two podcasts today separately called react discussions dead
Nobody thinks about react anymore.
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small teams still work
Listening to the latest raising an agent podcast the last section was talking about small teams being effective and other people telling amp,
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thats cute you can just talk to everyone in slack and just ship things without pr, that doesnt work on a gigantic team
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build your tools
Whatever tool is getting in between you and delivering products, agents can just make it if you ask them.
No one knows what an agent is
Friendly reminder, something like 1% of developers are using agents with frontier models. Meaning almost no one in the world knows what the heck they are.
Ventoy ready
I got my live boot ready with ventoy a few days ago…. I should have backed up $HOME first
Google like a boomer
I now Google like a boomer, full sentence structure, its surpassed keyword search
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Small releases still work in 2026
Just because agents are capable of 10k line prs doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
If an agent can’t verify
Have You Taken The Agentic Pill Yet
Half of the conversations I’m having around software engineering lately is how are the people around you adopting agents. The other half is around doing more with less. The ones I am closest to we probably hit the same inflection points at the same time and are really hitting our strides in our phycosis phase. It does not feel like we are early adopters it feels like we are just using the things that are ready, filling in the gaps when we need. We are probably a few months behind the twitter curve at any moment in time. Here I am really taking a look at this article from Greg Huntley 1 year and 10 months after he wrote it. At the time I would have thought this guy is insane, 10 months ago I would have thought he was insane. An "oh fuck" moment in time Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over… Geoffrey Huntley · ghuntley.com And for tho…
Personal software is better
If gippity can vomit out software 80% of what you made I aint using it anymore, I get way more value from asking the magic clanker to make it for me that I do trying to figure out how to use yours.
delete agents md after model release
Friendly reminder that you need to delete your agents.md
2026-10-15 Notes
notes for 2026-10-15
Start your own learning platform
If you want to git gud you need to have some projects of your own. And it does not need to look like a @technotim thumbnail.
Ask your friends if they have any unused pc’s, hard drives, anything, other peoples trash makes a surprisingly great homelab. This is not just your starting point but where you keep an eye out for new nodes that you can join to your cluster.
No friends, look for any refurbished enterprise mini pcs. These work great for low power compute nodes. They do not handle a lot of disk, you will need...
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What a doomer take. Hard to argue with with Chris here. Im trying to stay positive a s just do my job to thr best of my ability without getting too wrapped up in negativity. Basically he repeats the claims of ai labs and how many have been eventually correct. If it continues a large portion of us are cooked, if you think your not what do you think happens when half of the population gets displaced?
Hand painted feature film
writing code by hand is like painting a feature film on canvas
Open binaries
binaries are open. what kind of s*** are we going to find cars, planes and trains?
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