mastodon 4.7.3technology freak
mindfulness practitioner
devil's advocate
work in progress
In the 2000's there weren't enough software engineers. Somebody recogized that every fifteen year old and their nephew was learning javascript by copy/pasting myspace configs and then teaching themselves javascript in 24 hours courtesy of SAMS Publishing
Node.js was born
Now we have electron apps and npm supply chain vulnerabilities and brittle, fragile infrastructure
These headlines are fucking stupid.
Claude Code didn't delete shit. A dev deleted his shit using Claude Code.
Calling a macbook a laptop is a lie because it does not actually work on most laps
Everyone is discovering that the coding was never the hard part
I propose an AI era update to Atwood's Law, if somebody hasn't already:
Anything that can be specified in Markdown will eventually be specified in Markdown.
I've been bouncing around between different AI dev tools, as I go along realizing that the near-term problem to solve is going to be orchestrating agents and associated artifacts and scaffolding.
I'm discovering that I think warp.dev is what I've been looking for - as soon as I started exploring its other features, I forgot it was a terminal with a shell, but that's there too
Corporate America is all about rewarding complexity and finding someone to blame when things are not as expected - which happens often when complexity is rewarded
teledildonics: vibe coding since 1975
Let the model cook
We're in a world of increasingly disposable software. AI slop is often somebody who never dreamed of creating something now empowered to create. A LOT of people are creating a LOT now, and most of it is absolute shit, but there are going to be gems of good ideas and brilliance. How do we extract the signal from the noise?
Digging the new LoG
Often when people say they want a faster horse it's only because they don't realize that they actually want a car. That doesn't mean they're ready for a stealth fighter, though.
I'm hitching my wagon to the gas town/gas city train and we're going to the edge of the universe
By definition, an agent has agency.
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, et al do _not_ have agency. They are agent orchestrators, not actual agents.
It's the same distinction as "IDE" to "java class" or "node module"
Apple's reputation as user friendly is a fucking sham
What user friendly software designer decided to make sure the user's work is thoroughly disrupted by software updates that should be silent?
Every fucking day I have my typing suddenly redirected to a little useless dialog box that informs me that some app that is not my current focus of attention is being verified.
The user does NOT need to see this!
It is absolutely wild times that I can be testing something on a website on mobile, notice a bug, paste a screenshot into the Claude mobile app and say "fix dis" and it's off and running.
And for shits and giggles I tagged GitHub Copilot on the PR.
I postulate that every LLM inference provider that charges by token (that is to say, all of them) is highly incentivized to get us to consume tokens. Have you noticed that the consumer-facing chatbots end every output with a question that tries to compel you to continue the dialog? There's little profit in encouraging efficient resource consumption
Experience can't be taught.
You can't buy experience from a boot camp or a book.
Experience by definition is amount of time with ass in chair doing the work and getting beat up and cut and learning
Terrorism is just torture on societal scale
Vendor pricing changes are the ultimate abstraction leak
What if I implement myself as a CLI and introduce myself to the bots
This really hasn't caught on widely yet.
Listen everyone, this is going to take off. Hard. It already is.
The evals are the moat
I think Linux as desktop UI for me is probably headed in the same direction as typing code in an editor: fun and nostalgic, but not productive