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The thing I don’t think most of the valley realizes is that software can and should be “finished”.
You do not need to constantly make changes to your code. Ship a finished product and put it into long term support mode.
Your customers pay you to solve their problems, not write (and rewrite) your code.
we will need to rebuild and rewrite much of software to adapt to a new, faster pace.
code used to arrive one drop at a time. soon, if not already, code will be written as if it were a continuous stream, like a violent river twisting and turning as it pleases.
this is not a new thing: big tech cos have had to deal with this with the enormous scale of their engineering teams. but now ai has brought an incredibly elastic and capable workforce wielded by every engineer. this is your problem now, and the only way to adapt is to evolve your systems so agents - even and especially the ones with little context about the right way of doing things - can thrive. make the easy thing the right thing.
your codebase is becoming organic architecture. agent contributions grow around the constraints and guardrails you’ve designed. good software engineering matters even more now! and no, the continuous stream of code is not something you have to watch helplessly. be more ambitious and design systems, frameworks, and languages to control the chaos.
the time for mourning coding is long over
There’s a whole class of quirky input devices that will be wiped out when neuralink goes mainstream
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
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The back half of You Can See Everything reminded me of F is for Fake by Orson Welles.
He even did the Elizabeth Holmes pose!
they're gonna train ai models on your silly slack watercooler chats, broke ass temu orders, and ai slop jira tickets
if you’re an employee of any corporation, in the medium & long term you are effectively generating training data for an ai that will likely replace you.
even if the company fails, your work will still create value as training data.
i know a lot of ppl find this bleak & possibly unpleasant but it’s the truth. & it’s kinda cool to think about. humans were never meant to do jobs that could be automated (we don’t use plow’s anymore). eventually we should all be creating our ai replacements in some sense so that we could live the way we were meant to.
Apple should’ve released a touchscreen iMac, like the old Microsoft Surface Studio.
They could prob start the pricing at $5,000 and still sell them like hotcakes.
Wait til a software engineer with AI psychosis snaps and goes on a workplace rampage because the organization gets in the way of their master plan
Agents love to build everything but kitchen sink.
They shove every feature you ask for onto one screen, complete with terribly written user guides.
The highest leverage thing you can do is read the usability canon:
Don’t Make Me Think
Rocket Surgery Made Easy
The Design of Everyday Things
Laws of UX
your job as a design engineer
in October 2026 is to slide into the PR of this freewheeling engineer and tell them to fuck off because their slopcannon UI is terrible.
It took so long for ai apps to support my iCloud mail and calendar that I don’t even care anymore
I'd spend hours and hours in dev tools, learning HTML and CSS by trying to reverse engineer Bootstrap.
Being able to ask an agent to do the digging for you and give you a succinct explanation is incredible. Don't defer your understanding of the medium to your agents!!
Almost every onboarding flow could be at least 50% shorter if you don’t ask people to fill out a marketing survey before using your product.
Ask them after they’ve activated, or better yet, never ask them because you know how to enrich customer data from other sources.
It’s insane that the Twitter API (and all other social APIs) used to be free.
The internet from 2010-2020 was a really magical place and the walled gardens we’re building right now really, really suck.
If your designer is handing off designs as a branch in the code base, your designer should just be shipping the entire frontend themselves.
This comes with a huge set of tradeoffs and in most cases probably is not worth it.
Better off spending energy on automating the handoff.
why in the world did they not revitalize the IGTV brand?!?
Instagram launches long-form video called "Features"
Creators can link up to 8 clips that show up in the feed and drive to the full video per @mosseri
this is exactly how general motors talked about tesla. don't tempt elon with a good time...he'll make a side project of making your irrelevant.
Verizon's CEO said today that SpaceX will need at least 4-6 years and $300B-$500B to fully build out its @Starlink Mobile U.S. carrier network:
"Their service just can't compete with a terrestrial network. In suburban and urban areas, where 98% of our revenues are, we're somewhere between 100x–1,000x more efficient than they are. We know exactly what they're going to do. We know who they're talking to on towers. There's no magic wand. There's no secret sauce. There's no shortcut.
They're going to look at 65,000–80,000 macro sites. They're going to need backhaul, RAN, and a tremendous amount of spectrum. It's going to take a minimum of four to six years to fully build that out. It's going to cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, I assume somewhere between $300 billion and $500 billion.
Then they need to build retail, customer service, back office systems, et cetera. All of that gets them basically the same network and same capabilities and same cost structure as what we have today. Then sometime over the next four to six years, they have the possibility of becoming the sixth, not the fourth, the sixth competitor in the market.
You can be sure over these next three to five years or six years, we are not going to be standing still. Four to five years from now, we will be two to three generations better than where we are today. We will have high-speed broadband gig-plus coverage across the country with our millimeter wave. We are ahead of most people and already experimenting with what 6G applications will look like."
(via Verizon's Q3 earnings call earlier this morning)
It took another 65 years to clean up this town (our last two last strip clubs closed over the summer).
In 1961, a mafia in Kentucky drugged a former NFL quarterback and put him in bed with a stripper.
George Ratterman had played for the Cleveland Browns. Now he was running for sheriff, promising to shut down the gambling and prostitution that had made Newport, Kentucky the original “Sin City.”
The mob lured him to a hotel suite above the Tropicana nightclub and drugged him.
When he came to, he was undressed and in bed with a stripper named April Flowers. Three Newport cops burst in the room to arrest him.
But instead of ending his campaign, he fought back and the set-up fell apart.
A blood test found the drugs in his system and the stripper later admitted he was unconscious.
Ratterman won the election. And with help from FBI agents sent by Robert Kennedy, he cleaned out the town.
“In four years I got rid of the gambling and the prostitution,” he said, “and I didn’t get killed.”
