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they/them might be giants ☭People will be running from the shame of supporting this the rest of their lives.
Last week, someone at the startup my wife works for vibe coded a Jira replacement and forced the whole company to switch literally overnight. It broke everyone’s workflows. I saw the product, and I still cannot handle the amount of irresponsibly and bad judgment. But apart from the entertainment aspect, it’s interesting to watch, because I think it’s what the next couple years will look like almost everywhere.
The temporary winners were the people and companies that jumped in super early, before AI became mainstream. But over time everyone gets the same superpowers, and once everyone has them, they stop being advantages and just become the baseline everyone is expected to have.
Random shower thought: Companies are so excited for AI because they think they can lay everyone off and have agents build their products instead. But they’re being extremely shortsighted. Their products themselves are becoming more and more irrelevant because of those same agents. Eventually almost everyone loses except a handful of providers that lock everyone into their ecosystems and end up controlling everything.
The internet is becoming increasingly hostile to maintaining sessions. I find myself having to log in over and over again to almost every service I use. It’s incredibly frustrating. I wonder if this is partly a defense against tools like OpenClaw.
An outcome I’ve been seeing more and more clearly (and one I honestly never anticipated) is that AI is massively increasing the gap between seniors and juniors.
When a senior is properly equipped, they start looking like an absolute superstar. But for juniors, it often turns into a crutch. They don’t just parrot output without understanding it, they do it very confidently, which (sadly) can make them come off lazy and sometimes genuinely frustrating to work with.
https://youtube.com/live/E95agtPgaa0
Who I really wish were there isn’t the compiler or Foundation engineers. It’s the app teams at Apple. Photos, Mail, Calendar, Weather and others.
I’m sure a lot of those teams are dealing with the exact same challenges we are, and I’d love to hear what patterns and approaches they ended up using. It’s a shame we rarely get to hear from them, even though they’re probably the closest to our day-to-day pain.
Q&A: Swift concurrency | Meet with Apple
It’s insane how pleasant using UIKit with an agent is when you have a specific UI/UX in mind. It takes a single detailed prompt to achieve EXACTLY the look and feel I want. I feel so dumb for all the time I wasted fighting with SwiftUI. 🙃
- “Hey Claude, write me an app that does X.”
- “No, redesign this part.”
- “No, that’s wrong, change it.”
- “Great, now you introduced a subtle bug. Do Y instead.”
- “This is a race condition. Move this there and abstract it properly.”
- “Write tests for Z. …Shit, I knew it. Let’s fix the logic.”
“OMG I HAVEN’T WRITTEN A SINGLE LINE OF CODE SINCE DECEMBER.”
“80% OF OUR CODE IS AI-GENERATED.”