A lot of what people ascribe to "high agency" is actually just attributable to high energy.

People are way too quick to assume quantity of AI output implies quality.

The biggest mistake I made in my 20s was setting my ambitions too low. I hit my goals, but they were simply too easy.

Agents work now.

Skype is my favorite counter-example for business leaders who think technical debt doesn’t matter. It seems unimportant, until accumulated inertia stops you from ever shipping a good product again.

AI is fun because you get a bunch of people excitedly tweeting about MCP who never would have heard of LSP (the clear predecessor/inspiration).

Contrary to AI slop pessimism, I think AI could lead to much higher quality software: fewer bloated/outdated dependencies, more compile-time error handling, extensive testing everywhere. Your AI agent can fight the borrow checker for hours.

Humans need reasoning tokens too.

Biome v2 beta release is now available! 🛠️ Plugins: create custom lint rules with GritQL 🔀 Multi-file analysis 📝 Revamped, configurable import sorting 🧐 Linter domains 🙅‍♀️ New suppressions 👩‍✈️ Analyzer assist ..and more!! biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v2-…

Zero surprise to see Krea growing. vicc and diego rodriguez are incredibly smart and scrappy founders.

I find ~every poster incredibly cringe, regardless of the message, at least in homes. Why put up a few words when you could have beautiful photography or paintings instead?

> Expecting a trendy hotel in Williamsburg to have better bagels than a no-name deli

The biggest reason to work at a FAANG in your 20s is compounding interest. You can save up a sizeable nest egg and then just let it ride while pursuing startups. Ex. If you can bank $250k into your 401k by 25, you never need to save for retirement again.

🎙️⚙️ New on o11ycast: the observability podcast: Join Jessica Joy Kerr and Ken Rimple of Honeycomb.io System Status Updates for episode 82, as they talk with Morgante, founder of Grit (acquired by @honeycombio), about using AI to conquer technical debt. 🎧 hubs.ly/Q03nqJFN0

Amazon touting their “hundreds of expert systems” at today’s AI engineer conference tells you everything you need to know about Alexa ever getting better.