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"Why is Claude Code better/worse than [other coding agent] - they’re both using the same models under the hood?" A reasonable question, so I spent some time reverse-engineering Claude Code's interactions with the model to illustrate why coding agent matters blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/12... 🧵...

It's a picks and shovels bubble. Tired: making money selling picks and shovels to people speculating on the bubble. Wired: going broke speculating on picks and shovels.

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

always remember: 1. sending someone a text message is 1000x more meaningful than a social media post 2. a phone call is technically assault

AI amplifies humans. Whatever humans are capable and inclined to do, they can increase it by an order of magnitude with AI.

People are complaining about politicians destroying civilization, and I just saw an ad for "Dating Naked UK", and maybe it's time to call it.

Pete's been putting out pragmatic, useful advice on AI coding, and is now offering an online course.

You know it's true.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

"The time since [event from your childhood] is now more than the time from that event to [event from before you were born]".

Should be, "ordering *himself* to release the Epstein files." Which he could have chosen to do months ago.

"Huh, I notice a lot of people seem to be using our Torment Nexus product to do unpleasant things 🤷"

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

Pardoning people who tried to retroactively rig the 2020 election is a message to those in a position to tamper with the 2026 elections. There will be no consequences for openly breaking the law. No holds barred.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Hello, tech support? The engineers you sent are making everything worse.

Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.

fuck sake stop saying robots have self awareness.

Ajay Chankramath talking about platforms and DevOps at #DevopsDays Istanbul

"Many developers are surprised by the changes they have to make to their workflow when they're using AI. For example, <proceeds to describe eXtreme Programming>"

"You can't not have a framework. Either you use one or you create your own - and yours probably won't be well documented or maintained." @brikis98.bsky.social and @kief.com discuss why infrastructure automation needs standardization, not more custom wrapper scripts.

A decade of Infrastructure as Code and what’s next. #GOTOpodcast: @abangser.bsky.social and @kief.com explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems — and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future. 🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

🔥 “Agile is dead,” says Dave Thomas. In our latest #GOTOPodcast, he tells Thoughtworks’ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his Orient–Step–Learn framework. 🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast

Can’t wait till one of these knocks on my door for tweeting about a late night talk show host or whatever

Is this like taxi drivers giving stock tips? When the BoE notices we're in a bubble it's already too late ....

"That day, not only did the Xerox not write The Great Gatsby—it literally caught fire."

Rebecca Parsons, Barry O'Reilly, Gregor Hohpe, and Andrew Harmel-Law talkin' architecture at #GOTO2025 #GOTOCopenhagen

One of the challenges with service templates is that once a team instantiated a service with a template, it’s tedious to feed template updates back to those services. I wonder if anchoring AI agents to a template or reference application could help make that easier? martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

"we can also see intent in the behaviour of pets, weather, dishwashers, etc etc. So we shouldn’t be too surprised if something that’s designed to statistically reproduce human creativity and reasoning has that effect on many of us to a much greater extent." codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

Curious about AI's real impact on software delivery? Join Birgitta Böckeler as she cuts through the hype, revealing what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next for AI coding assistants.

Took my 19yo to see Spinal Tap. He enjoyed it, but when I described the music genre as "heavy metal", he corrected me. Apparently it's called "dad rock".

I'm finding GenAI agents very useful for turbo-charging my yak shaving. I have no doubt my increased productivity will soon be visible in the national GDP statistics.

If typing code was the bottleneck for software delivery, then a magic code-typing box would be awesome. Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery. See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.

My take on "AI has killed the job market for entry level developers." 1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.

Dave goes much deeper than "vibe coding is stupid". A very clear explanation of the nature of software engineering and how it's changing with AI. "Programming moves from specifying implementation detail to more clearly and more precisely specifying the intent of the system that we want to build"

Happening tomorrow in Chicago: Join Pulumi & @thoughtworks.com for an evening with "Infrastructure as Code" author @kief.com. Expert insights, real-world platform engineering tips, and free signed copies of the 3rd edition. RSVP now 👇 hubs.ly/Q03wsJmQ0

Feature branching is a lie we tell ourselves. It feels safer and more controlled, but in reality, it’s slowing you down, increasing risk, and making your integration problems someone else’s future nightmare.

Yeah, this.

If you're in Chicago on July 10, come and meet me! @thoughtworks.com and @pulumi.com are hosting an event where I'll be chatting with one of the Pulumi founder Joe Duffy, and signing complimentary copies of the new edition of my book, courtesy of Pulumi. info.pulumi.com/kief-morris-...

“This is the book I wish I had 30 years ago.” That’s what readers are saying about The Software Developer’s Guidebook. It’s practical, focused, and grounded in engineering discipline. Grab your copy here 👉 leanpub.com/softwaredeve...

Only 8 out of 10. "Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference?" britannicaeducation.com/blog/quiz-re...

10/10 for me but some of them required a pretty careful look. The analysis of what to look for in each was useful, though there’s no guarantees the “tells” will persist as the image generator algorithms improve, and even now not all generated images have them.

I'm finding that GenAI has a kind of mediocrity gravity well that takes enormous effort to escape. When you ask for help shaping content that challenges the consensus it trained on, it keeps sludging it up. It's great where you're looking for the consensus on something you don't know well, tho.

Tomorrow (Thursday) you can join me, Tim O'Reilly, Addy Osmani, Kent Beck, Chip Huyen, Birgitta Boeckeler, Jay Parikh and several other tech professionals giving our take on how AI will change software engineering - but why software engineers won't be "replaced" by AI or "AI sw engineers." (cont'd)

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