AI Dev Productivity Shift: Laura Tacho Joins AWS
A big move happened in the AI + dev productivity space: Laura Tacho (@rhein_wein) DX —> AWS Now I’m paying attention to AWS and what they’ll do here 👀 (I’m also no longer an advisor at DX) https://t.co/Tr3Kzij6eR
AI Agents Are Reshaping Workflows and Future Tools
One thing I love about the team at Linear is they skate where the puck is headed - often before others see it. Agents are changing how work gets done. Heck, at early adopters, it's already changed it. Agents will become part...
LiteLLM Compromised Despite “Secured by Delve” Claim
Oh damn, I thought this WAS a joke ... but no, LiteLLM *really* was "Secured by Delve" (the company that rubber stamped all of these audits, and seems to have been on the edge of fraudlent auditing, but useless for sure) And...
Orban Frames Voters as Putin or Zelensky Supporters
Elections are coming up in Hungary, and the campaign is surreal. Orban (the current PM) is effectively saying anyone voting for him votes for Putin and Russia (repeats Russian propaganda, and claims anyone voting for the opposition [Tisza] votes for Ukraine...
AI Codegen Hype Ignores Deployment, Observability, and Reliability
The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing. I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs,...
Compliance Startup Fakes Certifications, Leaves Data Unprotected
Chefs kiss. Delve issues “vibe complaince” rubberstamp SOC and other certifications, while leaving their own door wide open w sensitive documents unsecured… for who knows how long. Security 101 A cautionary tale of a complaince startup faking everything, and almost making it...
Cursor's Opaque Pricing and Silent Product Changes Betray Trust
Cursor keeps showing poor judgment with comms - behaving not like a $10B+ company, but like an early-stage startup Hikes prices for many enterprise customers without notice, or comms or transparency Big bang Composer 2.0 release w/o sharing that it's based on...
Delve's Compliance Certificates Exposed as Fraudulent and Worthless
Damning evidence suggesting that compliance certificates issued by Delve (a startup founded in 2023) are fraudlent + worthless I never understood how eg Cluely could be GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA compliant in ~a week. Now we know: they probably aren't. Just wild https://t.co/XoUjOBAUSD https://t.co/eaqLo0nAJS
Silent Max‑Mode Shift Drains Credits, Sparks Customer Exodus
I am hearing tons of complaints from Cursor customers at enterprise companies: A silent change put almost all models Cursor uses behind Max mode. Devs who used to manage to “spread out” monthly credits over a month see all of it...
AI Is Flooding Online Replies, Soon Undetectable
It’s not X — it’s Y I cannot unsee how so much of the writing on this site (and online, in general) is increasingly AI-generated. It’s still pretty easy to recognize. Probably not for long tho Just alarming that ppl outsource even...
Paid Influencer Clips Masquerade as Genuine Traction
Learned about a new trend: Some marketing agencies are partnering with hundreds of "influencers" and distribute (paid, undisclosed) videos to them (eg podcasts) to clip and repost, making it look like organic interest Apparently inspired by Cluely What is real traction anymore
Inside Perspective Explains Uber’s Switch From HipChat
This is SO SUCH A GOOD example on why some things that do not make sense from the outside, make perfect sense from the inside. In 2016, Uber moved to its own chat system, off of HipChat (that had a disastrous...
Adobe's Cancellation Trap Turns Loyal Users Into Critics
This cancellation dark pattern is slowly killing Adobe It turns promoters (customers who love the product and pay for it) into vocal haters I am an example as well who got tricked into the sub you cannot cancel without a penalty. I...
Even $300B AI Giant's Site Loses Your Typed Text
One thing that endlessly frustrates with Anthropic, a $300B+ dollar company, where most code is written with AI: Their landing page for paying customers, Claude .ai has been broken for weeks UX-wise, and no one notices or cares or fixes: It "loses"...
Steve Yegge Predicts AI's Impact on Software Development
It's always energizing to do a podcast with Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge, engineer+author, formerly at Amazon+Google, creator of Gas Town). Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:43 Steve’s latest projects 02:27 Important blog posts 04:48 Shifts in what engineers need to know 10:46 Steve’s current AI stance 13:23 Steve’s book...
New Dev Tool Startups Put Founders Directly on Social Media
One very interesting change in “the new guard” of innovative dev tools startups: Many of their founders + lots of their devs are on social media, responding to their customers (devs), sharing new features / bugfixes etc Stark contrast to past ones...
