Anthropic gives $100 in credit to use Fable, so I try it out with a short session. It immediately burns $10 in tokens. If they think I'm going to pay for Fable (or Claude) using API prices they're insane.

In the not too distant past, only the aristocracy could read and write. Will AI over-reliance make reading and writing niche skills taught only to the children of well resourced families?

Interesting that there is a lot of popular AI written software but no popular AI written books.

2 episodes into State of Agentic Coding podcast - really enjoying it. One word to describe it: pragmatic. Props to @benv.ca @mitsuhiko.at podcastaddict.com/podcast/stat...

Automorphic software is a system whose operational structure, deployment topology, and evolutionary path are generated from and continuously reconciled against an internal, self-maintained model.

Correlation / causation aside, it's interesting that I have 2 hand coded projects that people find useful enough to pay money for and about 10 vibe coded projects that people pay me $0 for.

Tinkering with web apps that have the capability to modify and extend themselves. Bundle an AI harness with a fullstack framework like Nuxt on a cloud VM. I can prompt the app and it will write custom scripts, create new data visualizations on new pages, and rebuild and redeploy itself.

First session of the season at the local surf wave park today. Related LLM query: "should I be discouraged that i am still bad at my hobby after 10 years?"

Coding on the road this week in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Guangzhou. Almost all maintenance. What's it called when you vibe code with the only goal of increasing robustness and maintainability?

sibling-index() and @starting-style on everything

I got an early invite to ui.sh by the team that built @tailwindcss.com Really neat tool already, but it burns tokens in Claude code. If you have a Github copilot subscription, you can install the same MCP server, and an entire design pass in Opus can be done in a single request - really efficient!

ui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineer

A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.

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Heard a passing reference to @antfu.me on @syntax.fm @vite.dev (+) episode by @w3cj.com - basically saying that he is blocked from migrating to this awesome new toolchain because oxfmt cannot replicate the stylistic rules that antfu's eslint flat config provides. me too! youtu.be/A673RO0xnjs?...

Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)

YouTube video by Syntax

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I didn't want to have to spend my weekend rewriting my personal blog using @voidzero.dev , but here we are.

You ever think maybe you should just use Firebase?

@npmx.dev feels like Vue. I mean, it is Vue (Nuxt) but it also FEELS like Vue. If you know what I mean.

Do I subscribe to @github.com Copilot for another year, or switch to @anthropic.com Claude code? I am really productive with Opus using Copilot, but understand that I may be missing out on... something.

It's 2023, and I'm writing my new cyberpunk novel. "Github copilot CLI is now available on Opencode. I wonder if I could use it with sprites.dev if I plug in the built in claude skills. Gonna vibe code a new character in my agent orchestror. Token burn rate up to 1 million per hour."

Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...

Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoin...

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400 comments on HN about using tailscale, tmux, and codex/claude code to code on your phone. @warp.dev be like 👀 VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...

What exactly are people building with all these agent orchestrators? More agent orchestrators? Are there really so many features you are building simultaneously that you need 3/5/10 agents working at the same time?

My first post on my new personal website explains how this rambling tool was born. iamjoshcarter.com/articles/may...

I spent dead week learning about self hosting using @coolify.io . It gives me a lot of respect for the engineering required at @cloudflare.social and @vercel.com and @netlify.com . It's really impressive that they created these secure, easy to use systems that abstract away all this complexity.

New landing page! (Built in #Nuxt). Pivoting to custom software services for small to medium sized businesses. It better reflects the type of work I'm doing. www.acroroster.com

I just disabled all of my self hosted AI powered automations. The convenience is not worth the potential security implications.

Are typos in an email now a sign of respect? Like virtue signaling your human effort by demanstrating you arent using an LLM?

I do all my own customer support, but I need a little help these days. Using @coolify.io, I took 5000 customer support emails, put them in a vector database, and setup #AI to generate draft emails. They still need a human touch, but it's a few less times I need to write "Please restart the app."

Looking for a virtual assistant recommendation or referral. Need 2-4 hrs/week for expense tracking, personal admin, and emails. Asia timezone, fluent English (Korean a plus). Flexible arrangement. DM me if you know someone. #VirtualAssistant #Hiring #remotework #korea #southkorea

"It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve." Edward Packard (edwardpackard.com/wp-content/u...)

"All you ever were was a little bit of universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 bit, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, right 𝘯𝘰𝘸. All the rest was fantasy."

What is javascript development going to feel like when typescript is in Go and we have rolldown and oxlint? Right now my MacBook heats up just linting and type checking my Vue project.