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It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

#$CSCO took about 25 years to find their dotcom crash high only to blow right through it in similar fashion to ~2000. 🎉

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

New trend in my inbox: looking for people to take interviews remote positions and then show up to meetings. Not all are explicitly saying it, but what’s not expected is SWE work. It seems like what you’re selling is your American face on Zoom calls.

I realized the difference between the people that conducted the American Revolution and the Democratic Party. The current generation claims it “should be” a right, the revolutionary generation asserted their rights.

1. When was the last time you had to show your ID to walk into a restaurant? 2. If he means to purchase liquor, unlike the SAVE act, I don’t have to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or passport to do that. 3. Going to a restaurant isn’t a right.

There are nowadays professors of journalism but there are not journalists.

One thing I really hate is the scrum master sending out notes from a meeting with a notice at the top of the”AI generated- verify the content” That’s YOUR job. YOU need to verify that the email you’re sending is accurate. It’s like these people are asking to have their job automated away.

I can't find the post now, but paraphrased it said "The 2 hardest problems in CS are 1. Communicating 2. Convincing engineers of #1" I like Gerald Weinberg's 2nd law: "No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem" bc this isn't unique to engineers

“That is one of the great ironies of modern Open Source. The distributed version control system won, and then the world standardized on one enormous centralized service for hosting it.” It’s a good blog post. I remember OSS before GH. Armin’s take rings really true.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

The Usual Suspects (1995)

It's a long read, but good. Reading through this I'm struck that sama must either have some kind of brain damage resulting in memory loss or is a world-class gaslighter. I want to run an cosine search on the phrase "Altman does not recall this", the hit count would have to be dozens.

Guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow

💯 Terraform is not the answer here either "...the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc..." x.com/karpathy/sta...

Probably should have titled this "Success through inefficiency" eighty-twenty.net/2026/03/22/o...

These days time is the new luxury item. “many times the friction, or that things just take time, is precisely the point.”

Companies almost always treat labor as a sunk cost. Next meeting look around and ask yourself how much the labor costs. I never hear that questioned. Companies also treat code as precious. I’ve been at a few places you had to open a ticket to create a repo. Total inverse of this reality

Interesting take not sure how true it is, but it lines up with general AI strategy - the architecture is less important than the training

I guarantee that any industry expert, with a little time and effort, can make a better (or at least more focused) skill than the default Anthropic ones. This is not an insult to Anthropic, it just is a reminder that specialist experts know more about their jobs (& what they need) than AI labs do.

well damn. "Using OOTH tokens obtained through Claude, free, Pro, or Max accounts in any other product tool or service, including the agent SDK is not permitted and constitutes a violation of the consumer terms of service.” youtu.be/2HiHDIFStzg?...

I feel like most of the time, it's a spreadsheet. Currently on a project with this intricate flowchart, but the left side of the flow chart is 2 individuals. The whole process is the corporation trying to extract information from two of its employees.

Yet, your typical engineering firm has dozens and dozens of custom Excel sheets that are excellent SaaS in disguise. Basic CRUD and spreadsheet like software that is super easy to ship by small team (even more with LLMs), with people who can actually use it should you listen to what they want.

Me versus the AI coming for my job

In the Age of AI, you should leave breadcrumbs. People are worried about knowledge transfer. The answer is, leave breadcrumbs. One thing we've lost is the engineer's notebook, or more simply, a diary. You don't even have to write it. Just dictate it to your assistant, like in Mad Men.

I’ve heard and read several things lately that were leading me to this belief, but I think this is the right framing.

Employer restricts us to using only Copilot, which has really chafed. Today I figured out how to set up copilot-cli and my day got immensely better

Joe Reis: "Data is where abstraction goes to die" 💯 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Hot take: Chinese culture is more conservative than western culture, at least the segment of western culture that builds leading AI models. Training sets are culturally biased. Therefore: www.scmp.com/tech/article...

The same advice was passed around 20 years ago. Then mobile and the whole JS explosion happened. Every generation gets to rediscover the same lessons. I'm confused though, didn't everyone agree that a liberal arts degree is worthless? www.businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-a...

Honestly it's really surprising that Meta or Google haven't built an internal model trained on their own code base (or samples). I'm not sure if the solution here would be training, or RAG, or MCP or something else?

Got my Reachy last night, up and running and passed a few basic tests. Assembly took about 2-3 hours as advertised. Camera seems very dark I’m wondering if it’ll be able to do facial recognition. The hand following app worked ok though. @hf.co

Interesting interview with Steve Yegge. I didn’t realize he and Ryan Carson both work at Sourcegraph. I’d like to see an interview with both of them, they seem to have a bit different approaches. youtu.be/s96O9oWI_tI?...

friday pro tips

+1. Great article

What if nomads were never the outliers? globalnatives.substack.com/p/nomad-work-p… (yes. I enjoyed my nomad years: 2013-2018). #DigitalNomads #RemoteWork #flexibility

Episode is live on blog: thursdai.news/googlers If you like the direct source, the pod is up on YT as well (feel free to sub) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eew... And everywhere where you get your podcasts, just type ThursdAI

Those of you in the Fort Worth area should come and say hello! Sunday December 14 9a-12p. At Avoca Coffee 1311 Magnolia. Book signings, Q&A, fun all around!

Man we’ve paid the price in United tests (for example). It’s a lot of work to establish a deterministic environment, it feels like if your tests aren’t breaking you aren’t getting value

Cool, so if you're wealthy enough to afford a private jet, you're not affected by the ATC issues. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/p...

This sounds cynical—but represents a huge advance over empty “AGI” speculation. It’s a political question, not a technical one. Without social equality models *cannot do* many kinds of work (eg, negotiate agreements or manage workers). So they will only be human-equivalent if we decide they are.

One analogy that worth thinking about: what is it like to live in a world where some people have superpowers?

"you should think of [an agent] almost like an employee or an intern that you would hire to work with you" I completely agree with this, and I always try to frame working with an agent this way. The bit about animals vs ghosts is a really interesting analogy. www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar...

“It is hard to know exactly what will happen to an industry build on an apprenticeship model when it no longer needs apprentices”

If you’re scared of agents, what do you do as an EM or PM faced with the output of a high performing team. Isn’t it the same problem?

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

After all the shit happened in The Odyssey, Odysseus put an oar over his shoulder and marched inland until people asked what he was carrying & he knew he'd found where he belonged. I just gave a project proposal to a prospective client organized into sprints. She asked what a sprint was.

People focus on the asbestos quote, and corporate America feels extremely broken. I like the closing: "It's a grab-bag of useful (sometimes very useful) tools that can sometimes make workers' lives better, when workers get to decide how and when they're used." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

The paperback is ready!!!! Great Power. Questionable responsibility. When the capes are gone the burden remains. #readerscommunity #superheroes #shortstory #indieauthors www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSZ5QYR...