Put AI in your app but make it invisible. None of this shit: AI✨ or Chat with BubbaBot 🤖 Make it invisible. Just make a product. Use AI for the non-deterministic bits to glue the experience together. Don't make AI *THE* experience. How long will it take product managers to learn this?

The more I heal, the less ambitious I feel. Like, I'm enough. Peace is enough. Ya know?

I feel the same. This is why I've been apprehensive about getting my BS in AI Engineering, despite the degree requiring *more* rigorous math than CompSci. Calc 1, 2, 3 Discrete Maths 1, 2 + applied Discrete Linear Algebra + all the same DSA classes from CS

Matteo Gabriele@matteogabriele.npmx.social · yesterday

Sorry, but if your title is "AI Native Engineer", I will most likely think less of you.

I had to log into X for the first time in 2 years to cancel a sub. It was sad to see so many folks in the Laravel community still hanging out at that nazi bar. I only had about 5K+ followers, but I worked hard for that tiny audience. I stood on business and deleted my content & I'm proud of that.

Note: this was transpiring while I was off building this work bench.

I like how my professional choices are now: A) Stay employed but be waterboarded by AI forever B) Sleep under a bridge.

Built a work bench 🫡

I only get my news from a single daily summary email now. Doomscrolling is out. Long form essays are in. I check in here once a day for a few minutes to share or reply. No scrolling w/o agenda. Screentime down 56% Anxiety down infinite %. I am done being ExtremelyOnline™

My one rule with AI in the workplace: I never use it to communicate with other humans. Slack messages clearly authored by AI are rampant in my workplace. The authenticity of intentional, thoughtful messages written by a human being cuts through all of it like a knife. There's lots of opportunity.

With a healthy grain of salt, I used to generally enjoy DHH's rebellious style even if I didn't agree with it all the time. Looks like he's slipping into some weird dark places now. Don't make anyone your hero, especially in tech.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

I’m down to 1 Miata. Please clap.

Let’s be honest, we’ve been rubber stamping PRs way before AI 🫣 Guilty 🙋‍♂️

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 2w ago

Not that I'm saying you shouldn't have a human review the code in general, but like... AI is way better at reviewing code than I ever have been.

Crude but fair 😮‍💨

My youngest picked this for movie night and I’m pretty sure this was made as some money laundering or tax write off

I am really struggling to give a shit about my dev career.

Imagine if your favorite YouTube channels never made a video because a channel you don't even like already existed.

The best programmers are they ones that can talk to people in a way that can understand

People skills > agent skills.

For the love of god just pay teachers wtf are we doing

Erica Meltzer@ericameltzer.bsky.social · 2w ago

A spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Realbotix has built a new team focused on education, health care, and wellness applications, and that Realbotix and RealDoll do not share employees, payroll, physical locations, or technology. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...

arter.dev/blog/this-is... A quick write up if it's helpful to anyone else!

Michele Hansen@mjwhansen.com · 2w ago

excuse me what, I need this badly

this is how your email finds me

If you are hypothetically chained to Facebook because of neighborhood & school announcements, I hypothetically may have gotten BrowserOS & Hermes to pull Facebook group activity into a section of my daily email without having to actually wade through that muck. The promised land is finally here.

SaaS is dead. Now it’s all about insider trading as a service 💰

new monkey just dropped www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DRC forest

Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.

bbc.co.uk

Today I started a math refresher course as a first step towards leaving tech. What a weird feeling. It's kind of eye opening how much we weave working in tech into our own identity (especially here).

new pervert alarm dropped

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

techcrunch.com

Hot summer day in the Raleigh suburbs. Something physical in the world getting done, like mowing my grass, just hits different these days.

A comment about my tool Iron Lint. This has made my entire week 🥹

Big new feature of IronLint: built in architecture enforcement.

How many millions and millions of tokens being wasted that could've been saved by using something like this: ls-lint.org

ls-lint

An extremely fast file and directory name linter - Bring some structure to your project filesystem

ls-lint.org