Chris Banes

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Composer of the pixels.
Websitehttps://chrisbanes.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/chrisbanes
Chris BanesDec 29

If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from?

New blog post on the 'disappearing middle':

https://chrisbanes.me/posts/disappearing-middle-ai-software-apprenticeship/

The Disappearing Middle: How AI Coding Tools Are Breaking Software Apprenticeship

How AI coding agents are automating away the developer apprenticeship ladder. Discover three personas for using agentic programming effectively, when it accelerates work, and critical guardrails to protect junior engineer growth.

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Show threadChris BanesDec 18

@paul What kind of topics do you use Deep Research for?

I rarely find a use for it (or similar tools) as I prefer to iteratively delve deeper. Probably why I’m a massive fan of Perplexity.

Chris BanesSep 17, 2025

My team is looking for a new Android + KMP engineer!

🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Looking for someone in Boston, New York, Toronto, Washington DC
📺 Working on Ventura TV OS (https://www.thetradedesk.com/ventura-streaming-tv-os)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

🔗: https://careers.thetradedesk.com/jobs/4870331007/staff-android-software-engineer-ventura-os

Introducing Ventura streaming TV OS

Cutting-edge tech, the world’s best content, and a better experience for advertisers, publishers, OEMs, and consumers alike.

Chris BanesAug 26, 2025

Amen

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Chris BanesJun 27, 2025
@svenjacobs @dankim Yeah, everyone is different, and blissful ignorance works for me. I’ll take that over active abandonment any day.
Show threadChris BanesJun 27, 2025

@dankim Latest project: Google TV

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/23/google-tv-budget-cut-slashed-prior-to-youtube-changes/

Report: Google TV budget has been cut prior to big Gemini debut

Google has reportedly cut Google TV’s budget by a significant margin. This comes as the company is preparing to bring...

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Chris BanesJun 27, 2025

@dankim iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Apple’s ecosystem is just too strong, and everything just works (mostly), and I know that things will be supported for a while.

I would be tempted by a Pixel Fold, but I don’t trust Google and its obsession with killing projects too early.

Chris BanesMay 12, 2025

💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!

This is a big release:
🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android
🎨 Foreground (content) blurring
📐 Blurred edge treatment

🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0

Release 1.6.0 · chrisbanes/haze

🤖 Support for all versions of Android Haze now supports blurring for all versions of Android, using RenderScript underneath. The new platforms documentation has all of the details. ...

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Chris BanesApr 23, 2025

💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released!

🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default
🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions

The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back!

🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta01

Release 1.6.0-beta01 · chrisbanes/haze

🆕 Support for all Android devices We now support for older Android versions, using an implementation of blurring which uses RenderScript. You can read the new Platforms documentation for more infor...

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Show threadChris BanesApr 10, 2025
@luboganev smart thinking