Josh Ferrara

Just finished: "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI" by Dwarkesh Patel & Gavin Leech

★★★★☆

Book: a.co/d/7ohE9ti

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show...

An enjoyable read for anyone in the industry or simply curious about the technology behind modern AI assistants.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Fascinat

I know we've all more or less gotten used to it, but the user/invite/build management in TestFlight is still bad and Apple should feel bad about it.

If your opinion on AI is still based on consumer chat products, you're missing the bigger picture.

The real gains are structured, repeatable, and far more useful than copy/pasting from a chatbot. And they're unlocking progress that wasn't practical or cost-effective for humans.

If you're in a field other than software you should be paying very close attention to the shift that is happening in the world of coding agents and start positioning yourself in your industry to be ahead of the curve when it arrives.

The effects & benefits that we're seeing from AI in the software engineering world is a great roadmap for what to expect in most other industries.

(yes, even your industry)

I'll never forgive soup for becoming so expensive at restaurants.

Who's watching F1? I think Max has the chance to make this WDC very entertaining. #F1 #BrazilGP

Between keyless entry in cars and smart locks at home, I'm realizing my kids don't really understand why we have keys at all.

Can anyone explain to me how the Filet-O-Fish continues to exist? It defies all odds.

I’m late to the party but I can’t get enough TBPN. Daily tech business news, genuinely fresh takes, and insightful conversation with the hosts and guests. It’s a fun time to be in this space.

Interesting: Waffle House offers delivery, but only from 9pm to 7am.

A ★★★★ review of The Menu (2022) Well now I want a Pacojet and a chocolate hat.  This was an unexpected ride, and I enjoyed it. There were a few moments I thought maybe I figured out the messaging, but by the end I think those messages were probably secondary.  I would like more movies like this.

Watched "The Menu" last night and now I want a Pacojet.

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It's November 1. Halloween is a distant memory.

Who is pulling out the Christmas decorations this weekend?

I'm not saying I want another pandemic, but I wouldn't be mad if I was presented with some time to focus on my Animal Crossing island.

Ok, GPT-5 is still slow as dirt, but with a ton of instruction and context, I am finally impressed with it's ability to follow instructions and be very surgical with code changes.

The temptation to waste tokens congratulating your AI coding agent when you've successfully squashed a bug together.

Why didn't anyone tell me that Kacey Musgraves is good?

Nothing reminds you just how bad email is like Slack being down in the middle of the day.

It's been 5 years since my dad passed away. The most frequent things that still make me instinctively reach for my phone to text him are family advice and music.

My kingdom for a Notion Mail invite

Who else do I know hanging out on Letterboxd?

https://letterboxd.com/joshferrara

This probably only makes sense to 1% of my friends, but to whom it may concern:

Sideloading Apollo for Reddit is pretty painless these days. You should do it.

iOS 18 Home Screen customization sounds cool until you try to actually do it.

Their logic for when an item can be freely placed vs when that item will jump to a new location… chaos.

The high temp today in Baton Rouge was 70°F and I haven't felt this alive in months.

Another year, another annual recap post!

joshferrara.com/2023/

If you tell me “you don’t/won’t want to miss this” as a means of promoting your event or product, I will 100% be missing it.

The food situation at BTR airport is embarrassing.

A close runner up to the Roman Empire for me is the Filet-O-Fish.

How did it come to be? How has it survived so long? Why does it get special treatment? Why do I want one? On a weekly basis.

We just upgraded to one with a mop and have been very pleased. You could obviously do a little better with you own elbow grease, it’s has its challenges (corners for example)

But waking up every morning to the house vacuumed and mopped is pretty great when you have kids actively dirtying all day.

Nothing a firmware update can’t fix