Philip Brown

imagine going back a couple of years and saying that in the future, people would be clamouring to pay multiple $200 per month subscriptions

do you ever go to product hunt other than if you or someone you know is launching a product that day?

i feel like you could run a successful premier league football club by just buying the rejects from man city and chelsea’s academies

i think it’s funny when you see two celebrities have written a kids book.

it really took two of you to write this book? 😂

new rule of thumb: always scope component ids, even if you think it will only ever appear once on the page

i wonder which podcaster will be the first to successfully pull off a prompt injection attack?

there’s a whole class of software that was basically a wrapper to some secret sauce that has now become obsolete thanks to ai

what makes you choose using zed’s ai stuff over claude code?

feels like apple is getting cooked in the court of public opinion right now.

i hope they turn it around, i can’t imagine using the alternatives

it’s crazy to think back to the lull between the crypto boom and the ai boom

I love seeing UK startup founders announce they're working on a new "stealth" startup.

I go straight to Companies House to see what the craic is 👀

I feel like this is a bit like the idea that if you ask an LLM about something you know really well, you can spot all the flaws.

Whereas if you ask about something you don’t know, you just believe what it says.

When I get an LLM to write Elixir, I usually rewrite it all to fit my taste.

When I get an LLM to write anything but Elixir, I think it looks amazing on the first pass.

Pay-to-play LLMs have disproven the notion that developers don’t pay for things.

*writes a tiny bit of code*

Fuck it, let’s make it agentic

Claude is amazing on the 5-9 shift when you’ve only got enough energy to describe the problem.

I used Claude Code to write a couple of complicated js hooks that would have taken me like a week to write on my own.

I can’t understand AI doomers, this is incredible.

When Claude is cooking I feel more like a tastemaker than a developer.

Having an option to pay more for a Claude Opus 4 to get it right first time is 100% worth the extra money

When Claude is knee-deep in a massive refactor and I get the Anthropic credit recharge email

A problem with AI code is that if there’s an existing incorrect assumption, the AI will just persevere with what you asked it, rather than fixing the underlying problem.

The AI dev tooling that has been launched in the last 12 months is insane.

Software development is a complex field, so it's not like these tools have started with a simple job.

It feels inevitable that every job is going to be changed.

The Europa League final is more interesting than the Champions League final this year.

I'd love to know who has the higher lifetime earnings between
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

What happened to Elm? Is anyone still using it?

AI note-taking during meetings is actually a godsend if you’re a chronically bad notetaker like me.

So many times I’ve gotten off a call and totally blanked on what I’m supposed to do.

I love seeing people claim AI will take everyone else’s job, but not theirs 😂

It's a total bloodbath in the AI IDE space right now.

Every week, someone new has $100m in revenue or talk of an acquisition offer in the billions.

Yet every week, there's a new tool or service that is looking to become the new wedge.

It's an incredible time to be alive 🍿

Fuma Nama | Some Nice Things with SVG Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications

This is a great post on simple (yet effective) things you can do with SVGs

fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art

Using AI to write code feels a bit like playing a one-armed bandit.

You don't always win, but the occasional hit of dopamine makes it worthwhile.