★ Pools of Extraction I’ve started to notice some patterns in how I work on software projects. I create throwaway projects to learn from, and large repos with a bunch of ideas in. I sometimes extract targeted repos from them…

✨Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words? We have some great Stitch updates for you today, & I posted about a couple. At first I talk about design variants and how to use the fact that your brain can grok a lot of images very quickly... blog.almaer.com/stitch-desig...

I’m super excited about Opal, a new experiment from Google Labs. It has changed my habits. Instead of asking for something in an AI chat app, for some tasks I create a micro app on the fly… developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...

OH “We got too many Product Managers who were good at competitive analysis but not deeply technical, so we ended up with fear based copy cat roadmaps.”

“Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.” status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Cue the Rust crowd…

"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else" — Bill Joy We have used open source as a way to leverage this, and now we are using LLMs with massive sets of knowledge as a form of leverage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s...

I use playwright-mcp to drive the browser, but why not go directly to CDP to get full access to networking and performance as well as DOM etc? Stefan Li wired this up with devtools/mcp! Love it! autoconfig.io/devtools-mcp...

JVM devs, this one’s for you: Rod Johnson (Spring) just dropped an OSS agent framework. JVM-native, Kotlin-based, and focused on agentic flows mixing LLM-prompted interactions with code and domain models. #Java #Kotlin #AINativeDev #News #OSS

Which group will be the AI and which the humans?

One of the most interesting announcements at I/O got just a few seconds of airtime: Gemini Diffusion. A diffusion-based language model that: • Generates in parallel, not left-to-right • Hits ~1500 tokens/sec • Can self-correct mid-generation Read all about it here: https://www.ainativedev.co/99j

Gemini Diffusion! I love a good zig and zag. We used to be in a world where image generation used diffusion techniques (from noise), and text used autoregresion (next token). ChatGPT added 4o image generation that went the other way and used autoregression …

I love the style of Jules. Refreshingly non-Googley? jules.google

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_... Or wait no, it’s a CLI, oh wait no it’s a remote agent platform… and a new model family…

AI tools multiply, and so do config files. “This has all given birth to a plethora of rules files that we need to manage.” Vibe-rules CLI discovers and syncs them so you can code not babysit .yaml. Details ➜ www.ainativedev.co/nbp #AINativeDev #DevTools #AIDevelopment #CLI

% parade list openai I've been enjoying building simple tools writing a spec and having them generated. `parade` uses Ink and Vercel's AI SDK to let me explore model names from various providers (because I am using the openai:gpt-4o type URI format in other tools). github.com/dalmaer/parade

It’s a sin that this happened to Adam. A true world class frontend engineer and a world class human. I remember being so excited when we first spoke about him joining Chrome and then talking VisBug. And he’s gone from strength to strength. What an epic own goal.

Vibe coding is the Polaroid camera of development.

Excited to launch the landscape and start to really curate the tools that devs should be aware of as we use AI to get better and building software!

I’m excited to get posting here about all things related to developing software with the new power of AI! #ainativedev

I giggle whenever I see this in prompts: ``` IMPORTANT: Use valid markdown only for all your responses and DO NOT use HTML tags except for artifacts! ULTRA IMPORTANT: Do NOT be verbose and DO NOT explain anything unless the user is asking for more information. That is VERY important. ```

Late binding of choices is a good thing and helps with choice fatigue. Convention over configuration helps here, and LLMs being able to “fill in the gaps” takes it to a whole new level. It favors getting things working and iterating from there in a tight loop.

Voice is a great way to sculpt vs draw. You can be loose, go back and forth, and it isn’t about speaking the perfect thing which is what always held me back. Voice has become a real input for me these days. You?

It’s time for us to get fuzzy with it. @holdenmatt.bsky.social has written up his thoughts on how LLMs allow this fuzzy world. It feels different. It feels like sculpting clay vs drawing. You are still building, but in a different way. open.substack.com/pub/matthold...

📽️ Podcast: The One with Two Guys talking about AI software engineering 📽️ As global as our aperture is there are constant reminders of how it's a small world. I got to co-host an episode of AI Native Development with two Israeli founders that I have and have had the pleasure of working for...

AI Web Forge takes a prompt.txt that describes a website and goes to town. @paul.kinlan.me is having fun with these experiments :) paul.kinlan.me/describing-s...

★ English will become the most popular development language in 6 years Based on @simonwillison.net's AI predictions from the @oxide.computer computer crews podcast, I have one for AI software development, and here I explain why and how. blog.almaer.com/english-will... #ainativedev

“I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.” crawshaw.io/blog/program...

Had a fun trivia game that used our own answers to questions and I woke up so sad that one friend had “Microsoft Authenticator app” as their most used application 😱

simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... @simonwillison.net has a great roundup here!

After much debate over Xmas, had to ask Bolt to create a toilet seat efficiency calculator. subtle-cucurucho-f5e5b2.netlify.app

I’m excited about more personalized future. For one, I look forward to being able to find great commenters for premier league games vs being stuck with what ya got for each game. And then that for everything. Come on marketplaces match the capabilities we have!

We watched Four Weddings and a Funeral => Heretic back to back and imagine that High Grant is actually playing the same character. He moves to the US with his wife and things then go baaaaaad.

I do think it’s worth remembering this as a general theme though. Chatbots may sound easy to use, but they really aren’t—and they’re getting harder to use all the time." — @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/10/...

★ The Principles of Developer AI Product Development In this post I talk about lessons learned building products for developers in the new world of AI, making sure to bring the best of the human developer and the best of our massively scalable computers. blog.almaer.com/principles-o...

I love being able to create micro apps. I hosted a white elephant party & instead of doing the typical thing and have people pull a number out of a hat, I used Bolt and whipped up a lil app which I projected on the TV in our room and randomized the next person to pick a gift! bolt.new/~/sb1-hjoqtk

“Through deep exploration and countless trials, we discovered something profound: when given time to ponder, to question, and to reflect, the model’s understanding of mathematics and programming blossoms like a flower opening to the sun.” qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b...

Would be a great “Ruinous” app.

I really enjoyed the excuse^H^H^H^H^H^Hopportunity to chat with @industrialempathy.com! Many lessons, some counter intuitive, that lead to v0, the AI SDK, and much more. Thanks for sharing, Malte!

Actually building out evals and pipelines puts the engineering in “prompt engineering”.

If charisma has become rizz, then is it time for wisdom to become wizz? #deepthoughts

AI can handle its own prompt engineering now!

/dev/agents is a new dream team to build an “OS for AI agents”.

Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots

"Code should be written for humans not machines." With LLMs, if you write for humans you are also writing for machines? 🤔

Getting ready for the inaugural #AINativeDev Conference to start, where I am hosting the "AI Future" track, and jazzed for some fireside chats as well as the killer sessions! ainativedev.com

LLMs are “fill in the gaps” machines… which is important as I have a lot of gaps!

“Would this create a race to the top or a race to the bottom?”

★ News: I’m joining Tessl to become an AI native developer I’ve joined forces with @bengalbraith.bsky.social again to build an AI native dev platform and ecosystem that aims high and hopes for a step change in how we all develop software in the future. I’m quite excited :) youtu.be/OfV2Dm93moY