Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

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I usually give AI little coding tasks. Go off and fix this one thing, make this small tweak, add this one feature that I will review. Today I had it help with something bigger. I iterated on the plan, then it worked for 30 minutes. Prett...

I’ve seen lots of people say they’re having AI go off and do 30 minutes of work. I think I usually prefer to have the loop closed much tighter than that because that’s a lot of wasted minutes if AI is doing the wrong thing.

2026-01-23 Aaron Crowder

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its true

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

2026-01-22 Aaron Crowder

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Lately there’s been a brewing culture war in the software community regarding the usage of LLM-based coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and I’m seeing a lot of hardline discourse on both sides, but especially from the anti-AI ...

I have a hard time finding fault with anyone using AI tools in their jobs. With the economy the way it is, I won't begrudge anyone who feel they need to use them to stay ahead of the curve.

2026-01-09 Aaron Crowder

Something I've noticed is that it's really easy to feel productive with AI tools but not actually get anything done.

2025-12-18 Aaron Crowder