For World Book Day, my daughters needed to dress up as brave characters from their favorite books. One chose Paddington, and the other went with Skye from Paw Patrol. My wife handled the costumes, while I handled the props. Paddington needed a suitcase, and Skye needed a jetpack with wings that could fold out, just like Buzz Lightyear. After about twenty minutes of prompting, I had two design…
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead by Boris Tane. The argument: AI agents haven't merely accelerated the software development lifecycle (SDLC). They've collapsed it. Requirements, design, implementation, testing, code review, deployment, and monitoring — those used to be separate phases. Now the loop is shorter: intent, agent builds and deploys, observe, repeat. The new skill is context…
I have a handful of CLI tools I built for myself: gmailctl searches and drafts emails. gdrivectl reads and edits Google Docs. transcriber processes podcast, interviews and announcements for KubeFM . They all stored their OAuth credentials (the tokens that let them act on my behalf with Google) in plaintext JSON files on disk, the same way the AWS CLI stores credentials in ~/.aws/credentials . This…
Looks like they've hacked Zod to do validation on partial/streaming data. Very clever. by Colin Hacks (@colinhacks), creator of Zod. Colin tweeted about Tambo , a React toolkit for generative UIs that streams structured data from LLMs into React components. He claims they found a way to use Zod for validating partial, streaming data. My first thought was: how does that work? Streaming schema…
I am the bottleneck now by Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball). Thorsten shared a story about receiving a bug report on Slack. He took a screenshot, uploaded it to Codex, and had the fix completed in 5 minutes. The code looked solid, all tests passed, and he pushed. Then he realised he was the bottleneck. The process could have gone directly from Slack to Codex to a review thread, without him in the…
Why Talking to LLMs Has Improved My Thinking by Philip O'Toole, creator of rqlite ( via HN ). Philip's thesis: LLMs help articulate tacit knowledge, the understanding we have but can't easily put into words. This isn't learning new things, it's recognition: mapping latent structure to language. As programmers and developers, we build up a lot of understanding that never quite becomes explicit.This…