justin․searls․co

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.


I'm sick of getting spam email because of my CEO title at Searls LLC on LinkedIn, so it's got me thinking about stepping back into a Steakholder role.

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We just took @tenderlove on Jungle Cruise and he had no idea what was in store for him. I've never seen better product-market fit than how that man reacted to every terrible pun.

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Anyone else's Lutron Caseta system go down last night? App can't connect to hub, which won't go online. I want to blame the AWS outage before I start ripping apart networking gear.

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I never used to reach out to touch my MacBook screen after using my iPad, but because each 26 OS looks so similar, I'm doing it all the time now.

All according to keikaku.

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Ruby is 30 years old, there's so much left to solve that it'd be too much to ask them to finally add support for naming methods with an interrobang. (I would accept either this?! or that‽)

I'm serious! Have you never seen a predicate method with a side effect?!

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Genuinely curious how long it will be until we have our first local LLM-based computer virus that generates code and uses tools to creatively replicate itself.

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A nonzero number of programmers under 30 assume GraphQL is a legacy technology invented by Texas Instruments in the 90s and had something to do with graphing calculators.

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When coding agents fail to accomplish what we task them with, very often it's because the codebase has complications we failed to anticipate and communicate. It's easy to get mad at the AI, but reckoning with technical debt requires your awareness and involvement, too.

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After a fabulously productive weekend with Codex CLI shipping a set of features that would have taken me two weeks, it is now past 9 AM on a weekday in San Francisco and it's struggling to add two numbers together again. What a world.

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