I got 6%. I think it’s because I’m a dude.

This is in the article. Perhaps the judge gave Penn a subversive “out”?

“In his ruling on Tuesday, Judge Pappert said the university would have to share the information it had but that Penn would not have to reveal any employee’s connection to “a specific Jewish-related organization.””

But it does have to do with Chinese folks. In 1886 and 1898 children of Chinese nationals expanded the meaning. This has been litigated already. After 1868, but still important. If the law is applied in a discriminatory way, it violates the equal protection section of the 14th amendment.

Seeing who said what brings culpability. Who wants culpability? I’m hiding behind the milquetoast summary.

It took about a minute to get this set up. Now there is no reason for Xcode.

I’m a huge fan of this. I created a todo app for iOS that thinks the way I do this morning. I did open Xcode to hit the run button and install it on my iPhone. I likely didn’t even need to do that.

NY Times headline that reads: US rejects vote to recognize slavery as a ‘crime against humanity’. Sub-headline: the United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it.

How am I supposed to show up every day and be a productive member of society, when I frequently see stuff like this?

It was a long, but it had a lot of story to tell. I think Gosling is corny, but I still enjoyed it as entertainment. I’ve also read the book. It came off less like “white guy saves everything” than the book did.

Now that more people are using gen ai, there other skills to focus on that you can’t automate away:

1. Taste - you build a sense of what works/doesn’t work after getting your hands dirty over time
2 - Marketing - how do you share a project/idea with the world?

In my tech career, we've gone from modems to frame relay to ISDN, to cable modems to FIOS with a potential for multiple Gb/s to my house. We also moved from flip phones to Palm Treos to iPhones. I've coded in C, Java, Python, Go and Rust. I used to write most of my software. Now claude-opus does.

The people who built Kubernetes and React weren't only good devs. They were deep in one area and literate across several others. Don't look at the outputs and assume the hard part was the building, not taste. GenAI doesn't change this. You still need to develop taste for what will and won't work.

Thank you. I really appreciate that!

I have other ideas: it’s hard to get out of east or west Baltimore even on public transportation. The food deserts are real. And it’s much easier to do elicit stuff than get a job that gives you dignity and pays the bills. This is my opinion as someone from Baltimore.

My guess is that is results of lead reduction. Not policy or anything else. We removed a poison that messed people’s brains up.

AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

One person’s villain is another person’s freedom fryter. Or maybe I missed the pun.

It said it liked my idea. Consciousnesses confirmed.

I’m using agents in Claude cli and Kiro cli to answer what if. Previously, we could never go chase down all the questions in our heads due to lack of time and energy. Today, I’m building things only to see what happens. If I don’t like the outcome, I build another thing. Feels like a super power.

If it’s good, why care where it came from? I get this is about passing of off as our own, but in the end, does that really matter?

Me too!

This is my #1 use of Claude desktop. I have it build visual explainers for all types of topics.

It’s a similar problem at a different level of abstraction. Tossing words at a model and hoping to see something good is a fool’s errand. Giving it some detail and having it build something that would have taken you weeks in a couple of afternoons is where it feels amazing to me.

That’s false. Look at how many cities and towns police their Black citizens. There are still multiple law and amendment violations happening today. But, I will give you credit for seeing those other things as bad.

That’s a whole different conversation!

I’m having lots of success using tools like Claude code to think, iterate on ideas, and write useful code. As someone who has been coding a very long time, this is a real improvement. The best part is that if I want to write something myself, I still can. But why? So many problems, so little time.

This is true. There is an art to it.

Traffic in that part of Maryland is already highly congested, so at the very least, people will have something to look at as they creep along at 10 mph.

Change Intent Records: The Missing Artifact in AI-Assisted Development Git tells us what changed. ADRs tell us why we chose an architecture. But when AI writes the code, we need something new: a record of intent.

I’ve been experimenting with what I called CIRs to help with this. blog.bryanl.dev/posts/change...

This is one reason for doc reads instead of presentations.

Let’s create a fund. I’ll match your initial contribution.