✈️ Headed to #KotlinConf’? If your team is working with #KotlinMultiplatform at scale, don’t miss @tadeas.bsky.social's talk: Advanced Kotlin Native Integration. Add it to your schedule 👇 kotlinconf.com/speakers/969...

The AI model branding is just silly now. "Gemini 3.5 Flash" pricing is closer to "pro" 3.0 than Flash 3.0. And not by a little bit. I'd compare it to "3.1 Flash Lite", but what do these brand names even mean? TBF, Anthropic and OpenAI do the same, but they're meaningless and harmful.

Actual pic from an apartment listing. It feels like AI, but it could also just be a terrible photoshop. Maybe a cheap 3d scan thing. Either way, is this helping the sale?

Hats off to the old school digital marketing teams who still think a birthday is a great excuse to reach out.

I really like Goose, but this article is silly: venturebeat.com/technology/c.... I tried to do a "detailed" skim to see where it explained that a local model isn't going to be anywhere near as capable as a frontier model. Nope. The implication is that the $200 is for the tool. It's not.

Spent a lot of time with family this holiday season, exposing Eve to everything Christmas. If you actually count up the gifts of the "Twelve days of Christmas", and take the words literally, thats 184 birds, 140 people, and 40 rings. Your "true love" is an aristocratic stalker. Run.

SKIE 0.10.7 just released with support now for Kotlin 2.2.20/21 #KMP github.com/touchlab/SKI...

Pro tip for Android dev with AI agents. Don't let them edit Gradle. They'll rip out the wiring before checking the circuit breaker when trying to fix something. Hopefully the Android Studio agent has some better tooling than stock agents. www.youtube.com/live/0vMDXa2... (updates look really nice)

Love AI agents, hate AI agents. They can be fun. (It did seem to think about that longer than I imagine it would have with "Yes", but we'll never know...)

Sometimes I'm amazed dogs have survived. Just found out onions are toxic to dogs. Onions, garlic, chocolate, almonds, various other nuts, on and on. Ours seems to be sensitive to chicken. Any time I'm about to break down and give him some of my food, quick check, and nope. Something's toxic.

I rarely post political takes. But Trump is full of surprises. I can't imagine anybody cared about the fate of George Santos. Beyond George, of course. Left or right, his shit conduct as a person was universally recognized. But why? Analysis? Yolo + wildcard? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRy...

This sounds like a simple question, but you'd be surprised. Does anybody have a good recommendation of over-ear bluetooth headphones that have absolutely no noise-cancelling tech? Or at least, you can definitely turn it off?

I know people are dunking on glass ui and iOS 26, but man. The home screen on its own. Contrast used to "just work"

When somebody complains about Android and Gradle. Me about to get all serious about JS/Node...

techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h... 'Ardayfio called the glasses “the first real step towards vibe thinking.”' Sometime I feel like I should be out in startup land a bit more, then I read something that makes me think "nah, home or the local dive bar are fine".

JPMorgan predicted a foldable iPhone coming. I tried to have AI create a list of a similar predictions for each year since the rumors started. That was more frustrating than I wanted to deal with. But, summary, that prediction has been coming like clockwork since 2016. But this time I'm sure!

Ozzy is a huge part of music life. As a teenage guitarist up to now (I have a black SG and play in a band). The weirdest part of this post is that I heard the news in a debugging window.

Gemini and Claude are down. Actually trying out gpt. Crazy outage day.

Wow. I don't know the Roo Code community well (at all, really), but they're pushing hard. Just installed the latest. New features focused on context compression, but with visibility and settings. Tasks. A whole bunch of stuff. The open source AI agent world is intense.

We’ve learned a lot about scaling for mobile. @namnum.bsky.social will talk about why “second-platform thinking” (web → mobile, iOS → Android) should start early - even before your AI-coded MVP ships. 🗓 Tues 6/3, 5:30pm 📍 Building AI Infra Systems for Vibe Coders 🎟️ partiful.com/e/NRjzYND0fu...

Don't need a car. Just got rid of our Covid-era Nissan Rouge. Loved it, but in Manhattan, it was just a money pit (parking, basically). Still. I can't tell you how much I want a DIY electric. Slate is marketed as no frills, but the money/time I'd spend tweaking this... www.slate.auto/en/slatemake...

The new agent in Android Studio is enabled in yesterday's canary build! This build doesn't have all the tools hooked up that I showed in the I/O demo last week (agent here: youtu.be/KXKP2tDPW4Y?...), such as the Gradle awareness -- and it also doesn't have the Upgrade Agent yet. Hopefully soon!

If you're using Linear and periodically need to write issues that would use some context from your codebase, we have an MCP for you: touchlab.co/linear-mcp-f.... For conversational AI tools with project context, it can save a lot of painfully manual work. RE: blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/05...

