It seems that AI does not magically solves the legacy problem. by @raymyers.bsky.social ainativedev.io/news/ai-hate...

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

C++ people are getting so upset whenever Rust does something well. Many words. So few positive words about C++ other than that it’s here, and must be tolerated.

What we expect, we also enable. An aspirational mantra for software teams.

Through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.

I was reading this post talking about the great things about text adventures, and it got me thinking about parsing and representation... entropicthoughts.com/the-greatnes... Specifically from the question: do text adventures really give players a lot of freedom?

Basically if you want to talk to your chatbot before you talk to me that’s fine. Just don’t expect me to care what your chatbot said. When I hear from you, I want to hear things that you think and decide to say. I have my own chatbots to talk to, I don’t need yours.

I am the loop.

Such an honor to even be in the same sentence there! I’ll have to start posting here more :)

The existence of the Association for Computing Machinery implies the existence of the Association *against* Computing Machinery.

I feel like one of the biggest gripes about Rust is really that it feels trendy. Sure, trendiness is an asinine reason to make good choices. On the other hand, we’ve had mixed results getting people to make good choices any other way.

"You're absolutely right! I should have tested this properly instead of creating multiple broken versions."

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big, or small. We went through 17 issues, from massive backend performance wins, to this tiny one. Can you see it?

This just in, Weird AI calls for serifed fonts. Or it might have been Weird Al we’re not sure

Incredulous cis people on other sites have again demanded I explain why I acknowledge gender identities beyond the ones they were aware of in 3rd grade. In case it's helpful I've captured my stance as clearly as I can here. As always, listen to those it affects more. raymyers.org/post/gender-...

“WHY don’t you get a job?” Asked The Offspring, encouraging questions about the deeper systemic causes of unemployment

A few months ago, billionaire venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz interviewed acclaimed record producer Rick Rubin on the topic of #VibeCoding. Their tagline: "Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of software" I duly recruited a qualified punk for comment. Enjoy! youtu.be/XP7UXspsggw

Anyone got an invite on the Lobste rs site?

Business logic. Business vibes. Domain logic. Domain vibes. Yeah I’m still betting on logic.

Vibe Code while learning dependent type theory. Contain multitudes.

This is such a profound insult to the Tao Te Ching. That version was produced from 8 years of study in the 1980s and they’ve haphazardly pasted words like “code” in random places to ride a meme from a Karpathy tweet. Anthropic should be embarrassed to have paid Rick Rubin to put his name on this.

I assure you the AI does not have any desire to be “First” and will not reward you for being AI First

Computational Rehumanist

Excellent point, @nilsbfg.bsky.social, I’ll do better. Ran into the notorious @quinnypig.com at Code with Claude conference in San Francisco. (Haters will say it’s AI) Watch your cloud bills!

Ran into the notorious @quinnypig.com at Code with Claude conference in San Francisco. Watch your cloud bills!

I feel like "debug a production issue at the terminal because your flight was delayed" is an SRE rite of passage I've finally unlocked.

Official celebration of ONE THOUSAND subscribers for my humble YouTube channel, Craft vs Cruft: Mediations on Software Quality. Thank you to everyone who's been along for this journey... and for those just tuning in, hit me with your best questions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ez...

Breakfast and move things

Constantly using my Unfair Competitive Advantage which is called Listening to People

That piece of writing I was talking about finishing that I was equally proud of and scared to post because I love it? Here it is. Welcome to Fight for the Human. Sign up to start setting your compass toward rehumanization. www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...

Today on #CraftVsCruft, we continue Year of Domain-Specific Languages by writing a grammar for Regular Expressions from scratch using one of my favorite parsing tools, #ANTLR! youtu.be/lxNPFE6n7pw

When you think it’s the Flurble, it’s never the Flurble

This was the introduction of the term Vibe Coding, but more I think of it the phrase “Embrace Exponentials” is actually pretty revealing, more I think of it

A good summary of where AI coding is going. I think we can get infinite garbage without AI (I'm thinking npm blackhole meme) And with or without AI we need abstraction leap (or new incentive schemes) to fix it.

Some say programming will end in fire. Other say in ice. I'm seeing 6 main scenarios floated: youtu.be/-aGyDDoaHww

If the rumors are true and OpenAI is going to market agent products as "knowledge workers" or "PhD level", then I'm calling it now: 2026 is Year of The Luddite. Let's do this.

My talk from AI Native Dev meetup in New York is online! "Make Tools That Don't Break" is an exploration in reliable AI-assisted workflows, untangling some extremely difficult C code using disciplined refactoring techniques. Give it a watch if you get a chance :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQGn...

For the first spotlight in the Year of Domain-Specific Languages, we're taking it back to basics with Regular Expressions. They are fascinating in how they derive great power from such simple foundations, yet that simplicity is so confusing to look it! #CraftVsCruft #DSLs youtu.be/A6Ar4uCjQz8

So you were all just not going to tell me Terraform added import blocks in 1.5? I know I joined BlueSky after that but if excuses were horses we’d all castanet, I think that’s how the expression goes

Becoming a bottleneck is almost universally incentivized.

I’ve taught my friend just enough chess lore that she identified Magnus Carlson as: “The dude that wears jeans and gets in trouble” And I think that’s how I’m going to refer to him going forward.

I am now Quantum native. Just in case.

This interview gives a good intro to Arlo Belshee and his work: youtu.be/TYiCStOAAaQ?... Thanks for doing this @raymyers.bsky.social

I've been very pleased how many people have mentioned my little Year of Formal Methods side-quest to me and asked what the theme for 2025 will be :) So let me keep you in suspense no longer. 2025 is the year of... Domain-Specific Languages! youtu.be/YnNEqgdKrYU

Big if true :)

Much like “Human Error”, the first attribution of the term “Business Value” marks the beginning of investigation, not the end.

Beyond the Test Pyramid: Introducing the Test-ra-hedron