Things are just as they are, and I’m here for it

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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert. Johannes was one of the most prolific and respected contributors to the LLVM compiler project, and his loss will be deeply felt. blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-…
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If coding agents will write most of our code, what happens with our communities and sense of ergonomics? How does it impact our compilers and tools?

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

This post is a collection of short ramblings on how programming languages may evolve in the AI era. It is split into two parts: Reflections and Agentic tooling. The first raises questions about what

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Hopefully I will live to see the third Dune movie and fourth season of Silo.
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So basically @DHH came to the Rails World and told them that Ruby on Rails is no longer needed now because AI can make apps in any languages. That's the funniest thing that could've happened.
Clearly, this @DHH Rails World 2026 keynote has become an instant classic. piped.video/watch?v=V9SxpJpH… Highlights: - WebApps are dead since it is so cheap, easy, and fast to build native apps with agentic coding. - No need for a framework like Ruby on Rails if you can achieve the same functionality with e.g. Rust on the backend while saving a lot of money by reducing the number of needed servers and having a faster application. - Your application needs a CLI. Because agents love command-line tools.
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Just imagine for a moment if the Iranian president stood up at the UN, imagine if Ahmadinejad had come to the UNGA, and said: “Do I annihilate the Jewish state, and do it quickly? Do I drive Israel into hell?” Imagine the Western and global and media response and outcry.
Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"
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accidentally said app instead of domain-specific harness and they kicked me out of SF
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Agents wrote terrible unit tests in every OO language I have used, with excessive use of mocks most times. I am not surprised to be honest. To quote Joe Armstrong: > The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle So unit testing objects either rely on good design (yay) or mocks (boo), otherwise they cosplay as integration tests anyway. This is not a “funcional is better” spiel. But we have to be aware the death of unit tests is a failure in design and AI automating the bad practices human have been doing for decades.
I agree with @thorstenball, I think unit tests are dead in the water. The ones the models write are terrible, at best just doubling total LOC. Inverting the testing approach - heavy e2e/black box/golden master, reaching for lower levels only if necessary, works better for me
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if I was Dumbledore I would've hid the philosopher's stone in the aws console
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#OctoberSurprise this new life is thanks to everyone who fought for my freedom
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JD Vance argues that the benefit of the regime change in Venezuela was to give the US control over Venezuela’s energy resources and enhance US dominance in the world. *** It is incredible that grown-ups buy into the same narrative in all our wars: that great power politics and wars are about selflessly helping the oppressed and advancing liberal democratic values. After every war it is exposed that our governments appeal to the best in mankind to do the worst, yet we learn nothing.
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opening a repo and seeing a .DS_Store file is infinite aura loss
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529 days can change a man He doesn’t even wear hats indoors anymore
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Obama is perfectly displaying the concept of hallucination with LLMs here. He sounds so darn good and confident, while having absolutely no clue wtf he sayin.
🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for. That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations. So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
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“Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.”
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they don’t tell you this, but when you become a staff engineer they expect you to perform 1 miracle a year
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Chronically anxious or unhappy people spread their state without meaning to. The effects are devastating.
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Deep focus takes long to build and seconds to break. A saboteur notices when someone is absorbed and confident, and that's exactly when the "quick question" or the pointed remark arrives.
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For some people degrading others state is easier than competing with output.
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1. Vibecode some useless app 2. Spend $10K on ads 3. Earn $10K from that 4. Share everywhere that you made $10K from your SaaS.
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Neat palindrome check using rust. I find rust aesthetically pleasing.
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