AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
ai and hucksters
Noted February 15, 2026
Noteds
The Grug Brained Developer
KISS
Noted February 15, 2026
Claude Code is the Inflection Point
more people using AI to make commits
Noted February 15, 2026
The Lost Decades of Housing Affordability | St. Louis Fed
buying a house is expensive
Noted February 15, 2026
I Analyzed 70 Startups' Codebases — The Ones With More Technical Debt Raised More Money | ByteVagabond – Digital Tinkering & Real-World Adventures
working products trumps working code I guess
Noted February 15, 2026
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
the history of the annoying pop-up
Noted February 15, 2026
Vibe Coding Could Change Everything - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
wsj discovers claude
Noted February 15, 2026
Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
gas town - a concept car of unlimited potential
Noted February 15, 2026
The Programmer's Paradox: Systems Thinking
complex systems reflect organisms and dependencies, rarely islands
Noted February 15, 2026
The Almonds in the Tower: Why Your Lizard Brain Usurped Your Writing Ethics
pattern matching will lead you astray
Noted February 15, 2026
The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor - WSJ
1980s strikes again
Noted February 15, 2026
The Quiet Surrender to AI | Juan Cruz Martinez
To Serve Mankind - probably
Noted February 15, 2026
Flash Report: U.S. Unemployment Flows in January
I always wonder how hard it is to get a job back - not just how many were lost
Noted February 15, 2026
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley | WIRED
one might argue that persistent layoffs encourage self-oriented preservation
Noted February 15, 2026
US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses | US news | The Guardian
whitewashing AI
Noted February 15, 2026
Twenty Five Years of Computing - Susam Pal
personal history of computing
Noted February 15, 2026
The silent death of Good Code | Amit's Blog
would love to see a new edition of Clean Code published
Noted February 15, 2026
crawshaw - 2026-02-08
agents and VMs for the future of programming
Noted February 15, 2026
Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles
taste matters
Noted February 15, 2026
The Abstraction Rises - The Cyber Omelette
red queen effect and programming
Noted February 15, 2026
Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding
calm work trumps frantic work
Noted February 15, 2026
The Shadow Codebase Problem - by Kevin Bentley
ai is changing how we build software
Noted February 15, 2026
Welcome to the Room | Jeffrey Snover's blog
being in charge comes with responsibility to deliver
Noted February 15, 2026
The AI-collapse pre-mortem - Bert Hubert's writings
ai is novel even if it ruins the economy
Noted February 15, 2026
The rise of one-pizza engineering teams - by Jampa Uchoa
em and team roles changing
Noted February 15, 2026
Why I am moving away from Scala. I have been a Scala developer for… | by Pavels Smirnovs | Medium
scala in its 5 year rut like ruby and python before it
Noted February 15, 2026
The AI Bubble #24,736: Consumption Is Outrunning Wages
consumption is more than wages
Noted February 15, 2026
Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code | Fortune
the race to 100% ai generated code
Noted February 15, 2026
Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
macro - positive. individual maybe not so much
Noted February 15, 2026
Who wants to be an engineering manager anyway? - LeadDev
era of fast growth and promotions seems over for now
Noted February 15, 2026
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
the realist position on AI - more jobs less route work
Noted February 15, 2026
The future of software engineering is SRE | Swizec Teller
ai is the future dark-it anti-pattern
Noted February 15, 2026
…and now I'm recovering | Très Bien Tech
nothing like peer review
Noted February 15, 2026
Why Costco Still Relies On IBM Computers From The '80s
if it ain't broke don't fix it?
Noted February 15, 2026
Why many engineers value startup equity at $0
equity and cap table transparency should go hand in hand
Noted February 15, 2026
My predictions for 2025! - by Sergio Visinoni
ai predictions (2025)
Noted February 15, 2026
7 Cognitive Biases of Engineering Managers
cognitive biases for Ems
Noted February 15, 2026
I'm Offering Scott Alexander a Wager About AI's Effects Over the Next Three Years
agi is now 2030+
Noted February 15, 2026
Forrest on X: "Honestly, Ben Affleck actually knowing AI and the landscape caught me off guard, but as a writer, makes sense. Great takes across the board. https://t.co/IcPe0n9302" / X
ben Affleck on AI
Noted February 9, 2026
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
its labor arbitration- not ai
Noted February 9, 2026
The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture - WSJ
the long tail of entertainment
Noted February 9, 2026
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail - Lalit Maganti
goodwill is on the balance sheet
Noted February 8, 2026
The Only Two Markup Languages - gingerBill
fun stance on markup
Noted February 8, 2026
I identified the 7 deadly sins of engineering productivity so you don't have to
laser focus beats scattered efforts every time
Noted February 8, 2026
Software Development Waste - by Dr Milan Milanović
a look at wastes in creating software
Noted February 8, 2026
Junior Developers in the Age of AI - by Christine Miao
you need jrs I the market to get future seniors
Noted February 8, 2026
Claude built my app in 20 minutes. I've spent 3 weeks trying to deploy it. : r/ClaudeAI
devops is the next hot role
Noted February 8, 2026
Top Software Engineering Students Can't Get a Job Because of AI
hard time for CS graduates
Noted February 8, 2026
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
ai has changed programming - don't get left behind
Noted February 8, 2026
MCP is a fad | Tom Bedor's Blog
a review of MCPs fad state
Noted February 8, 2026
Why Claude Gives You Generic Slop (And How to Fix It) | Will Ness
better prompts = better response
Noted February 8, 2026
A Software Library with No Code
spec only repo for AI
Noted February 8, 2026
Vibe coding needs git blame - Quesma Blog
ai data in git commits
Noted February 8, 2026
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. — Chris Gregori
real take on generated software - maintenance is the expense
Noted February 8, 2026
The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality – Daniil Bastrich
PERFECT code review - should be a skill
Noted February 8, 2026
Don’t Vibe Code; Delegate | AI Coding & Responsible DevelopmentChee Web Development
why you should still learn to code
Noted February 8, 2026
AI isn’t “just predicting the next word” anymore
skynet or skynot? ai can do more than just predict the next word
Noted February 8, 2026
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
8% productivity increase for SWE with AI
Noted February 8, 2026
Andreas Steno Larsen on X: "The death of the (software) services economy" / X
hardware rises high on AI buildout
Noted February 8, 2026
AI Agents to Boost Productivity and Size of Software Market | Goldman Sachs
AI tam UP software down?
Noted February 8, 2026
Why I am moving away from Scala. I have been a Scala developer for… | by Pavels Smirnovs | Medium
Scala seems on the wane
Noted February 8, 2026
“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders — Seth Larson
this is why humans are amazing - Kirby foods
Noted February 1, 2026
The Age of Pump and Dump Software | by Tautvilas Mečinskas | Jan, 2026 | Medium
sustaining software is harder than inventing it
Noted February 1, 2026
A message from Amazon on recent layoff
amazon layoffs part n+1
Noted February 1, 2026
You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
even with AI there's a cognitive ceiling to deep work
Noted February 1, 2026
Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
still need SWE to ship
Noted February 1, 2026
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding - by Addy Osmani
great article on how AI can both feel fast and slow
Noted February 1, 2026
In Praise of –dry-run | Henrik Warne's blog
love me a good --dry-run flag
Noted February 1, 2026
DAN KOE on X: "The most important skill to learn in the next 10 years" / X
long article on agency and creativity in the world of ai
Noted February 1, 2026
FailHub – Issue #1 - by Vlad Khambir
common software failure states
Noted February 1, 2026
AI is transforming how software engineers do their jobs. Just don't call it 'vibe-coding' | AP News
people own code - not AI
Noted February 1, 2026
Frequent Use of AI in the Workplace Continued to Rise in Q4
AI adoption finally catching up to tech
Noted February 1, 2026
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
quality metrics at companies
Noted February 1, 2026
Francesco on X: "Vibe Coding Paralysis: When Infinite Productivity Breaks Your Brain" / X
1 thing Shipped is better than 10 things started.
