IMMIGRANT SONG is today's jam.

I mean, you don't have to tell me that the Anthropic 's Claude Code team doesn't review their AI-written code--it's pretty obvious. Just this week they broke--again--the copy and paste inside the IntelliJ terminal.

the existence of forward-deployed engineers implies the rest of us are backward-deployed engineers

hoje tem 🇧🇷

hot take: Slack is ok for chat and terrible as an email replacement the fragmentation creates more "quick meetings" because eventually the only way to know wtf is going on across channels, threads, and DMs is to summon everyone into a call and no, AI won't solve this

Anthropic’s whole vibe went from ethos to mythos pretty quick huh

Having AI do the research and write your tech spec is like keeping a pristine, never-even-opened copy of The Power Broker on your living room bookshelf.

TTRPG studios and professionals are already under so much hardship, it's incredibly sad what is happening to @paizo.com paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

my favorite part of tech keynotes is the AI demo just sitting there like okay what are the SF gang doing today are we planning a trip are we planning a party are we choosing a restaurant are we breaking up with bae where we going AI fam

I’ve been in this industry for twenty-five years and have seen all sorts of companies and projects. You know what I have never heard? Someone saying, “You know what I really like about working here? Cross-team collaboration.” philcalcado.com/2026/06/01/c...

OH: Stop trying to square a round pig

It's disheartening to watch so many companies that were building genuinely useful infrastructure and platform primitives for AI products pivot to AI coding agents.

* “I slopped it and here’s what I got” means: Take it or leave it. * “I did some research and here’s what I think” means: I researched, formed a view, and used whatever tools helped me get there. Maybe one of those tools was AI. Maybe it wasn’t. From philcalcado.com/2026/05/31/n...

AWS making S3 strongly consistent in 2020 quietly killed a lot of distributed systems sacred cows. A whole class of designs that used to require databases, queues, or coordination products suddenly became "just a bunch of files in S3." www.opendata.dev/blog/ingesti...

What journalists miss about tokenmaxxing: engineers at big companies have spent their whole careers gaming made-up metrics that map directly to comp. Measuring token usage isnt even close to the silliest thing they’ve been assessed against, and given how easy it is to game, it looked like free money

So much of so-called AI software engineering is writing docs nobody reads and reading docs nobody wrote

Fellow immigrants and expats: when you need to count something quickly, do you use your native language or your adopted country’s language? I’ve lived abroad for twenty years, and I still immediately switch to Portuguese when I count cash.

It's still hard to predict how dev tools will adapt to AI development, but one thing that's already pretty clear is that JetBrains and other tool vendors need to beef up their support for Git worktrees and other ways to coordinate multiple streams of work over the same repository.

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.