Yeah, Anthropic is in a rare position. They can keep doing this longer than most apps. It's all new functionality, and users already expect to have to review the output

To your point, focusing on code quality when you're trying to find product market fit is a fool's errand

If you're successful, the problem becomes adding new functionality while also keeping every existing thing working. This is when you dig into quality

If you think the code is bad now, wait 3-4 years until Anthropic has to continue supporting some critical workflow that was strung together last week that requires a bug not being fixed to produce the right results

You can throw AI at a task you have no expertise in and get workable results. But it won't make make you as effective as an expert. Merely average

You are fortunate to work with folks who plan

Your weaknesses become average, but your skills are fading

What are you doing to keep your codebase from turning into un-shippable slop?

AI is changing how engineers work. But not in the ways the hype predicts

Context switching is cheaper but tech debt is exploding

I wrote up some things that are working. Along with advice to mitigate the downsides

jaimzuber.com/ai/ai-assist...

High 'n' Dry

ICE is still here in MN

The “Drawdown” is a distraction. Keep the pressure on!

- Demand your Senators hold ICE accountable
- Keep funding mutual aid
- Be ready to help their next target

The Best Things You'll Find Along East Lake Street in Minneapolis Wander down the ever-changing East Lake Street to find small and local businesses representing a variety of ideas and people from all types of backgrounds.

Immigrant-owned and operated businesses along E Lake St are struggling under the ICE occupation. Please visit if you can, show support, have a meal or buy some gifts. This page has some good suggestions of places to visit: www.minneapolis.org/neighborhood...

If you know someone in law enforcement with an Orange Pickup. Ask them where their kids were Thursday night

I'm fine. It was immediately obvious they were some dumb-*ss kids. But who knows what would have happened with a more vulnerable person.

They were clearly trying to impersonate police officers. "We're on a ride along".

After 3-4 attempts I was able to merge back into the road. They then turned to go E on Ford Parkway.

I did not engage and started to pull ahead to leave, they pulled the pickup along side me. Multiple times. And repeated their harassment. There was a parked car ahead which would have prevented me from accelerating quickly to leave.

I pull over to let them pass. Instead them pulled along side me
I rolled my window down to see what they wanted. The driver started yelling at me
"You swerved when making U Turn" (I was driving straight from the ice rink on Snelling)
"You're drunk"

Two young men (teens or early 20's) pulled me over and tried to convince me they were police officers

I was driving West on Ford Parkway when an Orange Pickup aggressively tailgated me and blinked their lights. They appeared to be simulating a police interaction.

I was "pulled over" by two young men impersonating police officers last night. This happened while driving on Ford parkway in St. Paul, around 10:40 Thursday night

In the age of ICE this can not be tolerated. They may have taken more liberties with someone from a vulnerable community

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Apple Devs - I’m in Cupertino at @omt-conf.bsky.social all week

Come say hi!

Hello XAML my old friend... It's been a while

Sometimes the "in" in invaluable is the same as "in" in invisible

Yeah. That’s the one. I should’ve been more specific

That matches my experience

Language Guide doesn't have enough detail. Proposals have the goods

My gap is I don't have a strong understanding of all the proposals, so it takes a while to find out which proposal I should be looking at.

What is your most used source of truth for this stuff? Language Guide, Swift Evolution Proposals etc

Where is this? Streets etc

The number of Mac apps I use daily has exploded over the past year

Gone are the days of Slack, Zoom, and a billion browser tabs

There's huge potential for more integration with native features. But please stop high-jacking global keyboard shortcuts. We use those.

Thanks for all your help. Getting Minne* through the pandemic was a huge accomplishment!

Your Year in Swift Concurrency

4536 compiler errors you had to use LLMs to figure out how to fix

Top 0.1% of bad concurrent programmers worldwide

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Pond Hockey Season has begun!

If you don't already know what to do, read these. Twice. Both are quick reads.

Back to tech snark and iOS dev absurdity shortly...

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder - Timothy Snyder On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Post election malaise reading list

History shows exactly what authoritarians do when they get power. Here's how to recognize and resist the playbook.
timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

We still live in a functioning democracy. Here's how to get involved to keep it.
indivisible.org/resource/guide