7 months ago I read about gas town and today I read the new thing. what worries me now is either he’s gotten less insane or I’ve gotten more insane.
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digital plumber. figuring out how these masses of agentic minions can help us write higher quality software.
I love soldering because if you fucked it up, don't worry! you can always fuck it up worse next time.
Git Archaeology and Project History tasks are a fantastic thing to hand off to LLM harnesses. Dev who hasn't worked on this specific app for years was sure they had added support for XYZ. Claude produced a detailed summary of when XYZ was added and later removed, with commit SHAs and context.
I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/...
A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World’s Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic’s Claude Code team. We talked about Claude …
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Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.
Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI
Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals, your output, what "good" & bad look like, how to test the results... (yes, this is just management)
OMG I thought it was just me. Maybe a quarter of my non-code related chats start like "help me find this thing I heard on NPR / read on hacker news about ..."
Joshua Shew@joshuashew.bsky.social · last mo.AI continues to be unrivaled as a tool for: "I vaguely remember this thing, can you find it for me?"
And the repetition. It's so redundant. I see how it repeats with a robotic intentionality. And purposeful intent. Just let the vibes wash over you.
rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2mo agoI love that so much marketing copy is just AI slop these days
LLMs are not speed booster for (serious) coding. They are quality booster if used correctly. LLMs also allow fast prototyping, but that is a completely different story. Relevant in this context -> simonwillison.net/2026/May/31/... @simonwillison.net has a positive take on this.
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
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When you create a new empty React app, how many people have the ability to run code on your computer? Let's say you get started with, bun create vite my-app --template=react-ts Unique deps: 180 Unique maintainers: 168 168 targets for a supply chain attack ... just to start.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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*hunger games cannon* . + * + . * . . GABBARD . + * . + * . * + .
I'm cooking family dinner solo tonight and find myself humming the theme song to the A-Team
AI exists and traditional software engineering interviews were already absurd. I propose that interviews now consist of playing a minimum of 4 hours of Factorio together to determine if you'd want to work with someone.
I've been talking about choosing boring technology for a while, but it's nicely framed in this post by RoseSecurity: "Simple Often Beats Clever. Focus on business velocity over code elegance. Your 3 AM self will thank you." 😉 Thanks for sharing @antonbabenko.com ! dev.to/rosesecurity...
KISS vs DRY in Infrastructure as Code: Why Simple Often Beats Clever
The Scale Gap Problem Every Infrastructure as Code tutorial starts the same way: provision...
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Is this the response you've also needed for the question all your leas tech savvy friends keep asking? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cal...
Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World
It’s a universal modern-life experience to talk about something and immediately see an ad that seems like it must be a result of that conversation....
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