TWIL July 17th 2026

July 17, 2026

After spending far too long wondering if things are safe to have in the URL I'm of the firm belief that every request type should allow a body
- Luckily the upcoming QUERY method has my back
It's possible for a professional, senior web developer to not know how to use a native multi-select
- And of course he suggested a JS package which provides a dropdown select as an alternative
- The JS framework brainrot is real
A commonly overlooked drawback of using LLMs is the effect it has on other people's productivity
- For example, you have an LLM generate a support ticket in English from the external Japanese ticket.
- The internal ticket is now about 8 paragraphs long and has 2 lines of useful information, but devs have to read all of it to find those two lines
- Being a nice helpful CS person you ask Claude what it thinks the problem might be
- Claude has no idea what it's talking about so it spits out a wall of nonsense, but because you're not a dev you don't know that
- You post your 'analysis' on the ticket as a comment
- Devs now have to respond to address the 'analysis' because a human posted it despite it being nonsense AI slop, taking time away from actual investigative work
- Your chat with Claude potentially caused you to respond slowly to actually important questions from the devs
Get your feature in the hands of people who'll use it as soon as possible, they'll point out all sorts of things you wouldn't think of
Just because other jobs using the same AWS context in CI can do stuff to staging, doesn't mean the same context lets you do different stuff
- I would've expected permissions issues for the specific thing I was trying to do, but that's not the case
- Seems I need to do something to opt into staging rather than prod creds?
- Will look at other projects which apparently switch between the two to figure it out

TWIL July 17th 2026

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