Matt Pocock
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@mattpocockuk
I teach devs for a living. Author of Total TypeScript and AI Hero. Ex-
@vercel. Used to be a voice coach.
Oxford, England
Joined August 2011
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My last AI Coding Cohort was the most successful course I've ever released. 2,500+ students worked with Claude Code for 2 weeks, building a real app with AFK agents and software fundamentals. So, we made version 2: - Use any coding agent you like - Updates for every skill -
This genuinely happened to me At Next.js conf in 2022 At a food truck in the baking sun Sat next to an enthusiastic dude talking about next-drupal I was pretty tired, nodded along That guy goes on to create shadcn
I have tried this a few times But the overhead of understanding the diagram (and fixing slop) is huge for complex systems Consistent domain language, condensing functionality into deep modules and READING ACTUAL CODE is better
i've started having claude turn my codebases into visual diagrams so i can discuss the codebases with claude more easily - the moving dots are data snippets that i can inspect
One benefit of being a primarily "user-invoked" skill set is that we get rid of a whole category of errors You never need to worry about: - "did /to-spec fire?" - "why did /to-spec fire there?!" - "why did it choose /to-tickets instead of /to-spec?!" You stay in control.
One thing missing from my skill set is what compound engineering has - the promise that your process improves over time I have been extremely reluctant to add this since I think models are REALLY bad at improving their own behavior But I'm starting to think that a skill that
