"When you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world."

buff.ly/Y1EYgmq #brand #marketing

notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast.

"I knew this kind of bullshit would happen eventually, but I didn't expect it so soon."

buff.ly/nz1xNtp #ai #copilot #adinjection #softwareengineering #developerexperience

"These places aren't designed for rehabilitation. They are set up simply to house people, shuffle them around for shits and giggles, and spit them back out into society worse for the wear."

buff.ly/iSU3m8u #prison #ptsd #humanity #classic

Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

"It's like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they'd all stopped showing pictures of the tables they'd created and just started posting about the hammer they were using."

buff.ly/SdF1QKr #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated Abstraction

"This is so sad. It's the same as thinking storytelling is dead at the invention of the printing press. No you dummies, code is just getting started."

stevekrouse.com/precision #ai #softwareengineering #code #isdead

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

"Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate..."

bit.ly/4te2X16 #ai #softwareengineering #bottleneck #coder…

Finneas + Rick Rubin Podcast Episode · Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians · October 31, 2022 · 49m

"I think it's shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good. It blows my mind. It's like when someone's solving a Rubik's Cube, and it looks like they're so far from solving it right before they solve it..."

buff.ly/EVhxaD0 #design #nonlinear #cl…

The New Rules How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

"If you like something your friend is doing, promote it online. It doesn't matter if you have a big following. It's a gesture, it takes 0.5 seconds, and it matters more than you probably realize."

www.thecut.com/article/tipp... #new #etiquette #share #classic

"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one."

buff.ly/E2isjf9 #code #complexity #technicaldebt #classic

"This is the real driver of the layoffs, the big players consolidating the rent seeking to them. They just say it's AI cause that makes the stock price go up."

buff.ly/mH67fXR #ai #replacement #capitalism

How to Kill the Code Review Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.

"There is no way we win this fight with manual code reviews."

www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

"While I cannot place IHOP omelettes exactly on the map, by interpolating between pancakes and omelettes, we can bound where they must occur, and confirm that the manifold possibilities do indeed pass through the Dark Breakfast Abyss."

Put the ZIP code first. It's 2026. A ZIP code is 5 characters. From those 5 characters you get city, state, and country. 3 fields. Autofilled. Put it first, you animals.

"There is genuinely no reason not to do this other than the mass institutional inertia of a million product managers copy-pasting the same address form template from 2009"

buff.ly/30itGDh #ux #meatloaf

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

"The canary is still alive."

buff.ly/N9EwZwz #ai #future #journalism

Energym | aicandy tech moguls interview from 2036

"What if we could use the energy of humans to power the machines that took away their jobs?"

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

"The decision not to build something is a decision, an important one! Document it accordingly."

buff.ly/WIfTZBK #softwareengineering #simplicity #negativespace

"My hard line is that anything that expresses opinions or uses 'I' pronouns needs to have been written by me."

buff.ly/DPVKZyM #ai #writing #pronouns

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved...

"Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases."

buff.ly/v67Y0Pr #microservices #engineering #architecture #classic

Václav Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is eerily relevant today In his recent speech at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney drew on Havel’s book challenging compliance in an age of untruthfulness. What does it say?

"Tyranny is challenged not by seizing power, but by depriving falsehood of its audience."

theconversation.com/vaclav-havel...

AI makes interfaces disposable | Chris Loy I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

"Enabling users to build their own personal interfaces that extend services they love can be a great driver of product stickiness, and businesses can encourage this level of interaction without risking revenue loss."

ilo.im/16anap #ai #ui #productengineering

"Original ideas are the result of the very work you're offloading on LLMs. Having humans in the loop doesn't make the AI think more like people, it makes the human thought more like AI output."

buff.ly/B2G8oOI #ai #creativity #humanity

The o16g It was never about the code.

"Speed is dangerous without brakes. Make risk a blocking function. If the risk is unknown or unmitigated, the line stops. Do not hide danger in a report; encode it as a gate."

o16g.com #softwareengineering #developerexperience #safety #speed #andon

Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.

"Philanthropists and even states might invest in local journalism that covers pragmatic governance rather than partisan conflict. More cities and counties could adopt changes in election law that would de-emphasize party labels where they add little inf.…

The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday src= alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in San Francisco is talking about t

"The math found one metric curving toward a pole on a specific day at a specific millisecond: the rate at which humans are discovering emergent AI behaviors. The other four metrics are linear. The machines are improving steadil..."

buff.ly/B19J8IM #ai #singularity #hum…

How to effectively write quality code with AI AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.

"Aim to reduce the complexity of the generated code where possible.
Each avoidable line of code is costing energy, money and probability of future unsuccessful AI tasks."

buff.ly/bDWRWcz #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield

I am concerned about every text-generation company Hegseth ISN’T attacking.

Congress should launch an immediate investigation.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

"The inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said AI would never have. This model has it, or something close enough that the distinction is starting not to matter."

buff.ly/8bkVzgm #ai #taste

Martin Fowler Was Right: Microservices Suck* A pragmatic view on Amazon’s unexpected stance on serverless microservice architecture.

"Always be refactoring. If you touch the code, and you can improve it, improve it, but never optimise early."

buff.ly/osZvbaf #refactoring #classic

Chris Gregori Personal site and blog

"Real engineering lies in the abstractions and the architecture. It's about knowing how to structure a system that lasts, understanding why a specific rate-limiting strategy is necessary, knowing how to manage a distributed cache..."

chrisgregori.dev #ai #softwareengine…

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

"Since AI models have no actual agency (despite being called agents) and are not people who can be held accountable for mistakes, human oversight is key."

t.co/FGohyGzFq8 #ai #humanity #agency #accountability