I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Happy Android 17 Release Day! We're breaking down the rollout of the new version of Android and WearOS Plus Nothing phones now on sale in Best Buy in the US and much more on this week's podcast! LIVE today at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKQ... Twitch: buff.ly/0d1z7sw

I just called to schedule a service appointment for my car, and they used an automated system which is FINE but if you're going to do that, at least say it up front. Don't say "I'm Alex" and talk to me like a human being when the whole interaction is clearly automated and rigid.

If you're a manager at any company mandating LLM use, I'd recommend you try to ask your directs how they *really* feel about LLM adoption, promising to shield them from retaliation. Because it can be *very* costly for one's career to criticize LLMs right now. Empathize with your workers.

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

Finally showing off my decade long collection of laptop stickers! 😍

The answer is today

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If you ever rant to me about how much AI is affecting you as well, there is never a need to apologize. I am always here to listen. 💚

Maybe the most harmful thing about LLMs for a learning community is that you won't learn about anything unrelated to what you asked for.

I do not generally post stuff anywhere, particularly because I do not want to spend my energy locking horns with strangers while living in a dystopia. However, reading Adam's latest post here androidessence.com/leave-me-beh... really struck a chord. Excerpt from the post:

Thanks so much for featuring my blog post, Leave Me Behind. I'm so thrilled to hear how much that has resonated with people this week. 💚

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

People hate AI. In fact the trend is that more people hate AI over time and it's not slow. The numbers are clear: if you think AI is the future then *you're* the one in the echo chamber www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-americ...

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> Even if the code is written for you there's still a huge cognitive load in tracking all of that output. I think AI ultimately increases cognitive load. Instead of an implementation I can already do, I wait for AI to write and then read from scratch. Previously, we understood it while writing it.

I turned off the keynote. I feel like I'm going certifiably insane. They admit that people can detect high quality AI only 25% of the time, and so their solution is to watermark AI content, with a watermark invisible to the naked eye? That solves absolutely nothing. I'm disgusted, honestly.

Setup my walking pad at my desk today so I could walk while watching Google IO, and then got the cursed exercise idea of "what if I increase the speed every time Sundar says AI" 💀

I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.

Last Friday, we announced a ✨ new default structure ✨ for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. (Nothing like a late Friday afternoon release!) In case you missed that, here’s a quick recap of what’s new! 🧵👇

If you're an Android developer building using Jetpack Compose for your you UI, consider using Compose State for your state production over StateFlow: www.tunjid.com/articles/emb...

Developers have had impressively strong communities for a couple decades now, and we've accumulated a lot of power. Big corporations would prefer labor not have power, so what's a good way to take out one of the most powerful labor forces? Turn them back to cogs in the machine without community

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

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Slightly increase a band: M&Ms

We had a cleaning service come by the house today and while they were here I heard another noise and realized our roborock vacuum was going off. Doesn't it know it's been replaced by a human?

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

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Wrote up something small about how I started using interface inheritance to handle inserting into multiple tables at a time in Room, when you have a common type used by multiple Daos and don't want to duplicate code. #AndroidDev androidessence.com/multi-table-...

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

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This is the good shit.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive. In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

Was part of a record setting crowd tonight! Largest attendance for a professional women's hockey game in the US. Everyone watches women's sports. ❤️

I built a tiny IntelliJ IDEA plugin for something that had been bothering me for years github.com/saket/intell...

Gemini output looks like me trying to convince my ADHD brain to get off the couch.

Can't wait to be part of a potential women's hockey attendance record at MSG next month! 🚨 www.thepwhl.comen/news/2026/ma...

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UI design gallery for Android developers. developer.android.com/design/ui/ga...

Ask anyone who worked at Block/Square what they loved most and I guarantee you the first thing they'll say is "its the people". blog.mmckenna.me/cook-togethe...

I made it to a four digit elo in Chess! ♟️

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️ New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder. Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

Didn't expect to stream today but I was able to make it so going live for an hour to do some chill coding if you're around! twitch.tv/adammc

The Chess hyperfixation continues, excited to try out my new toy.

First stream of 2026! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday night coding: twitch.tv/adammc