Alex Suzuki
@alexsuzuki.com
🇨🇭 Indie developer (https://strich.io), husband and father of two
🍜 Thinks mostly about what to eat next
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
✍️ Writes occasionally at https://alexsuzuki.com
🍜 Thinks mostly about what to eat next
👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd
✍️ Writes occasionally at https://alexsuzuki.com
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Alex Suzuki
@alexsuzuki.com
· Oct 15
Cretaceous Software Engineering
Why I don’t use AI to write code.
alexsuzuki.com
My take on on AI code generation:
alexsuzuki.com/posts/cretac...
alexsuzuki.com/posts/cretac...
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Tailwind fires 75% of their dev team because of AI.
Your first thought might be that AI is now doing the work, but that’s not it.
LLMs caused a 40% drop in visits to their docs meaning less ways to advertise their commercial offering.
github.com/tailwindlabs...
Your first thought might be that AI is now doing the work, but that’s not it.
LLMs caused a 40% drop in visits to their docs meaning less ways to advertise their commercial offering.
github.com/tailwindlabs...
January 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Tailwind fires 75% of their dev team because of AI.
Your first thought might be that AI is now doing the work, but that’s not it.
LLMs caused a 40% drop in visits to their docs meaning less ways to advertise their commercial offering.
github.com/tailwindlabs...
Your first thought might be that AI is now doing the work, but that’s not it.
LLMs caused a 40% drop in visits to their docs meaning less ways to advertise their commercial offering.
github.com/tailwindlabs...
That’s right, we’re now in the era of “learn nothing - work forever anyway”…
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 AM
That’s right, we’re now in the era of “learn nothing - work forever anyway”…
Say what you want about Apple, the hardware holds its value well. Sold my Intel MBPro from 2018 (an 8 year old machine!) on the secondhand market for 500 USD today. I don’t think that would work with a Windows laptop.
January 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Say what you want about Apple, the hardware holds its value well. Sold my Intel MBPro from 2018 (an 8 year old machine!) on the secondhand market for 500 USD today. I don’t think that would work with a Windows laptop.
I wanted to spend less time on HN this year to improve my mental health and get less AI-fueled anxiety. Yet here I am commenting on the “Grok generating CSAM” thread. Anyone still active on X is supportive of this shit, no more excuses.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650...
X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I wanted to spend less time on HN this year to improve my mental health and get less AI-fueled anxiety. Yet here I am commenting on the “Grok generating CSAM” thread. Anyone still active on X is supportive of this shit, no more excuses.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650...
Off to a good start in 2026 with a bowl of steaming-hot Chashu Miso Ramen and ignoring everything else.
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Off to a good start in 2026 with a bowl of steaming-hot Chashu Miso Ramen and ignoring everything else.
Enjoyed reading this. I migrated my personal “one post per year blog” from Medium to a super-basic Astro-powered static site (alexsuzuki.com), couldn’t be happier.
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Enjoyed reading this. I migrated my personal “one post per year blog” from Medium to a super-basic Astro-powered static site (alexsuzuki.com), couldn’t be happier.
Xmas dinner featured an in-law raving about using ChatGPT as a relationship counselor and therapist. “It’s so supportive of me”. I’m just nodding along. <this is fine.gif>
December 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Xmas dinner featured an in-law raving about using ChatGPT as a relationship counselor and therapist. “It’s so supportive of me”. I’m just nodding along. <this is fine.gif>
Reposted by Alex Suzuki
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
I now consider myself a l33t TypeScript coder
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I now consider myself a l33t TypeScript coder
🎄 All I want for xmas is Last Samurai Standing, Season 2. It's so good. 😩
December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🎄 All I want for xmas is Last Samurai Standing, Season 2. It's so good. 😩
🕸️ Got a bit excited when I found this 13 year old LG Nexus 5 Android at the bottom of my "Test Devices" drawer. It boots and everything is surprisingly snappy. Unfortunately no recent browser versions can be installed on it – would have made for a great "worst case" test device.
