@Hannahdowney I think it was your question last night at @NSLondonMeetup about how we get Software Architects when there are no juniors left to pursue the career path. Part of the joy of my job has been training juniors and I think that is what sort of deflated me about AI for a while. But I’m coming out the other side. Maybe we train Software Architects differently. Building Architects don’t start as brickies and work their way up. I think CS degrees might have to change…
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I’m off to NSLondon at Apple HQ in Battersea.
Brent SimmonsBefore sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.
It’s like when before the browser address bar was merged with the search field, we all went to google.com and “searched “ for the website because it was easier than typing or mistyping a URL. So instead of going directly to a site, we all did this hop from google.com even though it was less efficient.
The real thing here is that people desperately want text-to-action. LLM’s are probably part of the solution but not the entire solution. It would be trivial to write a spreadsheet function that did this job 100% correctly but we are settling for a half-working thing because we are too lazy to start.
Leaving aside that he is tracking project status in a spreadsheet instead of an AI-coded tool, how have we got to the point where we are prompting an LLM do something like this? And it doesn’t do it right? Yet this is unquestionably taken as proof of how amazing AI is! This is the best example the creator of Claude Code could come up with FFS.
I listened to the Vergecast interview with the Claude Code guy. It was annoying that the interviewer was so all-in on AI that he never questioned some of the things being said. One example of using Claude he gives is that he has a spreadsheet that all his teams update with project status and he prompts Claude to check the spreadsheet for status updates and send reminders via Slack if people haven’t updated. Except it gets at least one name wrong!
NSLondonUlad Ramanenka's talk ("From Breaking Apps to Building One: My iOS Dev Journey") from our 2025.3 event at Monzo Bank is now live on YouTube! https://youtu.be/Ylexsh9pCNM
From Breaking Apps to Building One: My iOS Dev Journey – Uladzislau Ramanenka (NSLondon 2025.3)
Here’s a conundrum. AI is making it possible for “anyone to code anything” yet Apple is enshitifying its iWork suite with upsells to Creator Studio. Surely, if I, an actual programmer, can now create my own Pages, Apple’s incentives would be to make theirs better and not worse. I don’t want ads in Pages so I can just make my own ad-free version. And open source it for everyone else. Right. Right?!
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