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From my perspective, this is nothing more than hype marketing, because "Our product is too good to release it yet" is something I have seen many times before.

For instance, back before the release of the PlayStation 2 (!!!), it was claimed that the high-performance Emotion Engine in the PS2 could be used for weapons guidance systems. - Source

It is also interesting—and enlightening—that the same security exploits could be found using smaller (and cheaper) open-source models.

Nobody: Enshitification?
Anthrophic: Hold my Spyware.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I had a lot of love for GitHub Copilot in the past, but you cannot stop enshittification.

This app has a lot of potential. It's like Numi, it's like my scrappad on the right bottom corner of my Mac, it's math, it's a to-do list, it's cool. And only $5.

I've noticed the same trend Paul Kinlan describes. We're at a point where React isn't just the most popular JavaScript framework anymore — it's become its own platform.

New frameworks are "dead on arrival." React has become the platform because LLMs generate React by default. It's a self-reinforcing loop: more React in training data → more React in output. For LLMs, a prompt like "build me a website" is basically synonymous with "build me a React app."

That said, I've found that Vue.js and Nuxt work just fine too — though you occasionally need to point the LLM back to the documentation. The model doesn't default to them, but it can be guided.

React's top position will likely stay for a long time. And honestly? That makes me a bit sad. It means fast-paced frontend development is probably going to slow down significantly. We shouldn't expect many major innovations in the near future.

I've read a lot of articles like this in the past months and there seems to be a really big problem with bots, ai slop and open source projects.

Genuinely the idea this guy had is great; everybody should do it as long it is working.

An alternative title for this article could be "How we destroyed the web by listening to marketers and advertising people."

I was in the crowd at the Beyond Tellerrand Conf in Düsseldorf in 2014(?) when Brad showed the world his Atomic Design Framework and Patternlab. For that time, it was something we (the UX/UI engineers) needed. The next couple of years, atomic design was my way to go... and then it slowly faded away.

This is a nice, comprehensive read about that, kind of nostalgic...

I am not happy that they (finally) read the room and added vertical tabs. Not that I dislike the feature, but I am kind of annoyed by Zen Browser as it randomly deletes all my cookies, storage, and credentials.

Welp, I might return to chrome for a while...

A wonderful film – based on a great book that I have already written about here. Sure, probably more than half of the things that made the book so special were left out, but the fact that the movie still works so well speaks volumes for the story.

I honestly didn't think Ryan Gosling could play such a convincing nerd, but... chapeau. Maybe I'll start wearing my glasses like him now – on "standby," just dangling loosely from one ear. Another positive note: the film naturally uses a lot of CGI, but also many practical effects, especially in one specific area that I won't go into because of spoilers. Oh, and avoid the trailer! Just go to the cinema!

After you have seen the movie, you'll understand why the movie is so 👎 ... in a good way!

Is this _AI slop? Yes. Is this uncanny and weird af? Also yes. Did I watch it completely? Yes Yes.

(Have I googled "Balenciaga" after watching it? Yes.)

I think I can justify linking this video because its heavily edited and there is an intention behind it. I guess

The developers who will thrive are not the ones who write the most code. They are the ones who best define the problem, split the work, and verify the result.

Your job title still says Software Engineer. But the actual work has shifted. You define the task decomposition. You set the agent topology. You review the output. You are the orchestrator now.

As I see Code Review as the lesser interesting part of this job ... I do not like the future of software development

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Okay, I am now fully involved in the Casio bubble, as I now own two Casio models.

The main reason for this is that I am really anticipating the upcoming Ollee watch shipment and thought that the A158 looks better. The main difference between the two models is the material. That’s all. Even the backlight is still shitty.

Beside that, if you don’t like the kind of cheap look of the F91W (well, it looks cheap because it is cheap), the A158 definitely scratches that itch.

Your AI Slop Bores Me is a clever, chaotic experiment that turns the tables on the current state of the internet by replacing automated responses with human-powered creativity. Instead of interacting with a sterile language model, you enter a marketplace of live interactions where users must "larp as AI" to earn credits, sketching or writing replies for others under a tight deadline.

It’s like _Omegle) with a chat interface (and minus the d***s).

Well, do not bother reading this. Even if I see the shift away from Digital Streaming Platforms, the future predicted by this silicon valley tech-bro might work for a Taylor Swift and other top 0.001% of artists, but huge platforms like Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music are here to stay for a while.

Or Jimmy has a very long minute in mind.

A few days ago, YouTube showed me a video about the Casio F-91W, and five minutes later, the algorithm put me straight into the Casio bubble. And now I'm wearing that very watch. Yes, I know, I'm a victim.

What I didn't know was that it was a sign when I stumbled across Ollee Watch, a project that connects this very Casio watch to Bluetooth and makes it a little smarter. This sounded so needy and cool, it probably took me exactly 10 seconds to press the buy button.

What can I say, I'm now counting down the days.

Vibe coding represents a shift where the feeling of a product takes precedence over traditional technical rigor.

While high-level AI abstractions allow for rapid prototyping and aesthetic polish, they often mask underlying technical debt and fragile logic.

Browsing Reddit and found this comment that greatly summarizes the whole Anthropic/Palantir situation. And it also makes OpenAI even more shady.

What you're looking at is a situation where a company raised legitimate safety concerns about how its technology was being used, those concerns were reported to the government by a partner with every incentive to do so, and the government responded with the most aggressive designation in its toolkit; it is one designed for Chinese telecom companies, not American AI startups. Then within the same news cycle, the government handed the resulting contract vacuum to a competitor that had quietly been positioning itself for exactly that outcome.

This movie was a rollercoaster ride. On the surface, it's the story of Marty Mouser, an ascending, narcissistic table tennis player in the 50s. And then it has several different layers of storytelling. It's fast, loud, and close. And it's a stylish movie with a great soundtrack, worth every Oscar it might get.

Roberto Selbach "vibecodes" subscription apps into free weekend projects using AI: Jabber replaces Wispr Flow dictation, Reel mirrors Loom screen recording/trimming, Hugora edits Hugo blogs with theme preview. Never wrote Swift/macOS apps before. Predicts standalone apps become bundled features. Skeptical for production but ideal personal tools. Shift: apps on-demand via AI.