My theory is that they are just really really expensive to run and so not economical for B2C.

maybe we're all just scrambling for plan B

"Your PR rate has gone up this quarter, but we noticed your snark levels are off the charts."

The Claude tamagochi thing is cute until you realize it's using the same metrics it sends your boss lol

The real shame is not having a grapefruit spoon.

I taught both back in the day

Practically speaking yes. But people will still feel superior. I think there's a sort of "uncanny valley" we haven't crossed yet, where humanoid robots get so fast they become frightening.

I have a theory that this post-war mentality is like 99% responsible for present obesity problems.

Soon as these are faster than humans people gonna freak out.

Obvious parallel to gyri in organic brains

Y'all might have missed it but now SWEs trust Claude a ton more than they trust other SWEs.

Agents, like people, are way more critical of others' work than their own.

Wonder if there's a subtle difference?

word is "destructure" unless I'm missing something?

If you give a million devs the same new tool, they'll all discover the same few tricks, build the same few obvious frameworks, and claim to have made the same few insightful discoveries.

Snr devs clinging to their "agentic workflows" simply bc they can diagram them, which makes them feel like they've contributed in some way.

gtfo with "but production"

“Never send a dog-killer to do a people-killer’s job.” Henry Beisert, Seed Packager

Kristi Noem Fired As DHS Secretary
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No one talks about the real reason everyone does code review: SOC 2 compliance

AI is great at empowering individuals but extremely hard to harness as an organization. Everyone wants to use their own personal AI. Unclear if that is an intrinsic property of AI or people.

You can just paste mermaid markup into nano banana. That's bananas.

Deep Blue We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

I'm excited about the future that AI holds, but even I've had the odd moment of disquiet about what it means for being a coder.

"Deep Blue" is a delightful term for it! 🤷

Everyone I talk to is working on the same few things. Everything everyone thinks is brilliant is obvious to everyone else.

Can we finally stfu about No Code?

It's funny how FOSS ended up feeding a few new megacorps that own everything when the whole point of FOSS was to prevent that from happening.

2000s: code is free (as in speech)
2010s: code is free (as in beer)
2020s: code is free (as in puppy)

Vibe Global Thermonuclear War

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"Not entirely vibe-coded" virtue signaling

📝 "Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet"

Today is the day--beyond excited to share the first release of #Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache #Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.

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I wrote a whole new repl for this purpose. Had the agents report back whether they had the tools they needed to do their jobs, and then had a coding agent write any missing tools. Unfortunately I ended up with a whole new programming language this way when I should have just used python lol.