Noted February 1, 2026
The Evolution of Income Differences over the Life Cycle | St. Louis Fed
study on income fluctuations over time
Noted February 1, 2026
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
small websites are the backbone of the internet
Noted January 25, 2026
Programming as Theory Building, Part II: When Institutions Crumble · cekrem.github.io
AI can't offload your thinking and skills pipeline
Noted January 25, 2026
Needy programs @ tonsky.me
'did you know' disease
Noted January 25, 2026
The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom – Coding Is My Craft
ai can start any idea; humans finish them
Noted January 25, 2026
Why Developers are Moving Away from Stack Overflow?
post marked duplicate - dummy
Noted January 25, 2026
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me
glad it wasn't just me - new icons are terrible
Noted January 25, 2026
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University
pgsql continues to rule the world
Noted January 25, 2026
Congratulations! You're An Architect. - The Neoweb
another very similar experience to my evolution with AI tools
Noted January 25, 2026
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic | WIRED
wired interview with claude code creator
Noted January 25, 2026
Em dash: A stylish punctuation mark you’re wrong to accuse of being AI-generated
great history on em-dash
Noted January 25, 2026
What you need to know about Vibe Coding as a Product Manager | by Steedan Crowe | Medium
this PM Gets it-ai can accelerate but it won't replace
Noted January 25, 2026
Everyone claims AI is replacing devs. But after spending $300 trying to 'vibecode' something advanced - my portfolio, I strongly disagree. : r/vibecoding
vibe coding starts great; ends poorly
Noted January 25, 2026
Addy Osmani on X: "Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. When high-level languages replaced assembly, programmers didn't write less code - they wrote orders of magnitude more, tackling problems that would have been economically" / X
ai unlocks more capacity-especially on the tail end of work items
Noted January 25, 2026
From Craftsmen to Operators: The rapid evolution of Software Engineer's role | Emir Ribic
You'll still write code, it just won't be as much
Noted January 25, 2026
Why I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager – Terrible Software
100% agree front line managers should stay technical
Noted January 25, 2026
Blog > Writing Good Unit Tests
100% test coverage TDD approach
Noted January 25, 2026
TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker
offline mode for games
Noted January 5, 2026
AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real
engineer identifies being more productive with AI
Noted January 5, 2026
25 years in web dev and I’m starting to hate the "Modern Web." : r/webdevelopment
modern web is bloated
Noted January 5, 2026
Generative AI might end up being worthless — and that could be a good thing
the cost to build AI is a sunk cost
Noted January 5, 2026
How Uber Built a Real-Time Push System for Millions of Location Updates | EP: 4 Behind The Screen
deep dive on polling -> push evolution
Noted January 5, 2026
We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering | by Austin Starks | Jan, 2026 | Medium
AI sucks the oxygen away from small incremental work - but breeds review work
Noted January 5, 2026
Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight | by Dmitry Trifonov | Data Science Collective | Jan, 2026 | Medium
zero sum sometimes applies - more than you'd like to think
Noted January 5, 2026
Why Java Is the Real Production Language for AI
Enterprise java will continue to evolve in 2026
Noted January 5, 2026
Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday - EmoryBusiness.com
AI means you work more...
Noted January 5, 2026
The Origins of the 2 Percent Inflation Target | Richmond Fed
history of the 2% rule for the fed
Noted January 5, 2026
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web | by Paul Allies | Dec, 2025 | Medium
building a lighter web-page is a good idea regardless
Noted January 5, 2026
The Mythical Man-Month at 50
a revisit of mythical man month and software complexity - deep dive
Noted January 5, 2026
America is having its Ming Dynasty moment - Asia Times
America prosperity and "another one of those"
Noted January 5, 2026
(1) Filip Ganyicz on X: "So, have we all decided to just accept this? https://t.co/BJrdir8wa9" / X
ai is super verbose in solutioning
Noted January 5, 2026
What is the best way to code with Claude (web/ide/etc)? Asking for people who are actual developers/or generating revenue in their business using it. : r/ClaudeAI
"ALWAYS plan mode" - I agree! same here
Noted January 5, 2026
How to Use Git with Claude Code: Understanding the Co-Authored-By Attribution
AI is a tool - not an author
Noted January 5, 2026
CEOs are hugely expensive so why not automate them? - New Statesman
ROI on automation - start at the top
Noted January 5, 2026
What I learned from writing 500k+ lines with Claude Code : r/ClaudeCode
500k lines of code with AI lessons learned
Noted January 5, 2026
Andrew Ng says AI is 'limited,' won't replace humans anytime soon
LLM are not the path to AGI
Noted January 5, 2026
Poor sleep health is associated with older brain age: the role of systemic inflammation - eBioMedicine
another reason to go to bed on time
Noted January 5, 2026
AI Is Killing Artists’ First Jobs - The Atlantic
ai is vaporizing the jobs people used to cut their teeth on
Noted January 5, 2026
Why SVN Still Makes Sense for Most Development Teams | Bob Browning's blog
svn is still a viable scm system
Noted January 5, 2026
A Billionaire Wants to Reinvent Appalachia with a Utopian City, And the Plan Is Bigger Than Anyone Expected – Echoes of Appalachia
did we learn nothing from company towns?
Noted January 5, 2026
France pushes back plastic cup ban by four years | The Straits Times
paper cups would like a word
Noted January 5, 2026
(1) Boris Cherny on X: "@YashGouravKar1 Correct. In the last thirty days, 100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code" / X
100% ai generated code
Noted January 5, 2026
Software Engineering Job Market Outlook for 2026
ai is coverage for outsourcing
Noted January 5, 2026
Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers
I don't think AI is bounded by data center build outs
Noted January 5, 2026
Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - ordep.dev
writing code (now generating it) was never the bottleneck
Noted January 5, 2026
LLMs will never be alive or intelligent - by Thane Thomson
ai is not alive
Noted January 5, 2026
AddyOsmani.com - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
software lessons learned from experience
Noted January 5, 2026
How the Internet Left 4chan Behind | The New Yorker
moot4life
Noted December 28, 2025
Does AI make engineers more productive? It’s complicated.
great observations from teh trenches on leveraging AI everyday
Noted December 28, 2025
Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds 'shaky foundations' and eventually 'things start to crumble’ | Fortune
cursor CEO on coding - appreciative of the code
Noted December 28, 2025
We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive - Ars Technica
one-shot minesweeper clones - the humans are winning still
Noted December 28, 2025
John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies | TechCrunch
AI companies get more value than 3k from any published work...
