I don't believe we're going to let software development itself, sit within a walled garden.
We have never allowed that to happen in the past. We can't let it happen this time.
Spend more time living in the now.
Absolutely, 100%, true.
I've been working in the streaming industry for 10 years, and every year end up in contract negotiations or app rejections with Roku over the collection of data.
I vibe coded a habit tracker ;-)
The usefulness of LLMs for software can't be denied any longer. But, I really don't like the closed and proprietary nature of the whole thing. It feels contrary to the spirit of programming.
I'm also 100% confident we're going to find a way to open source all of this ...
Among the over-hyped agentic coding workflows this thoughtful post by Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Ghostty terminal, among others) is one of the best illustrations of how we got here, one possible way to work, and how he gets quality results:
mitchellh.com/writing/my-a...
This phase shift in engineering cultures (it's not just Meta) is going to present some exciting new opportunities.
- People leave to start their own ventures
- More people leave to join them
- We get a sub-culture of innovation with momentum
- Break the current technology consolidation phase
I'm not trying to whitewash bad news. These are real people who are having their souls crushed. I know, I felt it at my last job too.
And these products have turned to garbage, through no fault of the product/eng/design people who work on them.
But, it does represent new opportunities.
Novel idea: Build websites with HTML, first.
Hypermedia as the engine of application state.
Thanks to @moh-kohn.eurosky.social for writing the post
mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
Which got a good discussion on HN
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847...
The AI bubble is different than the dot com bubble.
I don't remember corporations shoving new technology down our throats in 1999. It felt like we were the rebel rousers back then.
HT @doctorow.pluralistic.net
pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/t...
