Last year I lost myself a bit when I realized that AI was going to change my job as a programmer completely. I wrote the short story "Assisted" in response. drewmccormack.substack.com/p/assisted

“Any of you feeling the same kind of urgent addiction at the moment? This overwhelming sense that everything in AI tech is moving at light speed and there literally aren't enough hours in the day to keep up? Like I'm in some kind of productivity arms race with myself.” reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

You would have to have a death wish to get in one of these things. Coffin on wheels.

Resubscribed to YouTube Premium. I lasted a month with the free ad-filled experience. Either I had forgotten how horrible it was or it’s gotten worse. At this point, I think I would stop watching content on YouTube if it wasn’t possible to pay to get rid of the ads.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

I’ve never been so desperate for the Aussie Rules season to start, just so I’ve got an alternative to constant Trump BS.

Shorted Tesla a few weeks back. Good times, and it is going to get better…

I forget: was it “Stargate” or “Stardust”? Maybe “Stargaze” would work best, as in “Gaze at the stars in the Chinese flag as they fly past”

Going full anchorman for tonight’s 70s party. Can’t say I’m not committed!

bumping this from three weeks ago in light of Elon Musk busting out a LITERAL FUCKING NAZI SALUTE at inauguration

Zuck is such a loser. Literally a PHP developer who totally lucked out when he stole the idea of a client. And since then, I can’t think of a single good thing he has created. Not one.

It’s incredible how many of the people I looked up to in the past in the world of web development have since revealed themselves as being somewhere in or at least adjacent to the manosphere-techbro-AI stan-maga-white supremacy oeuvre

the bit that gets me is they've made their product worse for *both* search users and paying advertisers, yet somehow still better for their bottom line.

I've spent the 6 months working on a new approach to shared data in Swift: Forked. Main features: - Git-like branching and merging for Swift structs - Advanced merge algorithms (CRDTs) - Macros to make structs mergeable - Sync structs via CloudKit with <10 LOCs appdecentral.com/2024/12/13/n...

Where is the web at? I think we are headed to a future where you have AI for info, and the web for shops. Search is dead. SEO is dead. What is left is pure commerce. And then the question is how they get their money out of AI. Remember how Google started as a simple text field. That is where we are.

Apparently predictive text on iOS and macOS now does maths. Problem is, I have a customer telling me it is giving the wrong answers, and their immediate instinct was to blame our app Agenda. Apple are no doubt using an LLM to do the prediction, which is rubbish at maths as we all know.

Oh dear.

Don't miss #indieappsales today. Lots of great indie apps, including Glisten for all your foreign language podcasts. #languagelearning indieappsales.com#app-6D8E6BCB...

Exciting opportunity to work on Swift Performance in London: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... Only drawback: You'd have me in your ear about this, that or the other performance issue or opportunity :).

He's so wrong that I'm starting to think there might be a God

The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.

Here is RFK Jr. last year claiming that COVID-19 was “ethnically-targetted” and genetically engineered to spare “Jews and Chinese people”. The man is a crank and conspiracy theorist - and will shortly lead the US Department of Health. (📽️Credit: The Intellectualist via X)

They flood the zone with crap, so much so that we can only stop so much. It’s the strategy: Crapocracy.

The Matt Gaetz appointment was a misunderstanding. Trump asked “Is there anyone who has experience with the justice system?” and Gaetz put up his hand.

The swing to Trump. Everywhere. To reiterate (ad nauseum) people wanted what he was selling. It’s not because your particular favourite issue wasn’t addressed. The American people wanted a fascist.

what a thing to say about your own child

Elon claiming that anyone else is bad at public speaking is hilarious. Pot calling kettle black.

Sad news, but Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store. It's been a ton of fun to build, thanks to all who used it and enjoyed it! 🫡❤️ christianselig.com/2024/10/juno...

1/ Some speech Musk has restricted, not freed whatsoever... He suspended the researcher Travis Brown www.wired.com/story/x-twit...

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