Noted December 28, 2025
I implemented Go’s channels in Java. Here’s why and what I learnt | by Kusoro Adeolu | Dec, 2025 | Medium
not ai - but proof that language is more than just syntax its fundamentals too
Noted December 28, 2025
Devs using AI coding tools daily: what does your workday actually look like now? : r/ClaudeAI
this is literally how I work with cursor/Claude Code/codex
Noted December 28, 2025
Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist
more AI predictions for 2026
Noted December 28, 2025
Use XML tags to structure your prompts - Claude Docs
"XML Tags can be a game-changer" - not on my bingo card for AI
Noted December 28, 2025
Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software
writing from scratch - throwing the baby out with the bath water
Noted December 28, 2025
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
ai can start anything
Noted December 28, 2025
Using GenAI to understand legacy codebases | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
what's in your code base
Noted December 28, 2025
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
just a matrix of probable next words
Noted December 28, 2025
Predicting sex from retinal fundus photographs using automated deep learning | Scientific Reports
a good news story for AI and science
Noted December 28, 2025
(21) Sebastian Caliri on X: "Folks in tech do not appreciate that the entire country is polarized against tech. Bernie wants a data center ban, and Bannon seems close to calling a Butlerian jihad. The only thing AI seems to offer most Americans is job loss and more billions for billionaires. We need a" / X
I mean. yea.
Noted December 28, 2025
‘It keeps me awake at night’: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity
predictions of AI with bad actors
Noted December 28, 2025
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026 | WIRED
I love me some predictions no AI
Noted December 28, 2025
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here | WIRED
don't worry AI just wants to know *everything* about you
Noted December 28, 2025
One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement • The Register
sharp observations on deploying AI in enterprises
Noted December 28, 2025
S&P 500 Hits 38th Record of 2025. Now, Here Comes Santa Claus.
TIL "The Santa Claus rally"
Noted December 28, 2025
New Goldman Sachs research shows investors are punishing the stocks of companies that do layoffs | Fortune
maybe investors are starting to see through the layoff cloud as well
Noted December 28, 2025
(9) Post | Feed | LinkedIn
for the dreams, the irrational ones
Noted December 28, 2025
AI is turning product managers into builders - Fast Company
AI for prototyping
Noted December 28, 2025
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving - The New York Times
after all CA has enabled for business - residents flee over 5%
Noted December 27, 2025
The AI Revolution Needs Plumbers - by Manish Singh
consulting is based on relationships not code
Noted December 27, 2025
Technology Radar Nov. 2025
another year - another tech radar my highlights
Noted December 21, 2025
Mate-Choice Copying in Single and Coupled Women: The Influence of Mate Acceptance and Mate Rejection Decisions of other Women - PMC
the Pete Davidson effect? (tm)
Noted December 21, 2025
The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down - The Atlantic
show me the incentives - college graduates edition
Noted December 21, 2025
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Consequences of Admission to Highly Selective Colleges
ivy-league schools are high-income saturated
Noted December 21, 2025
[2512.03262] Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks
study on AI generated code security
Noted December 21, 2025
30 Years of <br> Tags
this is also my history with software - eerily so
Noted December 21, 2025
Is MCP Worth the Hype? | Moncef Abboud
good/bad of mcp services
Noted December 21, 2025
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? | The New Yorker
ai for literature
Noted December 21, 2025
Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ | Technology | The Guardian
recipes are not the moat
Noted December 21, 2025
Why Gemini 3 Flash is the model OpenAI is afraid of
model comparison
Noted December 21, 2025
Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Daniel's programming rants
a new look at clean code
Noted December 21, 2025
Why AI Makes Bad Systems More Convincing
AI's greatest fallacy is in its false confidence
Noted December 21, 2025
The great AI hype correction of 2025 | MIT Technology Review
a peak behind the curtain of ai
Noted December 21, 2025
AI Use at Work Rises
AI chatbots lead the way on adoption and usage
Noted December 21, 2025
Why do people who get paid the most do the least?
leverage the answer is leverage
Noted December 21, 2025
Why AGI Will Not Happen — Tim Dettmers
great take on why AGI isn't realistic and how limited AI applications are
Noted December 21, 2025
How Circular Dependencies Kill Your Microservices
two ideas to detect production issues
Noted December 21, 2025
Seeing through the microservices hype – Peter Morris
ship the whole app - not the pieces
Noted December 21, 2025
Goodbye Microservices | Twilio
another micro service -> monolith story (2018)
Noted December 21, 2025
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy - The Atlantic
when has double-or-nothing ever gone wrong. a deep dive into the shady finances of AI deals
Noted December 21, 2025
End of the Internet
The end of the internet
Noted December 21, 2025
Writing Code vs. Writing Prose | on breakpoint
prose - hardly know her
Noted December 21, 2025
10 Weirdest Programming Languages | Programming
everyone wants to write their own language at least once
Noted December 21, 2025
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job. – Terrible Software
programming is a task not the job
Noted December 21, 2025
The highest quality codebase
ai cannot cut code - only add
Noted December 21, 2025
2 years with Shape-Up, and why we switched back | Scale X
experience with shape-up sprints (6 weeks)
Noted December 21, 2025
The IDE Is Dead: Yegge Predicts AI's Overhaul of Software Development by 2026
I'll be using an IDE in 2026
Noted December 21, 2025
Perl's decline was cultural
quick history of perl and other languages
Noted December 21, 2025
The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling
AI can only tackle tasks not jobs - and even that not so great
Noted December 21, 2025
'Are you insane?': Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are 'telling their people to use less AI' | Fortune
there is always more work
Noted December 21, 2025
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
great representation from non-product teams
Noted December 21, 2025
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | Sinclair Target
golang is on my list
Noted December 21, 2025
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files | Alex Schapiro
startups - check your security
Noted December 21, 2025
This is how Big Tech is booking "AI revenues"—by tricking or forcing customers to use it : r/BetterOffline
no surprise - AI being auto-enabled with Google/MSFT/Meta
Noted December 21, 2025
AWS announces trio of autonomous AI agents for developers • The Register
I heard you like agents - I got you agents
Noted December 21, 2025
GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over
GraphQL better in theory than practice
Noted December 21, 2025
America gave up on economists under Trump and Biden | Vox
macroeconomics is out - vibes are in
Noted December 21, 2025
LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
hear me out - K-5 Paper based learning
Noted December 21, 2025
When it Comes to AI, What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us | TIME
incentives begets outcomes - why the race for AGI trumps ethics
Noted December 21, 2025
TIME Person of the Year 2025: How We Chose | TIME
the architects of AI - person(s) of the year
Noted December 21, 2025
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is. - The New York Times
again - hear me out. pay taxes in the locale you live in
Noted December 21, 2025
Microsoft's Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster
quotas to sell AI cut by up to 50%
Noted December 21, 2025
Forgotten Professions: 20 Jobs That No Longer Exist | Upper-Class Career
critique of jobs that don't exist - proceeds to list examples that stop in 1970
Noted December 21, 2025
Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States
anything but good governance
Noted December 21, 2025
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded - Rest of World
supply and demand of CS graduates
Noted December 21, 2025
Exclusive | CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns - WSJ
the cost of missing the innovation is greater than burning the capital
Noted December 21, 2025
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot | Extremetech
MSFT suite not doing well with AI
Noted December 21, 2025
The Case Against Microservices
build what works. optimize later
Noted December 21, 2025
A startup discovered a hidden source of abundant, clean energy — and did it in an unusual way | CNN
ai helps find drill sites for geo-thermal
Noted December 21, 2025
A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
never doubt an inspired engineer
Noted December 21, 2025
Many More Students, Especially the Affluent, Get Extra Time to Take the SAT - WSJ
more money - more time on exams
Noted December 21, 2025
Elite Colleges Have an Extra-Time-on-Tests Problem - The Atlantic
when having a diagnosis gives an advantage - follow the money
Noted December 21, 2025
Ford Kills the All-Electric F-150 as It Rethinks Its EV Ambitions | WIRED
f-150 lightening fizzles out
Noted December 21, 2025
Did Nvidia Just Prove There Is No AI Bubble?
