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https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html

I really miss Steve. I’d love to know what he would’ve thought about LLMs, and what he would’ve actually done with them.

The world needs real visionaries. I’m tired of every mediocre product being labeled “revolutionary.”

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.

Ma’moun Mar 1

It’s really embarrassing that someone had to create a Chrome plugin to fix Claude’s bidirectional text handling. It’s 2026, and you still need to beg a 4 hundred billion company to understand that RTL languages exist in this world. Cannot Claude just vibe code that in Claude?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude-ai-rtl-transformer/pcnpnpaipomdildpaehlnmlbiiaagdid

@claudeai
#claude #rtl

Claude AI RTL Transformer - Chrome Web Store

Toggle RTL/LTR directions in Claude AI. Adds smart buttons to code blocks & chat inputs for Hebrew & Arabic speakers.

Ma’moun Mar 1

I don’t know which makes me want to cry more— that the US somehow thinks it owns the world, deciding which regimes live or die and playing god, even as it collapses from within, or that the governments of my own countries are helping the US fuck us over.

Anyway, FUCK ISRAEL.

Ma’moun Feb 28

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Ma’moun Feb 26

Even TDD as a paradigm might win, not because humans suddenly love writing tests first, but because a test-first, strictly specified workflow is a dream environment for code-generating agents.

Ma’moun Feb 26

A funny possible future I’ve been thinking about is one where super complex, strict, and opinionated programming languages and architectures actually win. As annoying and difficult as they can be for humans to understand, they might be perfect for LLMs.

We complain about the ridiculous complexity of Swift concurrency, but imagine a couple of years from now if it truly prevents race conditions at build time. That would be incredible for agents.

TCA could be the next big thing too.

#ai #swift

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Ma’moun Feb 25

In my opinion, agents have massively accelerated the zero-to-POC phase, and we should embrace that. However, they don’t do much to carry a product to the finish line or truly polish it, and that gap is real. I’ve felt the burnout of starting things quickly, only to be reminded, over and over again, how hard finishing actually is.

Ma’moun Feb 24

The “writing specs” culture is becoming ridiculous. It was necessary when the cost of building was high. It feels productive when you do it. But if you think about it, you can create a POC with an agent much faster than you can draft specs. And that POC will answer most questions about how the experience should actually work, far better than trying to predict every detail upfront in a document.

Product owners need to be closer to the creation. We need to change our mindset.
#softwaredevelopment

Ma’moun Feb 18

webhat Feb 14

Please sign. With 1,000,000 signatures, the EU-Israel Association Agreement can be suspended! In addition to the required 1,000,000 signatures, a threshold must be reached in 7 countries. Belgium, France, Spain, and Finland have already achieved this. In the Netherlands, 35% of the minimum required number of signatures has been reached so far. So share as much as you can

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#/screen/home

Ma’moun Feb 17

I used to see previous LLM models get stuck when tackling hard problems, endlessly going in circles. I always thought they just needed to learn when to stop trying if they couldn’t find a solution.

But that’s exactly what Opus 4.5/6 seem to do for me now, they quickly declare bankruptcy or try to convince me that the change is “too complicated” and shouldn’t be over-engineered (usually after reverting all my code).

Turns out both behaviors are equally infuriating.

#llm