Alice Alexandra

@alicealexandra.com

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she/her • developer exerience, builder.io • writes, paints, composes, codes at alicealexandra.com • am generally, myself, a leaky abstraction

A graph shows a decline in developer sanity as the number of AI agents increases, with a call to "stop the decline" alongside.
AI-generated scene of a futuristic server room with glowing blue humanoid figures made of data holding open books, while more books float above a floor of streaming code; two books are stamped “PIRATED EDITION,” and the word “Anthropic” glows on the back wall.
A doctored screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. A user asks, "How much water do you use per query?" ChatGPT responds that it uses a very small amount, "roughly 0.32 milliliters." However, a line of red text has been edited in below this, humorously contradicting the official answer by stating, "This response used 100mL of water."
A two-panel meme using stills of the main character from the TV show Squid Game. The top panel shows the character smiling gleefully with the caption, "watching ai generate code." The bottom panel shows the same character with a serious, stressed expression, captioned, "reviewing ai generated code."
A diagram illustrating the MCP architecture, with the title "Pick the right one" pointing to the client. The 'MCP client' is shown connecting to various AI models (like ChatGPT), while it communicates with an 'MCP server' that connects to different backend services (like Figma, Notion, and GitHub).
Dictionary entry for "bafflegab," a noun that means "incomprehensible or pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon."
A visual comparison of two development workflows. The top timeline moves from “Idea” through “Wireframe,” “Prototype,” and “Code” to “PR,” ending with a red X. The bottom skips intermediate steps, jumping from “Idea” directly to “PR,” with a dotted line labeled “Time saved” and a green checkmark.
Image illustrating Figma Model Context Protocol (MCP) translating a product card design (left, showing visual layers and dimensions) into a React code component structure (right, with placeholders like ProductImage, ProductName).
Visual comparison highlighting a preferred method for AI development. The "Vibe coding" approach (disapproved with a red X) shows a direct, simplistic request to "Create an ecommerce app". In contrast, "AI for grown-ups" (approved with a green checkmark) shows a more structured approach involving design (Figma), code, and data considerations feeding into the AI prompt.
Diagram showing the composition of a full prompt sent to an LLM, consisting of a large "chonky system prompt" ($0.25 per request) and a small "user query" ($0.001 per request), highlighting the cost difference.
Sad Pablo Escobar: "Me realizing the AI doesn't care about the last hour we spent together."
4 reposts and 12 likes on the post when I encountered it.
Three of the early characters you meet in Citizen Sleeper.
A list of drives in Citizen Sleeper, such as "Disable your tracker" and "Improve the Overlook."
Citizen Sleeper's skill tree.
A location within the world map of Citizen Sleeper, with "actions" shown up top as dice that can be spent in options at the location.
An early location in Citizen Sleeper, with the clock on Dragos' debt running down each day.
Citizen Sleeper also has choices in its dialog. In this screenshot, Ankhita is talking to the player, and the player can respond with, "Sorry to hear it" or "Anything I can do to help?"
The banner for Citizen Sleeper—a space station city cast in a red haze, while a tiny passenger ship flies by and one lone figure watches it.
Gemini in Cursor saying, "Ah, it seems the linter is now complaining about line 56..."
Gemini responding to the Cursor linter, saying, "Good catch by the linter."
Architecture diagram of an AI system. An AI client interacts with an MCP server core, which registers Prompts, Resources, and Tools modules. Resources connect to Persistent Storage, and Tools connect to an OpenRouter API.
Gru makes a plan meme: 1. "Vibe code with Cursor." 2. "Don't read the code." 3. "Expose keys in prod." Wait.
"Own your AI workflow" pointing to an MCP server that connect major AI providers like Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Central diamond graphic saying, "You are here," positioned over a background collage of faded agentic architecture examples, with arrows pointing to surrounding blank boxes.
A password input that's labeled, "Strength: Useless" in red text.
Programmer: "Just read the documentation." The documentation: [A diagram of a 3x1 Lego piece directed to fit on a 4x1 platform with no leftover space.]
A YouTube comment with 130 likes: "I get paid less than GPT 4.5 and I don't hallucinate this is unfair"
The DVD logo used as a floating screensaver for a lot of DVD players in the early 2000s.
A twilight photo of me looking over my shoulder, the forest holding on for dear life.
A weather report saying 9, but feels like 2.