AI Coding Rush Sacrifices Quality and Customer Focus
When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it...
Rethink AI Overuse: Teams, Products, Quality Impact
It’s refreshing to question HOW teams use AI, and the impact it has on teams, products, quality. Especially the overuse question This is coming from one of the most popular AI agent tools, OpenCode btw
AI Now Writes Most Code, Predictions Proved Spot‑on
Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing...
Startups Ditch Copilot as Developers Favor Claude, Codex
Actually, I do hear more startups “taking away” GitHub Copilot from devs - and no one is complaining at those places. Because those devs don’t use Copilot, and are on tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor agents etc. So companies...
Blue Check Badge Fuels Viral AI‑generated Fake News
I hate this site The below blue checked account makes up completely fake stuff - that never happened - and it gets 2M+ views. No it didn't happen People treat as fact, thanks to having a $8/month blue check Fake news (often written...
Solving Real Pain, Community Focus Drives HashiCorp’s Success
9 interesting observations from my conversation with Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp): 1. Vagrant was created because dev environment setup was an unbillable time sink at a consultancy. At the Ruby on Rails shop where Mitchell worked, jumping...
AI‑generated Code Speeds Delivery, but Reliability Suffers
On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast. On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there...
AI Boosts Engineer Efficiency 100x, Redefining Open‑Source Costs
I cannot stop thinking about the implications that Cloudflare / Vinext has on commercial open source, and in general, the cost of migrations, rewrites, and maintenance. One engineer, with AI, proved to be ~100x as efficient as before. This will have...
AI Makes Open‑source Rewrites Trivial, Cloudflare Proves It
We will see much, much more of this happening. AI is changing open source incredibly rapidly. Rewriting an open source project to a new language/framework used to be a massive effort: AI is making it trivial as Cloudflare just showcased with...
Mitchell Hashimoto’s Workflow Transformed by AI Tools
How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) changed, thanks to AI tools? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:19 HashiCorp origins 18:22 The 2010s startup scene in SF 23:11 Funding HashiCorp 25:23 The "Hashi stack" 38:28 The open-core pivot 48:08 Taking HashiCorp public 51:58 The almost-VMware acquisition 59:10 Mitchell’s take...
Prioritize P95/P99 Metrics to Empower Power Users
If only more products would measure p95 / p99 metrics and act on them, instead of looking at medians (p50) or averages (that mask outliers) p99 is almost always your power users. Fixing stuff for them has outsized impact Great example on...
AI Is Redefining How We Build Software
The first recording from The Pragmatic Summit is available to watch for anyone: How AI is Reshaping the Craft of Building Software. With @thsottiaux (Head of Codex, OpenAI) and @vijayeraji (CTO of Applications, OpenAI) A very good one. Watch it here: https://t.co/apNHGykKbg...
AI‑written Code Will Cause Outages without Proper Safeguards
This headline today reads shocking, but will soon enough be a nothingburger: When AI generates most code and more config files as well, most outages caused will be *technically* done by AI. In reality they happen thanks to inadequate verification/monitoring/rollback...
Anthropic Alienates Open‑source Devs, Pushes Enterprise‑only Lock‑in
Anthropic has alienated devs who care about using open source tools, portability between vendors and using LLM subscriptions in the tool of *their* choice This all seems deliberate: Anthropic gunning at enterprise, not caring much if these devs go elsewhere/use other...
Gartner's AI Coding Tool List Is Outdated—Choose Wisely
Never forget that as per Garnter, in August, the best AI coding tools on were: 1. GitHub Copilot 2. AWS Kiro + Q 3. Windsurf 4. GitLab (??) 5. Gemini ... 6. Cursor No mention of Claude Code or Codex (they were all out by then) I pity the...
Bad Tools Drive Talent Loss and Competitor Advantage
Give engineers subpar tools, what could possibly go wrong? a) competitors out-ship AWS (eg Vercel, where Claude Code is used by so many and they are on 🔥) b) frustrated engineers interview elsewhere and take offers at places where Claude Code or...
Founders &
I was at a founders + CTOs event for 10-500 person startups. Founders and CTOs at these companies burn some of the most tokens and increasingly ship a bunch of code to production (when they did ~zero 6 months ago)
