcement learning on these use cases ?

Comment · 4 months ago
I think the source of your issue is in your statement itself, why do you want a task that evaluate things as broad to be only a coding task ? Shouldn't it be a planning task, documentation task, knowledge retrieval task etc. And very certainly not with just an initial prompt but an existing codebase + existing doc + tickets ?
Comment · 4 months ago
Is "the layout scream AI generated" the new Bootstrap ? I.e what people use to quickly convey their ideas (bad or good)

Ironically, for myself at least, the least it looks AI, the more I've spent time prompting for it to not look AI.

Comment · 4 months ago
Fortunately hr system in most companies are from software vendors that are 2 gen behind so a mcp with a "fire $EMPLOYEE " tool will not come up

Would also be funny if it fires the one who done the request.

Comment · 4 months ago
Why ? The comment I was replying to was not about the kids ?
Comment · 4 months ago
At the same time I opened netflix and it started cycling around and I got a very gory scene from the walking dead and my intent "show me something to watch" was even more ambigous and implicit.
Comment · 4 months ago
Long before AI I remember asking people in code review to add comments specifically to make the code grep-able. Same for for privileging key value mapping to dynamic string concatenation.
Comment · 5 months ago
I dont have twitter so my thought reading the post

1. Wow i want to do that too !

2. Wait is there a follow up on how to reproduce this at home

3. Does it mean i will have my "full" dna sequence ?

4. If not, what would be missing (my understanding is that dna while dns is static, genes get activated /deactivacted depending on a lot of factors ? And how to get these missing parts?

5. What are the pratical current and future use of it ? Can i see my family doctor with it ?

Comment · 5 months ago
I think what the author meant is that it does help not more than the same knowledge provided the old way.
Comment · 6 months ago
Sorry, I have lived and worked there 6 years in different cities and I do speak a fluent (though with a very heavy French accent) mandarin. It's totally not my projection but my experience first hand.

During the "diaoyu island" incident in the 2010s the sushi shop 200m near my appartment got sacked, and all japanese-brand car get smashed.

My black (and indian) friends all complained how hard they were treated. And when talking with my Chinese friends they all had very .... interesting... point of view.

Edit: also, I'm not from the US

Comment · 6 months ago
Ask a gay, a black or a Japanese how it feels living in China.

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