Vibe coding hackathon in Brooklyn talking about agents and mcp. Hanging out with some folks I haven't seen in a while

I used Perplexity deep research to build an "about me" kind of page for a personal site refresh. Whoever this guy is, he sounds pretty amazing. Starting with my military service, then, "A medical discharge following traumatic injury redirected his path toward software engineering." Compelling!

Fired up Claude 4 Opus. Did some planning (good). Then I was like, "OK, let's set up that module" and it started generating what looked like valid Gradle config. Too bad this is a Typescript project :) My fault. I didn't really prime the context well, but reminder that agents aren't magic...

The amount of news this week(s?) is just wild. Sonnet 4: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4, Gemini Agent in Android Studio (and Jules, but I'm less interested in that). Copilot open source. Kotlin LSP and VSCode support(?) Claude Code SDK. There's more, but I have to get to the airport...

I did not see that coming. Huge.

Bold move 👀 github.com/Kotlin/kotli...

Ah! Not just Jules! Conversational agent in android studio! AI coding hasn't impacted mobile much yet, relative to other parts of tech, but that's going to change fast (no source link, talk at I/o)

If you’re at google.io and in the parking lot, public service announcement. There’s a lot of holes in the grass that you can twist your ankle on.

Curious if this also includes the Copilot agent tool. Not sure why it wouldn't. That's pretty exciting. Google is (probably) releasing a dev agent: www.reuters.com/business/goo.... MCP in AOSP tools: android.googlesource.com/platform/too....

Here's an amazing example of click-slop: opentools.ai/news/googles.... It talks about the possible new AI dev agent that Google may be releasing. It says a lot, but then you realize the only source is www.reuters.com/business/goo..., cited ~15 times. Really amazing.

We published an MCP Server for Linear. Relatively simple integration, but if you're using agent tools, and Linear obviously, it can save a ton of time. touchlab.co/linear-mcp-f...

I haven't had the time, nor currently the focus (it's pretty late), to process any hints as to *why* that was added, but my recent months essentially living inside AI tools and LLMs are rather excited about the implications. And @skydoves.bsky.social , if you just organically spotted that...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

The AI tooling landscape is kind of a mess. I was having really good luck with the new VSCode Copilot agent, until I decided to evaluate actually paying for Copilot and maybe making it the default for the team. Result? Agent no longer lets you choose models. Paying for it drops functionality.

A person who has a particular vein of humor that I vibe with suggested that I give "Walk Hard" another watch, and under 5 minutes in, I feel like it is undiscovered country for memes. Perhaps not funny without context, but memes rarely suffer your need for explanation.

I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest this, but it would be great if bsky could show the mouseover from xkcd directly in the app (even if it said "Don't be lazy. Click the link." or similar)

Fresh from the Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform community: Storytale is a new plugin to preview Composables in isolation—think Storybook for Compose. @kevinschildhorn.bsky.social breaks down what it does, how it works, what’s promising (and what’s not). touchlab.co/previewing-s...

Finally did it. I wrote down how to build a code-editing agent. In 315 lines of code. And yes, it works. Very well. There is no moat. Read it here: ampcode.com/how-to-build...

I spent some time with GPT 4.1 yesterday. Surprisingly good, but Gemini 2.5 is really good, and my current go to. Sonnet 3.7 is also really good. It'll be interesting to see if the next gen do anything really meaningfully better, or if this becomes incremental improvement.

Not a UX expert, but if I was going to put a small button that a user might frantically try to click when they see Cursor's agent going off the rails, it *probably* wouldn't be in the exact spot where a button that will remove all of your changes, without confirmation, might suddenly appear.

We'll see how all this AI coding stuff plays out in reality. I've been very deep-diving lately (MCP party). But, if nothing else, the thought of never needing to write a regex again is pretty comforting.

This is just a personal anecdote but probably worth noting for job hunters and learners: I've been asked 3 times just in the past week (!) by hiring managers for native Android developers! If you're deciding what you want to pick up/hone, that seems to be in pretty high demand right now.

Maybe it's finally time to deprecate Stately. blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/... Common Atomic types: kotlinlang.org/api/core/kot...

Tip to Anthropic. I have Claude doing refactors, and it regularly runs out of context. When I clear and reload, it phrases errors and issues as things I've done. I guess that's technically true, but it gets old. Example phrasing, if it helps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVJ...

I asked Claude how likely it thought its own refactor would be successful. I appreciate the honesty. "Based on my analysis of the codebase and our progress so far, I'd give this refactoring effort a moderate chance of successful completion - around 60-70%." Git is your friend, friend.

I've been doing crazy things with existing code using Claude code. It's great, but I feel like this will be a non-trivial part of at least my budget for Touchlab going forward. Still, I want that 500k enterprise context. So much effort between sessions...