"What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for." buff.ly/pqZORXG #great #work #curious #classic

"What I didn't expect was how difficult it would be. I relate it somewhat to the feeling I have with working out. Often times I want to avoid it because it's hard, but I'm always happy when I push through and complete it." buff.ly/OIzZBQy #focus #emptiness #meditation

"Stop. The problem isn't that you need a better system. The problem is you're avoiding doing the work." buff.ly/OIYF4Ex #process #engineering #humanity #work

"You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives." buff.ly/yutHVgj #software #automation #humanity #work

"I didn't get _why_, but I understood what it meant about that galaxy: the underclass deeply resented droids." buff.ly/BSoAkho #ai #classconsciousness #starwars

"When the audience declares that a passage of code is not clear, it doesn't matter what the author thinks; they have failed to reach the audience." buff.ly/8KLCalI #reading #writing #code #classic

"When you make "passivity" the thing you're optimizing for, you stop caring about anything a customer might actually want. Caring is active. Caring takes time. Caring is work. Giving a shit is, by definition, n..." buff.ly/XFvFGTI #passiveincome #entrepreneur #care #pu…

"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie: _Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori._"

"When you put problem in computer, box hide answer. Problem must be visible!" buff.ly/ud0g6al #toyota #kanban #makeworkvisible

"Don't mistake legibility for communication." buff.ly/ND2vzHG #design #mentalmodel

"People tend to reject what they imagine programming together would be like, but what they imagine is not the way group programming works." buff.ly/1wQt00l #pairprogramming #mobprogramming #classic

"If you're all working on your own branches, you are not collaborating. You are competing. To see who can get their code in fastest. To avoid being stomped on by someone else's..." buff.ly/0QsXtrE #continuousintegration #continuousdelivery #cicd #tbd #scattergather #cl…

"If you try to make a specification document precise enough to reliably generate a working implementation you must necessarily contort the document into code." haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-su... #ai #specdrivendevelopment

"Don't let 'work' mean something other people tell you to do." buff.ly/JLFaHVS #work #classic

"Yet, at the same time that jobs are being eliminated, AI is also creating more work that would be best done by another human. Who's supposed to pick up the slack is unclear." buff.ly/TLeCf2W #ai #human #work

"Try to find a pattern. I couldn't." buff.ly/9kmQnwM #ai #microsoft #branding #copilot #semanticdiffusion

"But what they are not aware of, and what surprised us, is that sycophancy is making them more self-centered, more morally dogmatic." buff.ly/6e9nLIB #ai #humanity

"Generative AI is art. It's irredeemably shit art; end of conversation. A child's crayon doodle is also lacking refined artistry but we hang it on our fridge because a human made it and **that matters.**" buff.ly/4q8ZPUl #ai #art #humanity

"A manager should be helping their people improve, not sitting in meetings or writing up reports so their boss has something to give to their boss." buff.ly/HT3zZGg #management #people #work #classic

"When you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world." buff.ly/Y1EYgmq #brand #marketing

"I knew this kind of bullshit would happen eventually, but I didn't expect it so soon." buff.ly/nz1xNtp #ai #copilot #adinjection #softwareengineering #developerexperience

"These places aren't designed for rehabilitation. They are set up simply to house people, shuffle them around for shits and giggles, and spit them back out into society worse for the wear." buff.ly/iSU3m8u #prison #ptsd #humanity #classic

"It's like if I went onto the woodworking subreddit and they'd all stopped showing pictures of the tables they'd created and just started posting about the hammer they were using." buff.ly/SdF1QKr #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

"This is so sad. It's the same as thinking storytelling is dead at the invention of the printing press. No you dummies, code is just getting started." stevekrouse.com/precision #ai #softwareengineering #code #isdead

"Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate..." bit.ly/4te2X16 #ai #softwareengineering #bottleneck #coder…

