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Speaking of me nailing predictions, I feel like this one from 2023 is aging like wine. Not least of which because the decades-long debate over "10x developers" has been rendered moot by agents. https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer
Are they sure it was the Citrini Research sci-fi substack that caused the crash and not my much tighter, more grounded "Brace for the Fuckening" post written three days prior? Who's to say. https://apple.news/AaV5OdPkJR12OiHpdMqOdYQ
go-size-analyzer The Go ecosystem is really good at tooling. I just learned about this tool for analyzing the size of Go binaries using a pleasing treemap view of their bundled dependencies. You can install and run the tool locally, but ...
Oh no, the giant plagiarism machines are being plagiarised! Both Google and Anthropic are crying foul over ādistillation attacksā. This is highly unfair, they stole their data the hard way.
As if we didnāt have enough to deal with between despotic regimes, habitat collapse, and dodgy new technologies, Konami are on a mission to turn everywhere into Silent Hill. The recent Silent Hill f took place in a fictional Japanese ...
Am I back? Not sure yet, but I think Iām a static-blog kind of fella. Pure Blog is awesome, and Kevās done a great job with it. I like it a lot. And yet
Last spring I wrote a blog post about our ongoing work in the background to gradually simplify the curl source code over time. This is a follow-up: a status update of what we have done since then and what comes ...
Today's links Socialist excellence in New York City: The real efficiency is insourcing and ending public-private partnerships. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK antipiracy office will catch Firefox crooks; Batpole flip-top bust; "Order of Odd-Fish"; Scott ...
āThe care is the work. The care creates the value. AI doesnāt care. AI is just another tool. Continvoucly Morged Value - Matthias OttāLast week I wrote on the socials: āwhat AI reveals is just how many people have given ...
Some time ago, we saw that SHA-2 (SHA-256 & SHA-512) should probably be your function of choice for 2030 and beyond, because SHA-3 is too slow and BLAKE3 is (unfortunately)
The startup acronym of the day is "DTC", which stands for Down To Consume.
The "agentic swarm" vision of productivity is comfortingly familiar. Which should be an immediate red flag...You take the existing corporate hierarchy, you replace the bottom layers with a swarm of AI agents, and you keep humans around as supervisors. It's ...
I have a lot of thoughts on how AI will affect things, including bug bounty. And most of it is speculation, of course, but I have to put this out into the world because I want to know if this ...
[](/images/why-you-should-hate-anthropic.webp) All the best influencers hate Anthropic right now, and for good reason. They ruined everything, and they're worthy of every bit of hate they get. Quick recap: - T...
For the past few weeks I've been asking myself why I'm still on Farcaster, whether I'll stay, whether I even want to.I've landed on some answers.Farcaster, for the uninitiated, was the most credible attempt anyone has made at building a
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is ...
Over the years, Iāve used different icon sets on my blog. Right now I use Heroicons. The recommended way to use them is to copy/paste the source from the website directly into your HTML. Itās a pretty straightforward process: Go ...
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model. Source: Vincent Driessenās original Git branching model diagram A few days ...
Common feedback when I write about AI: "if job loss is a real risk, then tell people WTF to do beyond, 'generate more revenue than you cost your employer!'" Answer: if there were a process or playbook to make yourself ...
Saying "please" and "thank you to Siri: iOS 5-26: idiotic waste of time iOS 27+: productivity life hack
Letās get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work. Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design originally published on ...
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. ...
Today's links Deplatform yourself: Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Lawer" threatens suit; Landmark metaphotos; 3DP v (c); Forced arbitration; Imperial Scott Walker; Keysigning ritual; Polyfingered robot dictaphone; DNS bug; ...
Topics covered in this episode: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Markdown code formatting with ruff act - run your GitHub actions locally Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support ...
While common people suffer from insecure systems (data theft, identity and financial fraud, blackmail...), governments love to be able to stick their nose wherever they want, whenever they want, something
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to touch grass. From an ADHD and generalized anxiety perspective, computers and the internet ...
[](/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp) I have a new concept I'm using everywhere in my AI engineering called Bitter Lesson Engineering (BLE). The idea...
I've been exploring AI engineering workflows for the past few months to see how I can improve the velocity and quality of my iterations. I currently use a workflow that looks a lot like a software eng...
I get it: Large Language Models are interesting... but you should not give "Agentic AI" access to your computer, accounts or wallet. To do away with the hype: "AI Agents" are just LLMs with shell access, and at it's core ...
SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs. āWe canāt trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure itās done right!" āYEAH!ā SOON: there are 15 competing AI labs. (See: xkcd on standards.) The ...
Over and over again, agents like Claude Code exhibit relentless productivity, exhaustive research, and mind-bending speed. But there's one thing they constitutionally lack: innovative solutions in the face of apparent obstacles. Humans who lack that gear are absolutely fucked.
A VP of Engineering wrote in to say my latest essay, "is fantastic and terrifying and absolutely necessary for us to be having conversations about." And that most people still, "have no idea what we're actually on the precipice of." ...
Hello reader who is also a reader! It's time for another instalment of our winningly impromptu article series in which game developers discuss and marvel over books. Let us make the customary ritual sacrifice to Saint Nic Reuben, baron of ...
Sundays are for finally biting the bullet and spending some of your Christmas money on a boxset of 2000s British Touring Car Championship season reviews. You stick the first DVD in, a three hour trip back through the 2000 season ...
āThis is not a minor bug trend. It is a systematic civil-rights failure that has now found its way into software as a whole, through lightning-fast adoption of AI systems that are trained on over 20 years of institutional barriers. ...