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Bloomberg: "Anthropic's new AI tool sparked a $285B rout across software and financial services."

What they actually released: a GitHub folder with ~2,500 lines of plain text describing how to review contracts. First year law school.

→ "Identify the contract type"
→ "Read the entire contract before flagging issues"

Billion-dollar funds panic-sold a quarter trillion because they saw "Anthropic + legal" and didn't bother checking the actual repo.

This isn't AI disruption. It's illiteracy.

Thomas Witt Jan 19

I just released the aws-sdk-http-async gem: https://github.com/thomaswitt/aws-sdk-http-async - an Async HTTP handler plugin for the AWS SDK for Ruby, built on async-http

Why? I am a heavy DynamoDB user - and I first thought, the official AWS SDK for Ruby gem aws-sdk-ruby would be fiber-compatible, but it isnt.

More information on the background: https://thomas-witt.com/blog/aws-sdk-http-async/](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/aws-sdk-http-async/

#ruby #rails #aws #async #fibers

GitHub - thomaswitt/aws-sdk-http-async: Async HTTP handler plugin for the AWS SDK for Ruby, built on async-http

Async HTTP handler plugin for the AWS SDK for Ruby, built on async-http - thomaswitt/aws-sdk-http-async

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Thomas Witt Jan 16

Finally codex supports conversation steering as experimental feature and is catching up to claude code.

Also worth reading regarding codex as agent: https://developers.openai.com/codex/guides/agents-sdk/

Thomas Witt Jan 9

Werner Vogels: “Read the headlines telling us that AI will make developers obsolete. That anyone can code now. That the era of the professional developer is over. In the 2000s, operations engineers expressed similar concerns when cloud computing arrived. They feared automation would make them obsolete. Instead, it created an explosion of new companies, and new engineering roles”
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around. This cycle will create massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter.

All Things Distributed

Thomas Witt Dec 19

Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

Fast · Patrick Collison

Thomas Witt Dec 10

The latest 2.0.64 release of Claude code is interesting. Besides finally named sessions and async agents, they support so-called rules. Maybe that's finally a solution that claude follows coding styles better:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#modular-rules-with-claude%2Frules%2F

(https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)

Manage Claude's memory - Claude Code Docs

Learn how to manage Claude Code's memory across sessions with different memory locations and best practices.

Claude Code Docs

Thomas Witt Dec 1

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

Writing a good CLAUDE.md

`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.

Thomas Witt Nov 24

First tests with OpenAI's new gpt-5.1-codex-max - even on xhigh - are very disappointing. It doesnt follow instructions well and I can see nowhere that its working 24 hours on tasks - it basically gives immediately answers to very complex tasks, which can't be right.

Thomas Witt Nov 20

Coding Agents Tip: When implementinglarge features, you MUST write a spec doc first, divided in phases with not too many subtasks (#Claude in ultrathink plan mode isquite good at this) as a md file. Then ask #codex to implement it and stop at each phase. Then run claude and another codex to review.

Thomas Witt Nov 11

The first really great video IMHO about Claude Codes Skills vs. Slash Commands vs Subagents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpLzCVLA20

Kudos to @IndyDevDan!

I finally CRACKED Claude Agent Skills (Breakdown For Engineers)

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