Shuaib

April 2026 is probably going to go down like, - September 2001 - September 2008 - March 2020 A month that will live in global fame.

Babe wake up someone created Google Translate for LinkedIn

Devaluation: 50 Dollar Bill - oil on canvas

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i haven't slept more than 6 hours for days, may in the last 3-4 months talking and orchestrating agents in the CLI and now on my phone with openclaw. there is so many things to be done. my mind is going so fast, its hard to prioritize which tasks will be the highest value, because literally anything I think of can be built in the software world it's time to get pen and paper and slow down

So many tiny bugs on my sites like Nomads and Remote OK that I never got too because they were not worth to spend a day on to fix but still annoying enough to require a fix "one day" I now just ask Claude Code to fix in 1 minute Really turbo blasting through my todo Maybe I can finally outrun my todo list for the first time in my life (I know maybe by definition that's an illusion but still) What a great time to be a coder

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

SaaS companies will struggle as AI agents reduce the need for subscriptions and user-friendly interfaces. The cost of building custom software drops dramatically, allowing businesses to create tailored solutions instead of paying for SaaS subscriptions. SaaS incumbents that don’t adapt will fail. Success depends on providing agent-friendly APIs and becoming trusted execution engines. Business models may shift from subscriptions to pay-per-outcome pricing.

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.