The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was rebranding consultants and sales engineers as FDEs.

> The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong. techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-f...

Since 2023, I’ve been bothering anyone who would listen with the same idea: AI will only really deliver on its promises once it’s in the hands of builders, not fundraisers or course sellers It’s still early, and things could shift, but Mario Zechner’s Pi feels like validation of that idea. 🧵

bad ending: the whole world is scrum master

I appreciate what @surf.social is doing and will keep using the app, but I am disappointed that the @flipboard.com team who built a mind-blowing app in 2010 wasn't able to build a better UX here. It's not just about being slow, it's that it's a lot of clicking around to find content--there's no flow

This generation’s Y2K starts when subsidies end and everyone tries to save on tokens.

Spent the morning sending random people links to the this--such a great episode. Great job @davidpierce.xyz

Sad to see Clockwise sent off to a Salesforce farm upstate. It saved my ass running large engineering orgs. Ended up rolling it out across DigitalOcean and SeatGeek, and we somehow even became featured customers in their farewell post… which, in hindsight, might explain things. www.getclockwise.com

If anything, the constant pivoting and re-pivoting to build an AI narrative has probably slowed down the delivery of real value while increasing noise and feature churn.

The management and incentive thinking I hear from top VCs today sounds like it came straight from an IBM middle manager running a mainframe payroll system in 1987.

Wait huge! Need correct. I almost gave wrong. 天天送钱

Anthropic: 100% of our code is written by Claude Code Also Anthropic: We've been running Code Review internally for months<...> 84% get findings, averaging 7.5 issues <...> less than 1% of findings are marked incorrect.

First WFO (Work From Outside) day of the year

I wrote a short thing--it's been a minute > This creates a loop of Brandolini’s law: not only is the original bullshit cheap, but even if you spend a disproportionate amount of time refuting it, generating a new bullshit response to your comments is even cheaper. philcalcado.com/2026/03/06/a...

Et tu, Knuthe? www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

It’s kinda wild how tech discourse went from using old-school dev tools to build cutting-edge AI apps to using cutting-edge AI dev tools to build old-school apps.

Hashtag SQLite was right?

2027’s song of the summer is gonna go like this: Debí usar más tokens cuando estaban subsidia’os…

It depends on the dialect, but the T in TPM is usually silent

I asked Pi to play Warcraft sounds, thought it would use one of the extensions out there. forgot about it. later I’m in another terminal and get spooked by a sudden “Yes me lord” in the weirdest voice.. turns out it couldn’t download the original files so it used the Mac say command to recreate them

My birthday gift was delivered

Another piece of evidence that the web3/crypto crowd were scammers and never really cared about decentralization: with all these agents and “vibe coding” businesses, this is a golden opportunity for decentralized, hash-guaranteed data streams, and yet they’ve all pivoted to prediction market scams

OH: the artist formerly known as prince andrew

I’d just like to remind everyone that the only person actually getting paid by LOC is Sam Altman and his friends.

CGI-Claw

Microservices is the kind of architecture you only ever adopt way too early or way too late

These two on the same day are quite a statement about the state of innovation across countries.

… and I’d bet my lunch money that before Claude Code, their “top bug finder” was just whoever hit it first in production.

Every time someone sends me a link to Twitter

It’s sad that, in the rush to call themselves AI-enabled, companies are reverting 50 years in software engineering and doing silly things like counting LOC, like a middle manager at IBM on a CORBA project in the ’90s.

I get unreasonably excited when someone asks for cafés to work from in the South Brooklyn subreddits.

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

It’s going to be so damn funny when these bots and the folks hyping this AutoGPT 2.0 as the second coming realize what the second L in LLM stands for…

thanks obamamdani

somehow the whole foods in gowanus wasn't mad max

My phone auto-updated without my consent and I can tell you my English isn't good enough to properly express how much I hate this liquid glass bs.

Last week’s post about companies claiming they’re more productive than ever while delivering about the same as ever ended up being a tongue-in-cheek Rorschach test.

Coding agents and vibe coding have enabled teams to write more code in the last six months than in the past ten years! And yet the pace of shipped features and the actual value delivered feels the same as ever. So… wtf is all this code y’all writing?

Haven’t had to miss BJJ yet this year—2026 has started off than 2025 already

Did I...just DoS Verizon?

The problem with AI is that it tastes like stevia. I will not be taking questions at this time, thank you

Using Claude Code to write Ruby feels like spending 70% of your time trying to exorcise DHH’s ghost from the shell just to get some minimal modularity.

Spec-Driven Development is a lovely new buzzword, right up until you remember LLMs are systems optimized to cheat their way into satisfying arbitrary constraints.

Turns out Slack and code reviews were missing one very specific emoji reaction. I present :sad-dijkstra:

🫠🫠🫠 lwn.net/Articles/104...

Now I really want to see what changed in that ToS…

You either die a Web 2.0 hero, or live long enough to be acquired by Bending Spoons.

When IBM’s CEO drops a “and here’s the catch” in his interview with @reckless.bsky.social and your brain immediately thinks “this dude is AI?”

AI engineers are being built by people whose only professional experience is solving coding puzzles competitively, to replace people whose only real professional skill is solving coding puzzles in interviews. And to be fair, they’re really good at that.