the debt trades alone between companies doesn't pass the smell test
Noted December 21, 2025
Don’t Call It a Pivot. These Executives Are ‘Refounding’ Their Start-Ups. - The New York Times
re-founding this blog to be AI (/s)
Noted December 21, 2025
An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week
algorithmic AI comes for podcasts
Noted December 21, 2025
Chat-oriented programming (CHOP) in action | Sourcegraph Blog
CHOP is the new rubber duck programming
Noted December 21, 2025
(21) Peter Girnus 🦅 on X: "Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I" / X
AI for the masses
Noted December 21, 2025
HeroDevs Blog | When “No CVEs” Isn’t a Security Guarantee: What the Latest Angular Vulnerabilities Reveal About Open-Source Risk
the weakest link
Noted December 21, 2025
Amazon says layoffs are due to AI. The data says offshoring
offshore labor from 10% job postings to almost 30%
Noted December 21, 2025
The State of AI: Global Survey 2025 | McKinsey
McKinsey state of AI 2025
Noted December 21, 2025
Almost 1 year ago, I was laid off from my $400,000/year SWE job. Here’s what has happened since. NexusTrade 2025 Year in Review | by Austin Starks | Dec, 2025 | Medium
PMF is elusive
Noted December 21, 2025
AI Godfather Warns Mid-Level Coding Jobs Will Disappear
ai is coming for TASKS not JOBS
Noted December 21, 2025
Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language | WIRED
Jesus who hurt you? picking on ruby is an odd take for WIRED
Noted December 21, 2025
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
generating code alone is of no value
Noted December 21, 2025
https://iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf
iceberg project pdf - ai exposure of tasks
Noted December 5, 2025
Amazon targets vibe-coding chaos with new 'Kiro' AI software development tool – GeekWire
more spec driven development
Noted December 5, 2025
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI | WIRED
AI = another individual doing the work
Noted December 5, 2025
LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
great paragraph on who LLMs work and why thats a limitation
Noted December 5, 2025
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse - WSJ
get out - a virtual reality no one asked for tanks
Noted December 5, 2025
Is GenAI Addictive? A Conversation with James Bedford
GAID - AI dependency
Noted December 5, 2025
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic
The brain on LLMs
Noted December 5, 2025
Regulated Payment Stablecoins Become a Reality in the U.S. | St. Louis Fed
countdown to bitcoin fall off?
Noted December 5, 2025
Does Gen Z "rawdogging boredom" trend actually fix your attention span? - Newsweek
measured attention span falling precipitously
Noted December 5, 2025
Inside Anthropic: 27% of Work Now Done by AI — But Engineers Warn of Growing Skill Erosion
the value of doing something not done before
Noted December 5, 2025
Anthropic reportedly preparing for massive IPO in race with OpenAI: FT
Anthropic to market?
Noted December 5, 2025
AI Didn't Break College — It Exposed a Broken System, a Professor Says - Business Insider
ai in the college education
Noted December 5, 2025
Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley
an ode to mediocrity
Noted December 5, 2025
A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career
"There’s always more work." - life of a software developer
Noted December 5, 2025
Meta PMs Use Vibe Coding to Build Prototype Apps for Mark Zuckerberg - Business Insider
vibe-prototypes by PMs
Noted December 5, 2025
Instagram Chief Adam Mosseri Sets Five Day RTO for US Staff in 2026 - Business Insider
Speed of idea to prototype
Noted December 4, 2025
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize - The Atlantic
colleges chase the AI fad
Noted December 4, 2025
Why can’t ChatGPT tell time? | The Verge
broken clocks are right twice a day
Noted December 4, 2025
React vs. Vue vs. Svelte: The Framework Wars Continue
always a new opinion on frameworks
Noted December 4, 2025
OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates | Fortune
serious growth concerns with AI markets
Noted December 4, 2025
The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development Stack | Andreessen Horowitz
ai development stack - hint you still need developers
Noted December 4, 2025
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
If the product is free - you're the product
Noted December 4, 2025
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
TOS will always rule the day - don't regulate us we have to innovate
Noted December 4, 2025
What Actually Makes You Senior – Terrible Software
senior title is about grok-ing systems efficiently
Noted December 4, 2025
OpenAI is a loss-making machine, can it outlast the bubble? | Windows Central
don't look at the man (debt) behind the curtain
Noted December 4, 2025
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
maker's schedule - a classic
Noted December 4, 2025
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work | Off by One
finally a mathematically approach to the context switching problem
Noted December 4, 2025
‘We are not Enron’: Nvidia rejects AI bubble fears
ai not in bubble - says biggest beneficiary of said bubble
Noted December 4, 2025
Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document — LessWrong
the folly of knowledge
Noted December 4, 2025
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
incentive structure rewards moving code bases - so every code base has 'new' engineers on it
Noted December 3, 2025
ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users
chatgpt down - nobody panic
Noted December 3, 2025
Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder
when outputs are cheap validation becomes the job
Noted November 29, 2025
Welcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’ | WIRED
society has to determine what is fair and just - corporations won't
Noted November 29, 2025
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development | WIRED
workers concerns about AI adoption
Noted November 29, 2025
The death of the junior developer | Sourcegraph Blog
"its a bad year to be a junior anything"
Noted November 28, 2025
The Job Market Is Hell - The Atlantic
job market not working for new grads
Noted November 28, 2025
https://leaddev.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/THE-AI-IMPACT-REPORT-2025-download__LDMO__.pdf
PDF report on ai impact by Leaddev
Noted November 28, 2025
How tech companies measure the impact of AI on software development
ai productivity metrics are just organizational health metrics
Noted November 28, 2025
How Claude Code is built - by Gergely Orosz
claude code improves PR throughput while growing team size
Noted November 28, 2025
AI Adoption Among Workers Is Slow and Uneven. Bosses Can Speed It Up. - WSJ
TIL Solow's Paradox - or as I've understood it, the retooling time
Noted November 28, 2025
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy - WSJ
cina invest in technology as population declines
Noted November 28, 2025
New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code | N’s Blog
[meme] old man yells at clouds
Noted November 28, 2025
The rise of coding with parallel agents - LeadDev
leveraging code review time with deep work time
Noted November 28, 2025
New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents
multi-threaded cli programming
Noted November 28, 2025
The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
another take on layoffs and AI on earnings calls
Noted November 28, 2025
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: a recap
great transparency on self-publishing The Software Engineers Guidebook
Noted November 28, 2025
In Praise of “Normal Engineers”
if you want to go fast - go alone
Noted November 28, 2025
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
one counter factual study in a sea of AI hype
Noted November 28, 2025
Project Iceberg
my iceberg is melting - how skills augmentation/automation impacts careers
Noted November 28, 2025
“These are Not the Droids You’re Looking for”: Corpo- rate Propaganda Masks Mass Offshoring with Inflated AI Hype
combination facts and anecdotes on the state of 2025 labor market
Noted November 28, 2025
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting - The Atlantic
economic restructuring of the software engineering labor market
Noted November 28, 2025
Two Paths for A.I. | The New Yorker
third path - all gains are captured by capital (flow up)
Noted November 28, 2025
What makes a great software engineer?
