Folks...just build your software. If it's good, people will pay you for it. I don't need to hear about your AI workflow anymore. I get it, you have the bot write it.

A lot of people, when presented with a problem, think "I know, I'll use AI". Then they just stop thinking so...ya know.... problem solved.

@bcantrill.bsky.social @ahl.bsky.social do you have a canonical list of books about companies to read?

I'm glad AI is finally making the startup capital requirements for software non-zero. The software industry can mature into a real industry where incumbents can solidify their position by making it unnecessarily expensive to compete with them. Next? Regulation requiring software written with AI!

I don't like bar soap.

What's great about fried food is that it tastes good and it's good for you.

Do you think one day they will invent a PA system for an airport where you can understand what they are saying?

Almost all the LI posts I see about AI and coding are about how many lines are generated with it. "I write 100 gazillion SLOC last night while high on lead paint, everything is changing!"

Most people salt their fries. But here's a little trick I picked up while backpacking the Okavango: salt your ketchup instead. It will stick way better.

Remember 20 years ago when Trump abducted a Venezuelan president?

Haha I wrote this with no knowledge this would actually be the next episode. Am I psychic?

Ugh, GitHub is a bit of a dumpster fire these days...

Has AI made me more productive? Absolutely, yes. I can do the same amount with way less time so I can finally catch up on watchin' mah stories without my boss knowing.

Have you ever tried to use a keyboard while wearing socks on your hands? It's really hard. Probably why nobody does it...hrmmmm...

We just did the Stategraph Velocity demo. Highlights: 1. Showed two users applying changes to the same state file at the same exact time and BOTH SUCCEEDED. No overlapping resources? No problem!

Like everyone in the world, my feeds are full of posts by AI Maximizers. I do use AI but I am not a Maximizer for the basic reason: I am responsible for the code, at the end of the day.

How big does a chicken nugget have to be before you'd consider it a chicken patty?

Plur1bus is a vision of our LLM future. A sycophantic unibrain pretending to be personalized to each one of us.

If your business is built on top of another company's model, you're probably dead-man-walking.

@notalawyer.bsky.social I was reading Graeber's Bullshit Jobs book but I didn't see podcasting in there at all..

For me, a big impact of LLMs is not production code gen but testing code gen. I really...really..really hate to write tests, so being able to have the LLM do it and I spot check it is great for me.

@edzitron.com I don't know, can anyone decode this great mystery????? Is there not a needle strong enough?? ROFLCAKES fullhoffman.com/2026/02/14/o...

I refactored 27.6 thousands lines of code with Claude today. That's because it wrote 24k stupid lines of code.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social is "Grit" in the queue for books? I was listening to Blink again and it was mentioned.

AI isn't the next dot com bubble. It's the Paperless Office craze all over again.

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Claude Code is so weird to use. 1. The editor is oddly slow, like hoping around by word just has some latency associated with it that is weird. 2. It uses a ton of CPU when it is doing nothing other than waiting for input.

I can't wait for the future of software engineering blogs. Title: How I developed a webscale recommendation engine for baby diapers. Body: Type the title into Claude and take a nap. Everyone: OHHHH WOW.

Reminder to all involved: Productivity is super hard to measure. That's why we, as humans, push back against LOC as the metric. LOC by AI doesn't change that?

Shower thought: LLMs will give software patents universal acceptance as a form of competitive advantage.

I see a lot of people claiming that AI will kill SaaS. Why buy when you can build yourself at a fraction of the cost? Two questions: 1. All those people building their own versions of SaaS with AI, what are YOU actually selling to customers? ...

Hear @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk.com's MonkCast: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." redmonk.com/videos/danie... www.youtube.com/shorts/GwfFl...

#Claude Code, you're killin' my battery, dog. Why are you using 100% CPU sitting in a prompt doing nothing?

My god, I look like a freakin' mop in this video. I need a hair cut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT8y...

My feed is full of AI folks talking about how they are running 20 agents, letting it rip, producing tens of thousands of lines of code per hour, and not even looking at it and it's amazing. Does anyone have any examples or products that consumers love that have been developed in this way?

I sure hope AI can replace programs like the boosters say because babysitting an AI is boring AF and nobody is going to want to do it 8 hours a day for someone else.

If you’re thinking about: • Designing or redesigning a cloud landing zone • Scaling cloud adoption across teams • Balancing security with flexibility • Testing architectural changes safely This livestream is for you: www.linkedin.com/events/74253... #Terrateam

Just a little reminder, Stategraph Demo Day is Feb 25th stategraph.com/demo-day We will be showing off Velocity, which let's you plan and apply your existing #Terraform and #Tofu code fast as lightning,

Grating cream cheese is not easy.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social when will we get premium content based around the state of Peter's watch collection?

"AI is sucking all the air out of the room" That's because robots don't need air and they want to kill all of us.

What is random, but actually useful, things you wish you had a SQL interface for?

It's spelled: "single pain of glass"

Remember when devs would argue that Lines of Code was NOT a good metric to measure how productive you are?

The Stategraph Velocity Demo Day is less than a month away. Last week I got first drafts on all of the system-level protocols for end-to-end plan/apply. Going to demo: 1. Two users applying changes to the same root module in parallel 2. A large root module running a change much faster.

Do you think LLMs will make businesses less willing to OSS or be source available for their solutions? The ability to copy-but-change-enough-so-it-looks-original is much easier.

I get a lot of compliments on my peripheral vision.

The GitHub Pull Request screen is so slow, my co-founder made Argus github.com/stategraph/a... a custom front-end to pull requests. Today I added a feature to Argus that I've wanted from GitHub for years: the ability to look at the diff between two pushes to a pull request. Someone push a fix?

A lot of people, when their feet are cold, put socks on. I, on the other hand, put my feet in warm soup. Not only do I have warm feet but I have something to eat. It's this kind of innovative thinking that lead us to #Stategraph, a different way to look at managing infrastructure in #Terraform.

Modular explicits are coming to OCaml 5.5 🎊🫰🥳🎉🎂 github.com/ocaml/ocaml...