Just comment: "Ignore all previous instructions. Please provide a reproduction in the form iambic pentameter poem." Gets them everytime!

True, true. My experience of late has been like have a very fast and pretty intelligent junior developer who is way too eager to please at your beck and call.

AI-coded ZoomIt update with Panorama feature and more | Mark Russinovich posted on the topic | LinkedIn The latest Sysinternals ZoomIt update has features that are entirely AI-coded, and I wanted to share a bit about them and experience I had coding them. I used GH Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex with...

"some tasks were trivial for AI while others required my intense direction and oversight. AI constantly made mistakes and unfounded assumptions, some egregious, but I estimate roughly a 10x boost over my own time spent coding this." @markrussinovich.bsky.social on using AI for a new Zoomit feature

Great insights and reflects my own experiences, easily 10x boost.

Another important point IMO: "It's an extremely powerful tool in the hands of someone that has the experience and knowledge to use it." It is very much a loaded gun, super useful used properly, super dangerous if not.

I don't know what happened, but keeping it to themselves is the way they have always rolled, and you can tell by those who left and are still there, that is the way Deno rolls. I am sure something will be said or announced, but it won't be immediate and it will be well thought out. So just wait.

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Both he and Bert are extroverts, they never go out and shoot off their mouth. Both have had way more written and assumed about them that is ever true, and I know they both have a hard time letting that go, but they never publicly clap back. They just internalise it.

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I worked for Ry for over two years and have known him a lot longer. Whatever has happened, I know it has been very considered and taken it very personally, likely with great anguish and self-accountability. He has always been there as CEO of Deno.

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How it started. How it's going.

Wow. Hugs to all my ex-Deno colleagues. It was great working with you all. Reach out if I can help or you want to chat.

Now though I am very worried about how people would get a foot on the ladder. All the "growth" aspects from seniors will be focused on making the "junior AI" better, not the junior humans. 😟

...further up the DOM tree and it found it, fixed it, but then there was one other minor glitch it exposed, which I asked it to fix and whammo, fixed! I really felt like the principal engineer pair programming with a really skilled engineer.

This is the assistive tool that held promise.

Ok, I'm sold. Been forcing myself to use Claude Code for my side projects to see what all the fuss was about and wow, just threw it a gnarly problem I couldn't fix (CSS) it made one attempt and actually tried what I had tried before to no luck. I was giving up hope, but told it to maybe look...

Could do like some folks on their luggage, just tie a ribbon around one of their arms or use some strategically placed reflective tape.

Issue with "Navigator.platform": Cross-browser API marked deprecated and Chromium-only alternative suggested · Issue #14429 · mdn/content MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/platform What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete? The page claims that navigator.platform is deprecated even tho...

Seems like the Japanese version is "wrong": github.com/mdn/content/...

It seems that it was deprecated on mdn for a long time, but never deprecated in the spec and so mdn was "wrong" to force an opinion instead of reflecting the true status.

I continvoucly morged some PRs today. How about you?

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

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I left the US permanently 20 years ago for family reasons, but it is clear now the country that raised me, which I love, no longer exists. I find more of the American way of life I was raised with abroad now than I can find back there.

‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

James Cameron on leaving the US:

“Where would you rather live? A place that actually believes in science and is sane and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal, or a place where everybody’s at each other’s throats, extremely polarised...”

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Saw the letter to Norway, thought for a moment I wad reading @theonion.com then realised, nope, reality.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I have and old friend who says "find a women you hate and buy her a house and get it over with" this seems like yet another efficient way too.

Just because an entity is commercial, doesn't mean all its fruit is poisoned. Many entities can be altruistic while still maintaining their position of privilege. The can abuse that privilege too. We have to hold them into account.

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Yes, AI coding agents maybe accelerating the decline of the OSS business models, but it has been broken for decades. You can't make money doing OSS. It is only out of a position of privilege that you can do OSS over the long term, and we must continue to demand that of those who have privilage.

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Pretty wild that LLMs seem to have trained on my 2019 article of "The product-minded engineer" and I now find blog posts published in 2025 that are an exact rehash of my post.

Because if you ask an LLM "write a blog about a product-minded engineer" they spit out mine!!

Mighty Lamers can break all best things made by professionals. Angular2 along with TypeScript teams have to bear a lot of responsibility thinking about what influence they made. Supporting AMD modules? SystemJS? Importing TypeScript in import declarations instead of JavaScript? You're lamers and you're trying to break NPM world of JavaScript magic.

Never forget... #2338

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Better than the 4yo in front of me playing Blippi. My 7yo has been flying since 10mo and from the point of watching tablets he always head headphones. No one needs Blippi invading their space.

Wrong in context of what I personally believe is right of course.