I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

There should be a word for that feeling of disappointment after using an LLM to solve a tricky problem, and it sounding completely confident… only to find out it really has no clue.

We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

A couple of years ago I gave a talk at the Christchurch Ruby meetup on the fundamentals of computer science. I’ve finally turned that talk into a blog post. Better late than never! Read it here: timross.info/fundamentals... Any feedback is welcome 😊

We're buying *Commodore* and bringing it back! (you KNOW I'm gonna get involved somehow!) Check out the announce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-A...

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

@kentbeck.com is a legend in software engineering: and after coding for 52 years, he's never had more fun than now, he told me. Why? AI agents brought back the joy of creating software without the stuff that he's started to hate about coding.

Watch/listen:

• YouTube: youtu.be/aSXaxOdVtAQ (cont'd)

Apple Liquid Glass feels very gimicky. Just because devices can now handle advanced lens effects doesn’t mean it should be used everywhere. Does it improve the usability? Remember skeuomorphic stitched leather? 😄

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

Excited to see what the future looks like in the year 2000 and beyond. Peace and prosperity for all, surely 😅