Andrew Brown

Pushing bits and dragging chips.

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

Live look at my code review

[Son Luong @sluongng]

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@kyle_e_walker Thank you so much! I have used tidycensus before, but it has been several years... and I don't think I realized previously that it includes ACS data.

[Tropidurus @tropidurusbr]

@headinthebox @GeoffreyHuntley @davidcrawshaw People think the little universe they live in is the one everyone else lives in, then generalize with Wikipedia-level authority.

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@TomVoelk @nytimes Tesla vehicles are >50% of the US EV market, and this article excludes them entirely, with no discussion as to why?

I like Tesla. I'm OK if you don't. But I do think a rationale should be provided.

I would have preferred to comment on the article, but it has comments disabled.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Peter Thiel says making jobs as distinct as possible helps avoid conflict in a company:

“If you were a sociopathic boss who wanted to create conflict among your employees— the formula is to tell two people to do the exact same thing.”

“You’d say, ‘The two of you are going to work on the website. I’m not going to figure out who has which responsibility— you figure it out amongst yourselves. You have the exact same job.’”

“It doesn’t really matter what the history of those people were—that would be a recipe for conflict.”

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

Reallocating my Jetbrains subscription budget to Zed

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@git_fork Fork may be the very best software I use on a daily basis. Congrats on 10 years and thank you!

[Kyle Walker @kyle_e_walker]

@toddsaunders This is the way!

Though I'd be willing to bet that only a tiny percentage of people would have the slightest idea how to prompt Claude Code to put all that together.

Which points to a giant opportunity for businesses amplifying existing domain expertise with AI

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@DeItaone I play poker once a week. At a recent session, person seated to my left says he is looking for ways to grow his money. Person to my right says the S&P 500 is "boomer shit" and recommends installing a prediction markets app.

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@Noahpinion That’s because the internet is kind of over.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions https://t.co/KUqQXDVNiS

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

Have your dev environment setup scripts use 1Password CLI to pull secrets from your team vault, rather than having a README that tells them to look up and paste in secrets by hand.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

We're hiring an Associate at https://t.co/vklU4uBjFC, and in the spirit of accelerationism, there is no ATS: just a Claude Skill.

Come work with us!

https://t.co/DMRUtjhmjS

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@jsnover Thank goodness for Start11, it has shielded me from this madness.

[antirez @antirez]

New blog post: Automatic Programming -> https://t.co/Z4tWUsMC26

[Andrew Brown @roughlyandrew]

@credenzaclear2 https://t.co/8SAUjoXQcx

[Samswara @samswoora]

There’s basically no reason to talk to other humans at work now unless they are you’re friends or like directly working on the same thing. Its crazy. No one else asks me questions now. LLM’s are displacing a ton of human->human interaction

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

incredible how pretty much the entire github homepage is useless

[Erik Meijer @headinthebox]

Slop generators like Ralph, Loom and Gastown treat developers as if they are free resources, replacing costly humans with swarms of agents churning out specs or cloned patterns.

My take is that the real disruption is not about free labor, but about the fact that changing your mind has become free.

Once the cost of change collapses, software development stops being craft and becomes pure brute force exploration.

That is why software engineering as we knew it, is effectively dead.