the best SWE are outcome, impact and people oriented - good code is just the baseline
Noted November 28, 2025
Babies and the macroeconomy | NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
if women had wives - they'd probably have more kids
Noted November 28, 2025
Why 51% of Engineering Leaders Believe AI Is Impacting the Industry Negatively
paywall - but I want to know so I'm noting it here
Noted November 27, 2025
LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
another benchmark eclipsed by swe-bench
Noted November 27, 2025
STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING INTERMEDIATE TOKENS AS REASONING/THINKING TRACES!
humans name things.. it happens - seeing humanity in token processing
Noted November 27, 2025
LLMs Position Themselves as More Rational Than Humans: Emergence of AI Self-Awareness Measured Through Game Theory
is ai self-aware - I think not
Noted November 27, 2025
The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence
Impact trumps simple ROI metrics
Noted November 27, 2025
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
jc - young people entering the work force are so cooked
Noted November 27, 2025
Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption \ Anthropic
September review by anthropic of AI adoption
Noted November 27, 2025
LLMs: The Illusion of Thinking – JSO
socrates and AI meet in a bar - philosophy chain of reasoning And AI
Noted November 27, 2025
Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter Steinberger
a human's opinion on working with cli agents
Noted November 27, 2025
https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissions-review-docs.pdf
new index dropped - math index to measure transcripts vs actual performance
Noted November 27, 2025
https://hcdlab.carey.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/11/HCDL-Well-being-at-Work-in-the-USA-FINAL-Nov1225.pdf
well being at work and employee engagement
Noted November 27, 2025
Build It Yourself | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
hot take - node_modules was my first exposure to package bloat
Noted November 27, 2025
The fate of “small” open source | Read the Tea Leaves
my take - still a place for small open source utilities
Noted November 27, 2025
Agent Design Is Still Hard | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
tight review on building sub-agents (agent workflow)
Noted November 27, 2025
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand - Ars Technica
double it (ai) and give it to the shareholders
Noted November 27, 2025
My Foreword to "Frictionless"
reducing friction improves SWE QOL
Noted November 27, 2025
Corporate profits are soaring even as layoffs mount. Economists call it a "jobless boom." - CBS News
record profits - not a job to be found for those laid off
Noted November 27, 2025
American Kids Can’t Do Math Anymore - The Atlantic
universities expanding remedial classes to catch up recent HS grads
Noted November 27, 2025
A Frontend Love Story. Why the Strategies of Today Won’t Build… | by Tobias Uhlig | ITNEXT
electron would like to have a word - VS Code runs in GitHub codespaces just fine?
Noted November 24, 2025
The Enshittification of American Power | WIRED
market macro trends - the era of global tech is over sovereign tech is in
Noted November 24, 2025
Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs | The Verge
the best staff to profits number in tech isn't who you think (Valve)
Noted November 24, 2025
Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages | spf13
language by fiat is rarely the best decision
Noted November 24, 2025
Software 2.0. I sometimes see people refer to neural… | by Andrej Karpathy | Medium
some predictions on the future of software by inference (llm)
Noted November 24, 2025
Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
deep though AI driven by MD files is not the answer
Noted November 24, 2025
What Killed Perl?
PERL cgi-bin and the early internet
Noted November 24, 2025
Regulation Isn’t the European Trap — Resignation Is | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
no doubt there is a culture difference between USA and Europe
Noted November 24, 2025
Anthropic announces $50 billion AI spend, two U.S. data centers
datacenters are not economic hubs - subsidize manufacturing not closets
Noted November 24, 2025
Single-Family Rentals and the U.S. Housing Market
the housing market - "mom and pop" vs the institutional investor
Noted November 24, 2025
Banking Analytics: Understanding Credit Risk with the Texas Ratio
TIL - Texas Ratio and bank health
Noted November 23, 2025
Using High-Frequency Private Data to Track the U.S. Labor Market
private data in lieu of JOLT
Noted November 23, 2025
You Should Change Companies - by Philip Su - Molochinations
warning survivors bias - but a good fable on switching companies
Noted November 23, 2025
Why Tim Berners-Lee still believes in the web | The Verge
Tim Berners Lee interview
Noted November 23, 2025
The AI Bubble Is Far Worse Than We Thought
the off the books debt and war chest fueling AI companies
Noted November 23, 2025
The Tyranny of the Low-Quality Job: It's Not a Way Out of Poverty - Bloomberg
guess - there is no mobility in low income jobs
Noted November 23, 2025
Yann LeCun on X: "It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat. Such a sense of urgency reveals an extremely distorted view of reality. No wonder the more" / X
the AI/LLM revolution is measured in decades not months
Noted November 23, 2025
You're not Facebook. Why use their tools?
but [big tech] does it this way!
Noted November 23, 2025
AI Ignites the Return of Bezos the Inventor - WSJ
builders build - and the power of focus
Noted November 23, 2025
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic
ethical (barely) ai
Noted November 23, 2025
The AI Bubble That Isn’t There
its a bubble - ai
Noted November 23, 2025
How HR took over the world
answer is compliance?
Noted November 23, 2025
Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users' • The Register
the agents are coming - for more seats on MSFT365
Noted November 23, 2025
Critics call proposed changes to landmark EU privacy law 'death by a thousand cuts' | Reuters
color me not shocked - weakening of EU data privacy protection
Noted November 23, 2025
Flash Report: U.S. Unemployment Flows in September
more job seekers plus payroll gains
Noted November 23, 2025
Why Job Vacancy Types Matter for Monetary Policy | St. Louis Fed
TIL Beveridge Curve and job vacancy analysis
Noted November 23, 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI
AI is mid
Noted November 23, 2025
AI coding assistants aren’t really making devs feel more productive - LeadDev
Another surveys showing modest ai productivity gains of <10%
Noted November 23, 2025
AI coding trackers are here. Proceed with caution - LeadDev
the great AI measurement carrot and stick
Noted November 23, 2025
Being an “Intrapreneur” as a software engineer
always deliver - career advice from a google employee
Noted November 23, 2025
Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum – charity.wtf
software career management
Noted November 23, 2025
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 1
developer survey from pgramatic engineer - social proof
Noted November 23, 2025
How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers
you can't offload comprehension - understanding how your code works is still required
Noted November 23, 2025
The Biggest Companies Across America Are Cutting Their Workforces - WSJ
layoffs writ large
Noted November 23, 2025
Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
can AI think - no
Noted November 23, 2025
I built an MCP Server for Observability. This is my Unhyped Take | SigNoz
MCP severs - all token no results
Noted November 23, 2025
[RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel - Sasha Levin
ai co-develop guidance for linux kernel
Noted November 23, 2025
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies | The New Yorker
snapshots from the 80s and 90s
Noted November 23, 2025
Firms’ Wage-Setting Power: Monopsony in the Labor Market
ideal dating and finding a ideal employer - Monopsony Power
Noted November 23, 2025
What the end of Section 174 means for software developer hiring - LeadDev
another take on s174 - no it did not stem the tide of layoffs
Noted November 23, 2025
The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is
section 174 and the ZIRP era
Noted November 23, 2025
Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
enshitification of careers
Noted November 23, 2025
an engineer's perspective on hiring
thoughts on hiring swe
Noted November 23, 2025
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
this guy cooks - ai accelerates the mundane hits wall at scale
Noted November 23, 2025
Deloitte rolls out Claude to 470,000 employees - LeadDev
Deloitte all-in on ai
Noted November 23, 2025
Lloyds Bank claims Microsoft Copilot saves 46 minutes a day • The Register
46 minutes a day - ai productivity report summary
Noted November 23, 2025
AI sets up Kodak moment for global consultants | Reuters
oh no AI takes Accentures jobs..
