Brandon Watson

The unintentionally funniest thing about AI CLI and agents is that all these devs are learning how hard it is to be a PM. – at Manhattan, NY

I just found out you can ask Grok for your X score. I have so many questions... – at Louisville, CO

With the Army Navy game tomorrow, it's the last one I get to watch with my son @Tai3Watson for a while. He has elected for a path of service to this country for college and beyond, and as a parent it's very hard not to be proud of that. It takes a different kind of kid to make this choice. As we await decisions from the Service Academies, he definitely has a favorite for where he would like to continue playing football after his very successful senior season for @mohi_football. @ArmyWP_Football is #1 for him. As a parent, I have also been impressed with @CoachKikel and the time and attention of @USMMAFootball. – at Louisville, CO

I'm so old I actually worked on the Office 95 website as an intern, and tried to squeeze an easter egg into this exact site with the names of all my intern buddies. It almost made it to production. Almost.

I'm turning 50 on Tues. Instead of me guessing what indie devs/creators/prod mgrs etc would care to read from a semi-retired former MAAANG senior executive who also works on Waal St and graduated from the ivies, if you are in your 20s 30s or even 40s, send me your Q's and I will construct a mega post. Ask me anything. – at Louisville, CO

I might make a youtube video about this creation process, but the end result is I built a vscode extension, completely, in about 30 hours. I hope some devs find this a useful time saving tool. It's available in the VS Code extension marketplace, and is called Prompt Perfect. This was built 100% with LLM support (@anthropic claude 3.5 sonnet) as a paired programmer. I have never built a vscode extension, and in fact had no idea where to even begin to start. This was an iterative process that started with my build doc, which I have left in the devdocs/ directory of the github repo. github.com/brandonwatson/pro… I hated wasting time constructing code-in-scope prompts when trying to work through an issue. This extension is SUPER helpful when working on, for example, many react/nextjs components and you need help from the LLM. The extension takes the contents of all open @vscode editor windows and builds a backtick delimited single block of text with all the file contents. The backticks have the file locations: ```src/extension.ts to help delineate the files. There is a second command palette command which gives you a source tree in ascii above the code blocks. promptperfect ├── .eslintrc.json ├── .git ├── .gitignore ├── .vscode ├── __tests__ ├── devdocs ├── hideme ├── jest.config.js ├── license.md ├── node_modules ├── out ├── package.json ├── resources └── src └── ├── ascii-tree.d.ts └── ├── extension.ts └── └── settingsView.ts With this one tool I can quickly establish a scope of context with the LLM that I am using as a paired programmer. The content is auto-copied to the clipboard and you can paste it into whatever prompt you wish and get back to solving your problems. side note: I will be getting back to my @AWSAmplify gen 2 project now that I have this time saver. 😀