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21 August
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Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed. Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open. So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the Chinese…
20 August
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Production systems need a command-line interface, not a user interface running on the serverTheir words
The problem with this argument is that you probably don’t need a user interface on prod. You need a command line interface on prod that a user interface on your Macbook can drive.
19 August
From one piece From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I would say, sometimes, I don't know if it's controversial, that very few developers understand memory management. And that makes it even harder to debug memory problems. And so the state of the art around memory debugging hasn't evolved all that much over the years.
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And that embrace of people are going to use whatever tech they want to use. You can't tell people what to use very often. They're going to use whatever they want, and your job is to help them be successful on your platform, and to help your users have a great time.
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every time that we've made it easier to create software, we've exponentially created more of it.
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And it's effectively the next step of, you know, every phase of of software evolution is just like a rising tide of abstractions. This is the next abstraction.
18 August
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Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
From one piece Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think it's all about having regulatory clarity and ease for all sizes of of companies. Um and if we can work with Congress to do something like that, I think that would be that would be the biggest boon for for for startups.
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if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.
17 August
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I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.
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Open-source AI's future is uncertain because building frontier models is extremely capital-intensive.Their words
Open-source AI has a tricky future, as building the best models is extremely capital intensive.
16 August
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Design of Everyday ThingsTheir words
Must read not only for designers, but for software developers too, even if you develop backend exclusively. I wish everybody read it really.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing MachineTheir words
I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.
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Introduction to Assembly Language Programming: From 8086 to Pentium Processors (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science)Their words
Dark nights, lots of coffee… This was fun!
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental RevolutionaryTheir words
Nicely written and an entertaining story of Linus Torvalds and the creation of Linux kernel. I read it in high school and it definitely strengthened my interest in computer programming.
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agent-browserTheir words
It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts
15 August
14 August
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Software that's composed of hundreds of little modules from hundreds of authors is a lovely idea that doesn't work with malicious actors.
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The The point just being this is so not an exact science. And I always like to show either what a client asks for or what a programmer might have used as a placeholder because I've gotten so many good ideas that way.
From one piece the task isn't the job 2 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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a cybernetic machine can nail the task and completely miss the job. coding makes this very very easy to see because the tasks are so legible (and verifiable!): write the function, migrate the API, fix the tests.
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buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.
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The pace at which dangerous AI capabilities spread is set by the least cautious developer, not the most careful one.Their words
The capability diffusion is determined by the lowest common denominator.
13 August
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AI systems can now directly interact with the tools on a person's computer and browser, not just generate text.Their words
For the first time, AI has "hands" - that is, the ability to reach out and interact with the tools on your computer and in your browser, just as you would.
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Coding LiteracyTheir words
This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it.
12 August
From one piece Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
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I mean at the very least I actually think that just starting with a generalist policy and then fine-tuning it even like right off the bat uh can be really effective.
From one piece Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As soon as you merge, it should be going out. You like you should have to stop the train to make your code not go into production as soon as you've merged.
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Software engineers behave as though the world exists in the repository, and it does not: the world is production.Their words
it's always weird to me just how much software engineers really seem to believe that the world exists in the repo. It doesn't. It's production, you know?
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Software is made of logic and language. AI is made of logic and language. And because of that, we can bake in guardrails.
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I mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
11 August
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You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
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Thinking ForthTheir words
Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. I used to have this habit where I learned various programming languages. To challenge my perspective, I chose languages from families and paradigms that were fundamentally different from what I already knew. Occasionally, I stumbled upon greatness. Thinking Forth presents programming as a creative process, and it delivers those lessons in an entertaining and pedagogical way. The book is particularly strong on software analysis and design, but it's the execution and technical writing that brought the book to my top five. This is the book for anyone writing about software — Leo's way is the way to do it.
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Facts and Fallacies of Software EngineeringTheir words
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence ProgrammingTheir words
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig. Learning the AI described in this book probably won't land you a job today. But reading the code examples will transform how you think about source code. The book shines when it comes to code comments, a topic that I've never seen demonstrated well in other sources. Here we get to see how comments become valuable as a narrative that explains both intent and reasoning. Brilliant, just brilliant.
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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++Their words
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Nature of CodeTheir words
This book is a beautiful introduction to simulations of natural systems. We get concise prose, clear illustrations, and carefully chosen systems with a guided tour through the math. All done in the Processing language, which is fun and easy to pick up. The reason I like this book so much is probably due to timing. In 2013, I was on the verge of abandoning software development. I was fed up. (That's a story for another time.) Instead, I planned to go into cognitive psychology full-time as a researcher. This book brought back the joy in programming for me. Sometimes, a good book is the book that motivated you.
10 August
From one piece Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A computer-using agent needs a machine of its own, or you will spend the day fighting it for the mouse cursor.Their words
The the part that's really nice about it is because I do a lot of Mac software, agents love to take over my screen and click around and if you put that in their own if you give them their own machine, it will not bother you. Otherwise, you'll fight with the agent for the mouse cursor.
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Every lab will sell you an agent. Open claw is the alternative. Open source runs everywhere, works with any model. And if you run local models, your data never has to leave your device.
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Second of all is I hope you worked on your personal brand and on visibility because in this day and age there's so much noise out there that your hardest problem is not the tech, it's not the software, not even the people. The hardest problem now is like getting eyeballs.
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If you count all the permutations, you can write all the tests you want. It is impossible to cover all of these and not break things from time to time. It is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users.
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And most of them really sent reports that their agent produced without actually even testing it. I would I would take a stronger sense of explaining what are the parts that we guarantee and what are the parts that will not be fixed because that that's not our security boundary.
From one piece Joining Cursor 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Agents are the future of how software gets built.Their words
Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.
