I added about 150k lines of code in last 6 months. I don't think I wrote more than 10 lines by hand from that. Still have full control and understanding what the code does, but I can't imagine going back to "manual programming". Work became more intensive, not less.

The cost of writing tests has been reduced to almost zero with AI. It's able to generate meaningful tests for any functionality (especially if also developed by AI) and the maintenance cost is also much lower. The added value is now much bigger.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…

“When fixing code costs nothing, perfectionism is waste. When refactoring is instant, planning is procrastination.” worksonmymachine.ai/p/enteri…

With AI agents (like Claude) helping with coding, TDD finally feels economically viable. I was never a fan of writing excessive tests just for the sake of it — but now the AI generates and maintains them, and uses them to quickly validate its own work.

Good reading. I am personally amazed by the ability of Claude to work on existing complex (Kotlin) backends. CRUD is what most developers do most of the time, we are CRUD monkeys. And that's usually trivial for AI, if given good instructions. worksonmymachine.substack.co…

Proud to be part of the amazing team 🥳.

"Everyone wants to believe that they'd support "the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers". That they too would cheer for those who are "not fond of rules". But they won't and they don't. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist." world.hey.com/dhh/to-the-cra…

I’m stepping away from the Android development world after so many years and joining @UphealAI (secure AI therapy notes) as a Kotlin backend developer! Looking forward to this new chapter and the challenges ahead 🚀 .

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000." "First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling." "There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15." "Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all." More: commission.europa.eu/documen….

The longer I think about the basic concepts like inertia, the less I understand anything 😵‍💫.Why does a spinning wheel keep an absolute fixed position and a force is required to change its position? Is it actually fixed to distant galaxies and stars? americanscientist.org/articl…

Signal strongly opposes this proposal. Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

Friend with years of iOS and Android experience is going to have some capacity available. He is deep problem solver. He’ll dig to the bottom, so no one else has to go there, ever. If you need someone special like that, LMK in DM.

municiapreukrajinu.sk “Kto si myslí, že mu slobodu druhí vybojujú, ten jej nie je hodný.“ gen. Milan Rastislav Štefánik

📢 Join our team as a React Native SDK Engineer! If you're passionate about mobile development, ready to innovate and work on a product that impacts 1 billion end users, this could be your next challenge. getstream.io/careers/job/593…

here is sora, our video generation model: openai.com/sora today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators. @_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team. remarkable moment.