"I think it's shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good. It blows my mind. It's like when someone's solving a Rubik's Cube, and it looks like they're so far from solving it right before they solve it..." buff.ly/EVhxaD0 #design #nonlinear #cl…

"If you like something your friend is doing, promote it online. It doesn't matter if you have a big following. It's a gesture, it takes 0.5 seconds, and it matters more than you probably realize." www.thecut.com/article/tipp... #new #etiquette #share #classic

"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one." buff.ly/E2isjf9 #code #complexity #technicaldebt #classic

"This is the real driver of the layoffs, the big players consolidating the rent seeking to them. They just say it's AI cause that makes the stock price go up." buff.ly/mH67fXR #ai #replacement #capitalism

"There is no way we win this fight with manual code reviews." www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

"While I cannot place IHOP omelettes exactly on the map, by interpolating between pancakes and omelettes, we can bound where they must occur, and confirm that the manifold possibilities do indeed pass through the Dark Breakfast Abyss."

"There is genuinely no reason not to do this other than the mass institutional inertia of a million product managers copy-pasting the same address form template from 2009" buff.ly/30itGDh #ux #meatloaf

"The canary is still alive." buff.ly/N9EwZwz #ai #future #journalism

"What if we could use the energy of humans to power the machines that took away their jobs?"

"The decision not to build something is a decision, an important one! Document it accordingly." buff.ly/WIfTZBK #softwareengineering #simplicity #negativespace

"My hard line is that anything that expresses opinions or uses 'I' pronouns needs to have been written by me." buff.ly/DPVKZyM #ai #writing #pronouns

"Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases." buff.ly/v67Y0Pr #microservices #engineering #architecture #classic

"Tyranny is challenged not by seizing power, but by depriving falsehood of its audience." theconversation.com/vaclav-havel...

"Enabling users to build their own personal interfaces that extend services they love can be a great driver of product stickiness, and businesses can encourage this level of interaction without risking revenue loss." ilo.im/16anap #ai #ui #productengineering

"Original ideas are the result of the very work you're offloading on LLMs. Having humans in the loop doesn't make the AI think more like people, it makes the human thought more like AI output." buff.ly/B2G8oOI #ai #creativity #humanity

"Speed is dangerous without brakes. Make risk a blocking function. If the risk is unknown or unmitigated, the line stops. Do not hide danger in a report; encode it as a gate." o16g.com #softwareengineering #developerexperience #safety #speed #andon

"Philanthropists and even states might invest in local journalism that covers pragmatic governance rather than partisan conflict. More cities and counties could adopt changes in election law that would de-emphasize party labels where they add little inf.…

"The math found one metric curving toward a pole on a specific day at a specific millisecond: the rate at which humans are discovering emergent AI behaviors. The other four metrics are linear. The machines are improving steadil..." buff.ly/B19J8IM #ai #singularity #hum…

"Aim to reduce the complexity of the generated code where possible. Each avoidable line of code is costing energy, money and probability of future unsuccessful AI tasks." buff.ly/bDWRWcz #ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience

I am concerned about every text-generation company Hegseth ISN’T attacking. Congress should launch an immediate investigation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said AI would never have. This model has it, or something close enough that the distinction is starting not to matter." buff.ly/8bkVzgm #ai #taste

"Always be refactoring. If you touch the code, and you can improve it, improve it, but never optimise early." buff.ly/osZvbaf #refactoring #classic

"Real engineering lies in the abstractions and the architecture. It's about knowing how to structure a system that lasts, understanding why a specific rate-limiting strategy is necessary, knowing how to manage a distributed cache..." chrisgregori.dev #ai #softwareengine…

"Since AI models have no actual agency (despite being called agents) and are not people who can be held accountable for mistakes, human oversight is key." t.co/FGohyGzFq8 #ai #humanity #agency #accountability

"Trying to make every listening minute count inevitably becomes counterproductive. The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening." buff.ly/uk4kJ4Y #podcast #content #inbox #productivity