there’s a bunch of people in the replies saying stuff like “why did you ship this instead of something easy, like private accounts or an edit button”, and… man, literal inverse of xkcd.com/1425/

yeah, i’m really sympathetic to that. if you don’t have a way to enforce a minimum bar of quality, then… yeah. it sucks, man.

i’m fortunate enough in that i can make policy at my (possessive) workspace because i’m management. not everyone can!

like, yeah, my perspective is a bit curmudgeonly, but fundamentally, open source is a way to get labor from people for free. maybe people are motivated by altruism, but their motivations are immaterial to my goals of accepting PRs.

my take is that i wouldn’t accept pull requests from people i don’t know. if some random person, new to my codebase, is using claude to write code, what do i need them for? why should *they* feed *my* instructions into an LLM when I could do it myself?

these models got scary good in last 5 months. i see no reason why improvements won’t keep coming, nor why would they wouldn’t get better in other fields.

i think “get on board or get left behind” phrasing is ugly, but anthropic’s run rate went from 9 billion in december 2025 to 19 billion in march 2026. claude code has 40% margins. i rarely write code by hand these days, and there’s a ridiculous amount of low hanging fruit remaining in claude.

this post is like watching the water recede and thinking you’re safe from a tsunami

i mean that’s fair. ersc is now a customer of antithesis, so i see the utility of reducing the state space of verification, but like… that’s a new language for me.

i mean, if you combine that with linters, the review surface area that you’re left with is substantially smaller. the tco of code is still there, but i think it’s fair that a spot audits + automation will go a shockingly long way!

i don’t think yosh would be receptive to the “llms solve this” argument, though

my other takes about effect generics is that the ecosystem has already routed around the problem it’s trying to solve, and boilerplate just *stopped mattering* when claude writes the boilerplate for me.

oh dear, that sounds like a nightmare to
work with.

(this person now tried to recall the email from mailing list, which, good luck babe!)

what’s their deal, i never heard of them

Classification: Confidential Hi Team, I am from the Procurement team at HCLTech. We have purchased PostGre SQL through one of our vendors. We were informed through them that the product support is included in license cost but not integration support that user need to do on his own. Could you please explain what specifically is covered by "product support" versus "integration support"? User requirement is for support for the PostgreSQL database itself. They are not looking for support for the software used to integrate .NET applications with PostgreSQL. Also can you please check if we can also buy one of the licenses from below? https://postgrespro.com/products/postgrespro/standard https://postgrespro.com/products/postgrespro/enterprise Thanks, and Regards

the postgres mailing list sure gets emails

fwiw, i’ve been *really* wanting to write my own clippy lints since claude started writing most of my code. i have some pedantic style stuff that simply doesn’t belong upstream

ime with the javascript ecosystem, a lot of the configuration has been subsumed into the next.js/tanstack frameworks themselves, and out of it, i think llms are honestly good enough at this

they train their AI models using python; ensuring control over the best-in-class python tooling is a reasonable way to signal seriousness about refocusing on improving models

*ed, UGH. damn shitpost going awry

es: needs more clapping emojis

took some discipline to not post this on linkedin

NLRA § 8(a)(2) :)

i’m not going to apologize for posting earnestly, i’m extremely proud of where we are

as of monday, @ersc.io is 10 people. i’m genuinely, ridiculously, proud of the team and product we built and i can’t wait to show y’all what we’ve been working on.

it’s just such a *singular* vision between the narrative and the gameplay and it’s honestly remarkable to see

glad it’s working out! it’s also a great way to learn the maps, heh

that + a high DPI makes apple basically the only game in town and it’s incredible

it’s insanely great

this article was a nauseating (laudatory) read

i’m so glad microsoft and amazon are eating shit on this specifically, the latter caused me a lot of stress way back when