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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 2d

Hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry - Weave - X-ray vision for engineering teams

Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work.

workweave.dev

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 2d

Development gets better with Age

He has heard the whispers, “he is getting older, who will replace him?” People asking him with a straight face, “when will you retire?” After close to 25 years at Amazon, where each year has been diff...

www.allthingsdistributed.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

It sounds like all those scientists at the CDC that Russ Vought was bragging about laying off are now being asked to take their jobs back.

I guess studying and preventing the spread of contagious diseases isn’t “too woke” after all.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Tara Walker @taraew.bsky.social · 2d

On YT, someone said "Drake fans are the Taylor Swift fans of Rap"

...man, the accuracy‼️
#BlackSky

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 8d

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 15d

Now, now… no need to insult anvils like that.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 16d

So exhausting..

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 15d

Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the

blog.cloudflare.com

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 15d

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 15d

HATEOAS: The API Design Style That Was Waiting for AI | Nordic APIs |

Explore how HATEOAS can solve AI agent challenges in tool calling, context, and runtime, reshaping API design for the AI era.

nordicapis.com

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 16d

Sure, why not?

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named George relaxing on a red couch

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22d

We don't say often enough that moguls who support Trump are stupid marks who are being played for chumps, and it's obvious to anyone with two brain cells. That's a point that's worth making in any factual, objective look at their context. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 29d

Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code.

www.wired.com

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 29d

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

CEOS are some of AI's most devoted acolytes, but they're growing increasingly frustrated as the tech fails to deliver as expected.

futurism.com

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · 29d

I sat down with Werner Vogels

A few days ago, I had the surreal experience of joining a private fireside chat with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, during Startup Summit 2025 in Florianó...

everton.xyz

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Sep 14

the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Sep 14

Even now, in Sept of 2025, there are people that just read what I wrote, and are feeling similarly angry at me for suggesting that Biden caused harm, as Charlie Kirk fans are at Dems for suggesting that he did harm.🤷🏿‍♂️

100% overlap between "Angry Biden stans," and not knowing what he did to Black men

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 12

“There’s 1,400 employees at Opendoor. I don’t know what most of them do. We don’t need more than 200 of them” - Keith Rabois, new chairman of Opendoor

Imagine hearing that your employer has a new board chairman and this is what he says in his first interview on CNBC.

Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce

Keith Rabois was named chairman of Opendoor this week and the company, which he co-founded, hired former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO.

www.cnbc.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 12

Tesla’s board is going on a press tour to convince shareholders to vote to give Elon Musk a trillion dollar paycheck.

I don’t think a more compromised board has existed in the entirety of history.

Tesla Board Chair Defends Elon Musk’s Enormous Pay Proposal

www.nytimes.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 9

Marvel Studios leaving Georgia and taking all its productions to the UK because they don’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance there due to universal healthcare is a valuable lesson for America.

We’ll ignore it but the lesson still stands. Universal healthcare creates jobs.

Is Marvel leaving Georgia? Production shifts to UK spark industry shakeup

Marvel’s blockbuster era in Georgia may be ending, as the studio pivots overseas for its next wave of superhero films.

www.usatoday.com

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rands @rands.bsky.social · Sep 8

The act of starting is more important than the vision being correct.

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.bsky.social · Sep 6

IS it his last, though? 🤔

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 6

One thing many are yet to internalize is that this is Trump’s last term which means he isn’t beholden to anyone. Not the voters. Not the Republican Party. And not his legacy.

He just cares about wielding power and enriching his family. There are no constraints or guardrails left.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 6

Arkansas farmers beg the government for relief from Trump’s poliicies.
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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

YouTube video by KATVchannel7

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Sep 4

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.)

Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

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