Noted November 23, 2025
The Careful Consumption of Open Source Software
SBOM and CVE analysis
Noted November 23, 2025
Apple’s Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn’t | WIRED
divorce and apple family
Noted November 22, 2025
OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold | WIRED
Docusign moat is trust and workflows not AI
Noted November 22, 2025
"Good engineering management" is a fad | Irrational Exuberance
empathy never goes out of style - even if weekly 1:1s might
Noted November 22, 2025
Bosses, Employees Battle Over AI at Video Game Giant Electronic Arts - Business Insider
trust drives AI adoption - not mandates
Noted November 22, 2025
MIT researchers propose a new model for legible, modular software | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DSLs to the rescue of your very complex software systems
Noted November 22, 2025
Story Points Revisited
thoughts from the inventor (?) on story points - delivering value frequently is the answer
Noted November 22, 2025
Anthropic Is Less Flashy Than Rival OpenAI, but It May Be Better Business - WSJ
a tale of two AI powerhouses
Noted November 22, 2025
Firms are blaming AI for job cuts. Critics say it’s a 'good excuse'
air cover for layoffs
Noted November 22, 2025
Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, filings show
CNBC coverage of amazon cuts
Noted November 22, 2025
Anthropic Commits $50 Billion to Build AI Data Centers in US - Bloomberg
50 billion for cold server rooms
Noted November 22, 2025
Y Combinator on X: "Chad IDE (@cladlabs) is the brainrot code editor. AI coding takes 1–5 min between prompts—too long to ignore, too short to start something new. Chad integrates your brainrot (X, IG, Stake, Tinder, etc) into your agentic coding workflow and helps to manage your https://t.co/CuQ6STMxYo" / X
too much money chasing too few goods - next up giga chad
Noted November 22, 2025
The State of Generative AI Adoption in 2025 | St. Louis Fed
AI TOTAL adoption and productivity numbers lag hype
Noted November 22, 2025
Implications of the Rise in Custom Software Investments
software is still eating the world
Noted November 22, 2025
JPMorgan Chase wins fight with fintech firms over fees
JPMorgan Chase gets usage fees on APIs
Noted November 22, 2025
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal
is it a trap or is it student apathy and performative contribution
Noted November 22, 2025
An update from SVP Beth Galetti on Amazon workforce reduction
amazon layoffs (FCF 115B)
Noted November 22, 2025
Android Quick Share can now work with iOS’s AirDrop
but will the bubbles be blue?
Noted November 22, 2025
Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures
verizon layoffs - 13k (FCF Doubles)
Noted November 22, 2025
Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI? | PCMag
not everyone lives in the software bubble - let alone the AI one
Noted November 22, 2025
White House prepares executive order to block state AI laws - POLITICO
federal play on ai rules and regulations
Noted November 22, 2025
In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research - The New York Times
nearly 1/3 world AI talent is Chinese
Noted November 22, 2025
Nvidia beats earnings expectations, even as bubble concerns mount | CNN Business
NVIDIA beats earnings - ai bubble expands
Noted November 22, 2025
Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling | The Verge
thats how the cookie crumbles - browsers
Noted November 22, 2025
Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production • The Register
vibe your prototypes - code your production
Noted November 22, 2025
UK to ban the resale of tickets for profit to protect fans | Reuters
yes please - stop scalper bots
Noted November 22, 2025
China’s Tsinghua University Is Beating US in the Race for AI Patents - Bloomberg
almost like investing in education has positive outcomes
Noted November 22, 2025
Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay | Buy now, pay later | The Guardian
avg comp for klarna employees rises
Noted November 22, 2025
'Buy now, pay later' is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone | TechCrunch
buy now pay never loans not reported to credit bureaus
Noted November 22, 2025
Anthropic CEO Says He's Uneasy About Unelected Tech Leaders Shaping AI - Business Insider
ai predictions - AI eliminating 50% of roles
Noted November 22, 2025
Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler - Information Camouflage
man trolls ai - building infinite pages
Noted November 22, 2025
Virginia woman won lottery with ChatGPT’s numbers, then gave it all away - The Washington Post
ai wins powerball
Noted November 22, 2025
Satya Nadella appoints a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses | The Verge
eco's all the way down
Noted October 22, 2025
Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream - by Oskar Dudycz
the permanent intern-ai with no capacity for growth
Noted October 22, 2025
Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley
everyone else is average-but not me (sarcasm)
Noted October 22, 2025
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble | The Verge
ah yes. trillions in digital infrastructure-no bubble here
Noted October 22, 2025
Codex changelog
I'm on codex now
Noted October 22, 2025
How Tariffs Are Affecting Prices in 2025 | St. Louis Fed
surprise added fees means more costs and more inflation
Noted October 22, 2025
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With
its always farmers isn't it
Noted October 22, 2025
90% | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
90/10 rule on AI code.
Noted October 22, 2025
The Evaluation of the M365 Copilot Pilot in the Department for Business and Trade
ai net zero productivity in real office settings
Noted October 22, 2025
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic
claude sonnet 4.5
Noted October 22, 2025
Anthropic Finds Businesses Are Mainly Using AI to Automate Work - Bloomberg
ai and business process automation
Noted October 22, 2025
AI Changes Everything | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
AI can type faster, but it can't program faster
Noted October 22, 2025
Research, Review, Rebuild
ai code must pass through the human mind - thus a new bottleneck emerges
Noted October 12, 2025
No AGI in Sight: What This Means for LLMs | Kenneth's Blog
watch the hands of AI not their mouths
Noted October 12, 2025
Examining the 'Lump of Labor' Fallacy Using a Simple Economic Model | St. Louis Fed
lumpy labor fallacy - don' be a loser I guess
Noted October 12, 2025
The JavaScript Framework That Puts Web Pages on a Diet | WIRED
all the way around to static content site generators
Noted October 12, 2025
The Productivity Paradox of AI Coding Assistants | Cerbos
great real world notes on AI-coding
Noted October 12, 2025
AI productivity gains are being offset by organizational bottlenecks - LeadDev
writing code was never the bottleneck
Noted October 5, 2025
The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
growth at all costs burns everything
Noted October 5, 2025
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Nvidia's GPUs are propping up the mag 7 and the whole market
Noted October 5, 2025
CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder - WSJ
the ozemic of corporate payroll costs
Noted October 5, 2025
Working Effectively with AI Coding Tools like Claude Code
humans still needed for programming
Noted October 5, 2025
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
llm is not the path to agi - and other thoughts on the AI bubble
Noted October 5, 2025
Developers, Reinvented
ai, software engineering and who moved my cheese
Noted October 5, 2025
I Know When You're Vibe Coding | Alex Kondov - Software Engineer
I know when you're vibe coding - was it the emojis?
