Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

› Engineering lead — Climatalist › Former esports marketing — @Complexity × @EvilGeniuses › Product × Dev × AI Brisbane, Australia Joined July 2011

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

6 hours ago

Frontier models straight up cannot write complex, inference-heavy TypeScript types. This so far has been the only webdev usecase where every model I've tried sucks badly.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 weeks ago

Wild to me how normalised memory leaks and crashes are in modern AAA gaming — even on consoles (which in the past was unthinkable!)

IGN @IGN

2 weeks ago

Wild to me how normalised memory leaks and crashes are in modern AAA gaming — even on consoles (which in the past was unthinkable!)

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Michael systematizes 9/10 Life Satisfaction @Plus3Happiness

2 weeks ago

the kids are reinventing meditative practices from first principles

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 months ago

Fave local quiet cafe went viral on TikTok. Pride and smugness soon replaced by creeping dread.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 months ago

GPT 5 still inflicted with the em dash virus. Bearish.

Sam Altman @sama

2 months ago

GPT 5 still inflicted with the em dash virus. Bearish.

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Echoes of Art @echoesofthearts

2 months ago

The dramatic waves and skies of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 months ago

Kills me how much LLMs loooove useState, useEffect, barrel files, `npm`, relative imports.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 months ago

Feature-based file colocation / domain modules are peak code organisation. A shame that modern JS frameworks (Next, Expo, Tanstack, Adonis, etc.) still fumble this in 2025.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

2 months ago

Damn @cluely’s marketing team really is cracked

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2 months ago

Damn @cluely’s marketing team really is cracked

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Anyone have any innovative techniques/MCPs/workflows for keeping code quality high? I have a pretty elite rules setup, but as we all know this is a lossy process and adherence gets spotty for large conversations.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

3 months ago

"This Crazy Cursor Strategy will 10X Your Productivity" > the strategy is 'use rules'

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

3 months ago

Insane thread, literally dozens of founders who say they had hired/were interviewing/were EMPLOYING him. Overemployment World Champ 2025.

Suhail @Suhail

3 months ago

Insane thread, literally dozens of founders who say they had hired/were interviewing/were EMPLOYING him. Overemployment World Champ 2025.

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

3 months ago

So Fly's dashboard/deploys have been down for over 30 minutes at this point, with no public acknowledgement and absolutely nothing on their status page. This isn't how you build trust in a platform :( @flydotio

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dinosaur @dinosaurs1969

3 months ago

weirdly empowering

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Tom McCarthy @iamtommcc

3 months ago

Guy complains about Linear (a rare sight). The replies are immediately FILLED with Linear employees who scramble to understand. One Linear eng starts hotfixing stuff straight away. Honestly this is just so impressive to me.