@simon it could be that the guys at #Anthropic know you and your "pelican on a bicycle" test, since you are a well known AI blogger

@sjvn is that a picture of Trump in the background on the cupboard? 😳

Made a comic

I wonder if skills are for #AI #agents what packages are for JS & #Python (or gems for #Ruby) : reusable, importable functionality which can be added easily
https://agentskills.io/home

ICE plans mega-concentration camps. If in your state, do all you can to prevent them from happening. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers 1/2

Have you seen the new #Greenland 2 movie? It is quite impressive. The 1st Greenland movie was about an asteroid who hit the Earth and people who tried to reach the bunker. Greenland 2 plays 5 years later and is about the people from the bunker who try to find a place outside to live. AI development tools like #Antigravity and #Cursor are like an asteroid too. An asteroid that hits the world of software engineering. And we the engineers need to find a place to live now.
https://youtu.be/H8ieN10lX40

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

@osm_tech maybe @sjvn ?

The creator of #nodejs Ryan Dahl and the co-creator of #Django @simon both argue that the era of humans writing code is over. They see how powerful systems like Cursor and Antigravity are. Will we forget how to write #code if machines do it for us?
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/1qhulv1/creator_of_nodejs_says_humans_writing_code_is_over/

Tom Gauld on the hazards of resetting your password
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2495660-tom-gauld-on-the-hazards-of-resetting-your-password/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into In the latest issue of New Scientist @in-the-latest-issue-of-new-scientist-NewScientist

Django is for #Python what Ruby-on-Rails is for #Ruby: a framework to build web applications. Simon Willison is known as the co-creator of the Django framework which means he is similar to DHH, the co-creator of the Ruby-on-Rails framework. Simon has an interesting blog where he writes about AI. He predicts that in a few years "Typing code by hand will go the way of punch cards" (that means it will go extinct)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/

@mislav the social media giant Meta has created Facebook which is essentially "blogging for dummies". Hyped by its investors it has gobbled up the masses like a black hole. Once all your friends and family are there it is hard to get out. And Facebook does everything do keep you in. This has created a kind of vacuum outside because only the nerds and scientists were left who wrote their blogs. WhatsApp is similar: it is has replaced SMS. SMS for dummies so to speak, including smilies & emojis.

#Python and #Ruby are high level languages. One level below we find C, then Assembly language, and finally machine code on the lowest level. Compilers are used to bridge the levels. It looks to me as if modern LLMs and AIs are the ultimate compiler: they can translate human language and thoughts directly into a language understandable for computers. Would you agree @mfowler and colleagues at @thoughtworks ?

@zenspider why? Because of stolen content or AI slop? Claude, Gemini 3 and ChatGPT 5 and the new agentic development systems feel like a turning point, a creative disruption which changes the entire world of software engineering. #Stackoverflow is already dying. These systems have already reached senior level and beyond. They surpass us in many aspects. They will not go away if we ignore them.

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

What agentic development platform or agentic coding tool are you using that you can recommend?

In 1959, a cement mixer with a full load of cement, wrecked near Winganon, Oklahoma 🇺🇸

By the time a tow truck came to haul it away, all of cement had hardened inside of mixer. Tow truck was not able to remove all wreckage at same time because of weight, and decided to haul only cab/frame and would come back for detached mixer later, which never happened.

Today, 67 years later, it still sits where it fell. Locals have painted it and added "rocket thrusters" to make it look like a space capsule.

I used to think of myself as an "innovator" 20 years ago. Today I'm probably better described as "ancient maintainer" as I'm mostly working on projects I've started 10-15 years ago. I used to believe a good maintainer churns out new and exciting features all the time, but I now I think that a good maintainer:

- keeps the lights on
- doesn't frustrate the users of their projects (less breaking changes and controversial/divisive features)
- tries to build a welcoming and enduring community around their projects
- values simplicity and the power of "saying no"/"less is more"

This article definitely resonated strongly with me https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/

#FOSS #OSS #SoftwareMaintenance

@dpiponi I have asked Gemini and it says the tools of differential geometry could be used to quantify things like the "speed" of political change, the "distance" between ideologies, and the stability of a democratic state 😕
https://g.co/gemini/share/80dce9443f7d

The modern AI tools like Gemini 3, ChatGPT 5 and Claude frighten me, even if many of their answers are just wrong and they tend to make things up. They are in many ways superior to us, especially when it comes to coding and engineering.