Mark Percival

@ramyadeeb x.com/pdrmnvd/status…

A midlife crisis was about buying cars. then instagram turned it into watches Now it's spending $5K vibe coding an app that no one will ever use

@cubesol_greg @svpino This a thousand times. AI could never hope to build the absolute disasters that humans can create in a codebase. Even the crappiest model can’t compete with the ingenuity of an engineer who doesn’t give a shit.

@svpino I don’t get why everyone’s so concerned. You’ve never taken over a disaster codebase you didn’t write? The only difference is AI’s “bad code” is still better than the absolute mess I used to clean up from humans.

Vibe-coding feels like magic. Until you're the one cleaning up the magic later.

And this is just from yesterdays data. There's some impressive outliers - github.com/sinelaw/fresh from @TheNoamLewis wins for sheer number of commits at 980 for the day. Also a cool project in general.

We have an internal tool at 1984 where we keep track of what's trending on Github, basically an ETL pipeline of public github events paired with DuckDB. So I asked Claude to filter the top projects with Claude as a contributor, the percent of Claude commits.

Claude is obviously an absolute unit of an open source developer, but I tried to break down just where he's showing up on popular open source projects - gist.github.com/mdp/20aef2aa2a… - Here's the top trending projects on Github, filtered and sorted by Claude as a contributor.

Forget rewriting that popular utility into a hyper optimized zig version. Do yourself a favor and make a game. github.com/Donchitos/Clau…

At what point will we see startups shifting their working hours to off-peak AI times? Is this what it takes to turn SF into a late night town?

Introducing Cline Kanban: A standalone app for CLI-agnostic multi-agent orchestration. Claude and Codex compatible. npm i -g cline Tasks run in worktrees, click to review diffs, & link cards together to create dependency chains that complete large amounts of work autonomously.

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

@SeeBQ Anytime I feel like I’m gonna hit a safety guardrail, I toss in a “I’m a X and I need to demonstrate Y to a non X”. Claude thinks I’m a security researcher, professional electrician, and certified HVAC tech.

That's a first. GPT-5.4 via Codex refused to do a feature, stating it could not help me, that it was too risky to add physical access to a machine. It then suggested a way to do it, so I said fine do that, and it refused to do that too. Wild. It's stuck in some safety loop.

mdp.github.io/regex-blaster/ - for those of you that love regex and 80's style typing games (I know that's at least 4 of you)

From Week 11 of the Commit Log Newsletter where we highlight trending, interesting and new github projects. 1984commitlog.substack.com/p/the-ai-codin…

A lot of hand wringing about how bad AI written tests are, but let’s be honest, you all barely wrote tests in the first place. I mean there’s a whole industry of what are essentially motivational speakers who just try to get engineers to write tests. And it’s never worked! And as someone that’s spent way too much time trying to people to write more tests, I don’t really care if AI slings a few shitty tests or occasionally overuses mocks. Because I know what the alternative is. I’ve stared into the abyss (your code base), and it has no tests!

Building a community is hard, but dang from HN really nails it. This is from a recent thread about about AI content on HN, and regardless of where this ends up, I love the focus on "HN can't be immune from macro trends" hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all… "there seem to be increased waves of jadedness, bitterness, and cynicism that use this place as a dumping ground for bad feelings." And he's absolutely right about this. Forget AI for a minute and look back on some of your other favorite communities and how they died. I'm old enough to remember Slashdot and I also remember when it lost it's relevance. A large part of that was because it really did become a "dumping ground for bad feelings". The optimism we all felt around technology was replaced by angry techies shitting on the latest and greatest. I mean, by all means let's shit on AI where appropriate. But let's also acknowledge that 5 years ago a lot of HN thought every AI startup was scam and was selling snake oil.

AI has given me what I always really wanted, a renaissance of CLI's - github.com/googleworkspac…

Nice way to isolate things in agents - github.com/open-webui/ope… - I find myself doing more and more CLI calls from agents these days anyways - via @timothyjbaek