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Kun Chen

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Kun Chen

@kunchenguid

Member of the Technical Community. Prev L8 eng at Meta, Microsoft, Atlassian. axi.md @myfirstmate

Bellevue, WA

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Joined September 2021

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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jun 20
many people asked me to make a video about my complete agentic engineering workflow excited to share it's finally here!!! it took me about 20 hours in total to record this 45 minutes of walkthrough - it covers everything i do to ship production quality code at an average 40+
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Mar 2, 2024
Replying to @theo and @t3dotgg
gpus can do a bit more than gaming though
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Mar 3, 2024
Replying to @ThePrimeagen
A year later you have 5 neovim developers, who spent most of the year tweaking their configs and are finally, almost ready to start doing real work
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 20, 2024
Replying to @bunjavascript @jarredsumner and @zack_overflow
This is a bit misleading to be honest. Bun Shell is NOT a shell. For a minute I thought I could drop zsh and have a javascript powered shell. Turns out it’s just a helper function for executing common unix commands.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 13, 2024
Replying to @ThePrimeagen
but why? it gives me beautiful code like this -
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Feb 25, 2023
Replying to @trashh_dev
Try neovim - 10x faster writing code. Only catch is that most of the code you write going forward will be neovim configs.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Mar 10, 2024
Replying to @webdevcody
Read a lot of threads and it seems backend devs all say it’s amazing because it saves them from the frontend mess, and the frontend they build is often toys which htmx can totally handle. But many frontend devs don’t quite see the value because they feel handicapped by it.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 12, 2024
Replying to @trunarla
copilot wrote this for me. nailed it
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Mar 10, 2024
Replying to @theo and @t3dotgg
It’s actually great that you can understand the structure of an app through a declarative structure like this. With imperative programming all the components and complexity is still there, but they’d usually be written in a spaghetti way that’s much harder to read and navigate.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 27, 2024
Replying to @techleadhd
You have this sad world view because you are focusing too much on money. If you move your eyes away from money for a bit, a company is a group of people who are making something valuable to the world that they couldn’t individually achieve. Makes sense now?
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 14, 2024
Replying to @catalinmpit
Principal engineer: it takes 6 weeks for the team to change the label color?? I’m going to fix the broken process so this can happen in a weekend.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 2, 2024
Replying to @ThePrimeagen
Can you really “learn” to love something though? I tend to think some things are hard wired, and if I learned that I really don’t enjoy something, I might be better off trying something else. Speaking as someone who loves tech but has seen too many people who just don’t.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 2, 2024
Replying to @theo and @t3dotgg
I believe there’s a Steve Jobs story here.
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Kun Chen
@kunchenguid
Jan 20, 2024
Replying to @lovesowing @jarredsumner and 2 others
Thought experiment - if you gave me a bottle of sea water and told me “here’s some water”. I drank it and got sick. Strictly speaking sea water is also water, but the common expectation is when you hand people a bottle of water it’s drinkable. Fair to say it’s misleading?
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