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Development & Design

[Andrew Ambrosino @ajambrosino]

if there’s anything we can all agree on, it’s that the letter C is having a generational run

[Boo @BooDev]

can apple throw the pro display xdr stands on sale now that the display is discountinued

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Boo @BooDev]

@sdw @markgurman Cape Cod is elite

[Boo @BooDev]

Cybertruck & model 3 ludicrous rolling out

[Boo @BooDev]

@wholemars @BLKMDL3 @SawyerMerritt Another M3 ludicrous in Malibu, Showroom here is doing a private event, heard 0-60 is 2.9s. Franz CT here too

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@coltonios @rileytestut @altstoreio @getZebra @SparkDev_ @bossgfx_ @saurik @HavocRepo @DynasticRepo @CharizTeam @conrothedev @HiMyNameIsUbik @M_Dausch @LaughingQuoll 🥰

[Boo @BooDev]

@shanegillio @Lonkelle 🙋🏼 thanks for the shout, try out scribble as well if you want a fun (though potentially less secure) unlock experience!

[Boo @BooDev]

@joebarnard polar is the best

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@fr0st 🥲

[Jackson Dahl @jacksondahl]

Sometimes at night I just think about getting to drink coffee the next morning

[Boo @BooDev]

@nideshenghuoji1 sorry I don't have the new airpods & the tweak is no longer in development. It is open source though for anyone that wants to update it for their needs :)

[Boo @BooDev]

@fr0st same, the only gas car that catches my eye these days. 718 is nice tho & will prolly keep its value for however long u keep it for. No interest in a performance model 3?

[Boo @BooDev]

I care about the 16" m1 mbp way more than any other apple device getting announced this week

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Report: M1X MacBook Pros to hit shelves in 'the next several weeks' https://t.co/61SyFvCKtx by @ChanceHMiller

[Boo @BooDev]

for anyone who was having issues with scribble not loading on ios 13, I just pushed an update that should resolve those issues ☺️ https://t.co/YXnDM2KaIy

[Boo @BooDev]

@foxfortmobile @dstayton1 it isn't currently open source but I wouldn't be opposed to it, I'll keep it in mind and probably throw it up on github later this week

[Boo @BooDev]

@Lasermasterluke @dstayton1 @foxfortmobile it actually was an issue with devices that didn't have faceid enabled haha (not intentional), rewrote some of the logic & pushed a fix to packix. should be out sometime today!

[Michael Seeley @MikeSeeley]

1.7 million pounds of thrust: 9 Merlin engines push the #SpaceX #CRS23 #Falcon9 rocket off the pad, sending supplies to the @Space_Station.

📷: me / National Geographic