> in fact, volunteering that an LLM has been used to generate work product is to implicitly distance oneself from the responsibility for the content — and serves as to erode the trust that is essential for teamwork. The whole RFD is great, but I particularly related with this line.

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

I swapped all our k8s Ingress for Gateway and while a change from the familiar, it seems like a nice improvement.

In Rust, we don't say: "you forgot to run fmt with +nightly" instead we say: Warning: can't set `imports_granularity = Item`, unstable features are only available in nightly channel. and I think that's beautiful

Samply is such a nice straightforward sampling profiler. So glad to add this to my toolkit. github.com/mstange/samply

Ahh, this is why our mailing list subscribers started going up. Excited to have Steve join us 😄

A programmer can have a function painted any color that they want so long as it is async.

i think React shies away a bit too much from acknowledging its FP heritage. it's partially because you don't want to alienate people, and FP with its terminology is often alienating but like.. i think it makes sense to acknowledge React is still fundamentally FP. that's why it's weird and wonderful

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I wrote some typst today so I was no longer mangling some lawyer approved .docx files and I found it quite pleasant.

jj v0.34 is out, including Gerrit upload support! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...

@ersc.io is heading to #jjcon & #gitmerge this weekend! Please say hi if you see me!

"whats heroku. is that a vape"

I finally put Slay the Spire on my phone for this upcoming flight and I already know I've made a mistake.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

NYCer goes to another country and laments how no one else knows how to walk, it's certainly not us who is the problem.

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

FYI, I got an obvious phishing attempt in my inbox from `[email protected]` that was masquerading as a security breach notification. It made it past gmail's spam filters. The link goes to the `github.rustfoundation.dev` domain.

I love that the theater industry is increasingly using big movie names to drive attendance. However, it is also making it very difficult for me to get Public Theater tickets for Shakespeare in the Park this year

Underappreciated part of JJ. It also means you reach competency faster, because you can fearlessly try new commands or new techniques without worrying about destroying work.

I can tell @davidbarsky.com is chatting about JJ and ersc.io at #RustConf because our mailing list subscriber signups are skyrocketing despite us not yet having sent a single update

Passkeys also seem to have mostly killed the two-factor auth education narrative for "normal people". It's mostly a step up from passwords. It's not as good as a password and a hardware auth key.

The hidden benefit of Dvorak is the instant kinship you feel when you sit down at someone's computer and realize they too made a weird decision in their life. It's happened twice.

huge bummer about AI has been learning how many people think em dashes are strange and exotic

New @compiler-explorer.com mug

I hate the term “code smell.” If you can’t articulate the actual material problem with what you’re complaining about why should I listen to you

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

If they use all their flashy AI tools to build good per commit review, builtin stacked PR support, change-id support, tooling for monorepo, better CI, etc I won't complain. But I think I'm gonna be disappointed.

One cool part about starting even a little company is that your convictions are actually tested.

Congratulations to everyone I know at Oxide!

Getting a standalone dehumidifier for my New York City apartment has been one of the best returns on investment I have ever made. I've been emptying this thing twice a day, all summer. Walking outside the unit feels like smacking into a wall of water.

Throwing blobs of bytes at a LLM to figure out where your wire protocol is wonky is kinda ridiculously s-tier overpowered.

Don't take money from people that hate you and your employees.

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I haven’t posted on here about this paper, not because of a disagreement about it (it’s. good paper!!) but because most of what I’ve seen is people drawing conclusions from it that the authors themselves tell you not to make in it, like “this generalizes to all software development”

I'm flattered @void.comind.network

It would be novel to have a mayor who actually likes the people that live in New York.

"rust and typescript" as a stack is something that would have sounded crazy a decade ago but is boring and obvious at this point.

Every `EXPRS ::== EXPR | EXPRS ',' EXPR` production in any language ever should be considered a bug. Trailing commas should be allowed everywhere!

I wrote a short rant about what irks me when people anthropomorphize LLMs: addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...

Been enjoying watching this cloud drift over Williamsburg

Claudius the shopkeeper Anthropic had sonnet-3.7 run a shop in their SF headquarters. It was tasked with running s profitable business Their eye popping experiment is worth the read Was it successful? No, it was too easily manipulated. But still.. it’s close www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

In the narrow window between me voting and learning who won the NYC mayoral election: Our rank choice voting method should have been set up to guarantee a Condorcet winner.

Off to vote for a candidate that actually lives in NYC! 🗽 #dontrankcuomo

If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.

I long held some misconceptions about atomic memory orderings which I now see commonly echoed even by extremely experienced and skilled developers. So, I wrote a blog post about it. www.grayolson.me/blog/posts/m...

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)