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Atoms in the universe. Here for AI, and verified, since i hate ads.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

nice that youngsters like @hotlinemagi get me.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Amazon's leadership is very good at writing, but you still need to read between the lines.

What I read between these lines:

Engineers who are not "product engineers" (aka eng + PM interest) and don't like to be customer-facing will not have a future inside of Amazon

Full: https://t.co/i1KC4sH556

[Martin Gratzer @mgratzer]

I wrote down how my work with agents changed this year. I still break down the work into vertical slices that ship on their own. I rarely read diffs now: independent reviews and a risk check catch most of it, so my time goes into shaping and guardrails.

https://t.co/s3V5JOJ4b5

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

software is dead. sad.

[Peter Bell @PeterBell]

For anyone who missed it on @hackernews Dijkstra reminds us prompt engineers that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it - on the foolishness of natural language programming https://t.co/BGimHaJicL

[Vercel Developers @vercel_dev]

Node.js Security Advisory: a high-severity RCE flaw in Node's Brotli decoder affects Node.js 22, 24, and 26.

Vercel WAF rules are live for every project and block known exploit patterns.

https://t.co/JtfEshHnOC

[Claude @claudeai]

We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.

It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Following the discovery that eight eMudhra intermediate certificates use weak keys, Cloudflare is deploying mitigations and releasing client updates. We explain the impact, our response, and what customers and developers should do next. https://t.co/lYGxHb3PHS

[Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸 (mostly on Threads, @dens) @dens]

Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. https://t.co/HgcgI9DWvy

[‏ً @justjargons]

I think the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That’s kind of the whole point of having a job and I can’t believe this is considered a radical position for me to take.

[Scott Berkun @berkun]

America teaches us to look down on someone and blame them for their station. It's a cheap way to feel better about our own place, however low. The fantasy of meritocracy is rooted in both judgement and punishment.

Yet we depend on "low" stations more than most of the "high" ones. It's the essential worker revelation all over again.

[Michal Čihař @mcihar]

🔐 What a nice day to ship some security fixes!

Gammu 1.45.1 is out, fixing potential buffer overflows when parsing crafted files and Siemens modem responses.

https://t.co/g6qwtq2Dh1

[Adrian @adriandlam_]

this is wild

connected the kindle over usb and let claude code jailbreak the kindle

removed all the Amazon bloat + added tailscale

[Derek Sivers @sivers]

Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation: https://t.co/LDyls2sUQQ

[Dmitrii Eeeekimov @Ekimko]

Лучшее, что я видел за последнее время — чел пилит ASCII MMORPG, в которой вся графика состоит из букв и символов.

Да, буквально весь мир, персонажи, окружение и спецэффекты нарисованы разноцветным текстом.

Автор сейчас экспериментирует с магией, визуалом и боссами. Я прям залип на то, как из нескольких десятков символов получается такая красота.

Буквально сны при температуре 37,2.

Via: https://t.co/vtYXAaEioi

[Derek Sivers @sivers]

12 days in 10 different neighborhoods in Istanbul, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation https://t.co/vygEXAS9t7

[Sam @SamCKx]

Yann LeCun, one of the world’s foremost AI, machine-learning and robotics researchers, an engineer, NYU professor and ACM Turing Award laureate, has been torn to pieces today by Elon Musk fans for daring to inject some reality into the Tesla Roadster debate.

The objection isn’t that the technology isn’t impressive. It is how these capabilities are being marketed, with deposits being taken on the basis of what we’ve been shown.

The physics remain the problem. A production car carrying enough compressed air to deliver those levels of thrust would face enormous compromises in weight, storage capacity and recharge requirements. At best, you’re looking at seconds of extreme thrust, followed by specialist recharging that can absolutely not be integrated into the car - literally impossible because of the weighty equipment needed & the energy required for that equipment to compress 600L of air for a few seconds of thrust.

And let’s not forget that the Roadster 2.0 was announced in 2017. Nine years later, instead of finally putting that car on the road, we’re watching a new version of the same old story.

This isn’t hate. It’s realism based on experience, engineering and physics.

And when someone like @ylecun makes essentially the same observations, the response shouldn’t be “What have you ever achieved?” or "what do you know?" - sure, use that one on me, but not on Yann.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A middleware engineer in South Korea wrote to me, seeking help on what to do now that their manager is "blinded by GenAI hype" and set an "AI token usage" KPI. This eng is using v little AI, so manager is poking them to use more.

My response: your manager is trying to help you

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Autodesk saw how well it’s going for Adobe to bully its customers (who turn from the biggest promoters to the biggest and most vocal haters after what feels like abusive behaviour from the vendor) and decided to do the same.

Penny wise, pound foolish as the saying goes

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The biggest misread of anyone predicting the end of software engineering was imagining that the world only needed a certain amount of software, and bringing automation to the field would reduce the need for labor.

Exactly the opposite is happening where essentially most things are actually turning into software. Because agents can use tools, work with computers, write software on the fly, and process data like humans (but far faster), we can now throw “software” at problems that never could reasonably be digitized before.

What that leads to is the role of engineering taking on greater importance in the economy, because we can now engineer far more systems and processes than were possible before.

If you’re a bank trying to do new forms of trading, engineers are often your first bet. If you are in life sciences, you expect more and more research and lab work to be engineering centric. If you’re in manufacturing, you’re trying to automate more of the supply chain, all that is engineering. More and more work is shaped like software problems.

Yes we’re not going to be coding manually in the future. But almost everything will be code, which means those that understand it are in a fantastic position.