Benedict Evans asks if frontier AI models are destined to be the next high-margin tech monopolies, or the next low-margin commodity infrastructure like mobile networks? He argues that current dynamics point toward the latter, as models are trending towards interchangeability.

Stuyvesant admitted 534 Asian students and only 3 Black students. Cue all the wrong conversations about affirmative action and model minorities.🤷🏿‍♂️ Or, consider this: Being raided by ICE, is traumatic. An Asian student having a parent killed or falsely imprisoned, causes their grades suffer.

the implications for SaaS businesses, IMO, depend on how much their value is just software versus how much is offloading liability, operations, process, compliance, etc. put more simply, if your only moat is software, that's a problem. IME, however, that's not most SaaS businesses.

I’ve been considering buying a new Mac mini or Mac Studio (yes, yes… I’m aware of the price increases) but after reading this I might just stick with my MacBook Air and just use @exe.dev

This post is strengthening my desire to retry XP-style pair programming (which I always hated) and TDD with agents.

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

This thread should be made into a short film. It would win awards at Sundance.

data visualization is my passion.

The Wankel engine is an elegant design. I appreciate the adoption comparison but challenges were different. The similarities are in the long term outcomes. The Wankel IS still used today, for use cases that require its technical advantages. Likewise, AI will be useful, just not for everything.

@charity.wtf mentioned @chadfowler.com’s Phoenix Architecture in a conversation last week. I’m still catching up, but really impressed by the framing.

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

People trying to justify Trump accepting the plane from Qatar, are comparing it to the United States accepting the statue of Liberty from France? The. Statue. Of. Liberty. Was. Not. A. Gift. From. France! US people get so worked up about "their history," but they don't even know their history.

Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete. Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it. We're still fixing that mistake.

Afro-futurism exhibit at SFO. Very cool.

Bloody hell this is good.

This thread would make an incredible foundation for a fantasy book series.

People really hate AI mandates -- unsurprisingly, since most are terrible. But they don't have to be. Used wisely, the mandate is an effective tool for driving and funding organizational change. More in my piece, "In defense of AI mandates." charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/in-defense...

Aurora Australis from the International Space Station

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

woohoo, one testimonial for the new "Observability Engineering", chapter 29: "Build vs Buy (vs Open Source)"! in which we take on the evergreen question of "which do you hate more, your money or your time?" honeycomb.io/book

For my newsletter on this US Knockout Gameday, I am honored to reprint my now decade old @unusualefforts.bsky.social piece on the history of the American Soccer League, the Soccer Wars, and how football became a foreign sport here in the US. www.burnsnotice.com/how-soccer-b...

Where is the @mcsweeneys.net article on the increased investment from national gangs to fund lobbyists and Super PACs?

Firefighters work at the scene of a fire at San Francisco Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Monday. 📸: Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle

OH: “Fuck AI, can’t we just make printers work.”

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

Also, LOVED Progressive Delivery! Was one of my Top 5 reads of the last year.

@kstewart.bsky.social you are becoming my Sunday RSS feed. I just read all the articles you find. Thank you.

This just made me laugh out loud. The look on the cat's face.

I love our pride laser.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Haters gonna hate, but the people who want to understand what meaningful science looks like and understand how to enact real and impactful change are gonna get this book :)

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust." Code you can fix. Trust evaporates in an instant and doesn't come back. XP was a trust factory. Every practice that builds it makes you trustworthy. Vibe coding removes those moments: newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/trust-fact...

Hear @jherr.dev walk me through @tanstack.com’s npm Mini Shai-Hulud Compromise. We discuss why developers are becoming more security aware & why the supply chain and CI/CD is more important than ever in the #AI era. Full episode @redmonk.com 👉 redmonk.com/videos/jack-... youtube.com/shorts/Uezbn...

what on EAAAAAAARTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH

😹 come on now who is writing this season

A billion dollars in 30 years. I wouldn't take it. Push "tomorrow" far enough and the future is worth nothing to you. XP knew it: earn sooner, spend later. True for a career, not just code. On money and mortality: newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/extreme-ti...

Happy Father's Day! Here's some art from a vasectomy brochure.

Maybe it’s naïve at this point, but it bothers me that filing pertinent information away for a future book while working as a journalist isn’t considered a conflict of interest.

PSA: Features available behind a feature flag have not shipped. (The thread had some more examples and words)

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire tax, we could fully cover free community college in America.

Programming isn't going away, it's splitting in two. Jessica Kerr on Still Burning: "If you want to build a bookshelf, that's a craft. But there's also IKEA." The code-crafting got commoditized. Knowing what to build didn't.

writing my second response on AI, this one on ethics. here's my list, what am I missing? come on bsky, you were built for this day 😉 * datacenters that are too loud and use fresh water * data labeling work that is extractive & exploitative, chasing low pay * models trained on data without consent

"ADMINISTRATION REGISTERS RECORD GROWTH" wapo.st/4vWAPAW

We have tabulated all the cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes Trump and his administration committed last month. They're up to over 1000 since retaking office. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

I used to think number of app downloads was the most useless vanity metric until token maxxing.