AI Replaces Simple Features, Slowing Down Workflows
I hate AI when it's like this: Notion used to have a one-click way to turn text into a quote. They removed this and now I have... AI So instead of sub-500ms, it now takes 10+ seconds to turn selected text into a quote (type out the prompt, then wait ~4 seconds) So backwards... https://t.co/mu5wJlvdx6
AI Models Growing More Generic, Losing Unique Voice
I use AI a lot for deep research and summarization. One thing I'm noticing across all models (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) is how they are becoming... more generic? More "AI-templated" in writing? Lazier? (Using the same tired phrases again and again) As...
Netflix Blocks Offline Viewing, Apple TV Lets You Stream
Damn annoying how a subscription service like Netflix deliberately doesn’t support offline mode. Got on a plane, wanted to watch my downloaded series, and could not. Netflix has an A+ eng team, so this is deliberate. But eg Apple TV doesn’t...
DHH Shifts: From AI Skeptic to Advocate
Just six months ago, @dhh (creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy) said how he doesn’t really use AI tools to write code, because they are not good enough. Things have changed, a lot. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:11 Omarchy and Ruby on Rails 08:25...
Limited Mythos Details Fuel Unfounded FUD, Awaiting Evidence
It is both annoying and sad to see how this one scorecard release of Anthropic’s Mythos is spreading so much FUD, esp on social media. It’s like the less information released, the more the dramatic assumptions. There’s sparse information - I’ll hold...
Anthropic Leads AI Safety, Beats OpenAI Expectations
Two years ago, if you asked me which lab will be the first to say: “this AI model is too powerful to release, so we’ll wait with it” - my guess would have obviously been OpenAI. Who else? That Anthropic...
Nondeterministic LLMs Demand New Determinism Standards
In an industry built on determinism, I feel we might be underestimating the work we all will need to do with LLMs exactly because they are nondeterministic. But for so much of automation/workflows, determinism (aka "make sure it doesn't make a...
Meta Evaluates Performance by Token Usage, Prompting Gaming
Token usage is part of perf evaluations at Meta. This is just smart people (Meta only hires smart folks) hitting targets they assume leadership wants them to hit so they get that exceeds expectations (or above) rating + avoid below expectations (Perhaps...
First Military Strikes Cripple Multiple Cloud Data Centers
Wild - both that it has been the first time ever that multiple cloud data centers were knocked out by military strikes (never happened before thru the history of the cloud) and for a region to seemingly permanently go offline...
Seeking Tools that Scan Repos for Malicious Dependencies
What are vendors that offer scanning of PRs or repos to protect against malicious dependencies? I know of Sonar (Advanced Security), Socket .dev, JFrog. What else do you know of or use and what does it do? (At some point, you want...
Tech Founders and Execs Are Returning to Hands‑on Engineering
Founders + C-level folks who come from a software engineering background are all getting back to it. Never seen eng leaders get hands-on with a previous technology at so many different places.
Beyond Pinning: Harden Node and Python Supply Chains
Supply chain attacks are becoming more frequent, and far more serious. What are sensible practices to protect against these when using Node or Python packages? I assume pinning versions is the bare minimum; for those with security teams / tools: why else...
Tech Firms Weigh Buying AI Models vs Building Own Stack
I am happy to see a lot more "build vs buy" discussions happening across more tech companies. As in "should we buy leading models [like OpenAI, Anthropic] and be dependent on their pricing and reliability, or should we build+own our inference...
OpenAI Repo Merges AI Contributions, Codex Stays Anonymous
I explained in today’s @Pragmatic_Eng newsletter: That’s a repo where OpenAI is merging external contributions. Some are made by Claude Code, some with GitHub Copilot, some with Codex. Codex doesn’t add itself as a contributor - on purpose - that’s...
Podcasts and Newsletters Outpace Traditional Media Due to Curated Guests
Honestly I’m really enjoying media industry observations from @y_molodtsov Many podcasts and newsletters have more “reach” than traditional publications… I personally think exactly because these publications do NOT let anyone come on. Unlike TechCrunch where the bar is lower: https://t.co/JQI7ptIamp
