Microsoft just announced a series of new AI models aimed at enterprise scenarios explicitly aimed at going head to head with Anthropic's Claude models. Microsoft banning Claude Code usage amongst its teams makes a lot more sense given this context. Gotta eat that dogfood.

"Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!" "Don't look at me. I didn't cook it." You'd be rightly pissed off if you got that response. Whoever cooked it, the restaurant served it to you. "This release has bugs!" "Don't look at me. Claude wrote the code" would be equally annoying. You shipped it.

"I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history." geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/...

The average engineering leader will look at a dev team and see them talking a lot, at each other's desks, huddling in the kitchen, and conclude that no real work's getting done. As an engineering leader, I'd see a team all with their heads down at their desks and conclude exactly the same thing.

Nano Banana is so bad at creating images with transparent backgrounds. As if someone trained it on all these paid sites that use this fake transparency watermarking 🤪

"Slide the switch on the left arm toward the lenses. Fold in the right arm of the glasses. Press the Capture button 5 times. Look at the inner LED; it will turn orange. Immediately press and hold the Capture button for about 5 seconds" How to look like an idiot, or as Meta calls it, "factory reset"

What is it that the Last Software Engineer has to offer? "It's not typing code. Not choosing libraries. Not even designing the implementation. The last valuable thing is judgment!" This is also what I see myself still doing; our job never about coding! www.epicproduct.engineer/the-last-sof...

This looks like a fun agenda! See you in the Sunshine State! usa.droidcon.com/agenda

Life was so much simpler w/o Windows 😜

New flat, new working area 🔥 I'm sill an office person but good to work from office every once in a while. Testing SoundCloud Xbox app here

So many new Gemini features but can I finally control my Google speakers at home? As without still cant use the app #googleio

Ready for #googleio watch party

"We just can't get enough!" 🗣️🎸 We just rolled a brand new Related Artists endpoint on SoundCloud API. Time to remix your codebase with new discovery beats! github.com/soundcloud/a... Happy Coding!

Happy Monday!

"Design user experiences in minutes, not days" Wow. The users you're working with must talk really fast.

These aren't the drums you're looking for... but they're the ones you need. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Ergonomic Agentic Coding 🤪

the gap between "i built this with AI in 20 min" and "it took 3 hours to debug the regex" is the entire vibe coding experience shipping fast is great. understanding what you shipped? that's the part that keeps your app alive at 3am

And how's your day? 😅

Had a great conversation with an old friend these days. We used to work together when Android just came out. We saw a lot of changes since. AI is probably the biggest shift, though. So we talked about code quality and the future of the job as an engineer www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHS... (sorry 🇩🇪)

Just sent a well-drafted prompt for a new feature to Cursor! Problem: sent on the wrong project! 👀 The LLM didn't care, started implementing! 🤦‍♀️ Remember, it can't reason, it won't question you!

Seems Claude has a bit of a crisis and needs sabbatical 🤪 www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"So am I at all surprised by this revelation that – “with AI” – a team of 6 can deliver more value than a team of 26? No. It’s exactly what I’d expect, with or without AI." codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/t...

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today. Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.

OMG. It made code that uses regexp to check for negative language. Something that LLMs were architecturally designed to do. This is hilarious when people think AI is conscious, this is AI failing the smudge test in the most hilarious way...

The amount of supply chain poisoning lately is crazy. The beginning of the end for open source? www.aikido.dev/blog/axios-n...

What a day! Claude code AND OpenAI Codex source code have been leaked!

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

I'm preparing a talk on migrating Android apps to Kotlin Multiplatform and looking for input! If you've already done this kind of migration - with any amount of code - what advice would you give to others? What was easy, what was hard, and what would you do differently?

When in London make sure to visit the Google office and meet Vadym or both 🤪

Continuing the week with interesting AI conversations. With @florinam.bsky.social in London

"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for Al model training unless you opt out." 😶

This is going to be interesting apnews.com/article/soci...

As an old Blackberry user, I'm intrigued to try those to replace my Flip 🤔

Exchanging ideas about AI with @gregfawson.bsky.social the beloved droidcon.bsky.social CEO Ok ok mainly it was about eating burgers, no AI involved there

From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

Today I recorded a podcast episode with Thomas from OneCode. Of course, it was all about the changes AI brings into our dev lives! Interesting topic, interesting times!

Hi AI coding fans! Before you talk about TDD, refactoring, modular design or Continuous Integration, maybe find out what they are? kthxbye

That didn't last long! Firebase Studio is already dead! Another one bites the dust! AI accelerates it! firebase.google.com/docs/studio/...

Being sick at home be like

Before my first coffee, I'm working like an LLM, don't read half the instructions!

The Metaverse is no more! No surprise tbh, what a waste of money 🫠 www.theverge.com/tech/896322/...

It's this time of the year again! Google I/O Connect returns to Berlin! Hope to see many of you here in June!

In an average working day, a software developer adds or changes ~10-50 lines of code. An average LOC is 5-10 words. So that's about 0.5 wpm. So, yeah, that was ripe for optimisation. We just don't type fast enough, obviously.

Ever wondered why LLM code is so overcommenting? Every comment is a "prompt" for the next line of code it’s about to generate. Also: LLMs were trained heavily on tutorials, Stack Overflow, and os documentation where "explaining the code" is the goal. They are essentially mimicking their "Teacher"

Afraid your job is going to be affected by AI? Note that COBOL still processes an estimated 80% of personal banking transactions and 95% of ATM swipes. www.castsoftware.com/pulse/why-co...

Developers: "We were spending all our time putting out fires in production." Big Tech: "Would a flamethrower help?"

Interesting take of the revival of the Android Intent system: "Humans follow the path of least resistance. Navigating UI is friction. Talking to an Agent is flow .. If the user never opens the App, UI Design becomes irrelevant." mtsoln.com/blog/insight...