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...

Redox OS bans LLM code contributions www.linkedin.com/posts/shelaj...

A data analyst at work recently said to me that Claude Code means SQL skills are no longer high leverage and what now matters are data modeling skills. This is both exciting (a random like myself can now build my own dashboards at work) and scary (skills accumulated over years devalued overnight).

When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it probably already is...

From my inbox Wrong: Most AI coding output is not mediocre because the tool was not well co figured: It’s mediocre because most code out in the open IS mediocre, and (most importantly) most devs don’t know how to write high quality code. And this was true even before AI!!

"The new pattern: AI installs AI" grith.ai/blog/clineje...

A developer on Blind says coworkers now ship in an hour what used to take days (3 or 5 story points) thanks to Claude Code. There’s pressure to move so fast you barely understand the code and feel like the bottleneck versus the AI. This is going to create an interesting fallout across the industry

"Coding will soon become a quirky pastime, written only by eccentric old developers who relish the craft of software development." www.infoworld.com/article/4140...

I think most of the tech-related AI hate I read comes from programmers who haven't used the current generation of tools (or, in many cases, any generation of the tools). Frankly, if you're not up to date with the tooling, your opinion is just noise. 4/4

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

"Gartner predicts that by next year, half of the companies that fired workers for AI are going to hire them back. Also, 9 months ago, Microsoft…proclaimed that 30% of their code was written by AI, and since then, we've seen some of the worst software issues at the company in its history." 1/2

The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know. You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

There is one place where an AI-related layoff might be justified. Working with AI requires skills that some developers seem unwilling or unable to acquire. Coding alone, no matter how good you are, is no longer sufficient. You need to understand systems thinking and software architecture. 9/11

In the space of a year, Cursor has gone from one of the fastest growing and hottest startups around to people asking if the product is obsolete. I wonder if this is how we’ll be talking about OpenClaw in a year?

Nice try 🤪

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Good luck capturing decades of experience about software design in your .md files. Picasso has a napkin with your name on it.

No Code Monday 🤪

“AI” is an amplifier of engineering capability, not a magic wand that fixes bottlenecks, blockers and quality leaks. Unless you address them (and that .. doesn’t come with your Claude Code plan), it just makes them worse. Thanks @jasongorman.bsky.social 👏 codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/7...

Amusing - I'm hearing a comeback of XP (Extreme Programming) practice. In the early 2000s these used to be popular (championed by @kentbeck.com). Then died down. They are now surging again. XP practices like small releases, frequent integration, and constant customer input!