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@badlogicgames @soikat I’ll watch the refactor branch and start working on a skill to make this migration for my custom extensions easy! 🔥

@soikat always a good time, ideally, post refactor, you can just point pi at the changelog with the migration guide and it will fix things up for you.

People of pi.dev. I'm heads down in the big refactor (see bigrefactor branch). To have any chance of finishing it, I must pause issue triage for the next 2 weeks. All issues filed during that period will not be reviewed. In case of emergency -> Discord

@Grady_Booch Look. AI CAN write code and it CAN review it but it CANNOT understand your code for you. Knowing how to fix a problem when it’s described is the critical decision making skill needed to run a business. Loosing understanding means you have lost control.

@Grady_Booch Just move fast, never look at your code and trust the AI will be able to fix it…. forever….

Thoughts and prayers.

A lot of teams are running into the same issue with #AI-assisted development right now: The agent can generate code quickly, but reliability starts breaking down when non-deterministic systems are handling deterministic work. @BrandonMathis and Coston Perkins unpack where agents actually fit into modern engineering workflows, and where teams should be leaning more on scripts, validation tooling, CI pipelines, and repeatable automation. They cover: • The difference between agents building workflows vs becoming the workflow • How deterministic systems reduce hallucinations and hidden failures • Real examples involving database migrations, CI automation, financial reporting, and code cleanup Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=o3pOb9…

Musks's "AI data centers in space" and Thiel's "AI data centers in the ocean" have two things in common: 1.⁠They are not even remotely cost-efficient. 2.⁠Their true purpose is not efficiency, but moving AI out of public oversight. Outer space and international waters have no protesters, journalists, judges, politicians, or anyone else who will have any idea what data is stored there, what computation takes place, what laws are being followed (or not), and towards what purpose that AI will be used.

Trying to build a “cost efficient LLM” is like trying to make a cost efficient excavator.

Your AI-reviewed vibe-coded project in production

@DonvitoAI @mattpocockuk

@mattpocockuk humans dont need to do code reviews anymore, let codex handle it

What do you do if someone on your team is using AI negligently? I.e. not reviewing, not caring, leaning into the slop. This, of course, was a problem pre-AI. But the "code is cheap" mind virus is making it worse IMO.

@BarackObama What happens if we fail to win the midterms?! 😭

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

We’re hiring again at @ThisDotLabs! 🥳 We’re bringing on 6–8 engineers across engineering lead, architect, and senior engineer roles. Looking for people with 7+ years of experience who are strong on the front end and already working with AI as part of their workflows. These are roles for folks who are comfortable owning systems, making decisions, and contributing at a high level across teams. The roles are fully remote, with alignment to US timezones. We’re not hiring in APAC for this round. If you’re interested, reach out: jobs@thisdot.co Learn more about us on our site: ai.thisdot.co

I think it is time we all consider alternatives to github....

@wesbos find / -iname '*copilot*' -exec rm -rf

what would a "better github" even look like?

@badlogicgames @mitsuhiko Amazing! Working on a video now overviewing the tool. I am a Pi addict and have been stuck on it as my core agent for a month now! Anyone have suggestions for non openai/anthropic models and hosting platforms? Need something with solid tool calling? KimiK2?

People of pi.dev. We have a new website. It's a still a bit WIP, but our humongous web team is working on it day and night. You can now also update pi itself via pi update. Thank @mitsuhiko for the perfect font choice.

@ThePrimeagen 👀 the sampler in the background

I have decided to leave the permanent underclass

@DivyamKrPandey @systemdesignone I’m not scared of these because systems no one understands won’t make it 1 year It is no longer impressive that you can build something in a day.

@systemdesignone Code will become black boxes. We’ll ship faster but understand less. Maintenance will be the real nightmare.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ONLY What's the scariest impact of AI?

I 100% believe this. Pi is a powerhouse and puts control of your agent back into your own hands.

Talking to smarter folks than me, I'm convinced many of the AI folks in my timeline are full of shit. Nobody is "running 20 agents over night" and building stuff for actual users. Maybe some are building internal tools or disposable software. Maybe. But building software people like using? That doesn't get hacked on day one or blow up after the 3rd user? Nope. I don't even understand what that's supposed to look like. Do you work out a 57 pages document that perfectly describes what you want to build and then summon 14 agents and have them run wild for 6 hours? And what comes out on the other end isn't a broken pile of shit? Nope. Not buying it. PS: it may also be that I have an IQ of 82 and can't figure it out.

@ChrisLaubAI Giving my Pi agent access to this asap

A Rust dev just killed Headless Chrome. It's called Obscura. The open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and scrapers at scale. Chrome vs Obscura: - Memory: 200MB+ → 30MB - Binary: 300MB+ → 70MB - Page load: 500ms → 85ms - Startup: 2s → Instant - Anti-detect: None → Built-in Single binary. No Node, no Chrome, no dependencies. Stealth mode is brutal: → Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, canvas, audio, battery) → 3,520 tracker domains blocked by default → navigator.webdriver masked to match real Chrome → Native function masking so detectors can't sniff it out Drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP. Zero code changes. If you run agents or serious scraping at scale, this repo prints money. 100% Opensource.

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