It is kind of remarkable the degree to which you still really can’t outsource your thinking to AI, given how smart it is.

andrew blinn "The user wants more fallbacks and error handling. make no mistakes"

Some of our best hires were totally unqualified on paper. They always had the same qualities: entrepreneurial, high agency, smart, mission aligned, and they got shit done. If you’re hiring, especially in early stages, seek out & bet on these people. Don’t over-index on resumes.

I was until very recently! And for critical services, we moved faster but still had human review. Can't just drop the money, the users, etc.

New post, if you're a developer and you're feeling down these days, it's ok. One way to recover is to build stuff for yourself, with the process and tools that you dictate. vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/ant…

see? whimsy

I am having an unexpected amount of fun with this game. Shards

real

Jobs were a six-sigma miss to consensus estimates; print 83K below lowest estimate

I had Claude overwrite credentials for Shards yesterday (I had backups). It's a real thing. You need to take backups, and I don't know if letting it directly mutate prod without approvals is a good idea except in extreme cases of benefit from speed.

yeah for the most part it's more fun now. i think i probably don't produce code that is as elegant as I used to, when I would mentally inhabit the problem for a longer time and reduce reduce reduce.

This is the same enterprise procurement hack that supports the long tail of aws services. Once you have aws, a new service is just another line item. Fantastic distribution for everyone in the marketplace. You get to slip in through anthropic. Big w. Congrats on this.

Here’s how this plays out. Software used to be too expensive and hard to write to automate most things. Now it’s vastly cheaper and faster to code. Thus, leverage has gone up dramatically, which means we’ll use software for far more. Leasing to more demand for engineering.

At this point, its pretty clear that if you are an app layer company using Claude Code SDK, it is inevitable Anthropic sees your usage and then develops that tool in house

One of us

Here a controversial take: most of the authority that exists in any organization was never formally granted to anyone. It was assumed, exercised, and then retroactively legitimized by the fact that it worked.

🦔 Researchers at Aikido Security found 151 malicious packages uploaded to GitHub between March 3 and March 9. The packages use Unicode characters that are invisible to humans but execute as code when run. Manual code reviews and static analysis tools see only whitespace or blank

My hidden talent is getting out of Costco with a full cart under $150 (unfortunately I also hate going to Costco).