“you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology” - steve

Anyone I know out there who skis, have you tried the Carv 2 wearable? Genuinely curious about this thing.

Yes and in my experience true greatness is being able to do this across multiple rungs of the abstraction ladder at once. Like most things, the more practice one has, the more shortcuts are learned and the ability to arrive at high quality solutions faster gets compounded.

If anything I think AI developer tools will enable _more_ "handmade software" — it enables people who care most about design and craft to ship with fewer resources and lowers the barrier to entry. AI slop in software development is mostly a symptom of lack of taste.

One thing that I actually wish Apple Intelligence did is to automatically organize my Apple Notes into folders based on their contents. I have about 10 years worth of notes just dumped in there. It would make search a lot nicer too.

I mean no offense to anyone but I will forever stand by this

I feel fortunate that I moved to San Francisco 15 years ago and caught the very tail end of tech being weird and a bit nerdy. Every startup in 2010 still had a few developers with ponytails, desks covered with hand-painted Dragon Quest figurines, a CTO who did 80 hours of

Hot take: gratuitous animation and ascii art in terminal/cli/tui apps is bad and corny.

iframes are good, actually.

I remember the days when I couldn’t wait to upgrade to the latest release of macOS / OS X. I’d sometimes even upgrade early with developer betas. Now I avoid it for as long as humanly possible until our IT policy forces it upon me. A sad decline for the last few years now.

engineers coming to terms with having to become PMs

Something I'm noticing... If I'm doing UI/design focused coding I like to be in an IDE w my agent. Its faster if I can directly manipulate or highlight specific lines to steer the agent or change things directly. Otherwise I prefer autonomous Claude Code/Codex in a terminal.