Kyle Hughes

@kyle@mister.computer
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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker.

I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free.

I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Kyle Hughes1h ago
Officially all moved in. Nothing else to do. Everything is where it should be.
Kyle Hughes4h ago
I can’t wait for Google to announce AlphaRot, a system that uses RLHF to produce a nonstop stream of generated, personally-tailored, short-form video that is psychologically impossible to look away from.
Kyle Hughes8h ago
Xcode 26 manages to catch up to Cursor circa June 2024 right when Cursor circa June 2025 is leapfrogged by Claude Code. There’s always next year!
Kyle Hughes9h ago
Simon Willison9h ago

I like this take by @kentbeck on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important

From this interview with @gergelyorosz https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agents-and-coding-with-kent

Kyle Hughes10h ago
I hope I get deployed to LA and not Iran 🤞🏻
Kyle Hughes1d ago
Dario Amodei was right: AI will be writing (or capable of writing) 90% of all code by August, and probably 100% by next year.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114724388593141308
Tim Bray (@timbray@cosocial.ca)

So, @mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io is working on using LLMs to process XML Except for, the models can’t write legal XML. So he’s using the model to generate a sloppy-XML parser: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/21/my-first-ai-library/ OK, my mind is now made up about vibe coding. I’m saying take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. #genAI

CoSocial
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I have already made several of what I assume are common homeowner blunders where, by virtue of being in sticker shock over the cost of everything, I went with the cheapest option for every contractor and appliance and regret absolutely all of it.
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This screen is why I had Rank Things on the shelf for years. I wanted a way to communicate the “user experience” of each sorting algorithm, because it meaningfully affects the app. For example, Insertion Sort has you compare one thing to many other things in sequence. That can be boring, but it can also keep you in the flow.

I’m not sure that I nailed it, but it’s good enough for government work. Plus, it uses the same stateful sorting algorithm implementations to drive the animation.

Kyle Hughes1d ago
Does anyone know of a non-FDIC-insured place I can park my money? Oh, the Walmart Shitcoin? Perfect.
Kyle Hughes1d ago

☺️ New* to me house ☺️

*built in 1965