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  "I tried generated recipes, but AI don't know nothin' about cookies!" -- @bashbunni

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  Rest in peace, you legend! "We had to find a way and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers." -- Margaret Hamilton

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  I wish someone would care that Mastodon’s UI has been broken for years. Why do I have to click the three dots at the top of a column 20 times a day just to get it to load new posts?!

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  Also Settings -> Account -> Authorized Apps has been broken forever now :-/

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  "Now that we've solved AI..." Dude, we haven't solved AI. We've gotten surprisingly good at statistical modeling, but let's not confuse one ingredient with the whole recipe.

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  When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a finger...

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  I stopped reading after "monorepo".

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  Anthropic: Watermarking doesn't impact quality! Claude: The quick brown cat...

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  "Procrastination is bad for your health." "Why?" "Let me get back to you on that."

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  The law of entropy states that disorder always increases. We call this bitrot when it happens to code, technical debt when it happens to architecture, and a product roadmap when it happens to management.

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  For decades managers searched for a way to measure developer productivity. Now AI has given them tokens, and they're convinced they've discovered the holy grail. We spent 50 years trying to get rid of managers counting lines of code just for them to reinvent it with extra steps and a cloud bill.

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  We spent decades making computers easier to use, only to end up with people opening a terminal to fix the things that supposedly made computers easier to use.

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  A terminal UI is just a GUI where the graphics card is your imagination and the rendering engine is 50 years of accumulated technical debt.

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  Aged like 5 year old milk: "You can't become the I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING dog as a professional identity. Don't embrace being a copy-pasta programmer whose chief skill is looking up shit on the internet." -- DHH, 2021

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  Asking a software developer why they didn't just vibe-code their project is like asking a LEGO enthusiast why they didn't just buy the finished Millennium Falcon.

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  Yeah ok, Rust looks ugly, but have you seen a Perl one-liner after someone's been awake for 36 hours?

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  12 months ago, you saw something and wondered if it was AI. Now you see something and just assume it's fake. Cool timeline, apparently we made reality the uncanny valley.

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  2006: paying for ringtones 2026: praying my phone never rings

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  The actual question nobody seems to be asking: Can we create a human & machine readable description of what software is **supposed** to mean, independently of the implementation that realizes it? Because if generated code is the future, code stops being the source of truth. A programming language describes the implementation, but it isn't the specification. The spec needs to become the program and we'll need languages built around that idea.

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  Old Reddit now requires a login "for security reasons". That is such an obvious lie that I almost respect the confidence 🙄

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  It's day 3 of the great internet outage of 2026. I found myself opening the fridge repeatedly, but there were no new notifications. The cheese has become strangely compelling. I might subscribe to its newsletter.

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  The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently. And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.

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  Codeberg: "No AI-generated code." Finally, a place for all the bugs I made the old-fashioned way: by hand, with love, and no idea what I'm doing!

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  A random link in an email? Absolutely not! An AI agent with shell access, auto-updating extensions, dozens of community packages, and write access to production? "Yeah, that's just my dev setup, bro."

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  Every technological breakthrough of the last 30 years eventually reached its final form: More targeted ads.

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  Holding onto anger is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die.

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  @Karma_J I know it's just a joke, but since I checked before I wrote my post and tried to find the author of the quote: it was not Buddha :-)

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  We keep saying we're "adding AI to our app". I fear that'll age about as well as "adding internet support". We still think in terms of applications because that's the paradigm we grew up with. But perhaps an app was always just a temporary interface between human intent and, uhm, computation? In suspect in the future, apps become capabilities. The AI becomes the interface layer: dynamically rendering a UI, starting a voice chat, or s...

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  Coding agents could be incredible if they respected the workflow of people who actually write software. "Look! I changed 83 files in 7 minutes!" Yes. That's the problem.

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  Unicode would be considered a terrible standard if it wasn't almost entirely dedicated to cleaning up everyone else's mess.