Andrew Brown

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Reallocating my Jetbrains subscription budget to Zed

@git_fork Fork may be the very best software I use on a daily basis. Congrats on 10 years and thank you!

Today is Fork's birthday 🎂. It's been 10 years since the first commit. Time flies, but when we look back at our journey, it turns out it hasn't been a short one. Thank you for being with us, for your feature requests and bug reports! ❤️ Looking forward to the next 10 years!🤘

@toddsaunders This is the way! Though I'd be willing to bet that only a tiny percentage of people would have the slightest idea how to prompt Claude Code to put all that together. Which points to a giant opportunity for businesses amplifying existing domain expertise with AI

@DeItaone I play poker once a week. At a recent session, person seated to my left says he is looking for ways to grow his money. Person to my right says the S&P 500 is "boomer shit" and recommends installing a prediction markets app.

GEN Z TURNS TO CRYPTO AND BETTING FOR WEALTH Many Gen Z investors are turning to high-risk assets to reach financial goals, according to a study by Northwestern Mutual. The survey found 80% of Gen Z feel financially behind and believe speculative investments can help them build wealth faster than traditional strategies. About 32% are invested in or considering crypto, while a similar share are participating in sports betting and prediction markets.

@Noahpinion That’s because the internet is kind of over.

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but...I'm kind of over the internet.

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/co…

Have your dev environment setup scripts use 1Password CLI to pull secrets from your team vault, rather than having a README that tells them to look up and paste in secrets by hand.

We're hiring an Associate at root.vc, and in the spirit of accelerationism, there is no ATS: just a Claude Skill. Come work with us! github.com/rootvc/claude-…

@jsnover Thank goodness for Start11, it has shielded me from this madness.

Now your desktop gets a popup desktop. Your experience might be getting worse BUT someone gets to put something on their “achieved this quarter” review. windowslatest.com/2026/02/01/mic…

New blog post: Automatic Programming -> antirez.com/news/159

@credenzaclear2 walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/the-meaning-…

getting emotional thinking about mcdonald’s

There’s basically no reason to talk to other humans at work now unless they are you’re friends or like directly working on the same thing. Its crazy. No one else asks me questions now. LLM’s are displacing a ton of human->human interaction

incredible how pretty much the entire github homepage is useless

Slop generators like Ralph, Loom and Gastown treat developers as if they are free resources, replacing costly humans with swarms of agents churning out specs or cloned patterns. My take is that the real disruption is not about free labor, but about the fact that changing your mind has become free. Once the cost of change collapses, software development stops being craft and becomes pure brute force exploration. That is why software engineering as we knew it, is effectively dead.

Me defending my O(n^3) solution to the coding interviewer.

.@tylercowen says we've already wrecked the independence of the Fed because we'll be forced to monetize our debt, regardless of what happens. "I'm not happy about it, but that's the ugly little truth." "We're in bad shape. I'm not telling you not to worry. But I'm telling you you should have been worried to begin with." "The basic problem is, our debt and deficits are so high that over time we will monetize them to some extent and have higher inflation, because we prefer that over higher taxes, no matter what we might say." "So Fed independence is taken away through that mechanism, apart from whatever Trump said yesterday."

We need a shorthand way of saying: "An AI did the work, but I vouch for the result" Saying "I did it" feels slightly sketchy, but saying "Claude did it" feels like avoiding responsibility

With FSD & Optimus, you will be able to retain your freedom well into later life

@simonw Microsoft taking "vibespiling" to new heights

@ThirdWalking "When recreational players say something really specific about their hands frequently what is going on is that they're telling their truth & lying at the same time." This observation is gold.

New episode! I hunt for a good table and eventually find a good one out of town, thanks to the standup game crushlivepoker.com/podcasts/searc…