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@josevalim yeee I don't really see a way around this one. Apart from the open source spam, our email inboxes are getting hit harder than ever by spam. They even manage to get through all form protections. I spend around 10-20 mins per day sifting through crap. A waste of everyones time.

When someone replies to a pull request comment with obvious AI content, it genuinely saddens me. PRs used to be a place to teach/learn/discuss software but now there’s nobody on the other side. If I wanted an agent response, I’d ask mine. Social coding is dead.

@jasonfried I’ve been using basecamp for several years now and never knew I could bookmark… I guess I never dug deep enough!

Here's another look a the same feature, bookmarking, in this case, executed differently in Basecamp 4 vs. Basecamp 5. Even the little things are significantly better.

@ryanlpeterman @haider1 Of course ryan, I stumbled upon your podcast on youtube with David J Malan, then I checked out your other videos, you are getting some kick ass guests. I saw this video not attributed to you and was disgusted, we need more creators like you, so support, not steal from ryan!!!!

@savtrip_dev @haider1 Thank you for the mention 🙏

Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup: AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways

@badlogicgames Fear sells, my mum came up to me the other day because in australia the "daily morning show" (the worst of the worst) said "AI will be replacing real estate agents". I then had to explain it's BS marketing. People listen to this stuff like it's the gospel.

i would also like to cingratulate our absolutely abmysal news media landscape, that's incapable of breaking things down.

my mom is now concerned about mythos, because dario and his possy got a prime time news show spot. cool.

@jasonfried I think my clients would find this a lot more approachable to interact with. Looking forward to the changes, thanks jason.

First I critique something particularly embarrassing in Basecamp 4, and then show you how we completely redesigned the same flow in Basecamp 5. We grow!

@jarredsumner I gotta say, who would apply for such a role with the leader of the company saying Software Engineering is gonna be done in 6-12 months. Marketing hype BS has it's consequences. Yo @ThePrimeagen, you know anyone who wants a 6-12 month contract?

My team is hiring to make Bun and Claude Code faster. Runtime internals, epoll/kqueue, parsers, JS engine work, long-running agent loop perf. Years of production C/C++/Rust required. $320k - $485k salary. SF in-person. job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…

@josevalim I think their outright brazen stealing of content to train their models sourced through illegal means (in which they paid a multi billon dollar settlement) demonstrated clearly their ethics. These sorts of things are just the cream on top of an f u pie.

The whole Anthropic kerfuffle would have gone much smoother if they had been upfront about it. "Hey, we know this is unpopular, but we are moving programmatic access to API pricing. To easen the transition, we are giving API credits that match your subscription value. We also expect this change to increase capacity, so we are doubling the limits throughout Claude products for the next 2 months". The reason they made it sound like an upgrade was because the announcement was not for developers. It was for investors and enterprise customers. Impacting devrel is just collateral damage, which is on par for a company which believes coding is going away any time now. And this is extremely disapointing because they want to position themselves as a company that we should trust. But if they can't be honest about pricing changes, it is really hard to believe them on anything else.

Genius marketing, love it.

@jorgemanru also @jorgemanru been loving reading yours thoughts on ai etc in the recent months, its great hearing the non-hype version of things from people like yourself. thanks mate.

@jorgemanru Spot on jorge. The one click "vibe" codes are great for many things, but as you said there are tradeoffs and I don't think people understand what they are, expect experienced devs like yourself.

Claiming that "all my code is now written by an agent" is ambiguous. It includes: 1. Folks who know what they are doing and care about software design, who can now produce code much faster. 2. Vibe coders who treat the agent as a black box that generates a working system. I validate daily that, with the current models, vibe coding is not suitable for building minimally maintainable systems. Agents introduce major internal quality issues quickly and spread them even faster because they echo existing patterns so well. I see two challenges for programmers today: First, learning how to do (1) properly: how to create the right context for agents, how to orchestrate them and manage their memory, how to remove toil, parallelize work, etc. In other words: maximize the value we can extract from this new sorcery. Second, vibe coding is fantastic for non-programmers to create value by doing things they could not do before: quickly iterating on ideas, automating workflows, building ad-hoc tools, and so on. The key question is: where internal software quality starts to matter, and how to enforce it without diminishing this new source of value. I am also increasingly convinced that many companies that blindly embrace vibe coding and chase futuristic PR headlines are about to discover the terrors of technical debt at scale.

jose, mate, you're speaking my language, it's called skin in the game, and if the AI is responsible then who is at fault when something goes wrong? Are we gonna put the computers in jail? I think most people are missing one of the biggest detractors of AI: who's responsible

@quentinvespero @pcgamer Maybe not a surprise but the uptake is probably the most impressive part. I know so many devs that have been glued to windows and mac since forever. Also, when configuring on the website windows is the first option above ubuntu. It's not like framework is anti-windows either.

@pcgamer framework laptops reach almost exclusively tech nerds I think, and they emphasis on Linux in their communication, so not much of a surprise 🤷🏻‍♂️

Maybe it really is the year of Linux, as Framework claims more people are buying Ubuntu versions of its new laptop than Windows options pcgamer.com/hardware/gamin…

It's like a dream come true, lets go framework. The dev community is finally waking up.

@kepano @figma this thread is beautifully sad, thanks for posting these updates and keeping them honest

@figma GitHub opted everyone into AI training for Copilot. You have until April 24 to opt out. x.com/gergelyorosz/s…

Google's new policy if you want to enable AI features: "Please do not include sensitive, confidential, or personal information that can be used to identify you or others" Pretty soon this will be stuffed into the T&Cs of many cloud-based apps, that you agree to implicitly.

@thoughtlesslabs @kepano @figma ahah you must type in some wild stuff 😂 love it.

@kepano @figma don't worry guys. i'll leave mine turned on and corrupt ai for the rest of time.

Props to @badlogicgames for going to the effort of putting this one together. I particularly liked this riff: > The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product. Congrats, you fucked yourself (and your company)."

@jasonzimdars thanks for sharing Jason, top notch read, refreshing and realistic take against the wave of hype hitting my feed

"And I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code." mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-…

More wisdom: anyone bragging about commits is marketing.

As we are seeing, popular devs are asking/preferring for AI contribution, but if you read between the lines they are still requesting competency. As Andreas replied: “If you have no idea what's going on, I'd rather have it as an issue than a PR tbh :)”