Connor Forsyth @cforsythdev

Yes. But your perspective needs to change. You’re tired and burnt out all the time because you’re looking for personal time to do the things you did before kids. Or “the good stuff”. The thing is now that you’re a dad, the kids time is “the good stuff”. You just need to realize that. This is the stuff you’ll remember, not the time you spent melting into the couch watching sports or playing video games. Also you need to be way more efficient. Get up early, work out before they wake up, eat REAL food, get sleep when you can, and work hard.

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

Repeat after me: The best software engineers pick up a new language in a few weeks. They can become pretty good in a month or two. The best devs also don’t get bogged down with one language. ESPECIALLY not today when AI makes onboarding to new languages so much easier

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say". My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.

@adamwathan Have you looked at them to know if the quality is up/down, or is that just for number of applicants?

Unconfirmed reports that Hamas has slaughtered 40 babies, beheading some, increasingly and sadly look like being true. Major news outlets now carrying the reports. The English language does not contain the vocabulary for an adequate response to this.

@DeveloperTea This episode audio is choppy on my Spotify and pocket casts app. Recording issues or just me?

Things are just going to get crazier and crazier from here.

The most common “presenting” pathology in the hoarded codebases I’ve seen - by far - is that developers don’t feel they have time and/or permission to refactor code.

Jimmy Lai has a full British passport. Where is the U.K.? @DominicRaab @UKinHongKong

Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya

6 years ago

Outrageous. #Hongkongers will never forget this:

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@r00k Why not just “on time”? I’m always ready (99% of the time) but usually press join on the dot.

Internet arguments work like this. You don’t persuade your opponent, but you can persuade third parties.

If your political insight is as basic as "all the other people are evil" then you simply just aren't very smart. I've had reasonable & enlightening conversations with Democrats and Republicans. It's the ideologues like this that ruin the discourse.

Biden just now: "To make progress, we have to top treating our opponents as enemies."

Pollsters, economists, epidemiologists. They are the mediaeval physicians of our age: clever at coming up with explanations for what has already happened, useless at forecasting the future.

I've been involved in devtools focused on making software easier to build for more than a decade now, and the best early predictor of success is the emergence of a professional hater class. It threatens their position as experts in arcane complexities, so they fear and loathe it.

People screaming VOTE always leave out the most important part of their bullshit message: THE WAY I TELL YOU.

@GeorgeKerevan I get the downside of tech transfer lost to US, but what is the downside of not engaging with China?

Hilariously accurate

@nathanbarry Always buy second hand. Very expensive furniture at rock bottom price. Always looks well finished and better quality.