David ⚔️ Soards

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Dumocracy at work! we elected this MF’er! several of my family members voted for him (multiple times)! 🫠

remember when programming was free

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

i kinda think the reverse. it’s crazy to me that you can’t learn to code now without paying for an AI subscription

@ThePrimeagen can’t tell if this is a real post or a joke

without googling, i still cannot figure out how to copy and paste on a mac into: 1. the provided Terminal app (which sucks) 2. Ghostty. C-V does nothing, C-v goes into escape insertion (expected). I refuse to google this and it should just be obvious...

@ryanflorence update?

I've heard to try out gpt-5.5-none (no reasoning effort) giving it a shot today to see how it goes, I'm skeptical!

This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

POV: going on LinkedIn

@audioprogrammer codex

Cursor vs Claude Code - which is better for building audio plugins? Some folks in our community have been telling me Cursor outperforms Claude Code for plugin work, so I gave it a spin to see what the hype is about. I built the same ping-pong delay from last episode - same product spec, same Claude model running underneath, just a different IDE. Honest takeaway: for a plugin this simple, the two tools felt more or less interchangeable. Cursor's in-window file editing was more convenient. Claude Code wrote slightly more efficient code under the hood. From what I've seen so far, the question is more akin to what we see in the world of DAWs, where workflow largely defines the choice. So "which AI tool is best?" might be the wrong question for our world. It's more about which wrapper fits how you build. Full code review and breakdown in the new episode, including where I think the gap will widen as workflows get more complex. youtube.com/watch?v=BFhSYh…

@ImSh4yy i “downgraded” to Sequoia immediately.

The worst part of getting a new Mac is that there's no way to uninstall this liquid glass garbage.

@zeeg downgrade to sequoia. PITA but worth it.

holy fuck Apple- new Macbook and I'm seeing the latest implementation of Finder and its absolutely unusable at this point this is a **workstation** stop fucking trying to turn it into a shitty iOS clone anyone who legitimately thinks macos is better than windows in 2026 (or 2025, 2024, 2023..) is hallucinating

@burkeholland so is this youtu.be/pHNbHn3i9S4

This song is one chord. For 2.5 minutes. Gen Z you’re gonna have to up your game.

@wesbos killin em!

Nikki had me crying with this edit

celebrate 🎉 you just time traveled to better days! (1993)

nailed it 🔨

seeing claude add itself as a coauthor on my work

@C0alhands @Birdyword lazenby was 29 here:

@Birdyword Connery is a couple months to a year older than Chalamet and Tim Holland here.

I know this is a popular topic but I'm the age James Gandolfini was when the pilot was filmed (35) and I don't know anyone who looks that old. Of hundreds of friends and acquaintances. Even the smokers, heavy drinkers, bad dieters. Not even close. Was it air pollution? Lead?

@rubenhume tahoe sucks

Apple shipped macOS Tahoe with an icon next to every single menu item. And in doing so, destroyed the entire point of icons. An icon is a signal, and signals only work through contrast. The moment everything has one, none of them mean anything, you've just added noise that looks like clarity. Apple even reuses the same icon for completely different actions. The right menu is my take: icons only on the actions you actually reach for daily: New Window, New Tab, Close. Everything else stays clean. Your eye knows exactly where to go. The left is Tahoe. Every item screaming at the same volume. Apple's own 1992 design guidelines called out every single one of these mistakes. Thirty years later, they made all of them. Adding more is not the same as adding value. What's your take?

@aarondfrancis all things in moderation

Cynicism comes at a cost -- and the cost lands exclusively on the cynic.

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.