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"Even if I wanted to reject AI and go back to the days where the Thinker's needs were met by coding, the Builder in me would struggle with the inefficiency."

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

"On a quiz that covered concepts they'd used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, b..."

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The Names They Call Themselves *Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of...

"The job won't be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs."

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.

"Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn'..."

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Am I too stupid to vibe code? Read to the end for Dr. House In 2025

"One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won't understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you've done, but maybe you'll have something. Just a few more dollars f..."

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First, Make Me Care Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting,...

"If you were telling a friend in a rush why you were ex­cited to write this down, what would you say? Just say that! Just… start with the in­ter­est­ing part first."

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How I estimate work as a staff software engineer There’s a kind of polite fiction at the heart of the software industry. It goes something like this:

"I don't 'break down the work to determine how long it will take'. My management chain already knows how long they want it to take. My job is to figure out the set of software approaches that match that estimate. Som..."

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I'm Done with Unit and Integration Tests | Ted M. Young What's the difference between them? Why does it matter? I discuss why I use the terms 'I/O-Free' and 'I/O-Dependent' tests instead.

"Over the past few years, I've become more frustrated with the terms 'Unit' and 'Integration' because I have to explain what 'Unit' and 'Integration' mean before I can use them."

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TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.

"Instead I get a maze, complex enough that when something goes wrong, I'm at fault for a tooltip I didn't hover over, a blog post I didn't read, a submenu I didn't find. Maybe that's by design. Maybe it's neglect. I don't know."

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The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think … Stop stressing about self‑improvement or waiting until you’re on top of everything. This year give yourself permission to prioritise pleasure

"If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying l..."

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"People have been trained to be abused by software and by hardware, to ignore their needs, to accept any change as inevitable."

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"How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge."

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

"The problem isn't that engineers can't write code or use AI to do so. It's that we're so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should."

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"Almost anyone can prompt an LLM to generate a thousand-line patch and submit it for code review. That's no longer valuable."

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"There is abundant evidence that over the last 20 years, American firms have shifted from an innovation mindset to one that focuses more on rent seeking."

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"Rewrite your multiple-paragraph email until your message can be said in just a few sentences. In time you will not know any better."

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"'Open your eyes is all that is needed. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes, hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. The..."

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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

"Instead of designing and using tools to build a society, our society changes to adapt to the demands of our tools."

Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more

"That's how business works when regulation hasn't caught up to structural innovation. Nvidia paid $6.9B for technology and $13.1B to solve everything else using a deal structure that traditional antitrust can't touch."

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From Async Code Reviews to Co-Creation Patterns This article dives into the throughput and quality of the async code review process, which are very important dimensions to optimize for in product development teams. It also explains why co-creation...

"We have a process to help us build in quality that is based on feedback and inviting human judgement, but if the system incentives constrain our ability to get the feedback, that also means..."

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"If you don't have a slightly cynical explanation for why large tech companies sometimes make inefficient decisions - such as this one - you risk adopting an overly cynical one."

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The Future of Software Development is Software Developers <ShamelessPlug> If you’re looking to get your development team AI-ready, my hands-on instructor-led training in the principles and practices that enable teams to rapidly, reliably and s…

"Even the C-suite has noticed the correlation of major outages and incidents proceeding grand claims about how much of that company's code is 'AI'-generated."

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‘Do a Better Job on the Wings’ Kubrick on the Icarus myth.

"I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'Don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on ..."

daringfireball.net/2025/12/do_a... #agency #quality #k…

Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.

"It's also a real problem for higher education. Colleges and universities have lost that connection they've had with a large swath of the American people based on affordability."

9 shortcuts The simple rule: Nine shortcuts take longer and are less productive than simply doing the work the right way the first time. When we look for one-quick-tip and the lazy hack, we’re wasting ti…

"Nine shortcuts take longer and are less productive than simply doing the work the right way the first time."

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Horses AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.

"I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did."

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Don't Push AI Down Our Throats AI is being done wrong.

"We don't need to do it this quarter just because some startup has to do an earnings call. We will do it if it helps us."

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Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.

"Overnight, most engineers got rebranded as 'not AI talent.' And then came the final insult: everyone was forced to use Microsoft's AI tools whether they worked or not."

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"But it's important not to take this too far: skepticism shouldn't become obstructionism. With AI, it's not 'no forever' but 'not until it can be done right'."

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A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and...

"I can't think of a single instance where an unruly ego solved anything I've worked on."

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