High school kid builds an app with AI
Nobody told this school kid he could build an app. He did it anyway, for a real problem in his club. He’s not an engineer, just very curious. What would you build if nobody had to approve it?
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OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed
OpenFatigue™: the world's first fully Open-branded solution for people exhausted by everything being called Open. A satire.
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The 2026 Maintainers Summit
The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30 kernel developers; i [...]
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
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Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality & Value?
Why does so much new music sound the same? Why does a song feel almost worthless when you can stream every album ever recorded for the price of one CD? And... is software next?
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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds famil
Lobsters37 min readWhat I've been seeing lately (in software)
What is going on in software? You know what I’m talking about, the stuff with Generative AI. This thing that everyone is frothing talking about. Apparently I am too.
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How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code
Disclaimer: While the content of this article might be Agentic coding, this post was entirely written by hand, except for some parts where I directly quote LLM generated text, which is attributed as such.
Lobsters71 min readLiving in the Weimar era of Ruby
Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one.
Lobsters15 min readWhen LLM Decompilers Recompile More and Preserve Less
Decompilation recovers high-level source from compiled machine code and serves as a foundation for security tasks such as vulnerability detection and malware analysis.
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'AI' is Not a Tool
(I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, f
Lobsters5 min readI'm sorry, but you still have to think
DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other languages, like Elixir and Go.
Lobsters8 min readWhat we ended up doing about alias propagation
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
The glib response here would be to say that no technology is ever inevitable and that everything is contingent. This has the advantages of being technically true and sounding wise, but unfortunately technologies very much exist that a reasonable person might well label that way.
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No Man Is an Island
In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer.
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Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?
Updates about my life and what I learn about creating software
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There are many themes, but this one is yours
Pi's new system theme asks your terminal for its colors and builds Pi's theme from them. How it works.
Lobsters12 min readProgramming Isn’t Special
Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
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