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Developers today mostly plan, debate, implement and review with AI agents rather than write code themselves.Their words
Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.
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Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.Their words
In addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
9 August
8 August
7 August
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Giving consumer-facing models and API models separate brand names is needlessly confusing.Their words
I really do think that having separate brand names for the consumer-facing models and the API models is needlessly confusing
6 August
5 August
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Hot take: there are multiple valid ways to build quality software
4 August
3 August
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Given the high cost of errors, you need to have a very high level of safety and a very high level of confidence on day one before you deploy your first robot, before you drive your your first autonomous mile.
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So, a deployment of your agent uh in the real world generates data. That data then grounds the simulator and makes it more realistic. The simulator generates harder edge cases for the critic to score and for the agent to learn from.
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it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.
2 August
From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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have I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really.
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absolutely agree that product skills are probably the most durable. My build would just be there's a lot of people who have the title PM who haven't spent a lot of time building those skills in the last 5 years, but have gotten really good at communicating frameworks to leadership.
1 August
31 July
From one piece Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Technologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.Their words
We acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.
30 July
From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.
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Um, and to give you an example of a a a use of a coding agent that works extremely well is you can ask today's models to translate software from one computer language to another very effectively because in that case you actually have a incredibly detailed specification.
29 July
From one piece Formal methods with Hillel Wayne 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I predict that in the next 10 years software development will survive, but it will become like any other white-collar professional work. No more $200,000 salaries, unlimited vacation, or incredible employee bargaining power.
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But I think it is more useful for most developers to have an exposure to like what math has in the various fields versus just going all in every single field when they see them, right? You've got to know what's available to know what's most useful for you. And most math will not be useful for you.
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If I had to summarize what I found in general, I'd put it like this. Everybody hates waterfall.
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Software iterates better than every other engineering field and plans worse than all of them.Their words
while we are a lot better at iterating than other fields, we're worse at the planning part. Like we still need to do some kind of planning before we iterate and we just aren't as good as those other fields.
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Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.
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we don't believe in a world where these models are so expensive that, you know, they get rationed only for the most wealthy of developers and and companies.
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SuperlogicalTheir words
Superlogical will begin by shipping a terminal multiplexer. I'm pouring my years of experience building a terminal and studying the potential and limitations of other multiplexers into something new, powerful, and, of course, fast.
28 July
From one piece Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Cheaper software has increased the number of software engineers a company needs, not reduced it.Their words
At boom we need far more software engineers in a postAI world than we need in a pre-AI world. Why? Because the cost of software development has dropped. anybody including hardware engineers can now become a coder and we need software engineers to make sure the architectures are right and make sense and are coherent.
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The key thing is to make hardware development look more like software development to reduce the cost of iteration both in the world of bits and in the world of atoms.
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But great airplanes are incredibly integrated and everything affects everything else. uh the the best airplane design is interplay of propulsion, of aerodynamics, of structures, of all kinds of optimizations, how you fit the systems into it.
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We said all of this engineering that historically exists in spreadsheets really should exist in software. The spreadsheet engineering is like it's like baby software.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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one example is the model can now rewrite essentially any code base from one language to a different language.
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we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens or hundreds of engineers.
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I I think this is sort of the crazy thing about building on models. It's just so different than all the engineering that I've ever done. Like in the past when you built on systems, you built these like big beautiful systems and you really think about the system design up front. You have like a big suite of unit tests. You think about everything and you know, like a re-architecture is a big project.
26 July
From one piece Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without open source there would have been no mobile cloud industry, and no modern AI either.Their words
If not for open source, the mobile cloud industry would have never happened.
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we want we want to encourage everybody and every company to build their own AIs. And and and who knows what innovation will come from the fact that it's open source.
25 July
24 July
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For Chinese-based consumer electronics like this, the hardware is usually a lot better than the software.
23 July
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Apple TVTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
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LG TVsTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
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Home AssistantTheir words
home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
22 July
21 July
20 July
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AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.Their words
So AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
18 July
17 July
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I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.
16 July
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Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending itTheir words
But in a climate of rushed decisions and fierce competition, we could lose control over AI even if almost no one wants that outcome.
15 July
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This will become normal and commonplace 12-24 months from now, but right now no one really knows.
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I think the the thing I'm most excited is actually like what we call like iterated loops or like slow loops where we basically have a cron job. We have the loop the the the structure of the loop is really easy. It's like run this llinter fix one thing commit and push and then we run that every night in our GitHub actions and we wake up every morning to one PR that makes the codebase a little bit better.
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yes it will catch things and it will raise your floor but I don't believe like the model writing the code is the same model reading the code and if you ask a model hey is this code good it's going to be like oh yeah it's great comprehensive it's got unit tests
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We tried this. We built a lights off software factory in July of 2025 and by November we had shut it down. I think it takes about three to six months of you shipping all the time with nobody reading the code before you realize like, wow, this is getting way worse and it's easier to start over than it is to fix it.
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there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
14 July
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All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.Their words
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
13 July
12 July
11 July
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My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
10 July
From one piece Don't you mean extinct? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Smaller teams are betterTheir words
We can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
8 July
7 July
6 July
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CrossPoint ReaderTheir words
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
4 July
From one piece Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.Their words
the layer between the raw model and the real-world context seems to be as important as the model's raw intelligence
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
3 July
2 July
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Safari Technology PreviewTheir words
Whether you’re a web developer or tinkerer, I highly recommend checking out what Apple has released in Safari Technology Preview.
1 July
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
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The agile manifesto is the intersection of the ideas of the people in the room. I think there's a lot more to software development than is contained in the manifesto. And I've written books and books and books about what I think those things are.
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what I don't like about it I didn't like about it then and still don't like about it is it's not defensible. Nobody's going to say I'm not agile. Oh no, I prefer rigid development. Oh, I prefer inflexible development. No, everybody's going to say that they're agile, which extreme doesn't have that problem.
