Google to scan your entire photo library to build what it calls “Personal Intelligence.” What this means in plain English is that your images are no longer just stored, they are analyzed and integrated into a broader behavioral profile. Google openly admits the system can use actual images of you and your loved ones to generate AI content, eliminating the need for users to manually upload reference photos.

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

#NLS Big Crash at Klostertal

Great article on the hidden cost of high-velocity engineering in the AI era. We talk about how AI tools make individual tasks faster, but there's constant context-switching and decision fatigue. siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai…

Over the last year I’ve gone through the 5 stages of grief. 1. Denial - “AI writes slop.” 2. Anger - “AI is trained on stolen data. I worked 20 years for these skills.” 3. Bargaining - “If I ignore it, maybe it will pass.” 4. Depression - “I don’t feel like working.” 5. Acceptance - “AI makes me quicker, more creative, and more capable. It automates the drudgery so I can focus on key decisions instead of syntax.” Relieved to be at step 5.

Sounds incredible until you read the fine print. The compiler generates less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled. It doesn’t have its own assembler or linker. It can’t produce a 16-bit x86 code generator. And Carlini himself says it has “nearly reached the limits of Opus’s abilities.” New features and bugfixes kept breaking existing functionality. So what did $20,000 and two weeks actually buy? A compiler that passes 99% of GCC’s torture tests but can’t match the output quality of a tool that’s had 37 years of human engineering. That’s the constraint nobody’s pricing in. The real story is in the cost curve, not the capability demo. $20,000 for 100,000 lines means $0.20 per line of generated code. A senior compiler engineer costs roughly $150/hour. At maybe 50 polished lines per hour for something this complex, that’s $3/line. AI just did it at 15x cheaper, and it will only get cheaper from here. But the code isn’t equivalent. The AI version needs a human to finish the assembler, fix the linker, optimize the output, and prevent regressions. Those are the hardest 20% of the problem, and they represent 80% of the engineering value. Anthropic built the demo. Shipping the product still requires humans. This tells you exactly where we are in the autonomous software timeline. AI can now produce impressive first drafts of complex systems at trivial cost. Turning those drafts into production software still requires the judgment that costs $300K per year in compiler engineer salary. The gap between “compiles the Linux kernel” and “replaces GCC” is measured in decades of accumulated engineering wisdom that no model has internalized yet. The companies that understand this will use agent teams to generate the 80% and hire engineers to finish the 20%. The companies that don’t will ship $20,000 compilers that produce slower code than a free tool from 1987.

Cursor changed everything for designers. I went from sketching UI to shipping a full agent OS. The gap between ideas and reality is closer than ever to zero. Here’s the story:

It has been wonderful to see the growth of Angular in the "State of JavaScript" 12% retention 5% usage 5% positivity This means a lot coming from a React-heavy audience 🙏 In our Angular specific survey we saw a major satisfaction improvement thanks to signals and more!

#JSNation phone orchestra was terrible.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Hey ⁦@albertheijn⁩ . Deze mail krijg ik van jullie, maar dit lijkt zo erg op een spam/fishing mail. Is het niet slimmer om volgende keer te vragen om naar de website te gaan ipv de login knop er onder te zetten? Dit is niet erg handig.

One of the best vids I’ve seen all year

Angular’s renaissance is coming. goo.gle/angular-event

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A solar filament erupts out into space with Earth to scale (size not distance) Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

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This might be my favourite 2 minutes of tv ever. @GeorgeMonbiot getting straight to the heart of what we need to do: system change. #degrowth