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• 2026-08-03

  Linus on AI

  AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

  Linus on the Kernel mailing list.
• 2026-08-03

  Most People/Companies aren’t Tool Builders

  AI makes it easy for anyone to build tools to automate their work... except most people and most companies aren't tool-builders, don't think like that, and can't and won't do that. This is why software companies and consultants exist - AI changes the thresholds but not the problem.

  Another Podcast
• 2026-08-02

  Dario in love

  There is this user on X who does videos with her and Dario Amodei. Quite disturbing. But technically: Really good.
• 2026-08-01

  Reinvent the wheel

  I've always been skeptical of those people who tell you to not reinvent the wheel. Seems like the people at Raycast are as well.
• 2026-08-01

  AI rewards people who know the why

  How do world-class design engineers like Emil Kowalski work with AI? They don't fight it — they feed it their taste: articulate the reasons, write them down, hand them over. Bicycles for their mind.

  That only works if you have the reasons.

  Think about it: Nobody prompts for Bauhaus, Sfumato, or Memphis without knowing design. Nobody steers a model towards a clean software architecture without the scars from a messy one. The lawyer who knows why a clause exists gets a better result than the one pasting boilerplate.

  The sleeper skill: writing. People who can write clearly have been prompting their whole lives without knowing it.

  Left unguided, LLMs regress to the mean of everything ever written. Median design. Median code. Median advice. AI slop. The why pulls the output off the average. One caveat: never forget that your hard-won experience is also your bubble.

  AI doesn't level the playing field. It multiplies whatever you bring — including zero.

• 2026-07-29

  Files, not Silos

  One aspect of using AI to automate many tasks of my job is that it allows me to work mostly with files. Simple, raw, text files. Any editor opens them. Git versions them, cat and grep simply work. You can copy and paste them, mail them, and post them on Slack.

  That's why Jira, Confluence and SharePoint always repelled me. They're silos. There's an API at best. But those silos tend to make it either hard or impossible to work with outside of their own tooling.

  Files deserve better. Maybe, one day, even sharing files with other people will be simple.

• 2026-07-28

  Shadscan

  Shadscan, a static analyzer for your shadcn components. Helps with accessibility, state, and composition regressions.
• 2026-07-27

  Enjoy the moment

  Be the person who leaves the phone in their pocket at a concert.
• 2026-07-27

  AI talk

  You won't find me comparing AI models or GPU performance. I just don't care. When I talk AI, I'm talking about the power dynamic between those in power, and the average person. I choose to focus on the drawbacks of AI while highlighting the potential of humanity. Using machines as a tool is cool, trading in your humanity isn't.

  Kelsey Hightower
• 2026-07-26

  crypto/passkeys

  Proposal to add crypto/passkeys to the Go standard library.

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