In a recent article on The Information, Aditya Agarwal describes exactly how I felt the first time working with AI-assisted engineering. The profound sadness that the one thing I loved so much is going to be replaced by—machines. And, at the same time, that overwhelming feeling of power, of being able to build many if not all of the software I always wanted to build. All I had to do is a change in mindset.

Willingness to change seems to operate as an independent variable, cutting across age and seniority in ways that defy easy categorization.

How do you find these?

The people I’m most excited about aren’t the ones with perfect pedigrees. They’re the people who seem constitutionally unable to stop tinkering, who get antsy when things stay the same, who treat every new tool like a puzzle they need to solve before the day is over. I’ve started to think of it as the difference between your résumé and your restlessness. I’d bet on restlessness every time.

rakyll on AI progress:

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

This is the new normal.

Bring out the popcorn:

For the first time ever, there's going to be a greater intelligence than human intelligence on the planet. The last time there was a new level of intelligence is when our ancestors said 'hello' to Neanderthal. It did not work out well for Neanderthal.

Super interesting facts about attention and monetarisation by McKinsey.

WALL-E has finally arrived.

I'm on the brink of switching from Arc to Dia. It's clear to me that future browsers are going to have an interface to LLMs (for now). And Dia is at the forefront of this. I'm expecting new browsers from all SOTA AI players in the following weeks.

Another tool I've really enjoyed using lately is backlog.md. It helps me merge my workflow with that of the AI tooling that I'm currently using every day. I've always been a great fan of Markdown, so that was an easy win.