"AI codegen is not that!" feels dismissive without explanation of why. But of course Claude would say that

Alas, I couldn't make it to today's Substrates25 workshop. Hopefully, someone will post about what went on there. I was able to send in a vision statement about substrates, and a 4 minute intro video. Because we have X rather than a proper substrate, I'll post links in the next

Reminder: LIVE Programming workshop submissions due July 21. liveprog.org

React apps render HTML with key attributes for DOM diffing. Why can't I do this from a JVM language? I'd colocate JVM on the client so latency isn't an issue but maybe that's why no one is taking this approach?

Moonbit is a very tasteful language design for application programming. Just the good bits of Scala and Rust. Whole tool stack designed together. MoonBit via Mariano Guerra

Forests and trees of evergreen notes forester-notes.org/tfmt-000R/inde…

Hierarchy in evergreen notes forester-notes.org/tfmt-0005/inde…

Now that this is the decade of agents we need a collective noun. A Langley of agents?

Sneak peak at my next ACM Queue paper. The Universal Grammar of Computation: A Forty-Year Architectural Lineage from "Beyond Macro Processing" to the Model Context Protocol This paper posits that the core architectural pattern of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—specifically

# better diff views for AI agents +1 to the quoted post. To work well with AI agents, we need better diff views! your ability to check the agent's work is the bottleneck. here are some ideas for how to do that, based on our research at Ink & Switch : Zoomed out diffs: show

Oh god remember these?

"The rational-programmer method is the first reasonably general approach for assessing whether linguistic features and tools can deliver helpful information with software development tasks." dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

Has anybody seen any studies or analyses yet: How much knowledge of programming is needed to vibe code effectively?

I can’t take a shower because it is downloading a software update. What have we done?

This morning I was amazed to find this Roald Dahl short story Dahl from 1953 predicting the destruction of the creative classes by AI gwern.net/doc/fiction/sc… - it feels almost as prescient as E. M. Forster predicting the Amazon-delivered lifestyle in 1909.