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which is why when I see manifestos today I'm just like too soon. Not a bad idea. Would love to have one just too soon. It took 15 years for the technical change of object-oriented programming to come before we could say here are the consequences of it. Here's how in a simple way we can express how to effectively use this technology that we've been using day in and day out for 15 years. The genie comes along. People are like, "Well, what's the new manifesto? It's just not manifesto time yet.
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And then there were people who used it as a moral cudgel. Like you should be if you're not using TDD, you're not professional. And that's just such People can write very good software with a wide variety of workflows.
30 June
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To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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TowerTheir words
I do most of my work in git using Tower, but will occasionally drop into the command line as well.
29 June
28 June
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AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.Their words
I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first
27 June
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When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.Their words
if an LLM developer also develops a coding harness, it is somewhat safe to assume that their model is optimized for their own harness first
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OllamaTheir words
I am not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned in this article, but one nice thing about Ollama is that they also optionally support open-weight models hosted in the cloud
26 June
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the preparedness frameworks and responsible scaling policies, they don't really account for the amount of test time compute.
25 June
24 June
From one piece Tech interviews with NeetCode 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah, so I would say over the last 6 months actually we've been cranking a lot of features out a lot of code out. Most of it has been written by AI at this point. And before that really wasn't the case. I was actually a really big AI hater for a long time
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When the subsidies behind AI pricing run out, the companies that embraced AI programming will cut back on it.Their words
And even the cost issue with AI is probably going to be like once the subsidies start running out, which we're starting to see, I think that's going to be a really big issue where maybe all these companies that embraced AI programming are now going to like cut back on it.
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I think a lot of people, especially students, are unfortunately learning everything through LLMs. So a lot of that isn't really learning, they're just kind of cheating and they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their skills
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Like every single time there's just like the big innovation like cloud computing, like higher level programming languages, for whatever reason things do not like it doesn't lead to fewer programmers. And I would have expected it would have.
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An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
22 June
21 June
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The surrounding system framework and scaffolding matter more for AI agent capability than the underlying model.Their words
The experiments showed that the system framework matters far more than the underlying model.
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ZigTheir words
Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.
19 June
18 June
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And eventually, you have to really move into a full stack. So, not just a silicon, you need to have a software, and some of the customer asked me, "Give me the whole rack." So, there's a system that you have to build.
17 June
16 June
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Kubernetes is fundamentally a framework for feedback controllers, not just container orchestration.Their words
Kubernetes is really a framework for feedback controllers. It's control theory turned into something ordinary people can use.
15 June
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TablePlusTheir words
In the past, I've used DataGrip from JetBrains to manage my databases. Now, I prefer to use TablePlus, as it is much simpler to use.
14 June
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there there's a one question we got to back up and really explore which is is AI a new platform and I would argue that it is not yet a new platform. It is an important technology.
13 June
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Polished UI is a reasonable signal that a team invested comparable effort in the underlying code quality.Their words
Users can't see the code, so UI is the only way for them to judge the quality of the app. If UI looks good, that means developers had time to polish it, which means that they probably spent a comparable amount of time to iron out the code.
12 June
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From one piece “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Open-sourcing biology models is right in principle but has to be balanced against biosafety.Their words
In terms of science, I think it really makes sense and we're deeply committed to open source. Um, there are obviously interesting considerations on this that are important too because there's a lot of considerations around biosafety and things like that that we're going to need to balance and think through how to how to handle.
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korrents.com
Social media and open-source AI come from the same conviction: hand the technology to individuals.Their words
I mean to some degree it's like why you create something like social media, right? To give people a voice.
9 June
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Their words
the competitive dynamic in China is more intense because it's more intense. Everyone's chosen to go open source and that creates a system that in my mind is capable of innovating far faster than the competitive system we have here. All the models learn from one another.
8 June
7 June
From one piece Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
So, you know, like what's called fast fashion, we got fast software. But software, if you're going to build a real company, can't be throwaway.
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Software cannot reach its next level until somebody builds the next level of hardware underneath it.Their words
we can't get to the next level of software if we don't make the next level of hardware.
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FirefoxTheir words
Firefox browser with uBlock Origin and Link Hints
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Usesrcmnd.app
Void LinuxTheir words
Void Linux on my desktop
6 June
5 June
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PiKVMTheir words
My Dad and I tested all the PiKVM models, and I like everything but the price. I 100% recommend them, especially since you're directly supporting the folks who wrote the software.
4 June
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Their words
They just recently released a report, and I think like you really have to squint to see anything happening. Like basically, if you want to take kind of like uh an an approach across the entire economy and looking at even looking at like software engineering, like the most exposed sort of sectors, there's just like not really anything going on. There might be a little bit of a signal about like junior developers getting jobs less than before, and that but that's like a less than before rather than a level shift.
3 June
From one piece Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
And so you have been part of the change to other industries and other people yourself. What did you think about that? Did you even think about it at all? So let's not be surprised if you find no sympathy from all the other professions that you've helped force change upon.
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The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour.Their words
It's like maybe you don't understand what the job has always been. We are trying to solve human problems and we use whatever technology is required. In some cases, the technology happens to be software and software ain't required for every human endeavor.
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I'm watching people write these huge markdown files to give the agent context. How about you write documentation to give me context so I can have fully working examples.
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and it turns out people kind of over glorify entrepreneurship. I think a lot of people believe there is tremendous upside, right? the type of entrepreneurship we talk about with software companies, the the upside is crazy. But when you're doing like selling parts or service business, unless you plan to open lots of stores and you know grow a larger employee base, it's not the same growth trajectory as software companies.
