Time for the classic Anthropic tale: "We couldn't *possibly* release this powerful tool. That's irresponsible. [5 mins later] Now that OpenAI has released their equally powerful tool, we must ensure *responsible* people are in charge, by releasing our own powerful tool."

software engineering in 2026: - your package manager is compromised - your cloud provider blocks your account - github itself is hacked software is solved

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those of you who never worked in tech during zirp will never understand this era. $5 ubers, $3 door dash lunches, enough scooters you could(and did) fill the bay. we were living like those post war boomers in million dollar homes paying $30 in property taxes. you could demand that your ceo opine on politics in #general and would go on strike if he forced you to work. you couldn’t walk down south park without tripping on a term sheet. we had so much money we were printing code on paper and sticking it in a vacuum sealed rocket launcher into space just for kicks. one click checkout was enough of an idea to burn $10m a month, wework was buying wave pools, you could buy mattresses at a loss, you could get a juice packet squeezer for $700. the zuck was surfing every day in hawaii.

Worries that software developer jobs are going away are backwards. There is SO MUCH software to build right now, that previously wasn't possible (uses AI directly) or wasn't cost-effective (too niche). We're going to have more developers, and orders of magnitude more software.

I'm former general counsel of Army, former Undersecretary of Army, former Undersec of Defense. Not sure if that makes me a nat sec "expert." But @nabla_theta interpretation is the right one, IMO.

Nearly every board meeting : "Hiring strong infra folks is incredibly hard right now"

Huh. So Anthropic doesn’t want an ecosystem built on top of their SDK. Message received. Between them banning OpenCode, their hostile stance for OpenClaw, and now this: Anthropic make it they don’t want 3rd parties to build on them. Bug win for eg Codex, MinMax and others…

World Map of Shoes On vs Shoes Off in the House 👞🏠

This is genius in its simplicity. They’re not using exotics. It’s just… best practices. Ten years of “shard everything, adopt NoSQL, go distributed, sacrifice a goat to CAP theorem,” and here’s @OpenAI serving a billion users with “have you tried adding read replicas?”

The most common misconception about venture capital is that there’s a scarcity of capital, when in reality, there’s a shortage of ventures that are viable for the model. Venture investment isn’t zero sum – i.e. money that goes to SaaS isn’t taken from robotics. The zero sum component is the founders’ time. When VCs say that we must catch up in robotics, they’re exhorting founders to start robotics companies – if the founders instead start SaaS companies, it would be stupid for the investors to miss out of those potential returns.

Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183&f…

This test wasn’t meant to check performance — I just wanted to see if PostgreSQL had any strengths. But it ended up taking 6 hours to finish. The same SQL runs fine in other databases, so making excuses just means not taking PostgreSQL seriously.