Hard to believe but there was a time when smoking was promoted to be healthy / harmless, even, pregnant women encouraged to smoke, 1920s-1950s. Took ~30 years (!!) to figure out how harmful it was. How long will it take to figure out the impact of AI on health, for those using it all day?

@brettcodes.bsky.social appreciated watching your video on why you stopped using AI. Recently talked with Casey Muratori who also doesn't use it. Could I message you somewhere? Or you can also send me DM.

If you’ve ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by @addyosmani.bsky.social. We start from when he built a web browser from scratch, at 16, through his 14 years at Google, to what he sees working (and not working) building software with AI:

This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting!

It's now the second blog post in a day sent over by an early-stage VC-startup I tried to read, but could NOT, after a few sentences. Verbose, weird... AI-generated. These companies think they made "content" more efficient. No: it's lower quality, slop +I no longer care about the startup

In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about whether AI would change the future of software development. In 2026, it's not, anymore: We talked about this with @charity.wtf, one of my favorite voices in tech. We get into a LOT of things: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8T... (cont'd)

What I'm hearing from ~3 such stories: Meta went too far firing people. They are now doing MASSIVE counter-offers like to those handing in resignations. Some accept it, most just use it for more $$ at New Job, desperate to get out. It was such a predictable outcome btw:

I’m used to AI slop on LinkedIn, but not to AI slop by folks with impressive professional background. Saw a fully AI-written post from an ex-VPE at Microsoft (15 years there) and decided to say what many think when they see AI nonsense, but usually just scroll by.

Bought a new Dyson fan, set it up connected to the Wifi, and then it suddenly turned off for minutes, unable to turn back on. Turns out, it was spontaneously updating itself. This is not how a household appliance should update, I’m sorry… why do we accept such sloppiness?

Interesting to see how any and all mid-sized and above companies who take the "AI opportunity window" seriously have all built their own internal agent platform and one or more of agentic coding harness, agent sandboxing, model hosting, evals platform Building AI infra > buying right now

If you work in tech, you'll want to read the ~40-page short novel, Profession, by Isaac Asimov. If the availability of intelligence was instant, and learning things the "hard way" was considered a waste: what would the things most valued by society be? Hard to believe it's a 1957 novel.

Google Workspace's ads for paying customers could not get any more annoying I DO NOT USE AI AT ALL and I get upsells to "expand my AI access" WTH. I want ZERO Gemini for my Workspaces suite, this is some bad joke. Even if you pay you get ads, just so maddening with Google

Recent trend I'm hearing about: coaching demand for engineering leaders (done by experienced eng leads offering paid coaching) is picking up after the last ~2 years being pretty quiet. Clearly to do w rapid industry change, and lots of folks strategizing "how do I thrive?"

@simon-hill.bsky.social hey Simon - ai cannot DM you but wanted to let you know someone is impersonating you on X. Tried to report the account but cannot do so because the impersonated account needs to be on that site. Warned others on X: x.com/gergelyorosz...

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) on X

Yet another scam account pretending to be a journalist: @SimonHill_ The real Simon Hill has no X account. The scam is about sending a calendly-like link to take over your Google account Avoid respo...

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Interesting to see so many apps / companies launching with the positioning to gather CONTEXT in a single space. Pitches like: "work is scattered across many apps / websites / windows. What if..." "you keep moving between tools / sites / docs to get your work done. What if..."

One of the easiest ways to stand out when writing or creating videos or posting: DONT. USE. AI. Suddenly you sound distinctively different from 80%+ ppl who do and output the same verbose + nicely formatted stuff that feels all the same (+ most ppl stop paying attention midway)

A senior software engineer identifying as a “creator” working at an e-commerce company sent an AI-written email, asking to recommend their Substack. I checked out a few articles. All are… slop. Stuff that feels like it was output from ChatGPT. It’s all AI. My response:

There’s a popular theory that AI will finally make formal verification mainstream because mathematical proof of correctness will be needed when machines write most or all of the code. But will this happen? Hillel Wayne is one of the best people to answer: • YouTube: youtu.be/KSkcgIYQy0U  (cont'd)

So many interesting details. Here's one: "One thing I’ve heard from some people is “we have two humans and a bunch of agents.” I reply that this isn’t where we’re at: we still have teams with 6-8 people on average." - Katelyn Lesse, Head of Engineering, Claude Platform, Anthropic

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How is building software changing inside of one of most "AI-pilled" companies, Anthropic? We talked with engineers inside the AI lab to get more details. Spoiler: two-pizza teams have not gone anywhere! Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-ant...

Interesting trend: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break And they have v good reasons

Meta's performance review culture is becoming very problematic for its engineering culture. I said this a month ago in @pragmaticengineer.com (screenshot #1), and Semi Analysis said the same last week (screenshot #2). Engineers at Meta are world-class at optimizing for PSC...

From a friend who joined a fast-growth, later-stage startup: "I was wondering why no one is doing PRDs here. Then I realized that the Head of Product and most PMs are 25-year-olds who don't have the attention span to *read* even a 1-page doc. You lose them after 3 bullet points."

OK this made my life easier: my backend (for my admin portal) had an error popping up, and Sentry was bugging me about it. Sentry now built an AI agent (called "Seer") that can analyze the root cause, make a plan to fix, draft a fix, then open a PR. Just pushed it to prod after review!

These Google Workspace ads (for *paying* customers!) are driving me crazy I don't know why I would need a "virtual receptionist", what "Voice Standard" is, who "my callers" are, and why I would need to "guide them automatically" Is Google Workspace losing its mind? What next: proper ads?

OK this is a HILARIOUS story I heard from inside Meta: You know when Director+ folks post AI slop as "thought leader" posts? But everyone is too polite to say anything. Happened a ton inside Meta's internal "LinkedIn" (Workplace**) BUT morale is so low that lots of devs no longer gave a damn. So:

My kids keep pointing out how so many ads involving kids are AI-generated. This is one example from a government agency. It’s in so many other places as well tho with kids’ posters Kids that look more like adults, have 4 fingers…is this the “modern” advertising? All AI?

The last 7 weeks, Spotify had 4 outages when publishing my podcast episodes (!!). After outage #3, I asked the Podcasts team to share how they are improving reliablity. They didn't share - and it just got worse. So I am no longer publishing video podcasts on Spotify, but redirect my audio RSS.

One thing I am hearing that is top of mind for many eng leaders "What are we doing to deal with this ongoing increase in code review load?!" Everyone is seeing it, no one seeing a solution, but lots of experiments from better tooling to starting to admit code review wont scale

Knowing how LLM contexts work and how to work around context limitations – aka “context engineering” – is becoming more important for software engineers working with LLMs. Dex Horthy coined the term "context engineering," and shares practical details on it: YouTube: youtu.be/Usufn8IQJgw (cont'd)

The amount of AI writing on OpenAI's docs makes me sick. Filler sentences for nothing. Mannerisms and phrases humans would not write. Has a human even read this? And all of this will change how other docs are written, and how we all talk-for the worse IMO. 🤮 developers.openai.com/cookbook/exa...