I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
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I wish coding agents came with those Green/Red coasters they give you at Brazilian steakhouses:
🟢 Green: go ahead and pile stuff on my plate
🔴 Red: stop adding, we need to make room first
I don't know who needs to hear this, but despite being bare bones from a feature-set perspective, Codex CLI with GPT-5 is much, much better at some coding ecosystems than Claude Code with Opus 4.1/Sonnet.
Codex writes competent Swift that does what I ask, nothing more. Claude hallucinates code all day.
For somebody who hates Apple so much, you'd think Tim Sweeney would be above resorting to the "you're holding it wrong" defense. videogameschronicle.com/news/unreal-engine-5-performance-issues-are-mainly-due-to-devs-not-optimising-properly-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-says/
I think I'm finally at peace with the fact that I'm going to die without ever understanding what happens when an iCloud Calendar invite is sent, received, or responded to. support.apple.com/en-au/guide/icloud/mm4a440a7b64/icloud
TIRED: Rebinding caps lock to escape because you use vim
WIRED: Rebinding caps lock to escape because you use Claude Code
With Swift, I'm really speed-running the list of stupid things you do when learning a new language. 3 days ago I wrote a dependency injection framework, 2 days ago I convinced myself I'd found a compiler bug, yesterday I wrote my first macro, today I made a mocking library.
The nice thing about server-side LLMs hitting the point of diminishing returns is that it gives local LLMs a chance to catch up and for their utility to approach parity.
I would pay so much extra for a version of Claude or ChatGPT that paid the same toll I do whenever I fuck up. Make guilt a stateful property that decays over weeks or months. Trigger simulated self-doubt when similar topics arise. Grant my account bonus GPU-time so the chatbot works ridiculous overtime to make up for its mistakes, just like I would for my boss.
Despite not touching it for several years, I've noticed a marked uptick in KameSame adoption in recent months. I asked a few new users and, like a lot of my stuff, it turns out ChatGPT is driving far more people to it than Google ever did.
Keep hearing about Finntech and how much money people are making, but never hear anything about tech startups in the other Nordic countries. Does Norway not have as many programmers?
Interesting analysis of the distinctiveness of the Japanese Web. The biggest cause in my mind has always been bottleneck effect. Japan's Web developed and remains more isolated than any other "free" nation.
If every non-Japanese website disappeared tomorrow, many Japanese would go literal months without noticing. THAT's why its web is different. sabrinas.space
I don't wish them ill, but the stock price of DuoLingo (and that entire class of language learning apps) hasn't made a lick of sense since ChatGPT released. It's just going to take a single LLM-based product to obviate the entire business model yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/17/194212/duolingos-stock-down-38-plummets-after-openais-gpt-5-language-app-building-demo
The first affirmative case I've read for Ruby being a superior choice to Python, TypeScript, Golang, Rust etc. when building autonomous agents. worksonmymachine.ai/p/the-system-inside-the-system
Claude Code's Explanatory and Learning modes are extremely welcome additions to the CLI. Explanatory goes out of its way to give you a tour of the codebase. Learning adds TODO(human) homework for you to do, reinforcing understanding. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/output-styles
A group of Italian-American feminists should buy an island off the Amalfi coast to establish a women-only community and call it Old Country for No Men.
Been using Parachute for iCloud Drive & Photos backups to my Synology NAS over the last few weeks, and generally really impressed by it. Since networked Time Machine targets basically never work, this seems like a great utility app parachuteapps.com/parachute
Everyone complaining about GPT-5 doesn't understand that there are two modes you can choose from: slow and stupid.
You know that meme where the best developers actually wind up deleting more lines of code than they add?
The more time I spend wrangling agentic codegen tools, the more the task feels like chiseling than sculpting. I suspect the deleters are better poised for this moment.
Hilariously, Japan just discovered Myers-Briggs and it's super popular with the youths as a trending personality quiz. My friend asked me if I had seen "MBT" and (once I figured out WTF they were talking about) was floored when I told them about its origins note.com/yanotomoaki/n/nbb31a0e5604f
Personally, I was inclined to doubt the GPT-5 haters, but I've gotta say: this thing reminds me more of 3.5-turbo. Asking about Xcode 26 just gets me a full page of explanation that this hypothetical IDE that's been out for 2 months doesn't exist. (That's WITH search enabled!)