For the past decade an easy heuristic for finding and hiring great designers was "can they code" Learning to write enough code to prototype ideas was a great indication that someone cared a lot about their craft Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc. have made this useless (which

Fired our financial advisor Used Claude Code to build a bunch of financial analysis tools in Python Using DSPy for "context engineering" Can run retirement scenarios, ask o3 about how a refinance impacts net worth over N years, model big purchases Took a few hours

I have this horrible habit of looking at what AI influencers said about crypto a few years ago and I am not here to judge but

Background agents doing devops janitorial work 👀

This paper is great because it puts words to something you start to understand intuitively when you work with LLMs enough: Regardless of how well they do on human tests (SAT, LSAT, etc.), they frequently fail at true conceptual understanding arxiv.org/html/2506.2152…

Introducing Cased, now with interactive agents that do the busywork of DevOps for you. Cased is always-on: fixing problems like infrastructure drift, finding cost savings in AWS, and helping when deploys go wrong. Check out just some of what Cased can do:

the most exciting thing about this agent we've been building is that it's doing real work for us and customers seeing "launch" videos for things coming fall 2025 is exhausting

Stumbled on Antinote antinote.io Not sure what I enjoy trying more: new note taking apps or new browsers Reminds me a lot of using calca.io but it's much prettier, has timers, todos and can send to Obsidian, feels great for writing quick thoughts.

I've been building with AI, both as a dev tool and utilizing it for features. Along the way I've had to dislodge my brain from an old imperative, database-centric thought process. When people ask why we haven't come up with usecases other than for code generation, I think this

(unfortunately) we made the app so fast that you barely see this

Early on at GitHub we tried to use GitHub for *everything*. Finance, legal, HR—everyone discussed things in issues, updated their team repository, etc. This was bad: Use your product like your customers do. GitHub is a tool for developers; not legal, finance, etc.

Cased's devops agent runs interactive chat sessions, but sometimes a button is better than back-and-forth (or a ton of text). Read how we use UI actions in Cased ⤵️

If you're thinking about AI-generated UIs, recommend checking out JELLY by Rima (Yining) Cao, Peiling Jiang, and Haijun Xia. My favorite kind of work: both a compelling system/demo AND a bigger idea that people can build on! talk video: youtube.com/watch?v=X3cf1U… paper:

I was prepared to be a hater when I landed on the new PostHog site, thinking it was dumb and gimmicky, hard to navigate, annoying to use But it's lovely. The details are so good. Amazing work.

matt palmer Couldn't agree more. I've been Intercom CPO for over a decade but am now running marketing because we need a different set of skills to win. I think a major part of the problem is that a whole generation of marketers have learned and worked with a specific playbook for a decade

Every time someone says 996 is bad I am like sure we can all agree the headlights on the 996 were a mistake…but it still had a lovely silhouette But apparently they're talking about working a lot

A fun year in Cursor but `code .` opens VS Code again