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The thing that makes Kubernetes powerful, there's a data model. We gave infrastructure a type system. So instead of imperative shell scripts, you finally had types.
2 June
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Their words
So often with new software paradigms, what looks like inevitability turns out to be just design failure that can be solved with the right guardrails or affordances or system instructions.
1 June
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Most FMV games looked bad because developers followed a top-down approach trying to cram a real movie into a tiny CD-ROM using a weak CPU.
30 May
29 May
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Likedrcmnd.app
HeliumTheir words
Browser: Helium. Chrome's good performance and devtools, none of the Google junk.
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Framework Laptop 13Their words
For now, I think Framework's 13" lineup is more compelling if you favor repairability/upgradeability and top-tier Linux support.
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Framework Laptop 12Their words
the Framework 12 isn't a bad laptop
27 May
From one piece Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
every single dev tool we use whether it's databases, compilers, whatever eventually the open source option becomes a default option, right?
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Their words
But you if you also become an expert in a specific industry, that's like a deadly combo. Um if you are like just pick any industry, let's say let's say farming, let's say you understand that farming industry really well and you're also a decent software engineer, you're probably like the top 10 people in the world for that combination that the whole industry will want to hire.
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The the biggest advantage to in DevTools is the fact that everyone working at DevTools is a programmer and programmers are horrible at B2C products. They don't realize DevTools are B2C products.
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The thing that I find interesting is that's not novel. This has been the thing we've always been trying to do forever. How do we get a junior engineer to ship code safely without breaking stuff? Right? How do we make patterns in the codebase? How do we make tests? Like it's it's all the old stuff that we've always wanted to do.
26 May
25 May
24 May
From one piece AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipper 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
The second is that most of the work that you do is actually going to happen on your computer in an environment like Codex or Cloud Co-work that becomes the sort of operating system for it becomes the sort of operating system for how how you do all of your work, whether that's your email, the documents you create, like all that kind of stuff.
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Designers have stopped handing work off — they open the pull request themselves, which changes how companies build.Their words
And what you see when we work with them internally is now they're just like they're just making pull pull requests. Like they don't they don't need to hand it off as much. Sometimes they do but like a lot of times they just make pull requests and it's like the thing is built and that's it and I think that's incredible for the way that companies work
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Their words
And I think that Cursor has at least so far more distinctly chosen a lane. Like they're more distinctly choosing to be a for programmers. And that may limit how far they get in here.
23 May
21 May
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Central planning is not a solution simply because agents are software, and do not fix the problem of local knowledge which lives near the work.
20 May
From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what this is is that in the guide level explanation, you explain your feature as if you were writing a guide as if the feature already existed. And in the reference level explanation, you explain your feature again as if it already existed, but as if it would be in the language reference instead of a tutorial.
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My opinion is that the least mature area is front end. There have been some attempts to compile Rust to Web Assembly and then run it on the web as a front end as a replacement for TypeScript. But if I was writing a web server, I would totally use Rust for the back end and TypeScript for the front end. I would not really go the web assembly route.
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I think where Rust is really unique is in the combination of things. So on one hand, it it doesn't have a garbage collector and it it's usable in low-level context like the Linux kernel or firmware or whatever.
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I think this is kind of leads to another way that Rust really helps with reliability, which is that if you're refactoring, I think Rust is really good at telling you all the places you need to update. I've done this sometimes where I would refactor something. I change the code. I change the return type or whatever it is, and then I just fix the compiler errors and until the compiler stops shouting. And then once I've done that, I've updated every place I need to update.
19 May
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16 May
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Their words
As reasoning models and agent workflows keep more tokens around (for longer), KV-cache size, memory traffic, and attention cost quickly become the main constraints, and LLM developers are adding a growing number of architecture tricks to reduce those costs.
15 May
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Needing to mock code in tests often signals an underlying design problem that refactoring would fix.Their words
unless the code is completely out of your control, the need for mocking often indicates a design problem-consider refactoring to make the code easier to test directly.
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Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.Their words, before
I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!
Their words now
I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.
14 May
13 May
From one piece TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
but lo and behold, they all run browsers with JavaScript in it. Lo and behold, the real cross-platform language isn't Java. It's JavaScript.
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And quite honestly, language design is 90% the same and 10% new for for pretty much every language. Every language you build still has to have a compiler. Compiler is still built in a pretty much the same way.
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You know, there's open source and there's open development. And and and we were technically open source in the beginning, but it was not open development. We would sort of lob the source code out in this repository and scrape the issues off of that and put it into our internal issue tracker.
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So, if we're checking 99% instead of 100%, well, heck, that's better than the 0% that JavaScript checked, right? And it gives you like language features that no other languages can provide because they can't get to 100%.
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And so everything is lazy and deferred and functional and reusable inside the compiler. And it's a very different way of writing compilers than than what the textbooks will traditionally teach you.
12 May
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Likedrcmnd.app
ClaudeTheir words
But Claude isn’t just a replacement-level SwiftUI developer. Claude is actually good.
11 May
8 May
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Their words
At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.
7 May
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Their words
there is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.
6 May
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3 May
From one piece Reflections on AI-assisted Programming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.Their words
Skill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.
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korrents.com
Software development will shift from centralized systems to highly personalized, proliferating software abundance.Their words
Going forward, I think the future will be filled with software abundance, or, more accurately, I'd call it "software proliferation". That is, centralized development will be history. Software will be highly personalized, especially for open source software.
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From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.Their words
the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.
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Network effects are not a sufficient moat, because software features get copied however many patents you hold.Their words
network effects are certainly an important piece of the puzzle for sure, um but I don't think they're enough when it comes to these sorts of software uh you know, software cloning.
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Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.Their words
15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
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AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.Their words
Though now that I can accomplish ~3 weeks of old-way work in a new-way day, this sort of project becomes that much easier to start and finish.
