tech debt is now a depreciating liability ship fast, create tech debt, in 6 months better code gen will make it easier to clean up than it is now

“be careful giving ai unlimited access to your files” everyone in tech:

As a new parent, I spend a lot of time changing diapers and feeding the baby. 15 months ago I wasn't doing any of this. I felt busy then too, so where did all this childcare time come from? I analyzed the Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey to find out how most parents do

the “journalists should learn how to code” era is over. it’s time for programmers to learn how to write. everyone report to writing bootcamp. promptly.

I have written a few apps that use RAG and AI, and let me tell you, it would've gone *so* much more smoothly and quickly if I had: - Laravel AI SDK - This article from Nico Devs If you're interested in building AI to interact with your documents, this is the cheat code.

This is counterintuitive for some, which is why there’s a paradox named after it. But if you lower the cost of something that was previously supply constrained, demand for that thing goes up. Software engineering is just one of the easiest examples to contemplate. The process

It's hard to imagine a more dishonest graph than this one by the Guardian claiming China is bringing people out of poverty while the US is not. The US poverty rate has been so low for >30 years that it wouldn't even show up on the China graph if it had been plotted to scale!

I've plotted the most expensive McDonald's burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081

Friendly reminder: only 4% of startups make it to $1 million in revenue. If you get here you are absolutely crushing it.

genie is out of the bottle everyone hitting the magic button button puts your brain in a state of laziness that seeps into all your processes and they get skipped we talk about this all the time and still our team is struggling with it

When are tech folk going to get that people like wasting time, it's life. They don't optimize for efficiency, they try to get by, they watch dumb stuff, they enjoy shopping. Inefficiency is another work for living and life. Your m mean and median job isn't a software engineer in

Make profits, share profits. Keep things simple. Real money, not fake money based on a fickle secondary or public market. Nearly all options expire worthless. And let them start earning the real thing quickly, accumulating more units the longer they stay up until a cap at 10

Warp, just buy me. I only cost a couple millie (after tax)

Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary

I dislike what this data indicates and will henceforth ignore it.

To quote from my keynote at Vercel's internal offsite: Software is free as in puppies. It will pee in your bedroom and eat your furniture. The weight of every line of code is real. We will need to maintain it. We will need to port it. It goes into the context window. And

Claude Code is absolutely incredible but have you tried going outside?

If you have two-year-olds or four-year-olds, this is the best deal goin Make sure you buy one per child, ask me how I know

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1: Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight? Me: Yes they're done. Partner: Why are they still dirty? Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

Everyone is slowly coming to this realization, and I assure you, no one is running multitudes of agents overnight. No one that is doing anything of substance at least. There _are_ people pretending to be scientists, or fully caught up in their drug infused AI overdose, that