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🕸️ Got a bit excited when I found this 13 year old LG Nexus 5 Android at the bottom of my "Test Devices" drawer. It boots and everything is surprisingly snappy. Unfortunately no recent browser versions can be installed on it – would have made for a great "worst case" test device.
Been going down the rabbit hole looking at a Sentry issue that's being for one of my customers. Something that should be a `number` is actually a `string`. Turns out they're overriding `Date.now()` to return an ISO8601 string instead of the milliseconds timestamp. Why......
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Been going down the rabbit hole looking at a Sentry issue that's being for one of my customers. Something that should be a `number` is actually a `string`. Turns out they're overriding `Date.now()` to return an ISO8601 string instead of the milliseconds timestamp. Why......
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New STRICH (strich.io) release undergoing QA. Important to test with real, physical devices, especially low-end ones. @infrequently.org has great guidelines for device selection here: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New STRICH (strich.io) release undergoing QA. Important to test with real, physical devices, especially low-end ones. @infrequently.org has great guidelines for device selection here: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
✨ Built a free tool because I got tired of using barcode generators that are riddled with ads, slow and don't generate vector output. barcode.new is free, fast (WASM, on-device, no server roundtrip) and isn't spammy.
Barcode.new
A barcode generator that doesn't suck: 100% free, no ads, signup or cookies. Supports all barcode types. Instant, offline, on-device barcode generation with high quality SVG, PNG and PDF export option...
barcode.new
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
✨ Built a free tool because I got tired of using barcode generators that are riddled with ads, slow and don't generate vector output. barcode.new is free, fast (WASM, on-device, no server roundtrip) and isn't spammy.
Finally adding Micro QR Code support to STRICH (strich.io), my library for barcode scanning in the browser. Error correction is buggy, that's why it's scanning gibberish. Seems like I'll have to deep-dive into Reed-Solomon error correction – pretty fascinating stuff.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Finally adding Micro QR Code support to STRICH (strich.io), my library for barcode scanning in the browser. Error correction is buggy, that's why it's scanning gibberish. Seems like I'll have to deep-dive into Reed-Solomon error correction – pretty fascinating stuff.
💾 Strong swag game by CashCtrl (cashctrl.com/en), Makes me want to switch my accounting software.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
💾 Strong swag game by CashCtrl (cashctrl.com/en), Makes me want to switch my accounting software.
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Reposted by Alex Suzuki
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I'm unreasonably excited about my new RPN calculator, a SwissMicros R47. In high school (1995) I got an HP 48G (still works) and was initially confused... RPN is a stack machine, to calculate 1 plus 1, you enter 1 <ENTER> 1 <ENTER> <PLUS>.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm unreasonably excited about my new RPN calculator, a SwissMicros R47. In high school (1995) I got an HP 48G (still works) and was initially confused... RPN is a stack machine, to calculate 1 plus 1, you enter 1 <ENTER> 1 <ENTER> <PLUS>.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
OpenAI: „Trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision we make.“
OK. 😂
OK. 😂
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
OpenAI: „Trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision we make.“
OK. 😂
OK. 😂
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
GitLab marketing mail: "AI is not actually making developers more productive. Here's you can AI anyway".
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
... you know, or just *NOT* use it.
🕸️ World‘s largest spiderweb found at the border between Greece and Albania, housing >100’000 spiders in complete darkness. Instantly remindend me of „Children of Time“ by @aptshadow.bsky.social . Amazing sci-fi, a must if you haven’t already read it.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe Could Be the World's Largest
The cavern along the border of Greece and Albania is home to a terrifyingly high number of two species of arachnids that live together peacefully in complete darkness
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🕸️ World‘s largest spiderweb found at the border between Greece and Albania, housing >100’000 spiders in complete darkness. Instantly remindend me of „Children of Time“ by @aptshadow.bsky.social . Amazing sci-fi, a must if you haven’t already read it.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It's that time of the year again. My daylight lamp is super bulky but I found it helps with the blues.
Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS.
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...
End of Japanese community | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS.
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Having fun working on some slides for my next talk.