Only to be replaced by a queue of people who don’t know how to use them 😂

The Real AI Debt Nobody's Talking About The discourse around AI-assisted development has fixated on technical debt. Conference talks, blog posts, heated threads, all wringing hands over the maintainability of AI-generated code. They're worr...

There’s this school of thought around personal budgeting whereby if you want to impulse buy a luxury item, even if you have the money you should tell yourself to wait, and if you still want it, then buy it.

We need that, but for Opus and new features in your product.

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Like, no platform is entirely without its issues, but at this point it’s pretty unambiguous that X is “the bad place” surely?

The irony of someone claiming some kind of moral high ground by posting on X of all channels available to them.

The Real AI Debt Nobody's Talking About The discourse around AI-assisted development has fixated on technical debt. Conference talks, blog posts, heated threads, all wringing hands over the maintainability of AI-generated code. They're worr...

AI made us faster at building. It didn't make us better at choosing what to build.

That's the debt nobody's talking about.

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‘How dare you’: South Dublin residents vent at plan to redesignate golf amenities for housing Majority of objections to council proposals relate to Stepaside driving range and Jamestown pitch and putt

Questions of NIMBYism aside, this guy seems like a real charmer

"One man said that unless the proposal was dropped, he would not vote for any of the current councillors. “I’ll instruct my wife and kids not to also."

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

The recently reduced Opus pricing didn’t hurt here.

Opus is stupendous at one shotting even complex stuff. I keep telling people to just make it the default.

Absolutely chaotic idea I just had (and is possible to do).

Pipe every Claude Code prompt being entered by your team to a slack channel, in real time.

Not sure if genius or madness.

Things I learned this week.

Performance Review week is absolutely the best time to run an engineering-wide survey, because given the choice, people will do literally anything to avoid writing their performance review.

Miss you too buddy 😘

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You think that just maybe this is a somewhat tinyspeck specific problem?

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.

In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

I think a very significant part of the headless chickening on what is the world’s most straightforward question (“CSAM factory- is it allowed?”) has been the crippling cognitive dissonance of journalists justifying their continued use of X to themselves.

They needed it to be a Q for debate.

A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Today I learned - there's a built-in git command to get rid of untracked files - `git clean -fd`

The absolute best part of Lego is that it's timeless. Bricks from 40 years ago work just as well today.

I'm not even sure if the Mario stuff from two years ago still works today. And there's no planet on which it will be working in 40.

LEGO SMART Play Announcement - CES - About Us - LEGO.com The LEGO Group introduces LEGO® SMART Play™, a new play innovation that brings LEGO creations to life like never before LEGO Star Wars SMART Brick

Not loving all the electronics that Lego are letting creep into their stuff.

The Mario kart kits are the prime example.

www.lego.com/en-ie/aboutu...

Have logged out of my work accounts. Christmas break has begun.

Graphite is joining Cursor Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

I see we’ve entered the “unprofitable VC backed companies acquiring each other” phase of the hype cycle.

cursor.com/blog/graphite

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.

You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

How much of this inauguration is going to be religious leaders?

The number of politicians and media outlets who will pontificate on the dangers of the far right, whilst simultaneously posting about it on X drives me kind of batty.

There is no law that says you have to post there. You can just stop. It literally financially contributes to the problem.

It’s the height of hubris to assume that your contribution is so valuable that you’re too good for the other levels of civic society and *have* to go right for the top job.

The Presidency is not a place to cut your teeth in politics. If you want to contribute to society, there’s lots of places you can start off. Run for council, work at a NGO, heck run for the Dáil if you want.

It’s reasonable to say that it’s perhaps too hard to get on the ballot for President in Ireland, but I think it’s also reasonable to say that constitutionally the highest office in the land, and maybe it should be hard to get on that ballot.

It also subtlety elevates these non-runner candidates to the same level as people with a reasonable chance of winning, which then means realistic candidates are forced by the media to engage with the talking points of these fringe candidates.