25 April
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Their words
As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
24 April
22 April
From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
local-first software, which is this idea that we want to take away a bit of the power from cloud operators and give it back to end users. So, end users should be more in control of their own data and less dependent on cloud services for providing the applications and the data that that the users need.
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But, somebody still has to build those lower-level abstractions and from lower-level components. Somebody's got to implement the cloud services.
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software as a service businesses, for example the whole reason why they can charge a subscription is because they are able to essentially hold a gun to the customer's head and say, "Pay us at your subscription, otherwise we will delete all your data."
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
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Maybe as AI writes more and more code of our code, it's less about like the details of how you express logic in a particular programming language and much more about those kinds of high-level trade-offs.
From one piece Borrow-checking without type-checking 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The dynamic type system provides flexibility and easy meta-programming, while the static type system removes the overhead in most of your code.
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Ensuring that moving, borrowing, and sharing don't break the illusion is surprisingly easy to do with a static type system, and surprisingly hard to do with a dynamic type system, or at least hard to do cheaply.
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Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.
20 April
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But without the handoff, everyone builds. And that makes all the difference.
From one piece Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AI will not commoditise software tools; it will multiply them, because every new agent is another tool user.Their words
I actually see the opposite of what people see I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tool users are going to grow exponentially and it's very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket.
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Their words
We have got to acknowledge that most of the advanc advances in AI came out of algorithm advances not just the raw hardware. Now if most advances came from algorithms and computer science and programming tell me that their army of AI researchers is not their fundamental advantage.
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Their words, before
But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
Their words now
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
Their words now
I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift
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Their words, before
It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
Their words now
So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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Their words, before
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
Their words now
really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
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Their words, before
The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
Their words now
I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
7 April
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Their words
So certainly one thing that a lot of them seem to be bottlenecked on is now having interesting ideas and in particular having interesting design ideas.
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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which is that the the Venn diagram of developer experience and agent experience is a circle. And the point here is that, you know, what we do that that's good for the agents is good for the humans and vice versa. I'm hearing a lot of feedback saying, "Yeah, actually, if you have well-modularized code, that actually makes it easy for the agents to work with."
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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My bet is on the more effective two pizza teams. Um and it it's also some interesting, you know, feedback we're beginning to get in terms of pair programming. I mean, with pair programming, do you say pair programming is the human and the genie? Or is it two humans and and genies? Because if it's two of us, we can control the genies perhaps a little bit better.
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For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.
6 April
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But here's what I know for certain: product isn't a moat. Software engineering capability isn't a moat. Not anymore.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
2 April
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Arch LinuxTheir words
Software I have been a Linux user for a long time. About a year and a half ago I migrated over to Arch Linux.
1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else
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Their words
none of us wanted to go through that extreme but lots of time when you are under a lot of pressure and no time to react other than just to survive that scale that keep on coming at you, you have to make uh decision that increase uh speed and velocity because speed and velocity allow us to build quick enough to survive
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Their words
we're trying to crack the next frontier which is how we get that level of productivity increase and output building new features on top of a code base that are older,
29 March
From one piece 2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
AI makes programming so cheap that only the rich will write code by hand.
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Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.Their words
AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.
From one piece Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
if you can describe a style, AI can generate it. And the same with software. If you can describe a software, then AI can build it for you.
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But in Vietnam and also in a lot of other Asian countries, people are on the move all the time. Like people are on the motorbike all the time. So, they actually really don't like typing. So, the voice like a lot of the companies in Vietnam actually deploy voice bots before they do uh do chatbot.
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I feel like now I can build anything I want. But at the same time, anyone can build anything I want. So, what is the incentive structure for me to do anything?
27 March
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From one piece Thoughts on slowing the fuck down 4 beliefs · mariozechner.at
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
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You can give it a Bash tool so it can ripgrep its way through the codebase. You can give it some queryable codebase index, an LSP server, a vector database. In the end it doesn't matter much. The bigger the codebase, the lower the recall. Low recall means that your agent will, in fact, not find all the code it needs to do a good job.
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Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.
24 March
23 March
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And if everything is proprietary, it's hard to do research and it's hard to innovate on top of, around, with. And so… Open source is fundamentally necessary for many industries to join the AI revolution.
22 March
From one piece Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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right now, that whole front end has been like kind of smooshed because many times we can just like prototype really really rapidly and kind of solidify some of what we're thinking in terms of like ideas and coding. So I fully expect that part of the outer loop is just going to be collapsed as well, right?
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AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.Their words
There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
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And so, like in the immediate term, yeah, we were getting more out, but now our systems, whether technology systems or human systems or processes, are really kind of getting overwhelmed.
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You cannot mandate a tool developers dislike — they will quietly spin up the one they wanted.Their words
I'm going to sound old when I say this, but like I one time had a company tell me, "Oh, well, they have to use that CI/CD system." I'm like 20 bucks, they're just spinning up Jenkins. And they were, right?
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I I will say I tend to start with adoption. I am not a fan of an adoption metric. I don't like it, but also devs are like a gloriously cranky bunch.
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StarletteTheir words
Kim Christie started working on Starlette in 2018 and it quickly became my favorite out of the new breed of Python ASGI frameworks.
21 March
20 March
From one piece Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.Their words
I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.
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these apps that are on the app store for using these smart home devices, etc. Uh, these shouldn't even exist kind of in a certain sense. Like shouldn't it just be APIs and shouldn't agents be just using it directly?
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Demand for software will be extremely large precisely because software just got much cheaper to produce.Their words
I do have like cautiously optimistic view of this in software engineering where I do think um it does seem to me like the demand for software will be extremely large. Um and it's just become a lot cheaper.
