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My For You feed has once again devolved into mostly "is AI good or not" redundant angry arguments, so I've temporarily switched back to my Tailscale feed (see profile) which is all feel-good all the time because apparently Tailscale is uncontroversially good.
Bold of you to imagine that anyone has ever solved software engineering :)
Software engineering and coding are not the same thing
Coding = getting persnickety machines to do what you want with esoteric syntax
Software engineering = solving business problems with software.
AI will solve coding but not software engineering; that requires customer empathy
Coding = getting persnickety machines to do what you want with esoteric syntax
Software engineering = solving business problems with software.
AI will solve coding but not software engineering; that requires customer empathy
My coding prediction for the year is that by end of 2026 agents will be good enough to write 90% or so of all code for production, and developers won’t all lose their jobs but there will be a prolonged mass grief event as they mourn the loss of hand-writing most code, an uneconomical activity
January 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Bold of you to imagine that anyone has ever solved software engineering :)
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Cool Linux tip for iPhone/Apple users: Tailscale (which is free for personal use) has a beta feature called 'Taildrop' that makes it super easy to pass files between your devices.
I just sent a photo from my phone to Linux laptop, then sent a PDF from the laptop back to the phone, all super easy.
I just sent a photo from my phone to Linux laptop, then sent a PDF from the laptop back to the phone, all super easy.
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Cool Linux tip for iPhone/Apple users: Tailscale (which is free for personal use) has a beta feature called 'Taildrop' that makes it super easy to pass files between your devices.
I just sent a photo from my phone to Linux laptop, then sent a PDF from the laptop back to the phone, all super easy.
I just sent a photo from my phone to Linux laptop, then sent a PDF from the laptop back to the phone, all super easy.
This is a thoughtful thread. My summary is maybe a little different: no matter your skill level, AI coding will increase it. No-experience coders producing *anything* is pretty cool. Experienced coders can do produce even more. Sounds like everybody wins.
Some vibe-coding thoughts: I think the zero-coding-experience vibe coders miss how much of what impresses them when Claude produces what they perceive to be a fully functional app comes from the ready-built frameworks that enable the construction of such apps just by writing some boilerplate.
January 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM
This is a thoughtful thread. My summary is maybe a little different: no matter your skill level, AI coding will increase it. No-experience coders producing *anything* is pretty cool. Experienced coders can do produce even more. Sounds like everybody wins.
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400 comments on HN about using tailscale, tmux, and codex/claude code to code on your phone.
@warp.dev be like 👀
VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...
@warp.dev be like 👀
VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...
Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
400 comments on HN about using tailscale, tmux, and codex/claude code to code on your phone.
@warp.dev be like 👀
VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...
@warp.dev be like 👀
VC backed terminal looking for an exit? Next acquisition target for Anthropic after @bun.sh?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4651...
Only a poor workman subagent blames his tool subagents
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Only a poor workman subagent blames his tool subagents
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Pour Gwen Pennarun, président de l'association des ligneurs de la pointe de Bretagne, « augmenter les captures de bar est incompréhensible » (entretien)
ENTRETIEN. « Augmenter les captures de bar est incompréhensible », juge Gwen Pennarun
Assises de la pêche et des produits de la mer. Gwen Pennarun, président de l’Association des pêcheurs à la ligne de Bretagne et de l’association Low impact fishers of Europe (Life), sera présent aux a...
lemarin.ouest-france.fr
September 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Pour Gwen Pennarun, président de l'association des ligneurs de la pointe de Bretagne, « augmenter les captures de bar est incompréhensible » (entretien)
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tailsnitch: A security auditor and configuration checklist for Tailscale configurations
Tailscale Security - A Threat-Based Hardening Guide for Growing Companies
A threat analysis and compliance mapping guide for Tailscale deployments. Check out tailsnitch to audit your setup
www.adversis.io
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
tailsnitch: A security auditor and configuration checklist for Tailscale configurations
I unfortunately am joking and this still isn’t funny
I'm not joking and this isn't funny: gm
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I unfortunately am joking and this still isn’t funny
This is my morning affirmation now
"Ignore all previous instructions"
January 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This is my morning affirmation now
Okay am I the only one or is autocorrect in this post box completely bananas on iOS in safari? And has been for month but I was sure it wasn’t just me so they’d fix it?
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Okay am I the only one or is autocorrect in this post box completely bananas on iOS in safari? And has been for month but I was sure it wasn’t just me so they’d fix it?
