When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I meant doing this intentionally, to see the different ways the LLM generates code for the same problem.

Yes, it'll be on YouTube and indexed at pyvideo.org I think the turnaround is usually a couple weeks.

Things I've vibe coded mentioned in my PyTexas talk:

ASCII art moon: pypi.org/project/asci...

Flashcard app: inventwithpython.com/tsofa/

ButtonPad: pypi.org/project/butt...

Francois Morellet art: inventwithpython.com/morellet/

One thing I wanted to ask the audience during my PyTexas talk was if they ever had AI generate code for something, got it working, were about to check in, but just decided to redo all that work from scratch *to see how the two compared*. Same model, same initial prompt. Have you done this before?

I finished my PyTexas talk and can finally relax. Whew.

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Hey! Are you in Austin this weekend? I just arrived in town for PyTexas 2026. Tutorials are tomorrow, but the talks are all weekend at the beautiful central library. Check it out! You can still get tickets. www.pytexas.org/2026/

A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.

Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.

Do you see how this works?

I said this before and I will say it again: if you have a disputed status, do not fly at all, the Mobile Fortify database used by ICE and CPB, is built on the pre-existing TSA database. And if I were the Democrats: I would refuse to appropriate DHS through regular order until 2028.

"The concentration camps were fine, but the AI Jesus pic is too far."

Julius Caesar did not invent Caesar salad. Its creator was Caesar Cardini, an Italian-American restaurateur, in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1924. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

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transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

A photo of a large barn flanked by rolling green hills on a bright spring morning.

A photo of a seated crowd in the barn, as Adrianna Tan is on stage presenting. The slide currently projected on screen reads: Do not want - Work on ads - Work on weapons - Abet genocides - Make the world worse - Use Microsoft Teams

A photo of a glorious orange cat cleaning themselves in a barn window.

A photo of a crowd of folks who stuck around at the end of North Bay Python 2025 to help clean up.

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We're a small local event with a global draw. If you've never been, come find out why 😁

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They do it because for all their fretting about "cancel culture" they know that it's okay to be openly bigoted in America.

And they're right. Nothing is going to happen to this guy.

A man on LinkedIn, Franklin Vaugn, telling people to stop studying coding and go into plumbing or carpentry.

Franklin Vaugn saying Black people are the problem in society.

I was going to say everyone who says you need to stop studying software engineering and go into plumbing is an idiot who doesn't understand software engineering OR plumbing. But after looking at this guy's profile I want to add they're probably racist, too.

I found an article that AI code generation is causing a *product management* bottleneck since code can be generated so fast. This is worrying and revealing, because where the bottleneck SHOULD be is in quality assurance and testing.

Rep. Ogles: "The next bill we're working with the White House on is to put more teeth in the denaturalization process so that we can start denaturalizing these people like Mamdani who came into the country under false pretense, and kick them out of the country"

Frame from the animated show "Archver" showing Pam with a dolphin hand puppet at a desk across from Krieger.

ARTEMIS ASTRONAUT LEAVING THE AIR LOCK OPEN: "It's called Oxygen-Maxxing and it shows how productive I am."

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"Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams."

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

I think I'll log off for the weekend.

Absolutely. Software is not without its magic and mysteries.

Losing the World's Respect The Iran War looks like a tipping point

There's that third of people (or 27% if you follow the Alan Keyes Factor) that don't mind Trump's cruelty even a little bit. What will make them turn away from Trump is *losing*.

We must *never* forget it, or forgive it. We know what they do with power.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/losing-the...

Do you have LLMs call you by your name, or just call you "user"? Do you prefer a friendly or clinical tone of voice? Or do you think it doesn't really matter either way for yourself? Does it matter for LLM users in general?

A venn diagram with a small circle that says "Software That Works" and a much larger circle that says "Software that looks like it works"

A slide from my upcoming PyTexas talk about vibe coding and AI. PyTexas is in beautiful Austin this year, April 17 to 19. www.pytexas.org/2026/

The "no take, only throw" dog meme except the dog says, "More babies? No safety net! Only more babies!"