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I simultaneously feel like I'm talking to an extremely brilliant PhD student who's been like a systems programmer for their entire life and a 10-year-old.
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So I think the industry just has to reconfigure in so many ways that's like the customer is not the human anymore. It's like agents who are acting on behalf of humans and this refactoring will be will probably be substantial in a certain sense.
19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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OpenAI and Anthropic have both realized that code is the most important thing to optimize the models for, cuz that's where the money is. Like coders will spend $200 a month on a plan if it's good enough, it turns out.
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one of the magic tricks about these things is that they they're incredibly consistent. If you've got a code base with a bunch of patterns in, they will follow those patterns almost to a T.
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just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
17 March
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From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um, and then you stack on 70 this year, 80 next year, growing to 100 by 2030. You're at like 700 EV tools by the end of the decade. Um, 700 EV tools, three and a half tools per gigawatt. um assuming it's all allocated to AI which it's not but three and a half tools per gigawatt gets you to 200 gigawatts worth of AI chips for the data centers to deploy
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As we move from, you know, hey, [clears throat] these companies are selling tokens where they provide the entire uh reasoning chain and all that to uh selling automated, you know, white collar work, right? Automated software engineer, send them the request, they give you the result back and there's a bunch of thinking on the back end that they don't show you. The ability to distill out of American models into Chinese models will be harder.
From one piece Data Is the Only Moat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.Their words
I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
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Making your software business an API-first business is probably one of the smartest things you can do today.
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If you run a software business that is purely transformative - that takes incoming data, does something to it, and turns the data back out - that will be a problem.
11 March
From one piece From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that by the end of this year and we'll see demos of it like right away, but by the end of this year most people will be programming by talking to a face. A face as in a face on the screen.
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My my feeling is that probably people have a low tolerance for non-determinism. And these things are fundamentally non-deterministic. So, they can't just go replace customer call center software because they they could be wrong.
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If you're a monolith, you're kind of hosed because I told you the ceiling's going up for what they can do, but it ain't ever going to hit your monolith. They will never fit in the context window and you're never going to be able to never in the next 18 months be able to tell a model go fix my monolith. You have to break it up.
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I had a lot of my own ego and identity wrapped up in my sort of compiler background. It's all It's interesting, right? But it's it's not useful in any meaningful sense anymore.
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But right now I think it's sitting somewhere between half million and five million lines of code, somewhere in there. Probably more on the half million side right now and with the next drop of an Anthropic model, we're probably going to see it jump up to a few million lines.
10 March
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - Recording software
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TypeScriptTheir words
TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
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React Router v7Their words
Remix/React Router v7 - The best framework to build a web app
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ZodTheir words
Zod - A great schema declaration and data validation library for TypeScript.
8 March
4 March
From one piece Will Claude Code ruin our team? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As more people build software and cycle time compresses, they'll start to absorb lessons that it took their colleagues decades to learn.
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AI-driven skill compression will be disruptive to software team culture in the short term.Their words
In the short term, this is going to be incredibly disruptive for team culture.
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always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.
3 March
From one piece Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.Their words
The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
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Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.Their words
Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
2 March
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Their words
That now ubiquitous timeline names eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive in the dirt.
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Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.Their words
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
1 March
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Their words
I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
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Claude CodeTheir words
With Claude, I've built a host of software like this. Mostly small tools for myself — programs that instantly append copy buffers to text files (I keep a running file of nice things people write to me called notapieceofshit.txt) or quickly perform live currency conversions.
27 February
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13 February
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But but that's actually a very weak criterion, right? People thought I was saying like we won't need 90% of the software engineers. Those things are worlds apart, right?
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But the quality of these systems isn't just in the code they write. It's also in the code I don't have to write. And maybe more importantly, their actual value is in the code I would never have written, or could never have written, or never would have wanted to write.
When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com
12 February
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korrents.com
Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.Their words
It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.
11 February
10 February
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Their words
building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.
9 February
From one piece Is the craft dead? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.Their words
There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment.
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I think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you're doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results
8 February
From one piece Eight more months of agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Most current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.Their words
Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.
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The best software design for an AI agent to use is the same as the best design for a human programmer.Their words
the best software for an agent is whatever is best for a programmer.
6 February
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4 February
From one piece The danger of glamourizing one shots 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.Their words
It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
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As high-level programming cedes way to the prose compiler, making your goals and specs well understood to the ambiguity loop and showing good judgment is going to matter more than ever.
3 February
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MoonlightTheir words
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
2 February
1 February
31 January
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Usesrcmnd.app
DiaTheir words
However, I frequently run the Dia browser these days when I need a Chrome-based browser.
29 January
25 January
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Their words
there should be no way to get a big company like a public SAS company Unless NR is greater than 100, like otherwise cancellation should just win. And that is in fact the case.
23 January
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korrents.com
Open-source text embedding models run well enough on consumer hardware to be practical for real tasks.Their words
Local / open text embedding models work fine on consumer hardware.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
22 January
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19 January
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Their words
But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.
18 January
From one piece Why I Stopped Using nbdev 2 beliefs · hamel.dev
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Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforceTheir words
Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.
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Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
15 January
From one piece Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Frontend-backend communication should be mediated through a shared database rather than a custom API.Their words
Communication between frontend and backend should be handled by database
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Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.Their words
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
14 January
8 January
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Their words
I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.
7 January
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A consumer fraud dispute is decided by a support agent in about three minutes, not by anything resembling a trial.Their words
It is a CSR clicking a button on their web app’s interface after 3 minutes of consideration, and then entire evidentiary record often fits in a tweet.
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimesbitsaboutmoney.com
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationTheir words
. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.
4 January
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1 January
From one piece We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software.Their words
Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.
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go fire up your browser. Do it in incognito. Go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address. Try support. See how your support is. Try to contact sales.