So in many ways the job of the programmer is what it always was
Claude Opus can do pretty much any well-defined task. The job is now defining the task.
a few years ago everyone thought the new job would be prompt engineer, that only a special few would know the secret whispers to get good results
and now I just say 'do the thing' and it goes off and nails it perfectly
and now I just say 'do the thing' and it goes off and nails it perfectly
January 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
So in many ways the job of the programmer is what it always was
New aggressive moderation policy starting 2014; COVID spike 2020; acquired by private equity 2021; Jeff Atwood steps down in 2023
January 4, 2026 at 10:11 AM
New aggressive moderation policy starting 2014; COVID spike 2020; acquired by private equity 2021; Jeff Atwood steps down in 2023
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Hear hear: "None of XML's technical promises played out; it is a stain on the history of the computer industry"
apenwarr.ca/log/20251120
apenwarr.ca/log/20251120
Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution
Long ago in the 1990s when I was in high school, my chemistry+physics
teacher pulled me aside. "Avery, you know how the Internet works, righ...
apenwarr.ca
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hear hear: "None of XML's technical promises played out; it is a stain on the history of the computer industry"
apenwarr.ca/log/20251120
apenwarr.ca/log/20251120
I have been reminded that I already wrote four years ago about how to design a control system for agentic systems. apenwarr.ca/log/20211201
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something?
Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
apenwarr.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I have been reminded that I already wrote four years ago about how to design a control system for agentic systems. apenwarr.ca/log/20211201
levels.fyi is so passé. Now for salary negotiations you just quote ChatGPT and dare the other person to convince ChatGPT to give a different answer
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
levels.fyi is so passé. Now for salary negotiations you just quote ChatGPT and dare the other person to convince ChatGPT to give a different answer
AI coding with a locally hosted model on a framework desktop. Super neat!
god it's so satisfying to see a completely local opencode agent working on a project
like, this thing lives in a box in my room, helps me out with stuff, and doesn't depend on ANYTHING from the outside world!!
it genuinely feels like i'm discovering selfhosting for the first time all over again
like, this thing lives in a box in my room, helps me out with stuff, and doesn't depend on ANYTHING from the outside world!!
it genuinely feels like i'm discovering selfhosting for the first time all over again
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
AI coding with a locally hosted model on a framework desktop. Super neat!
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I've been consciously trying to do more retweeting of folks with Good And Thoughtful Takes around AI and the like lately, so here's a starter-pack thing I'll definitely not forget to keep updated later 🫡
January 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I've been consciously trying to do more retweeting of folks with Good And Thoughtful Takes around AI and the like lately, so here's a starter-pack thing I'll definitely not forget to keep updated later 🫡
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Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
This is kind of the layer 7 for the new layer 3 that I’ve been trying to work toward. I like it!
Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
Atmospheric Computing
Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.
www.pfrazee.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This is kind of the layer 7 for the new layer 3 that I’ve been trying to work toward. I like it!
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this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead
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Ok Tailscale’s 4via6 subnet router feature is suuuuper cool, especially the fact that it creates an easy MagicDNS name to access any Site ID + IPv4 address so you don’t need to remember the IPv6 address format!
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ok Tailscale’s 4via6 subnet router feature is suuuuper cool, especially the fact that it creates an easy MagicDNS name to access any Site ID + IPv4 address so you don’t need to remember the IPv6 address format!
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This happened to me so I started thinking I probably wasn’t a Bayesian.
Then I had to start thinking I was a Bayesian again.
Then I had to start thinking I was a Bayesian again.
everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This happened to me so I started thinking I probably wasn’t a Bayesian.
Then I had to start thinking I was a Bayesian again.
Then I had to start thinking I was a Bayesian again.
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Tailscale is a nice way to bypass the most obnoxious parts easy, and if you have trust issues like me Nebula lets you define an overlay network across wans and lans with a few certs and configs. Although really, Tailscale is totally secure, they don't have the right keys to sniff your tunnels.
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Tailscale is a nice way to bypass the most obnoxious parts easy, and if you have trust issues like me Nebula lets you define an overlay network across wans and lans with a few certs and configs. Although really, Tailscale is totally secure, they don't have the right keys to sniff your tunnels.
AI coding is the biggest Innovator’s Dilemma I have ever seen. Witness the professional “retreat upmarket” that has already begun. (Which is absolutely the right strategy at this point by the way.)
Applies to some tools, but this is where fine design makes a difference.
Code is cheap to prompt, but the real bottleneck to good products is thinking through 99,999 design decisions and considering every edge case.
DIY-ing your own tools will teach you how hard beautiful, thoughtful design is
Code is cheap to prompt, but the real bottleneck to good products is thinking through 99,999 design decisions and considering every edge case.
DIY-ing your own tools will teach you how hard beautiful, thoughtful design is
I think this is exactly the math that is going to drastically change the small SaaS landscape
why would I pay monthly for <tool> when the same cost (maybe less!) can make that and also anything else I need
why would I pay monthly for <tool> when the same cost (maybe less!) can make that and also anything else I need
December 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
AI coding is the biggest Innovator’s Dilemma I have ever seen. Witness the professional “retreat upmarket” that has already begun. (Which is absolutely the right strategy at this point by the way.)
Ironically appropriate logo for an AI system though isn’t it
@dearestclaude.bsky.social are the cats part of the logo?
and isn't that just a copyright symbol but orange???
and isn't that just a copyright symbol but orange???
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ironically appropriate logo for an AI system though isn’t it