Damian Adams

Frontend Engineer. Lover of JavaScript and Vue. Obsessed with the Web.

[Damian Adams @doadams_]

@johnsoncodehk It's gotten so bad I've unsubscribed from most development newsletters.

There's nothing interesting to read about anymore.

I simply don't care what you "built" with Claude.

[Daksh Gupta @dakshgup]

boris cherny goes on a podcast every three months and says something like “i’ve stopped breathing now i just wrote a breath.md” and the next day everyone in sf stops breathing

[Baron Pedro 🔺 @thetechnocrat0]

Funny story, recently I was working on a 3D engine, it already had a basic vulkan backend.
I asked AI to add font and texture preview support, I noticed it was lagging, after investigating i discovered that the ai decided to render each pixel of the fonts/texture one by one.
This was a flagship AI at max thinking

[Melody 🎶 @soothingMel0dy]

The AI boom not only ruined online art, but it also ruined the computer parts market, I'm so sad that I never went ahead and built my own PC, cause now I just won't be able to, cause every part costs a fortune.

Truly, AI is a blight upon this world.

[Damian Adams @doadams_]

@webdevcody I don't see how AI makes these checkpoints irrelevant. If anything, it makes them all the more essential.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

There is no demand for huge quantities of slop. More commits / LOC / PRs does not equate to more valuable productivity. Users want fewer, but better, programs.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Good software is invisible. That's why all software is bad because the managers demand visibility of programmers work.

[Eduardo.𝚟𝚞𝚎 @posva]

"The Nuxt Guys and Eduardo"

[Damian Adams @doadams_]

@posva 😂😂😂

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

“We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

Another college professor adds to the chorus of concern about student capacity.

In @chronicle:

“Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.

When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.

Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.

In February 2024, Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, wrote in Slate that students who once handled 30 pages of reading per class meeting now seem “intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” Crucially, he added that this is “not a matter of laziness on the part of the students” but of underlying skills they were never given a chance to build.

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2024 investigation found the same pattern across institutions as different as the Stevens Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, where the average SAT exceeds 1400. Nicholaus Gutierrez, an assistant professor at Wellesley, told The Chronicle that the baseline for what students consider a reasonable amount of work has dropped so noticeably that he has cut his readings accordingly; a 750-word essay now strikes many students as long. At Stevens, the science and technology studies associate professor Theresa MacPhail described following the mantra of “meet your students where they are” for so long that she has begun to feel “like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.”

Worse, the national data tell the same story in colder language. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which is the most recent comprehensive writing benchmark, only 24 percent of 12th graders reached the Proficient level, and just 3 percent reached Advanced; another 21 percent scored below Basic. The reading side of the ledger is worse, and getting worse fast: The 2024 NAEP results released in September 2025 show 12th-grade reading scores at the lowest level recorded since the assessment began in 1992. Thirty-two percent of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading, meaning that, in the assessment’s own language, they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

[Johnson Chu @johnsoncodehk]

We just solved an epic Vue highlighting bug.

`as` type assertions in directive values — `:msg="msg as string"` — have highlighted wrong for years (#520, #2096, #6007...). Not anymore.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I super don't understand this. I have to believe you're writing no software of any consequence for this to be true.

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

Zig has strict No LLM / No AI policy.

Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, explains the language's strict No AI policy and why AI-generated PRs become a bottleneck for the team.

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

Our full conversation with Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, is out now.

No AI policy, leaving GitHub, a $670K nonprofit, and why there's no 1.0 (yet).

[Damian Adams @doadams_]

@aarondfrancis True, but it felt isolated in its own little tech bubble in a way that AI is not.

Part of the fatigue with LLMs is that the discourse is everywhere and inescapable.

If the Pope were to ever comment on CSR vs. SSR or on "disarming Vercel", you'd have known something was off.

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

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[retrodev⌨ @NewAgeRetroNerd]

I find it sad honestly that no one takes the discipline to reach a lower level of abstraction anymore