Petr Reichl

Living in Asia, exposing the fragile reality of modern IT. Founder in stealth mode - oh btw, I'm cooking: 🍳 #TechInsights

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is either brilliant or scary:

Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.

BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

[Petr Reichl @meap]

It's huge 🚀

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Petr Reichl @meap]

China is playing to win the AI race
https://t.co/0ZK6lAVjtJ

[Petr Reichl @meap]

@borekb To vypadá jak řízení letového provozu 😲

[Petr Reichl @meap]

Just a few days in Europe and one immediately notices.

[Petr Reichl @meap]

@borekb Jsem byl překvapen jak úžasné poznámky, myšlenkové mapy, info grafiky to generuje. Mám to pár dní a vážně wow.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei:

"I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code."

This turned out to be... too darn accurate.

[DHH @dhh]

Opus produced the best output with Ruby in this shoot-out between a bunch of different languages. Fewest tokens, fewest LOCs, fastest completion. Maybe one day, AI will just be writing straight machine code, but until then, Ruby is a superb target. https://t.co/6eFuCUXGWh

[Petr Reichl @meap]

CCTV hacking is now a core military capability. From Iran to Ukraine, armies are hijacking insecure consumer cameras (mostly Chinese-made) to spot targets and plan strikes. Modern warfare has a new set of eyes on the ground.

https://t.co/ahyCZraim0

[Petr Reichl @meap]

Works great. International online check-in is hit or miss, which makes self-transfers a bit tricky - but within the US, everything went completely smooth.

[Petr Reichl @meap]

I put together a few flights via @kiwicom247 with self-transfer. I need to get to the other side of the world, so I have five flights in a few days. I wonder if it will work or if I'll miss a connection somewhere. 🤞😇

[Petr Reichl @meap]

@KimDotcom Wishful thinking

[Petr Reichl @meap]

Changi Airport never misses. Everything here is just so seamless. 🇸🇬 #ChangiAirport #Singapore

[Petr Reichl @meap]

I put together a few flights via @kiwicom247 with self-transfer. I need to get to the other side of the world, so I have five flights in a few days. I wonder if it will work or if I'll miss a connection somewhere. 🤞😇

[Petr Reichl @meap]

Cloud data center outages are becoming the norm - the latest AWS region failure was due to the shelling of Dubai. What we save on programmers thanks to AI, we’ll start pouring into resilient multi-region solutions. You can never be sure where the next missile is coming from. #DubaiUnderAttack

[Petr Reichl @meap]

I’m not working less with AI - quite the opposite. I get more done, but it’s so much more intense and I’m honestly exhausted. 😵‍💫

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

My latest:

The Iran Question Is All About China
Why Operation Epic Fury Is the Opening Act of the Indo-Pacific Century

The Iran question was never about Iran. Remove the Islamic Republic from the equation and China loses its pawns for a Taiwan contingency. Leave it in place and the Middle East remains what Beijing designed it to be: a second front that Washington can never afford to leave and can never afford to stay in. Trump's strikes are the first move by an American president who appears to understand that the road to the Pacific runs through Tehran.

https://t.co/sDBKn77CYY

[Petr Reichl @meap]

Coding for days like a 10-person team. Peak productivity, pure AI-fueled adrenaline, and endless possibilities. 🚀

Then... 48 hours of total burnout and existential dread, questioning why I’m even building this.

The AI developer cycle is real.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Marc Andreessen: AI coding doesn’t eliminate programmers — it redefines them. The job is no longer typing code line by line, it’s orchestrating 10 coding bots in parallel, arguing with them, debugging their output, changing the spec, and pushing them toward the right result. But here’s the catch: if you don’t understand how to write code yourself, you can’t evaluate what the AI gives you.

The next layer of programming isn’t writing scripts — it’s supervising AI that writes them. Today’s best programmers spend their day jumping between terminals, managing multiple coding bots, fixing mistakes, and refining instructions. The irony? You still need deep fundamentals, because without them, you won’t know when the AI is wrong.

The job of the programmer has changed. Now it’s about arguing with coding bots, debugging AI-generated code, and understanding why something doesn’t work or isn’t fast enough. AI abstracts the work — but only people who truly understand code can tell if the abstraction is doing the right thing.

Programmers aren’t going away — they’re becoming 10x, 100x, even 1,000x more productive. Tasks are changing, the job is changing, but humans are still overseeing the process, evaluating results, fixing errors, and making judgment calls. AI changes how we code, not who is responsible.

The future programmer isn’t replaced by AI — they’re upgraded by it. You still need to learn how to write and understand code, because when the AI gets it wrong, humans are the ones who have to know why. That up-leveling of capability is the real revolution.

[Petr Reichl @meap]

@postmarkapp I've been seeing this for hours.