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because you have to train them because it takes a month, the world's best software with no help training you is not one 99% of people should buy.
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So, add all that up, 5%. In many categories, we're north of 50% in market. So, that just totally changes.
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To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.
30 December 2025
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KeePassXCTheir words
For password management I used a command line tool called pass. I switched to KeepassXC in mid-2025.
28 December 2025
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GoTheir words
My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.
24 December 2025
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20 December 2025
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ZenTheir words
Zen: I'm also a fan of Brave, but Zen is a great browser because it's open-source and firefox-based, but with all the customization and utilization I need.
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SvelteKitTheir words
elements, JavaScript reigns supreme. SvelteKit's efficiency and reactivity make it my framework of choice, and TypeScript's type annotations bring a welcome layer of confidence to my codebase.
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fnmTheir words
fnm: fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust.
16 December 2025
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The Secret of Our SuccessTheir words
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
8 December 2025
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Their words
The only highly populated industrial country unable to trivially meet its electricity and synthetic fuel needs with solar alone is the United Kingdom, due primarily to a high population density and high latitude. The Nordic and Baltic countries are tiny by comparison. Among other problems, the UK needs to decide if it wants the future where energy is cheap and it is rich, or the future where energy is expensive and it is poor. If the former, it is time to get serious about large scale deployment of wind power, using home-grown vertically integrated technology at prices as low as $10/MWh.
4 December 2025
26 November 2025
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shot-scraperTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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NetNewsWireTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
25 November 2025
From one piece Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then let's do some data augmentation so we have even more competitive programming problems
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But I think the idea of very rapid economic growth for some time, I think it's very possible from broad deployment.
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Framework DesktopTheir words
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
22 November 2025
18 November 2025
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Their words
Thus my personal prediction is that in domains that are already largely under the powers of modern AI, such as languages, programming or chess, we’re going to see a divergence in human abilities.
16 November 2025
From one piece How FOSS Won and Why It Matters 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.
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FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.
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You cannot go back. If the solution you offer recreate any of the Supply Chain framework problem, then your solution is Dead On Arrival.
From one piece Third Stage Engineering 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fair hardware benchmarks must use the best software and tuning for each hardware option, not hardware specs alone.Their words
The most accurate and realistic evaluation for HW involves selecting the best software and then tuning it, and doing this for all HW options.
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Computer hardware performance depends on hardware, software, and tuning together, not hardware alone.Their words
You need all three stages to reach the highest, and most competitive, performance.
13 November 2025
12 November 2025
From one piece Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the improvement software improvements of really throughput in terms of tokens per dollar per watt that we're able to get uh you know quarter over quarter year over year is massive uh right so it's 5x 10x maybe 40x in some of these cases
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it's kind of like databases right it's always the thing it's like hey can one database be the one that just is used everywhere except it's not uh there are multiple types of databases that are getting deployed uh for different use cases.
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So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.
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Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.Their words
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
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The per-user software business becomes a per-agent business, and it grows faster than the number of users.Their words
which I think is going to just keep growing because guess what it's going to grow faster than the number of users. So in fact that's kind of one of the other questions people ask me is hey what happens to the per user business at least the early signs may be the way to think about the per user business is not just per user it's per agent
6 November 2025
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durable workflows are scaling errors as values to your infrastructure. errors as values lead to predictable, maintainable, and scalable software.
22 October 2025
From one piece ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.
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Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser. It is an anti-web browser.
20 October 2025
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.Their words
I think that for those who can create and then articulate a framework around what is taste for us that is really a important skill and uh then I think people can a lot of people can basically match a framework not many people can create the framework.
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I think in this world where software can be created more easily, design matters so much and designers matter so much. I think designers are going to be the leaders of the future and I think that more designers need to speak step into that leadership role
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if you want to win in the game of software, you need to differentiate through design. Like that's again how you win or lose. Craft matters. And so we're no longer in this era of good enough is fine. It's like good enough is not enough.
15 October 2025
14 October 2025
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CursorTheir words
Cursor… it’s tab completion model is industry leading, if you still write code yourself. I use VS Code mostly, I do like them pushing things like browser automation and plan mode tho.
8 October 2025
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RoonTheir words
Roon is software to control your home stereo. I have a lifetime subscription, and the link gets you thirty days for free. If you love music, you'll get a lot out of this.
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GitKrakenTheir words
My favorite software for Git version control.
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GitHub CopilotTheir words
I cannot work anymore without it. AI pair programmer for code completion and suggestions.
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Visual Studio CodeTheir words
My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.
7 October 2025
From one piece The Past and Future of Vibe Coding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.Their words
But along with the question of what you're willing to maintain, as the barriers to creation drop the value of taste will only increase.
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Good software requires maintenance and ongoing attention, which is why most people will still prefer to pay to use something someone else is maintaining.
6 October 2025
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Jupyter notebooksTheir words
As for me personally, I tend to use these tools as a backend data store and use Jupyter notebooks as well as my own custom built annotation interfaces for most of my needs.
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Arize PhoenixTheir words
The panel had a generally positive view of Phoenix, with one panelist calling it one of his “favorite open source eval tools.” The tool is positioned as a developer-first, notebook-centric platform.
30 September 2025
From one piece Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.
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You need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.
27 September 2025
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18 September 2025
From one piece ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.Their words
Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
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However, we are actually absolutely doing this. It's just the great works are kernels of operating systems, the browser, the um lots of the software platforms, the phones, the um the incredible advances in uh silicon lithography
17 September 2025
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12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I think it'll be the same thing that that we'll see an increase in the scope that we're giving that we're willing to give to the robots as they get better and better where initially the scope might be like there is a particular thing you do like you're making the coffee or something. Uh whereas as they get more capable, as their ability to have common sense and a broader repertoire of tasks increases, then we'll give them greater scope. Now you're running the whole coffee shop.
