The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small plate begging for their share from the token barons who, fortunately, at any given moment can feel generous enough to press a button that makes the tokens fly out like projectile vomit. Engineers at these companies, who sit mere inches from the spigot, frequently bless us with thinkpieces that we too should be doing what they do, and it’s actually quite unfashionable not to do so. Of course none of this is so much engineering advice as it is financial advice. But sure, “wHy dO pEoPle hATe Ai?”

The AI grift in a nutshell: if you aren’t doing this thing I just made up, you’re falling behind and aren’t gonna make it.

the top right corner of vscode is starting to resemble an iq test

>Does nothing >All the competition destroys itself around him >Wins

Hungary's Péter Magyar spots Viktor Orbán chilling on a balcony at President Tamás Sulyok’s residence: “Absolute cinema.”

> Firefox claims the new mascot is non-binary > Look at Firefox > It's still made out of ones and zeros

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices. And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works. Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse. This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster. The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit. Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

"I'm at my limit" emotional or claude?

vibecoder asks claude code to build a chat app, gets a working prototype in 20 minutes, immediately tweets "just killed slack and discord"… brother you don't even know what a distributed system is. you don't know what database replication means. you have no idea how websocket connections behave at scale or what happens when 50k people are online at once and someone's message needs to show up in 200ms across 3 continents slack has engineers making $300k who have spent a decade solving problems you don't even know exist yet. race conditions, eventual consistency, message ordering, presence systems, file storage at scale, search indexing across billions of messages your app works on localhost with 2 connections. that's not the same thing as "killing slack" that's a college homework assignment the prototype is maybe 0.5% of what makes these products actually work in production. the remaining 99.5% is infrastructure, reliability, edge cases, and years of iteration on problems that only surface when real humans use your thing at scale and the worst part is the confidence. "yeah its not perfect but ai one-shotted it, just need to adjust a few things and deploy" - the few things you need to adjust IS the entire product. thats like pouring a foundation and saying you basically built a skyscraper, just need to adjust a few things ai is genuinely incredible for building tools and prototypes. i use it every day. but there's this weird thing happening where people who have never shipped anything to real users at scale now think the hard part of software is writing the first 200 lines of code it never was bro

For the time being AI coders will need a good working knowledge of code in order to be most effective; but that need is going to recede as the models improve. But code is the least of the skills that a good programmer needs. Problem solving, system thinking, product awareness, and structural competence have always been more important than coding; and those skills are more important than ever.

this is huge

AI can make work faster, but a fear is that relying on it may make it harder to learn new skills on the job. We ran an experiment with software engineers to learn more. Coding with AI led to a decrease in mastery—but this depended on how people used it. anthropic.com/research/AI-as…

In 1966, children shared their visions of life in the year 2000

fucking this

driving to my 9-5 while these vibe coders get funded for millions of dollars

I don't want a burner I don't want to sign in I simply want the machine I use arch, btw