This week I wrote something a bit more personal, about my history with anxiety disorder and why it's important to push back on the artificial urgency of AI. www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/the-ai...

You vibed an app, for an audience of one. Add it to Tiny Tool Town. But You know what Tiny Tool Town REALLY needed? *TIKTOK MODE* Why not mindlessly scroll awesome apps rather than videos? Maybe one will help you or someone else! go hit tinytooltown.com and tap "SHORTS" for Shorts/Reels Mode

Sound analysis here: addyo.substack.com/p/the-80-pro.... The only quibble I have is with the oft-repeated idea that delegating to agents feels like being a manager. Respectfully, it does not.

In the time between the weekend when I decided to give it a whirl, and finally getting it running today, Clawdbot got renamed *twice*. I hope #openclaw has better longevity!

Sharing some background on my values. When I feel a lot of uncertainty about the future of our profession and our industry, it helps to go back to why I chose this career in the first place. www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/my-cod...

The Pragmatic Summit: A one-of-a-kind event where you'll hear from (and get to meet) standout folks who have been on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, teams who were in The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives - all of them building cutting-edge software, or researching how best to do so.

“These "solutions" are fundamentally inequitable. They build a world of digital and physical segregation disguised as progress. And we users are expected to be thankful and grateful.” #a11y nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/cong...

Unpopular opinion of the day: protecting software developers from interruptions in the name of preserving "flow" state is overrated, and potentially harmful for the team as a whole. Deeper dive here: www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/flow-i...

I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

If anyone from YouTube is following: you could save a ton of compute if we all just filled out a form documenting our current opinions and beliefs. The algorithm could more efficiently match us with confirming and affirming videos. Bonus: The form would never need updating!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

If you've tried agentic AI coding for larger features and got stuck in a "death spiral", I highly recommend this pattern: www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/techni...

Wrote up some thoughts about the difficulty in using AI agents effectively in legacy codebases and how we might overcome it: www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/legacy...

I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c... I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)

A write-up of my recent experiment to build and deploy a personal self-hosted task list application using AI tools from scratch in a single week, how it went and what I learned. It is absolutely wild what we can do today with these tools! www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/the-ei...

"Having overcome my broader skepticism, I find I’m just shocked at the mental gymnastics militant cynics will execute to avoid admitting that generative AI is doing anything particularly unique or useful."--@mikecaulfield I do see that too sometimes. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...

I wrote up a review of Cursor and how I use it for software development, which seems to be a hot (and mildly controversial) topic these days: www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/cursor...