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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“If AI makes code cheap but engineers more expensive, what do you think actually gets harder when everyone can build software?”
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We're putting software in places it doesn't belong
Two short rants about software making things worse. Making things less thingy A little while back BMW tried to charge people to use the seat heaters that were already installed in their cars. They reneged after some bad press, but the trend continues.... Platform Update Highlights, Week of May 6
Major improvements shipped since the last update: Bridges marketplace Profiles got a lot better. Add posts to collections (like bookmarks or playlists), pin collections and posts to your Home tab, Easily see and message your most trusted people, lots of trust info, lots of minor... I've been a developer for over 20 years, so I speak with at least some authority. IMO the focus on increased speed and efficiency is one-dimensional. I actually don't know if AI coding tools make me faster, I'd guess for some projects they do, and some they don't.... Platform update highlights, Week of March 25 2026
What Shipped This Week Events - Trust Gated! create, browse, RSVP, invite, co-host, capacity limits, reminders, clone, etc. You set a trust threshold for attendance, which solves the universal host problem (wrong people in the room) with a network as small as 15 people.... - Mark Burns...
Hey everyone. Mark here — software engineer, Army veteran, and someone who spent the better part of a decade dismantling and rebuilding his own worldview from scratch. That process taught me that the quality of your thinking depends entirely on how honestly you stress-test it.... We checked an org chart against reality
Every organization has two versions of itself. The org chart says who is supposed to hold authority. The record of daily work shows who people actually defer to. Almost nobody gets to see the second version. We just published a study where you can see both.... Platform Update Highlights, Months of May and June
It's been a while since the last update. We went heads-down and shipped a ton, so this one's a catch-up on everything since May 6. We've also shipped a ton of backend stuff that we're excited to share later... Major Group Channels.... - JonFive...
I have used AI for different amusement and informational purposes. Recently, I have been working on a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) app in the pharmaceutical domain.... What’s scarier? Finding out that your checking and 401K are managed by decades old COBOL programming? Or that AI will replace it almost overnight?
Photo above - official headshot of Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. He predicted in his blog yesterday (once again) that his Claude AI system will soon write all the software code on planet Earth. Is Dario the Elon Musk of AI?... Thinking about roadblocks can be really helpful. I’m a programmer, so I’m very attuned to ways systems can fail so that I can design them not to fail....