Noted October 5, 2025
Is AI Contributing to Rising Unemployment? | St. Louis Fed
is ai contributing to unemployment? no.. (Betteridge's law of headlines)
Noted October 4, 2025
Recent College Graduates Bear Brunt of Labor Market Shifts | St. Louis Fed
unemployment is relative - right now its up from before making it seem worse
Noted October 4, 2025
Most companies still aren't measuring AI coding tools - LeadDev
finding the right "metric" for ai productivity - hint its not lines of code
Noted October 4, 2025
What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? | The New Yorker
limitions on scaling LLM, who knew.. this guy..
Noted October 4, 2025
The LeadDev AI Impact Report 2025
developer adoption ~98% on AI tooling with reporting some net positive productivity improvements
Noted October 4, 2025
The Evaluation of the M365 Copilot Pilot in the Department for Business and Trade
major M365 pilot shows small modest AI improvements
Noted October 4, 2025
China’s Role in Global Innovation Is Changing | St. Louis Fed
china is innovating not just copying
Noted October 4, 2025
90% | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
real take on the 90% AI coding hype
Noted October 4, 2025
How Ivy League Admissions Broke America - The Atlantic
deep dive into the constraints of higher education and history of america
Noted September 29, 2025
Work-Life Balance Slows Careers (E9 Engineer, ex-Meta)
results + relationships = success
Noted September 29, 2025
Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude | WIRED
enjoying the tea - anthropic and openai trade barbs
Noted September 29, 2025
Tech jobs were supposed to be the safe career route. What changed? - The Globe and Mail
blame AI not macro environment
Noted September 29, 2025
GPT-5 Released: What the Performance Claims Actually Mean for Software Developers
talking up the book - GPT 5
Noted September 29, 2025
US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID - Newsweek
peak layoffs. so over it
Noted September 29, 2025
The Hidden Cost of AI Coding – Terrible Software
Being an EM is giving up coding.. but AI changes this
Noted September 29, 2025
What is diff authoring time? The developer metric taking Meta by storm - LeadDev
another metric for writing software - DAT
Noted September 29, 2025
What’s Happening to Reading? | The New Yorker
2000 words on people not reading as much.. will AI Fix it? not likely
Noted September 29, 2025
Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor
deep dive on Cursor tech stack
Noted September 29, 2025
AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers – tecosystems
An explosion of new SDLC for SWE
Noted September 29, 2025
Leading your engineers towards an AI-assisted future | Pete Hodgson
Really great overview on setting up a community of practice with AI
Noted September 29, 2025
The Broken Marketplace Study
good site on new reality of hiring
Noted September 29, 2025
Front-Loaded Vesting: Why Your Tech Offer Looks Different Now
money now please - vesting schedule changes
Noted September 29, 2025
The insane privilege of being a manager
managing is for the people
Noted September 29, 2025
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation | Loren Stewart
Remembering the FE wars.. Why React is de-facto standard
Noted September 29, 2025
LuckyOne7777/ChatGPT-Micro-Cap-Experiment: This repo powers my blog experiment where ChatGPT manages a real-money micro-cap stock portfolio.
random walk down wall street - with AI
Noted September 28, 2025
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
slowing down time for better observability
Noted September 28, 2025
How we upgrade a live data center - Server Fault Blog
Fun look at a real live sever room upgrade
Noted September 28, 2025
Use Your Type System • Chris Dzombak
A strong take on types
Noted September 28, 2025
Sam Altman says world wants 1000x more Software, So Programmer Salaries are Skyrocketing
AI is both everything and nothing - Sam Altman
Noted September 28, 2025
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
24/7 trading and dark pools
Noted September 28, 2025
Microsoft’s H-1B Visa Applications Questioned Amid Mass Layoffs - Newsweek
H1-B Visas and layoffs
Noted September 28, 2025
I’m Tired of Talking About AI
AI trillion dollar problem - finding product market fit
Noted September 28, 2025
Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Generative AI
Amazon's thoughts on AI
Noted September 28, 2025
Google executive says company has cut a third of its managers
CEOs all the way down - reduction of managers at Google/Alphabet
Noted September 28, 2025
Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job’ - WSJ
Walmart sees a future of more automation less workers
Noted September 28, 2025
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? - by henry
Fascinating cross-model comparison using cartography
Noted September 28, 2025
Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps | The Verge
AI services are still product - models seem to fade to the background
Noted September 28, 2025
Are Businesses Scaling Back Hiring Due to AI? - Liberty Street Economics
AI Job impact, augmentation now - replacement later
Noted September 28, 2025
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register
AI op-out is a lot like a free U2 album on your iPod
Noted September 28, 2025
Silicon Valley's graying workforce: Gen Z staff cut in half at tech companies as the average age goes up by 5 years | Fortune
AI Feels like the false boogey man for a weak job market for new hires
Noted September 28, 2025
I'm back baby!!! - YouTube
I'm back! Fun way to capture my thoughts
Noted September 28, 2025
Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral) | The Verge
Single purpose camera for the win
Noted September 28, 2025
Pocket has shut down - What you need to know | Pocket Help
Genesis for this project (Duly Noted) was a private Pocket service
Noted September 28, 2025
Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work
Why iOS attracts apps first - developer experience
Noted July 16, 2025
Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Is at Risk.
AI results don't drive inbound site traffic
Noted July 16, 2025
The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager
Losing the dopamine rush of shipping software - a Managers fable
Noted July 16, 2025
GitHub CEO says the ‘smartest’ companies will hire more software engineers not less as AI develops
AI is a multiplier lever. Works best when applied to more engineers not fewer.
Noted July 16, 2025
Microsoft to lay off about 9,000 employees in latest round
Profits and layoffs at Microsoft
Noted July 16, 2025
Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
First step on the career ladder looking shaky
Noted July 16, 2025
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
John Henry and the Steam Engine - coding edition
Noted July 16, 2025
Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers
PoC and protyping benefit most from AI
Noted July 13, 2025
THOUGHTS ON MOTIVATION AND MY 40-YEAR CAREER
Business changes the world, not software
Noted July 13, 2025
Does AI really make you more productive?
