Henry Beck's 1933 tube map of London features straight, mostly non-overlapping lines of subway routes, designed for usability at the expense of geography

Photo of Henry Beck in front of his map of London's subway system.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Jun 4, 1902 Henry C. Beck born in London, England 🇬🇧

In 1933, he redesigned the route map of the London underground rail system to favor usability over geography

Agentic Enterprise - What your CEO must know about AI - Hubert Misztela YouTube video by AI Engineer

2/n
A good starting point:
Agentic Enterprise - What your CEO must know about AI

A good introduction to the new patterns for AI in the Enterprise - Workflows, Agents, Tools, Representational Learning and beyond.

youtu.be/d7ds6m7fbqg?...

#ai #aiengineer @aiengineering.bsky.social

1/n The AI Engineer YT channel is my favourite for nuts-and-bolts knowledge about building AI systems. They just had their conference and uploaded a ton of great content. I will post the best of them on this thread. #ai #aiengineer

Keep in mind that we are about to go through a 10 - 15 year application architecture swap out (think client/server to Web to Saas).

The new architecture will be built around 'Agents writ broadly'. It's the largest architectural shift we have ever tried. It's a massive job.

CSS for hair. The build step sucks.

Thus proving the value of a first date. I hope is was a coffee date.

Like dating, that way.

🫡

It's been an hour. There must be a better model by now.

Writing code manually after using AI for a while feels like driving stick after driving using automatic. It's good to know that the muscle memory is still there and driving stick is much more fun. #AI

I was speaking to @paulphilp.com last weekend about some code editing challenges I have been having with AI, and he suggested I try t3.chat by @t3.gg - Holy crap, I love this tool! Access to the best AI models for $8/m. Thought it was worth sharing with the rest of you geeks.

Rob is a great communicator. Well done, sir!

This is the best video about software design I have seen in a long time. He's thinking a level deeper than most of the usual conference speakers.

Don't even think about writing concurrent code in Typescript without @effect-ts.bsky.social . That is so 2024.

Dave goes where nobody else will!

#AI Pro Tip. If you ask an AI coding tool to build a component or a library with a moderate about of complexity and functionality, assume it will be overcomplicate the design and coach it to simplify it. This will save all the non-converging cycling such tools are so fond of.

AI-assisted coding has been a journey! The learning curve felt like picking up a new TypeScript framework. Now it's like pair programming with a clever junior – we both contribute, but I'm still leading the way. Same old concerns remain, though. #AI #coding #typescript

One of the best things about AI coding tools? No distractions, no politics, just pure focus. Solved a tricky problem today by asking my AI assistant for library suggestions. Pro/con analysis and implementation in minutes. #AISolutions #CodingLife #Productivity

Paradigms come. Paradigms go.
Incompetent coders react too slow.
Curious minds want to know.
Should I stay or should I go.

p.s. Suggest professional developers over advanced.

Trying out a new avatar. It captures how my career feels in 2025. What do you think?

They're marketing to early adopters in the language that gets their attention. The only AI category that has crossed the chasm to the mainstream market are general knowledge chatbots. Maybe 'vibe coding' is close. Anything requiring a process or workflow, is for early adopters.

It's all pre-chasm slop. I use langgraph and the docs are spaghetti. Learning open-router is like pinning the tail on the donkey. The best of the lot is vercel's AI SDK.

Loading the docs/blogs/github into a google LLM (large context windows) helps but is a bit of a pain.

Is "Tab to Complete" making AI coding agents obsolete for most tasks? I'm only reaching for the full agent UI when truly stuck or facing large blocks of code. Getting the bulk of the productivity gains without the... personality quirks. 😉 #AI #IDE #vibecoding

I was having the same issue about a year ago. I blocked all the porn ads I was shown. After a while it stopped and I haven't see any since.

Here's a phrase you don't hear everyday - "King of Canada" - newly sworn in PM Carney swore allegiance to King Charles III, King of Canada.

At some point yesterday, it looked like my TS LSP stopped working in Cursor. I had just updated, so I thought it was a bug. I can code without AI but I can't code without squiggles.

It wasn't a bug. Claude 3.7 put a ts-nocheck at the top of all the TS files.

Time for a new cursor rule!

Today, in The Ongoing History of Elmo's Downfall, ....

Scaling AI for Customer Support at Markprompt with Effect | Cause & Effect #2 YouTube video by Effect | TypeScript at Scale

Full episode, show notes, and transcript on effect.website/podcast/epis...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lz9...

This is plain weird. This guy sits outside the oval office. I'm starting to feel like the dog that's about to get wagged.

The number of people who are MCP curious has started to accelerate in the past couple of weeks. Are the early adopters moving in?