Something Big Is Happening. A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

IA working as an extraction tool for capitalism

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things.

AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain.

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

The inversion of Linus Torvalds’ famous dictum has been circulating for months now. “Code is cheap. Show me the talk.” It’s a clever rhetorical move, suggesting that articulation and architectural thinking have displaced typing as the limiting factor in software development. But I think this framing, while containing a kernel of truth, fundamentally misunderstands where costs have actually moved.

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This is how I like to debug but it can be done at different levels too per this article.

I see some echoes here

"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" – ClickHole "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" – John Maynard Keynes, paraphrased 2025 was a weird year for me. If you had asked me exactly a year ago, I would have said I thought LLMs were…

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

Uninstall Visual Studio Code and clean up.

Because the SO answers are just plain wrong. At least this is the proper source. Copying here too for safekeeping:

Windows - Delete %APPDATA%\Code and %USERPROFILE%\.vscode.
macOS - Delete $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code and ~/.vscode.
Linux - Delete $HOME/.config/Code and ~/.vscode

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Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of a hypermedia-driven architecture.

It's JSON all the way down

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