Where are all the SWEs who are getting laid off ending up? Aside from posting on LinkedIn, what are they up to?

Yes, but they have a solid sales team and lawyers...

PRs on their own don't signal more productivity. Simply more PRs.

I feel triggered calling it an OS

I build at least one CLI for an AI agent nearly every day now... I often build a TUI for me... Both are vibe coded because I'm not on call for them...

So much institutional knowledge is being lost right now in the software industry under the guise of speed.

Why do we give smaller features to someone new to the codebase? So they get a feel for it. Yea Claude can do it but it's a missed investment opportunity.

Capehart and Abernathy on the backlash against Trump's immigration operation YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Honestly wondering why @pbsnews.org gives Abernathy a platform here. I get wanting a conservation balance, but he's just pushes the administration's propaganda... youtu.be/VO8t7Reg6qg?...

My thought is I need to challenge myself to keep things sharp.

New years resolution: one hour a week of coding without any AI. No LSPs. Just me and nvim working on something interesting ideally in a language in new in (like zig)

I've been hearing so much hate about github lately... Does this mean some other player is finally going to gain some traction?

I think Google needs OpenAI though. It needs some real competition so it doesn't start to coast again. Think of the progress they've made in the last few years compared to years prior.

Writing code is fun... But releasing software is freaking hard...

One of the most positive things about AI I see is that companies are investing in something other than ads.

If you need a senior level engineer, you better have 10ish entry level people for them to lead. Otherwise you're hurting their career and screwing your pipeline.

I'm going to put my tin foil hat on for a moment and suggest trump had charlie Kirk killed to help start a war and take our attention away from the birthday card.

When you view AI as just something that is"good" at writing poems or generating images, then yea I see your point. But when you look at all the other things it can do, you see some serious potential. I'm certain it won't all be good, but we'll get some positive outcomes too.

I'm not sure where Blockchain fits in here, but AI driving your shopping experience is like... 20 years old

I'm not sure that's true. Ambient agents for example go off and do stuff without a conversation. It's a delegation.

How is it that we're in an AI bubble and AI is stealing some large portion of jobs? Shouldn't it be one or the other?

hot take: hitl is a terrible acronym for "human in the loop" for AI agents

Check out opal.withgoogle.com/landing/ pretty stoked to see what people build with it.

One thing is super clear to me... Bringing people who can build AI agents together with people who are domain experts is going to yield some amazing things.

I wrote my first AI agent 2 years ago in c#. No framework, just invoking the vertex API directly. It works great and is still used in production helping people create AppSheet apps today.

I think all the frameworks are confusing the conversation.

Sometimes I think where AI helps me the most while programming is what before I lean on the Ballmer Peak for. Like, instead of overthinking something or feeling that moment of "meh", the AI pushes me through it...

But the Ballmer Peak is more fun. So now when I'm waiting on the LLM, I take a shot.

The long running ai agents that write code remind me of monkeys generating Shakespeare.

Anytime I read about AI agents on #bluesky I think I'm on LinkedIn... Just a bunch of people promoting their content.

Where's the "The AI just logged in as me and sent incriminating pictures to my wife" type posts?

Coding with AI is super nice when I'm hitting F-me refactor where it's straightforward but tedious.

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When I review code, I start by thinking about how I would have written the code. What functions I would have had to touch, what systems are involved, etc.

I do the same when I review AI generated code. This means I understand the destination. If I don't... I don' use AI. I'm not ready.

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I'm not going to hold my breath.

AI agents are software

We need software engineers.