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Our talons full of snacks
They love this shit, man
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Maxwell, Slowdive, Jeff Buckley, Dinosaur Jr, Raphael Saadiq, Daft Punk all in small clubs, and Chemical Brothers at a weird rave in a highschool gym in suburban MA.
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
And like, to be more precise, we ship *features*, that people use and derive value from. An essential function of code review is "does this deliver the value you intended?"
January 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I think I agree in principle, but the status quo ante is also grim, I've had guys argue tests are useless, type checking solves everything, just stick it in a JSON bag, etc. those guys are going to get wiped out this iteration.
January 22, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Hold on I need to check my research
January 22, 2026 at 7:05 PM
One battle after another? In this economy?
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 AM
When I talk to senior devs in big tech they say things like "we cleared out our whole backlog" and "we're rethinking all of our practices", agent coding is all they're talking about. You wouldn't know it around here.
January 20, 2026 at 3:06 AM
This platform's Big Accounts have all adopted this stance because they're writers of some sort and feel threatened. That's understandable.

But it's disorienting to see all the concern trolling about programming in the midst of the most consequential shift in the practice in its entire history.
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 AM
But this is one of those things that Twitter folks used to always complain about back when - being lectured to about your area of expertise by someone outside of it (Tim is, as you know, a publisher).
January 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Anyway "vibecoding" isn't a real thing. To borrow a phrase, if it was, we'd be up to our armpits in shovelware by now.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Do you not know that OpenAI's models are available alongside Anthropic's in all of the coding agent frameworks?
January 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
You're holding it wrong
January 20, 2026 at 12:53 AM
If we're going back, how about watching his dad hound his older brother to suicide
January 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Maddow asked him if he was ready for ICE to invade his state and he spent the next five minutes praising cops.
January 19, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Man, this guy sucks
January 19, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I can totally see Bovino saying that Minneapolis is full of "wet and stinkies"
January 18, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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ICE and CBP never left and were never sent packing, in fact they’re activity has doubled while all eyes have been on Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans, and now Minnesota.
January 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Besides the obvious (we already have multiple crime enforcement bodies) he missed the chance to call ICE what it is, an ethnic cleansing agency.
January 18, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Think it's buried in this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmvD...
No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer
YouTube video by AI Engineer
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
(Dexter Horthy talked about this in a talk I can look up) compilers don't produce two different outputs from the same input, but LLMs can currently. I think our specs need to evolve too if we're going to consider them high-level languages. All of this is coming but we're not there quite yet.
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM