Yep. If code was never the hard part, software wouldn’t be so goddamn buggy and broken. If “code” only ever meant thoughtlessly churning out the next endpoint, you missed the point entirely. blog.senko.net/code-was-nev...

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

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notes.jordanscales.com/coffee

I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry.

I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry. “How’s everything going?” I asked, “Crazy times right?” “We’re up to 1 million...

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Technology, like time, cannot be stopped in it's relentless march forward. Much as us old timers would like to slow down one or the other just a little bit… In light of that, Chrome 153 will come with an updated list of modern devices for emulation mode—with nice categorisation—thanks to @jackf.io

Hamilton on West End with Lesie Odom Jr...I don't know if any musical will ever top that

"Grok did it no problem" what a surprise can't imagine why that is

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2w ago

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.

In my audits, reading the Performance profile is where people get stuck: the flame chart and waterfall look like noise at first I built an interactive guide to make them click, every figure is interactive, plus LCP, CLS, INP and the Insights panel perf.reviews/profile-guide #WebPerf #DevTools

Reading a Performance Profile: Field Guide

An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.

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Feels pretty good to have my phone download a 1.7gb Android update full of features I will never use

Asked AI on a whim to see if it could identify any reasons my unit tests felt a bit slow and sure enough - runner.test.ts: ~9.3s cumulative → ~0.15s. - All reported test durations: ~27.9s → ~8.3s.

Wayne Rooney live on the BBC saying his highlight of the half time show was the ending and then saying "it was crap" is the undoubted highlight of the entire world cup. Also he was right, wow that was bad.

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

A colleague asked me if a change I sent for review was "you, or AI" and I was very happy because whilst I used AI to help me debug, plan and impl, I worked hard to make sure I understood the change deeply and got it authored exactly how I want (via prompt + manual tweaks). This is the goal, folks.

This post is just...so, so, so good.

Ray Myers@raymyers.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Bun rewrite as a subplot in Anthropic's campaign to end software engineering. Call me crazy, but I not want my vendors to be on a campaign to end software engineering. I believe that to be counter-productive. Does that make sense? raymyers.org/post/zig-cre...

Apparently Spotify ship about 2000 AI changes a day or something yet they still can't make your downloaded content appear immediately if you're on very poor signal

All these products that let you run a fleet of AI agents and do 100 things at once are baffling to me; do we actually want this?! I know I can't do more than 1-2 things (with one primary focus) before the quality drops and my head can't keep up and think properly about the problem and solution.

Great piece, well worth reading, a teaser: "There's what modern software is actually capable of, and then there's the gargantuan pile of 'AI' hype, fraud, and bullshit ... hucksters lying to your face about the imminent arrival of omniscient, sentient, paradigm-rattling supercomputers."

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · last mo.

we are quickly approaching the pinnacle of AI bullshit mountain

Can officially add "V8 contributor" to my CV now :D

Best England performance of my lifetime, possibly? Wow 😳

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Less is more, more or less. AI makes it easier than ever to add more, and faster. It’s tempting. But we might end up building things that don’t need to be built quantity over quality. Clarity will be hard to achieve. It doesn’t happen by accident.

Less is more, more or less

In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.

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Today's episode of Jack being proud of himself for conforming to an ultimately harmful stereotype of "being a man": I jump started a car for the first time! 😂

Posted this on a Sunday evening, so mentioning this again for those of you who had better things to do on a Sunday night than read this :D

Jack Franklin @jackf.io · last mo.

Blogged about AI, loop engineering, token cost and motivation when giving AI advice. AI loops: who pays for the tokens? www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/who-pay...

Blogged about AI, loop engineering, token cost and motivation when giving AI advice. AI loops: who pays for the tokens? www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/who-pay...

AI loops: who pays for the tokens?

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The company that used the books I co-wrote to train its model without permission is weeping that China "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracted its Claude AI model's capabilities. I'm sending snorts and stares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.

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I have to collect samples of my dog's poo for the vets and I think my life has officially peaked (The dog is fine, they are trying to double check something but no stress or concern!)

Huge +1. I spoke about this at a conference last week; be aware of folks who don't pay for tokens (like me in my day job, but I pay for my personal Claude usage!) telling you how great huge, multi hour loops are.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo ago

While his framing is a bit cynical, I share similar irritation with Ed Zitron on AI companies pushing loops. Loops where Claude or OpenClaw keep trying to solve a task until successful are essentially a token burning workaround to deal with the fact they don't get the answer correctly on first try.

Signal boosting as this starts next week! Tell me what DevTools bugs the team should fix

Jack Franklin @jackf.io · 2mo ago

This is me! We're focusing on a few areas next month and I'm leading the "Paper cuts" area. So spam me with your bugs, please - and please file them yourselves first so I can triage them internally 😁

This is me! We're focusing on a few areas next month and I'm leading the "Paper cuts" area. So spam me with your bugs, please - and please file them yourselves first so I can triage them internally 😁

Barry Pollard@tunetheweb.com · 2mo ago

The Chrome DevTools team are doing a "papercuts" sprint where they try to address lots of small, irritating bugs and annoyances. Reply with crbug.com links (no bug, no fix—that's the deal!) and will see what we can do. No promises though as some may be features/too big/unclear how to solve.

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

Such a good article, more like this please correresmidestino.com/dont-you-jus...