jacek szymanski

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However (...) it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead" RFC1925

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

@schteppe Rewrite in Rust for no particular reason.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

A great takedown of the idiot Zitron (via Thorsten Ball's newsletter).

https://t.co/dH9U4sJkBf

"AI skeptic" is too charitable though, he's the very model of an AI denier. In fact, in 2026, there are no more AI skeptics, there are only deniers.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

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[Dreams of Code @dreamsofcode_io]

It’s concerning, but not surprising, that people didn’t even look at the code of the packages they used.

Regardless — before hand that code was written by a human, and therefore there was still a level of trust one could assume.

Now, you’re trusting a probabilistic dice roll weighted by an another entity that it’s not going to inject a backdoor into your code.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

I'm really amazed by this man's unrelenting commitment to being wrong.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off.

https://t.co/4Le2SuViKZ

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

"Inherits every login from your Chrome - Gmail, Amazon, your bank, day one"

What could go wrong?

[Gregor Zunic @gregpr07]

Introducing: Browser Use Desktop. Spawn a team of browser agents from anywhere on your Mac.🛫

We tried every AI browser. We didn't want to give up our normal Chrome. So we built the agent half only.

> ⌘⇧space from anywhere - spawn an agent
> Inherits every login from your Chrome - Gmail, Amazon, your bank, day one
> Run a team in the background, your tabs stay untouched
> Supports Claude Code and Codex

Hand it your most annoying recurring task. See what happens.🔥

Free for Mac. 100% open source. ↓

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

Kid graduated Stanford CS last month with $180k in debt and a 3.8 GPA

Applied to 847 entry-level positions since January

Got 3 phone screens. Zero offers.

Interviewed at a Series C startup in October. Hiring manager told him straight up: "We used to have 8 junior engineers. Now we have 2 seniors with Cursor and they ship faster than the old team of 10."

His roommate who graduated with him is driving for DoorDash

The career services office is still telling kids that "software engineering is recession-proof" while their own alumni network shows 67% of 2023 CS grads still unemployed or underemployed

Meanwhile offshore contractors in Hyderabad are getting $35/hour to do senior-level work with Claude 3.5

The same work that used to go to American new grads at $140k total comp

His internship manager from last summer just got laid off. Team of 12 mobile engineers replaced by 3 contractors and a React Native AI agent

The bootcamp kids who graduated in 2022 and got $120k offers? Half of them managed out during "performance reviews" that were really just AI productivity audits

He's $180k in the hole for a degree in a field that stopped hiring humans at his level 18 months ago

But sure, keep telling kids to "learn to code"

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

Fun fact: computer was once a skilled human profession.

[Govind @Govindtwtt]

2003: WordPress will replace web developers.

2017: Low-code will replace developers.

2026: AI agents will replace developers.

Reality: Developers using modern tools will replace the people who keep saying this.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

No, it has become obsolete already.

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

the human in-the-loop development cycle will soon become obsolete

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

I've produced a lot of slop. My idea was, "hey maybe slop doesn't matter." In reality crappy code runs the world. So if it works, it's fine, right? And luckily I've found this to not be true. There's no reason to accept AI slop. We need to raise the bar of quality, not lower.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

If someone still "lives in the IDE", they are no longer a developer, by the way.

[Google Antigravity @antigravity]

We’re evolving Google AI plans to give you more control over how you build. Every subscription includes built-in AI credits, which can now be used for Antigravity, giving you a seamless path to scale.

Google AI Pro is the home for the practical builder, hobbyists, students, and developers who live in the IDE and don't necessarily rely on an agent. This plan features generous limits for Gemini Flash, with a baseline quota included to "taste test" our most advanced premium models.

Google AI Ultra serves as the daily driver for those shipping at the highest scale who need consistent, high-volume access to our most complex models.

If you’re on Pro but need "extra juice" for a heavy sprint or deeper access to premium models, simply top up your AI credits to customize your plan.

Keep building. Keep shipping.

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

Vibe coding in an IDE is so 2025.

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

programmingTutorialsThenAndNow https://t.co/QZcsr1V8m0

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

Over the last ~2 weeks I've rewritten the @ladybirdbrowser JavaScript compiler in Rust using AI agents.

~25k lines of safe Rust (20k if you exclude comments). No regressions on test262 or our own internal test suites.

Extensively tested against the live web by browsing in lockstep mode where we run both the C++ and Rust pipelines, and then verify identical AST & bytecode.

We're making a pragmatic decision and adopting Rust as a C++ successor language. What a time to be alive!

[Richie @richiemcilroy]

apparently software as we know it is dead

because Susan from accounting is going to vibe code a calendly alternative while on her lunch break

I think some of you need to go outside and speak to real people

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

heSkillIssue https://t.co/ewWhxYKGvF

[fatih kadir akın @fkadev]

I work as a software developer for ~20 years. Almost every “human-coded” codebase I worked with was shitty.

Now AI writes code very fast, mostly very clean and cheaper comparing to human code. And, ironically, developers still don’t like AI code 😂

[dax @thdxr]

GLM5 is free in opencode for this week

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

raceConditionTie https://t.co/08G9KagCPT

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

Another 2022 debate.

https://t.co/JEjULkAJVe

[jacek szymanski @jcszymansk]

4.666

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

i hear 4.61 is AGI