AI companies pirating the internet is cool. Meanwhile, a movie or sports game can still get you 5 years and a $250K fine.

I hopped over to Gemini for one quick fix—and GLM immediately hit me with: “Nope. This is all wrong.”

You could use one of these sophisticated products with "smart" routing between models (Cursor, Augment, GitHub Copilot, etc.) Or you could use GLM 5.2 open.substack.com/pub/kilocod...

When I rewatch Titanic and hear Rose compare boarding the ship to being sent to America in chains on a slave ship...

OpenCode 1.17.3 can reference other git repos or local folders 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜: { "𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝": "𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚋.𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝙴𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝-𝚃𝚂/𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝-𝚜𝚖𝚘𝚕" } gives it full access to the effect codebase, here's how we use it

Masters of the Universe felt very derivative of Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok. Like someone took notes in crayon.

a lot of programmers work in the tech a lot more of them work outside of tech tech makes a lot of revenue per employee - if they had to pay 2x per programmer it probably wouldn't matter very different for everyone else worth thinking about in terms of coding agent spend

we're going to hit 1M daily active users in the next few weeks the whole way here almost all the thought leaders kept explaining how what we were doing was wrong, bad taste, wouldn't work, etc none of them were curious enough to ask us what they got wrong

There's an imbalance between code generation speed and the experience required to validate it.

These tech layoffs likely stem from a hard truth: for many companies, the fastest way to show “AI-driven growth” is cutting headcount—not delivering meaningful product improvements.

every single ai product: "we've built revolutionary tech that changes your life using artificial intelligence so say you have a spreadsheet...."

This exchange perfectly captures how it feels to use Claude during peak hours

was waiting for this to come out this is the only angle left to attack open source, it's going to be china fear mongering it's going to be extremely effective as well

Stop building tools for a single AI coding agent. Locking into one ecosystem prevents you from swapping models as bleeding-edge tech evolves. Focus on interoperable standards and protocols. The future is multi-agent and multi-model. Build for the stack, not the brand.

A list of all of the restaurants that I want to try in Vegas during #GoogleCloudNext 2026 maps.app.goo.gl/GYBEvsypa3z...

Measuring token usage is the new measuring velocity. Velocity taught teams to reward inflated estimates. Token usage will teach teams to reward verbosity. Goodhart's Law doesn't care what era you're in.

opus 4.7 is a beauty a fresh yet elegant take on something we've seen before a new standard, a definite marker of a new era (i haven't tried it yet)

Claude is broken for me this morning, but not so broken that it can’t advertise

Developer velocity was already a flawed, gameable metric—blind to quality and long-term costs. AI makes it worse: output spikes, effort looks smaller, and the real bottlenecks move to review, testing, and correctness.

I think Paradise is the best post-apocalyptic bunker show. 1. Paradise 2. Fallout 3. Silo

I think Anthropic's pricing, especially for API usage, has gotten out of hand, and we are probably paying their legal fees.

Project Hail Mary is very good. That is all.

software factory more like slop shop

us: we are struggling to figure out the best way to use coding agents, we don't have clarity yet everyone else: our team is moving at speeds unheard of, all our PRs are ai generated, we've cleared 6 years of backlog man we must really suck huh

the discipline is the actual skill. i write specs before i write prompts, review every diff, run tests before merge. the model does the implementation. what i'm really doing is software architecture with a weird new team.

i really don't care about using AI to ship more stuff it's really hard to come up with stuff worth shipping i want to ship the same amount of stuff with higher quality both in product and code

If you are asking engineers to take on product thinking, planning, and risk assessment in addition to their technical work, name it. Define it. Compensate for it. Do not let it happen silently and then wonder why your team is burned out.

Good reads from February

If you've been curious about how to write better specs, reduce context drift, or just get more consistent output from your AI tools, Augment is hosting a free virtual event on Friday on spec-driven development. luma.com/b3u2al1c?tk...

This month's benchmark of AI coding assistants — testing todo app implementations with logic traps across 6 models (Opus, Sonnet, MiniMax, Big Pickle, Gemini 3, and Kimi) and 5 coding agents (Claude Code, Auggie, Gemini, OpenCode, and Warp).

If you're building a terminal-based AI coding agent, it should have: 1. The ability to configure different models for ask vs. act modes. 2. The ability to select an Auto mode, where the model is autoselected depending on the task. 3. Something akin to Claude's insights command.

🚀 Flutter & AI @SoFi: Join us in San Francisco To dive deep into what’s next, our next Flutter San Francisco Meetup is heading to the SoFi office on Wednesday, February 25th. RSVP on Luma:https://luma.com/5uzi5ws4 #Flutter #Dart #GenerativeAI #MobileDev #SFTech

Don’t get attached to what you built. Get attached to what you’re trying to achieve. When you fall in love with specific choices — the architecture, the tool, the approach — you’re forced to get everything right up front. That’s a high bar, and usually the wrong one. boz.com/articles/ide...

Good tech reads from January...

It would be nice if spec-driven development tools adopted some standardization. Every tool has its own: - Spec format - CLI interface - Config structure Right now we're speedrunning the "14 competing standards" xkcd.

Stranger Things feels like it's just turned into a Wikipedia page for the 80s.

Everyone else: spec-driven-development Google: context-driven-development 🤣🤣🤣 developers.googleblog.com/conductor-i...

Tools evolve and complexity increases, yet creativity, curiosity, and systems thinking continue to define great developers. Lowering the barrier for entry doesn't eliminate the need for human expertise—it amplifies it. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tec...

The whole Midoriya wants to save Shigaraki thing seems kinda pointless in retrospect 🤷🏾‍♂️

These first episodes of Stranger Things aren't hitting for me like it used to.

I would not call CSS broken, but it's a relic from a bygone era that no longer reflects how developers actually want to build UIs today. thenewstack.io/css-in-js-t...

Rating the Alien/Predator movies by director: 1. James Cameron (Aliens) 2. Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, Predator: Badlands, Predator: Killer of Killers) 3. John McTiernan (Predator) 4. Noah Hawley (Alien: Earth) 5. Fede Álvarez (Alien: Romulus) 6. Ridley Scott (solely for Alien) Then everybody else...

@tanstack.com is an amazing OSS ecosystem and I wish @flutter.dev had something similar.

“Predator: Badlands” is an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...

Engineering is about maximizing value while minimizing waste. This economic thinking is what separates developers from software engineers. Ignoring the business impact of your technical decisions isn't just bad engineering—it's bad for the business you're building.

The greatest compliment I can give to #Flutter is that it "got it out the mud." Flutter succeeded on merit, without a trendy pre-existing language or ecosystem, or a large zealous community. It achieved global success from a challenging start, with little to no external help.

How many lines of code can a senior engineer maintain? AI can generate thousands of lines in a week. But optimistically, if a senior engineer can only maintain half of that, generation speed outpaces comprehension capacity. That's the new technical debt.

I'm cautious when adopting pub.dev packages maintained by individuals because losing support is a high risk. Solo maintainers can burn out or move on—partly because developer communities don't support them, even when tools drastically increase our productivity.

This month's adventures in AI assistants, the CLI edition... 😄😄😄 Augment (w/ Sonnet 4.5) Cursor Agent (auto) 😐😐😐 Gemini Claude Code (w/ Sonnet 4.5) ☹️☹️☹️ Warp (auto)