Apparently people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits?

Let's feed his notes into chatgpt and have it extrude the rest of the series. Can't be any worse than what Benioff & Weiss did with it.

I enjoyed reading an OpenAI team's report on building a "harness" for a no-manual-coding-allowed codebase. Refreshing to read concrete ideas about where the rigor might go, rather than just hoping “better models” will magically solve maintainability martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion

It's hard to find balanced opinions on AI coding. Lots of the people pushing the envelope on AI-Assisted Engineering also have somewhat bonkers AI-maximalist perspectives. Here's some people who're in the thick of it, advancing the field but who I also trust to bring a thoughtful, balanced take 🧵

argh. the thing is. vibecoding is so *fun*? it's so so fun. in his podcast with Ed Zitron this week, Cal Newport describes it as "a hobby, like making a model railway" and that is *exactly it*. it's really fun to make a thing with it. like whittling a wooden spoon and then you use the spoon.

You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government

v good point from the Economist Boss Class podcast: chess-playing programmes have been beating chess grand-masters for decades. But people are still watching humans playing chess not AIs. Also however fun F1 is, it's still not OK to compete in the 100m sprint by getting into a car

The post @systeminit.com folks have decided they don't want PRs on their open source project. They want descriptions of the changes contributors want, which the team can give to the agents to implement.

@adamhjk.me again.

Here's what @adamhjk.me is taking about today at #configmgtcamp. The rumours of @systeminit.com's demise seem to have been exaggerated

Yes! +100 every word of this article

Platform every time I use it: "You should pay for a subscription to get rid of these popups!" Me: Buys subscription Platform every time I use it: "You should upgrade your subscription to the family plan!" (My family will never use this platform)

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."--Mitch Ratcliffe, in Technology Review April 1992

What do you call a technology whose own creators can't distinguish it from magic?

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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...