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@gedeonm@mastodon.social I have found whole peanuts buried under my shingles from crows. Now it makes sense.
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mastodon 4.7.2I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker.
I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free.
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I have not opened Xcode in at least one year and I have done more and better Apple platform development than ever before in that time. I don’t know what I should take from that observation. One day you’ll pick up your child for the last time ever and there’s no way to know when it will happen.
Intelligence is now a liquid and my job is to design human-problem-shaped containers and the plumbing that connects them. (Still workshopping this.)
When I deboard a plane every movement is calculated. I act with complete serenity in contrast to the chaos around me. Every breath intentional. I stand not a second too soon. I dance with grace.
I went with my parents to a pizza place. When we were done I went to the bathroom. I came out, flagged down the kid behind the counter, whispered to him, and showed him to the bathroom. Then I ushered my family out of the restaurant without bussing our table. They thought I clogged the toilet.
You could say there’s a… fault in our stars. Eh? Couldn’t you say that? Right?
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@imclaren@infosec.exchange @simonbs@mastodon.social For some anecdata: I hotswapped a huge React Native app for a huge native app and the review for the update went through in 3 three hours. The follow up, much smaller, bug fix build has been stuck for 4 days.
Does anyone have experience using baguette for headless iOS Simulators? I wanted a solution to having six Simulator windows on my desktop. It looks super slick.
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I have this profound sense that nothing I care about in software development matters anymore, and that there may still be things that do matter now and in the future, and I could know them right now, but human processes and adoption are the bottleneck to rebuilding our shared understanding of human-computer interaction.
Like… there can't be that many more times in my life I will need to think about or type "UICollectionView." The last may be this year. It feels dumb to not be there already.
I may not have grown them, but they’re mine now.
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I am not lamenting a loss of a feeling of expertise or control, or really anything. Just noticing this growing sensation of an overhang… a sloughing off of the friction that gave structure to interests and concerns and hopes and despairs that is happening more quickly than the momentum of those things can be slowed down.
I didn’t see anyone talking about this: at Google I/O they announced that AI Studio can generate and install full Android apps from the browser, no local development environment required. Soon they will allow Play Store distribution. The slop horizon is imminent.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/build-android-apps-google-ai-studio.html
JetBlue does not allow you to use USB battery packs onboard. Selling all of my Anker stock.
I will need an extension on my encyclical, I didn’t know it was due today.
18 years ago I tried to watch Michael Clayton in bed on my PSP and I fell asleep. Last night I decided that surely I could better appreciate it as an adult. Fell asleep on the couch.
GPT 5.5 in Codex vibe-migrated me off of my bespoke AWS-native microservice-based Mastodon infrastructure to a single EC2 host. If you don’t hear from me again, well, we’ll both be better off.
I put the unc in uncrustable.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social That’s more than I can reasonably hope for. Who reads this shit?
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If AGI is achieved then the winner will have an infinite money glitch. They will be able to get more marginal utility out of every atom in their supply chain than anyone else in the world. That is why I am bearish on the existence of consumer electronics during AGI: there will always be greater utility for that silicon in data-centers-full-of-geniuses because it compounds. It is notable that all of the frontier labs are behaving like they are racing to a finish line that materialized in 2026.
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I am bearish on the threat of local models to frontier labs. It may placate hobbyists–for as long as consumer compute exists–but the effects are different in the market. If you can trade money for guaranteed work products, and the utility of those work products compound, you will always be incentivized to throw as much money to the best and fastest compounder.
Imagine if local models matched Opus 4.7 today but Anthropic was selling access to Mythos. They would still be saturated with demand.
It’s where the amusement goes.
My AI subscriptions save me a lot of money because I’m pretty sure I haven’t done anything except make software for 16 hours per day since November.
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Being struck by the first arrow (iOS 26) was painful. Being struck by every additional arrow (griping about Liquid Glass for an entire year) is a pain you inflict upon yourself. Drop the bow.
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@cocoaphony@mastodon.social @mattiem@mastodon.social by many measurements we are still on many different exponential curves https://joelbkr.substack.com/p/straight-lines-on-graphs
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@grork@mastodon.social Millennials and Gen Z have an easy time identifying Gen-X-sourced humor—the repost is an example. One common tell is that the joke relies on pointing out hypocrisy with edgy language or cuss words. Most people my age won’t find that interesting. I wonder what are the Millennial styles of humor that Gen Z could articulate in the same way but I can’t separate myself from?
I can’t psychologically grapple with thinking about /goal-like workflows for agents + computer use + non-coding use cases.
/goal sell my MBP for +20% higher than the median selling price
/goal get rid of the moles in my yard
/goal open the Strait of Hormuz
/goal close the Strait of Hormuz
lol the Ai Pin backed by Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5 would be great
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@mttaggart This would really give up the game for the Chinese models because they are being distilled from American frontier models.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social IMO that is the biggest threat of AGI. Civilization has the moral arc that it does because, thankfully, being bad is highly correlated with being stupid. e.g. we can rely on the MAGA world to not actually be very effective. AGI would end that correlation, especially because having the most capital is highly correlated with being bad.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social “highly correlated” doesn’t rule that out, they just lose on the numbers
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@mattiem@mastodon.social I think…
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We are more knowledge-transfer-and-compounding bound than anything. It takes a long time to teach people, disseminate information, come up with cognitive abstractions, etc. My agent can easily use your writing to make better concurrency decisions than I can, and much faster than I can internalize what you wrote.
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Our intelligence has “too much” agency tied to it. i.e. people with aspirations, hobbies, beliefs, other things to do. Labor is inefficient in this way.
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@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social FWIW I fall into the first camp but I still think the math supports making as much money as possible in software while it is still possible. One additional year of a salary will handily beat getting through an apprenticeship a year earlier. But, I also think that the end of knowledge work will turn most cities into Detroit, and trades work is heavily reactive to the local economy, so that career shift would also have to be paired with a huge move. Not confident I can pick a winner.
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@mergesort@macaw.social the way to know this is because they banished the hell out of cloud threads
If yer conflatin’ AI with GLP-1s, you might have psychosis.
A lot of Gen X humor, as observed by younger generations, is “pointing out hypocrisy with edgy language.” It doesn’t land for anyone else. What is the flavor of consistent Millennial humor that only Gen Z can articulate?
GPT 5.5 in Codex has been able to independently fix complex issues that GPT 5.4 and Opus 4.7 in Claude Code could not solve in several days, even while collaborating.
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@stevestreza@indieweb.social What variant specifically? Dense or MoE? I downloaded Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit-DWQ on a hunch but haven't tried it yet.
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@me1000@mastodon.social I guess that will ultimately come down to whether Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI can outcompete companies that can't stand up their own software factories. I don't think it is a guarantee that these are all developer platforms forever, just for now. See: Claude Design.
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@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social To the second point: there was never a pipeline or roadmap to break. Software engineering as a career has been entirely organically grown because of durable, outsized demand compared to supply. e.g. we had interns because we literally needed more bodies, forever. If I’m wrong on my first point in my first post, the way we fix this is to actually build a roadmap and pipeline; something like formal apprenticeships.