Look, if this jabroni actually brings down costs, then fine. Good. Great.
But it still takes an idiot to think the end solution to under-regulated capitalism is to out-capitalize the capitalism, and it takes an inhumane outlook on life to think companies should profit on basic necessities.
I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
"The engineers with the deepest knowledge of the system are spending their most valuable hours unraveling plausible-looking code that should never have reached them in the state it did."
This must be how religious people feel when something makes them shout out AMEN during a church service
Only about an hour into Öoo but so far it's everything I could've hoped. It reminds me of ElecHead in all the best ways.
simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...
This is a great example of what I'm talking about.
AI enthusiasts would likely get lost in everything the agent is doing; "look how productive it is! It's inventing whole debugging flows!"
But step back, and you see it burned $12 in tokens on a 2-line CSS fix.
This is art.
Finished. Barely took me two hours but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Highly recommended for puzzle-platformer fans.
I'm not sure it's quite as great as ElecHead, but I the puzzles are more consistently inventive, and there's more of a Metroidbrainia twist.
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Lots of eye-popping takeaways in this report, but this one hit me the hardest.
I've been working on this post for a while now. It's about why I think the productivity boost LLMs offer for developers is regularly and severely overestimated.
joshcollinsworth.com/blog/product...
**succumbs to peer pressure**
www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