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Like if you answer a question, you just like answered it wrong. It's like well it's not like you can just like go back and like tweak a few things like the person you told the answer to might not even know that it's wrong. Whereas if you're like folding the t-shirt and you messed up a little bit like it's pretty obvious like you can reflect on that, figure out what happened and do it better next time.
9 September 2025
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With Web forms, the burden is on people to adapt to databases. Today's AI models, however, can flip this requirement. That is, they allow people to provide information in whatever form they like and use AI do the work necessary to put that information into the right structure for a database.
8 September 2025
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The baseline of user expectation quality and craft keeps rising.
2 September 2025
From one piece Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think regulation of AI is sort of the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. And it's like saying we're going to regulate databases or regulate spreadsheets or regulate cars. Well, we do, but not like that.
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Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.Their words
It wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was cuz Microsoft crowbarred its way into dominance in browsers but that turned out not to matter and then all the value is in search advertising and social which were 5 years later and 10 years later and so like you can be very very clear that this is the thing and then still be completely unclear how it's going to work.
1 September 2025
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18 August 2025
From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.
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We can have a breakthrough in our agent architecture on Monday implemented on Tuesday and have it deployed with hundreds of our customers on Wednesday and directly see the impact of of that work.
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And in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.
From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.Their words
it's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.
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And actually the reason I think it's exciting is if you look at like the database space right now there's not one database. If you want to do largecale data analytics you'll choose one thing. If you want to do a transactional data store you'll do another. I think we're moving to that area of models
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if you tell what what jobs are most likely to be automated with the current generation of technology, you would probably put software engineering right at the top. The people building this technology or building the technology that is disrupting their own profession.
17 August 2025
15 August 2025
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Their words
And the impact of solar array on desert is arguably positive because it shades the ground and improves like soil moisture retention. Um there like if you wanted to reverse desertification, you would basically just deploy solar panels on it and that would pay for the process.
12 August 2025
8 August 2025
6 August 2025
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Arc BrowserTheir words
Arc Browser: I tried Kagi but too many apps are incompatible with Safari so RIP. set to default.
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pnpmTheir words
Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager
5 August 2025
3 August 2025
2 August 2025
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Close to the MachineTheir words
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s
24 July 2025
23 July 2025
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AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.Their words
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
18 July 2025
16 July 2025
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9 July 2025
7 July 2025
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korrents.com
Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.On changing their mind
Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.
4 July 2025
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korrents.com
Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.Their words
most branches are heavily "biased" one way or another - e.g. a "branch taken" rate of 10% or 90% is more common than 50%
3 July 2025
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governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.
16 June 2025
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14 June 2025
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Their words
I think the platform that Lean and other software tools, so GitHub and things like that will allow experimental mathematics to scale up to a much greater degree than we can do now.
12 June 2025
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ViteTheir words
Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.
11 June 2025
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Their words
clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.
10 June 2025
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AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.Their words
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
8 June 2025
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korrents.com
Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.Their words
Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.
5 June 2025
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Their words
I do. If you have a passion for computer science, I would. Computer science is obviously a lot more than programming alone, so I would. I still don't think I would change what you pursue. I think AI will horizontally allow impact every field.
3 June 2025
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Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.
2 June 2025
From one piece My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 beliefs · fly.io
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All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
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LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
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The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the same way a Makefile is.
29 May 2025
25 May 2025
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Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
24 May 2025
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The Design of the Unix Operating SystemTheir words
The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)
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The AWK Programming LanguageTheir words
The AWK Programming Language - Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (Addison Wesley, 1988)
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Expert C ProgrammingTheir words
Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)
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Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed.Their words
Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed.Their words
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)
15 May 2025
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That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
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Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.Their words
CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
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From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular thing that you're going to release a game in an existing highly competitive genre and win.
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But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.
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The biggest limitation that's built up over time is the single-threaded nature of game simulation in Unreal Engine. We run a single-threaded simulation. If you have a 16 core CPU, we're using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
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But there are other parts of programming languages that are not subjective but should be fundamental. And when you look at type systems, there is a way to do type systems that gives you mathematical proofs. And every other way of type systems that doesn't give you mathematical proofs is just worse and should ultimately be rejected.
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Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by defaultTheir words
This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.
29 April 2025
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Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.
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That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
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most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take
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Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.Their words
Deployment at scale takes so much longer than anyone ever imagines.
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These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
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From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I then asked myself, is the position of speed unique? and is it available? And the answer was overwhelmingly yes because almost no software was being sold or has ever been sold on the value proposition of speed.
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Well, I strongly believe that we should make business software like we make games because when we make products like we make games, people find them fun. They tell their friends. They fall in love with them.
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And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.
22 March 2025
From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.
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The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.Their words
And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that's pretty narrow, and I think that's just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don't believe it's that representative of the entire programming world out there.
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Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.
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The editor obviously does not make the programmer, but I think it says a lot about your character as a programmer if you don't know how to use your editor well.
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And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
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Brave BrowserTheir words
I recommend Brave browser
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1PasswordTheir words
Combine this with a browser extension to create and Autofill them super fast. For example, I use and like 1Password
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The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.
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From one piece Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
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Claude 3.7 SonnetTheir words
As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).
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Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
12 February 2025
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You Need a Budget (YNAB)Their words
You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a simple to use (but sophisticated under the hood) bit of budgeting software that uses the principles of human habits and behavioral finance to make you more conscious and efficient in your spending.
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.
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And they're decent, their hardware is better in many ways than in NVIDIA's. The problem is their software is really bad and I think they're getting better, right? They're getting better, faster, but the gulf is so large and they don't spend enough resources on it or haven't historically, right?
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