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.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
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!)
I'm glad I pointed Scott to Orta's Claude post, because his analogy (God, why is this man so good at analogies?) comparing agentic coding to "ZIRP for technical debt" is A-fucking-plus thoughtleading. Jealous. worksonmymachine.ai/p/entering-technical-debts-zirp-era
who the hell called it golden shower sex and not "whiz bang"?!
Best part about being CEO of a company named after yourself is receiving cold e-mail openers like:
Shout-out to Orta for pulling on the "full-breadth developer" thread with such a concrete, detailed accounting of his agentic coding experiences blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/
My OGs from high school and college still have the note "Courtesy of thefacebook." in their vcards, because early-days Facebook let you export all your friends' contact information lol
AppleCare One is a great deal if you like Apple's more expensive products. An iPad Pro ($10.99/mo), Vision Pro ($24.99/mo), and Pro Display XDR ($17.99/mo) somehow adds up to $19.99.
That's $33.98/mo cheaper than ala carte pricing. apple.com/applecare/
Did Satya write this for current and former employees or did Satya write this for Satya? blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/24/recommitting-to-our-why-what-and-how/
Finally, vindication. I've been calling bullshit on resting meat since I first heard of it. Get the meat to the right temp and shove it in your face while it's still hot. You can rest when you're dead. seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
Almost made it 2 hours working in Xcode before hitting my first Spinning Beachball of Death. I triggered it by scrolling a file listing.
Nostalgic!
Starting my first new iOS app in over 15 years and on Day 1 I've spent more time debugging build errors in Keychain Access than I have in Xcode.
Some things never change.
The first draft of my "Full-breadth Developers" post included a throwaway line like "Forget 10x developers; think 100x" but then I came to my senses and deleted it. businessinsider.com/surge-ceo-ai-100x-engineers-2025-7
If my name were Albert, I would take advantage of the prevalence of sans-serif fonts and juice up that résumé. Tout what an expert in Al I was. Claim to be an Al-first developer. An Al-native. In the top 0.1% of the field with respect to Al.
Never get high off your own supply. This guy must be new at this. futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
I was red-pilled by Claude Code over 4th of July weekend. Its performance was incredible. Ever since, it's been unbelievably incompetent by comparison.
Now the AI bros tell me Anthropic's servers get slammed during US business hours and Claude becomes 70% stupider. It's 4pm on a Friday and I only realized because Claude stopped fucking everything up. Great job, everyone.
I am 40 damn years old and still believe it is a moral failing to take two trips to carry shit from one place to another, even if it's likely I'll drop everything.
If my blog post about Full-breadth Developers has you the tiniest bit curious about how to get started with coding with AI, read this: addyo.substack.com/p/the-ai-native-software-engineer
If candidates are cheating your interview process by using AI, the solution is not to quiz them on computer science topics. It's to pair with them and watch them cook! If they can cheat with AI better than you can, hire them.