AI doesn't mean you can't understand code
Noted July 13, 2025
The software engineering 'squeeze' Becoming a software engineer was a life hack. The best profession on earth deserved the wake up call
Great SWE still in demand
Noted June 28, 2025
A simple comma is going to cost Apple billions in Europe
Love a good comma argument in legal documents
Noted June 28, 2025
'Learn to Code' Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment
Supply of CS Degrees has outstriped demand
Noted June 28, 2025
GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom
AI Agents and Autocomplete still need a Human Finishing Touch
Noted June 28, 2025
Target at the Tipping Point: What It Needs to Do Now
Target isn't fun anymore
Noted June 28, 2025
The Broad, Continuing Rise in Delinquent U.S. Credit Card Debt Revisited
Credit Card Debt Delinquency on the rise
Noted June 28, 2025
AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes
Vibe code prototypes, build great software
Noted June 28, 2025
IN PRAISE OF “NORMAL” ENGINEERS
Slow and steady wins the SWE race
Noted June 28, 2025
Cars' Forward Blind Zones Are Worse Now Than 25 Years Ago: Study
Who knew? Larger vehicles means more blind spots
Noted June 28, 2025
Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job
Fed Chair ruminates on AI
Noted June 28, 2025
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
How tax codes drive staffing decisions
Noted June 22, 2025
‘AI fatigue’ is settling in as companies’ proofs of concept increasingly fail. Here’s how to prevent it
AI takes time to get right
Noted June 22, 2025
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
When clever engineering meets unethical creations
Noted June 22, 2025
How I Use Claude Code
Claude Code and working patterns
Noted June 22, 2025
One more reason to choose Postgres over MySQL
Postgres Transactional DDL
Noted June 22, 2025
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
AI and the man behind the curtain
Noted June 22, 2025
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
AI, LLM and attack vectors
Noted June 22, 2025
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
Amazon and AI
Noted June 22, 2025
Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out
ZIRP Hiring hangover
Noted May 29, 2025
GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
No - you fix it
Noted May 29, 2025
Pocket is saying goodbye - What you need to know
Pocket goes goodbye - another win for this site
Noted May 29, 2025
IBM CEO Says AI Has Replaced Hundreds of Workers but Created New Programming, Sales Jobs
IBM repositions staffing levels due to AI (allegedly)
Noted May 29, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg — Meta's AGI Plan
Interview with Zuckerberg
Noted May 29, 2025
Bernard L. Schwartz Annual Lecture With Matthew Prince of Cloudflare
AI destroys the value-proposition of posting web content
Noted May 28, 2025
AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era
AI lower the barrier to programming
Noted May 28, 2025
The Copilot Delusion
A real look at GitHub Copilot
Noted May 28, 2025
Why AI hasn’t taken your job: And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off
AI impact broadly underwhelms
Noted May 28, 2025
Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future
The real future of AI coding is boring
Noted May 28, 2025
JPMorgan Chase is heading upmarket to woo America’s millionaires
Banking with a human touch
Noted May 28, 2025
Wake-up call: Leadership in the AI age
AI and CEO/Board Decision making
Noted May 28, 2025
The Hobby Computer Culture
History of BYTE and early micro-computer hobby clubs
Noted May 28, 2025
Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath
AI is coming for your job
Noted May 28, 2025
Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
Dragon's *are* cool
Noted May 4, 2025
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI
No, mine's bigger. AI Code completion
Noted May 4, 2025
I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
Herd immunity and it couldn't happen here
Noted May 4, 2025
What’s Driving the Surge in U.S. Corporate Profits?
Dividends drive the economy
Noted May 2, 2025
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
AI employees in the future
Noted May 2, 2025
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
AI all the way down
Noted May 2, 2025
AI Horseless Carriages
No horse, all cart
Noted May 2, 2025
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim
AI driven economy - but not fewer hours
Noted May 2, 2025
Machines of Loving Grace
AI driven economy
Noted April 20, 2025
Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?
AI use amongst non-technology people
Noted April 20, 2025
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
Takes more than 'just use AI' to build software
Noted April 20, 2025
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
History of git octocat
Noted April 20, 2025
France to tighten mobile phone ban in middle schools
No cell phones, more focus in schools
Noted April 20, 2025
Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit
Digital games wiped
Noted April 20, 2025
To Whom Does the World Belong? The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT.
Copyright law, AI Prompting and output ownership
Noted April 7, 2025
The Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across Society
Business Adoption of LLM for writing
Noted April 7, 2025
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
The programming history of arxiv
Noted April 7, 2025
The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
T skills for programming
Noted April 7, 2025
The DNA of AI Agents: Common Patterns in Recent Design Principles
AI Agents rely on expertise planners
Noted April 7, 2025
Agents: This post is adapted from the Agents section of AI Engineering (2025) with minor edits to make it a standalone post.
How AI Agents might practically work
Noted April 7, 2025
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Insights from a CTO practicionare
Noted April 7, 2025
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Robots all the way down
Noted April 7, 2025
Exploring Generative AI
Coding Expertise with Vibes
Noted April 7, 2025
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
AI Hype machine
Noted April 7, 2025
The Impact of Generative AI on Work Productivity
AI Across all disciplines
Noted April 7, 2025
Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
White collar new graduate employment trends
Noted April 7, 2025
Warren Buffett’s bet on BYD keeps paying off as Tesla car sales plunge
BYD An electric car company from China
Noted April 7, 2025
Taxpayers Spent Billions Covering the Same Medicaid Patients Twice
A closer look at duplicate payment amounts
Noted April 7, 2025
The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Profile of John Thune, new senate majority leader
Noted April 7, 2025
AI could affect 40% of jobs and widen inequality between nations, UN warns
AI and labour implications, not great
Noted April 7, 2025
If—
Keep your head
Noted April 7, 2025
Analyzing open-source bootloaders: Finding vulnerabilities faster with AI
AI Augments Finding Vulnerabilities, Not Replaces
Noted April 7, 2025
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
Reach for the stars with AI coding
Noted April 3, 2025
The MIT Scientist Behind the ‘Torpedo Bats’ That Are Blowing Up Baseball
Bowling ball pin bats
Noted April 3, 2025
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki: The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
Studio Ghibili and ChatGPT
Noted April 3, 2025
My Afternoon Project Turned Into Four Days of AI Lies, USB Chaos, and Hard Lessons
Sr Eng AI Coding project crash-out
Noted April 3, 2025
AI Coding Is Based on a Faulty Premise
Dave (Agile Manifesto) on AI Coding
Noted April 3, 2025
Programming with an AI copilot: My perspective as a senior dev
Sr Eng on AI Evolution of programming
Noted April 3, 2025
Relevance! Relevance! Relevance! Microsoft at 50 Is an AI Giant—and Still Hellbent on Domination
MSFT fixes its culture
Noted April 3, 2025
Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years
MSFT turns 50
Noted April 3, 2025
Beyond the 9 to 5: Decoding the Overemployment Trend
Reddit Overemployed seems more hype than reality
Noted March 30, 2025
State of Subscription Apps 2025
Metrics on mobile app revenues
Noted March 30, 2025
I Quit Google Search for AI—and I’m Not Going Back Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better.
Suprise, SEO ruins search
Noted March 30, 2025
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Claude CLI takes
Noted March 30, 2025
Want to Go to College? Pay the College Board
College Board a very profitable non-profit
Noted March 30, 2025
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
WIRED coverage of Anthropic's ambitions
Noted March 30, 2025
The Effects of Generative AI on High-Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers
MSFT Accenture and F100 SWE walk into a bar
Noted March 30, 2025
When Online Content Disappears 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
Bulwark against Linkrot
Noted March 30, 2025
People making six-figure salaries used to be considered rich—now households earning nearly $200,000 a year aren’t even considered upper-class in some U.S. states
Cost of living 200k
Noted March 30, 2025
Over 4 million Gen Zers are jobless—and experts blame colleges for ‘worthless degrees’ and a system of broken promises for the rising number NEETs
Choosing the right major
Noted March 30, 2025
An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company
OpenAI Sam Altman Interview
Noted March 30, 2025
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more...
Still Learn to Code
Noted March 30, 2025
How AI coding assistants could be compromised via rules file
AI meets little bobby tables
Noted March 30, 2025
Mid March infra bits 2025
Example of AI not honoring robots.txt
Noted March 30, 2025
Startup founder convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175M by faking firm's success
Founder Fraud with JPMorganChase
Noted March 30, 2025
Engineers should state the obvious
Stating the obvious
Noted March 29, 2025
Duly Noted Genesis
Noted March 15, 2025