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Stuff I found on the internet and made me go Hmmm...
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
And my take on vibe coding was that it’s fantastic, provided you understand when it can be used and when it can’t. A personal tool for you, where if there’s a bug it hurts only you, go ahead!
The bottleneck was never the code
They are waiting on the next well-formed spec.The bottleneck moves from the people writing the code to the people deciding what code should exist. Which is to say: management.
A Senior Engineer losing their coding edge and becoming "rusty" over time as they move into managerial roles and practice coding less is not a new phenomenon.
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?
Until Flickr, photo sharing online was essentially still analog, even if the experience was technically happening online. In Focus Flickr wasn't a social platform first — it was a photography platform first.
Through this journey, I've personally reached a point where I'm having success with modern AI tooling and I believe I'm approaching it with the proper measured view that is grounded in reality.
Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son
Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison’s son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros.
Pay a little more for the same company’s $769 F8 Ultra and you get a phone that includes stereo speakers and a subwoofer from Bose.
Apple under Ternus: what comes next for the tech giant’s hardware strategy
Ternus brings a different kind of skillset. A longtime hardware executive, he has spent his career building Apple’s devices rather than managing the broader business. Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and rose through the ranks of hardware engineering.
I’ve been calling it software brain, and it’s a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops — software. Software brain is powerful stuff.
The Govee smart lamp brightened up my room, and then my life
Then my brother bought my mom and me two separate Govee Uplighter Floor Lamps for Christmas, and my Ikea lamp troubles were over. I did not expect to develop an emotional attachment to a lamp.