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I don't know if it's a coincidence but this is the same thing an AI explained to me when prompted something like "what replaces SaaS now that AI can build most things on demand". T…

to be fair, #2 exists because monorepos and submodules are somewhat antithetical concepts. A monorepo is supposed tobe the single source of truth for the codebase, while submodules…

> All my finance and payment domain expertise, all the debugging intuition and distributed system knowledge earned through hours of sweat and tears, is now promptable. I think the …

perfect time to drop a reminder: vendoring might seem annoying, but it's way safer than trusting a remote registry.

It's telling how rhetoric and conjecture are now normalized in company and business culture. When we were at the peak of remote work, companies were reporting record high revenues.…

The issue was a compromised build pipeline that shipped a poisoned package. But PSA: If something is critical to the business and you’re using npm, pin your dependencies. I’ve had …

A few years ago, intentionally fingerprinting or tracking your users without disclosure was spyware and unethical. Alas, here we are. Anyway, what they're calling "spectroscopy", i…

This would make more sense if email was 100% guaranteed to be delivered. Not sure if this angle was argued, but just like regular mail, just because something was claimed to be del…

I hear you, a lot of engineers have been there. Things are changing though, roles are evolving and the org chart is starting to flatten. A couple of things worth separating: strate…

That sounds more like a project or engineering manager role. Work environments obviously vary, and sometimes roles are assumed to counter dysfunction. But the PM here is the produc…

My hot take: the dedicated PM role is becoming optional. Engineers already understand feasibility and tradeoffs, and they often end up informing the PM anyway, which usually comes …

To be fair, they do explain their motivation. It's an in-browser RSS reader, so it's fetching the RSS feed directly without a proxy server. There's not much risk since the content …

The article frames the premise that "everything will be fine" around people with "regular jobs", which I assume means non knowledge work, but most of public concern is on cognitive…

Nice. These are the kind of boundary pushing projects I like to see. It challenges assumptions of where application logic should live. The implications around cost, latency, and re…

This brings some interesting situations to light. Who's ultimately responsible for an agent committing libel (written defamation)? What about slander (spoken defamation) via synthe…

I really liked this post. It's concise and gets straight to the point. When it comes to presenting ideas, I think this is the best way to counter AI slop.

Nothing new here. This is why they eventually rolled back Chrome's initiative to automatically reject third-party cookies. Industry backlash was that the analytics of too many site…

I landed on a similar vision last year. The more I thought about it, the moat felt fragile. GitHub or GitLab could build the same capabilities and become a natural extension of wha…

I'm not disagreeing with standards but instead of creating adapters, can't we prompt the agent to create its own version of a skill using its preferred guidelines? I don't think ma…

I think the premise is a little shaky since a good servant leader is already transparent. But there's some good takeaways. Leaders should inform their team of what's happening behi…

> I want the things I do today to have an upside for people in the future. I think most would agree with this, but the way things work today don't support it. As of now, AI gains a…

> I’m still trying to figure out what kinds of open source are worth writing in this new era Is there any upside to opensourcing anything anymore? Anything published today becomes …

At least Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller had a rivalry to see who had better public works.