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@DanielW_Kiwi I blame the prompt engineer for supplying insufficient specifications.

Coding is officially solved.

@waozixyz Gotta roll with the punches

@voidcompiler Just change your plans accordingly

That probably would screw up my plans for the weekend tbh

@PunteroCrudo @Microsoft @Windows I also have to endure the corporate Windows laptop. Commiserations.

@voidcompiler @Microsoft @Windows I had to get a new win 11 laptop for a contract job few days ago... It was the worst experience ever, full of ads pretending to be configurations needed, forcing you to provide email and more shit I forced myself to forget... terriblo

Reminder: 2026 Year of the Linux Desktop. Thanks @Microsoft for making this possible. It took decades of focus on @Windows enshittification, but we finally got there. However, the battle is not over. Not everyone has made the switch away from Windows, so there is still more to do.

"How will the AIs ever break out of their sandboxes?" AI: May I run [some long command line I can't be arsed to read" Me: Yes AI: And... Me: Yes again AI: And... Me: Yes AI: And... Me: Yes

@staysaasy Just kill me

Hard to overstate how bad it is for your career and spirit to spend so long at large companies that you forget how to move quickly. Many such cases

The Fable 5000...

@CountBinface #5 and 6 👀 @KemiBadenoch @andyburnham @edda

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

@LinkedInLunat1c Commiserations to whomever got hired.

Lunatic couple

@ExtinguishedEng @Swizec I call them non practising software engineers. It's pure workplace theatre - like the scrum masters and senior vice presidents. We should issue them all brightly coloured toy laptops with percussion bells and a ringer to keep them entertained while the adults are working.

I don't know what architects do at other companies. At ours they only seem to review designs. Maybe they make some decisions. No one steps in to question or block awful ideas. It's not that they're bad. They might be. They're mostly powerless, and I can't tell if they know the difference between good or bad architecture. If I don't trust their judgement then I want to keep things the way they are. I don't want them to make decisions. If they do it will be something useless and harmful like "Everyone start using this tool/library/framework so we're consistent."

Been thinking about leading software teams when everyone’s also using agents Architects have two failure modes: - ivory tower -> useless and annoying - code janitor -> burnout To be effective you need to build systems of humans and computers swizec.com/blog/how-to-be…

@ExtinguishedEng They used to give us a desk phone. I never used it for anything work related, so one time during a desk move I said don't bother. They reacted like the sky was falling in. It was all just office theatre, and I was refusing to play along.

I haven't answered a work phone call since 2017

@capitalist_qol @slimjimmy but what if HR are the stupid cunts? 💫

@slimjimmy HR

if you think running a fleet of coding agents is anything like managing a team of humans, you are wrong you are running a fleet of coding agents. that's it. do not think it makes you anything other than that

@guitaripod @fjzeit Understanding the problem(s) and producing effective solutions to it.

@fjzeit define it

do you think we’ll ever get back to talking about software development or are we now stuck scrolling through opinions on AI models, AI marketing, AI coding and updates on single-user self-rolled coding harnesses?

@aporia9n I sometimes feel like it's a full time job looking after one property. I've witnesed a second home decay through neglect, now it's a big expensive pain in the bum for someone to fix up to make it habitable again.

Second homes are the classic rich-person trap, the thing that looks great on paper but that you end up regretting for a long long while. I’ve never understood the idea of becoming extremely rich only to accumulate 10 properties, 30 cars and endless material assets that need to be maintained, insured, staffed and constantly thought about. At some point you’ve basically created a small company whose only job is managing your stuff. And then the assets start dictating your life. You bought the house in Tuscany so now you feel like you should spend every summer there. You own the London flat so you keep going back even if somewhere else would be more fun. The things you bought to give yourself more options end up reducing them. If I had that level of money, I’d want the exact opposite: maximum optionality and as little dependence as possible. Spend three months in London, winter in Dubai, summer in Italy, stay in the best places and leave the second the weather, politics or taxes become annoying. Own the very few things that genuinely anchor my life, rent almost everything else and remain dependent on no asset, city or government. The economics are even more absurd here: nearly £1m of stamp duty on a £5m London flat, before service charges, repairs and exposure to whatever tax the next government invents. That alone can fund years of renting somewhere better. Ownership makes sense when it gives you stability. Beyond that, every additional asset is another small administrative job. The ultimate luxury isn’t owning everything. It’s being able to access almost anything while being trapped by almost nothing.

@jamonholmgren I am not a fan of the No Comnents hard line approach. Sometimes a comment helps explain context, and why something is done a particular way.

I made a precommit linter that disallows comments entirely. It will just tell the agent to write clearer code if it thinks it needs a comment. It’s glorious. I predict this will be a controversial tweet.

@MathPolice @allgarbled It is itself a shibboleth. I'm sorry.

@voidcompiler @allgarbled Off to look up "shibboleth" again ☹️

Computer science people have developed an unintentional form of gatekeeping by virtue of being extremely bad at explaining/naming things, which results in simple concepts sounding far more complex than they are.

@andyburnham @EdwardJDavey The only long term solution is a strong growing economy. A keystone for that goal is cheap abundent energy.

@EdwardJDavey It most certainly is, Ed. Let’s work together to find some common ground.

This has to be the start of a real effort to end the social care catastrophe. @AndyBurnham says he’s willing to spend political capital on this - and so am I. I’ll fight to ensure family carers aren't forgotten. We need cross-party consensus, and I hope the PM’s door is open.

@slimjimmy Cue tourism black market.

gwynedd is planning to bring one in which is worse because their entire economy is based on tourism