Codex 5.x models are “New Coke”, because the mainline 5.2 models lose against Opus in the Pepsi Challenge. I hope OAI keeps producing Coke Classic & I also wish Anthropic success with their eventual Pepsi Next.
I can now get the joy of a 72 hour marathon college weekend coding session... in two hours... while calmly sipping my coffee.
I've written a lot of hand-crafted, beautiful code in my time. But now, I'm basically all-in on AI coding and spending my time and energy on specs and guardrails. With the latest batch of models, this is genuinely viable for substantial programs if you invest in documentation.
Yeah, same, but gemini views `git restore` as safe when it has read/write permission to the working directory. I tried to ban it from using `git restore` and `git reset`, and that worked, but then a moment later it used its `edit` command to clear out the file! :smdh:
To be fair to the Gemini Pro model, it one shotted the exact same prompt in Antigravity. It seems to just be the gemini-cli that is trigger happy with git restore.
Claude: "You're absolutely right!"
Codex: "Great idea!"
Gemini: "I messed up. Overwrote the file instead of appending. Restoring from git"
Everybody is talking about "AI slop" code as if all code in the workplace wasn't already "legacy slop".
If Apple makes a humanoid home robot someday, I hope they call it the iPed. The pun is just too good.
Sounds like Amazon may be divesting from games in this round of layoffs. If you’re a talented engineering leader and are interested in Apple re-investing in games: DM me!
Seriously, weeks of tweaking and manual reading skipped with a 90 minute session & now I've got all new editor and shell configurations. So nice.
I generally do very little customization of my development environment & what little I did do was done over a decade ago. ChatGPT helped me modernize my setup, customize a bunch of things, and optimize startup time. Didn't have to do a single web search. Would have given up on step 2 any other way.
And data formats / protocols are literally the only things that matter. Everything in between will become disposable.
For years, I’ve been saying “all systems are distributed systems” because the user is part of the system. That’s even more true now with agents: it’s important everything be printable/readable.
I’m slightly worried my vim skills will atrophy since I don’t think I’m ever going to need to record a crazy macro ever again :)
But my spec writing skills are already dramatically improved & I’m developing a new “context management” skill.
1. I too was skeptical of LLMs for coding until < 1 year ago
2. Current tools/models are not a panacea for anything
3. They are wildly useful tools I now use every day
4. This will induce demand for real engineers
5. Like any tool, you must invest in learning it
6. Ignore it and you will fall behind
I've actually got two roles open! Here's the other one, which might be especially relevant to former Microsofties with Windows/C# experience:
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Hello Microsoft/Xbox friends, if you got laid off: Sorry to hear about that! Please reach out via DM if you're interested in working on Game Services and the new Games app at Apple here in Seattle: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
If you were wondering why it seems like smoke & carbon monoxide detectors always false alarm at 3am, that's because _they do_! Ambient temperature drops lead to obnoxious battery warnings at the worst possible time. Grumble grumble.
“Consistency” is the best you can aim for if you haven’t yet discovered an appropriate Abstraction.
Hiring for my team at Apple in Seattle. Come work on some fun stuff :)
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Google Search can no longer find posts on their own BlogSpot service that I know exist and contain unique words coined by that post. Literally zero results. Exact query on every other search engine I tried produced exactly the page I expected...
Letting devs write programs that do ::waves:hands:wildly:: whatever they want, is a mistake. Basically no one can be trusted to write arbitrary code without destabilizing my experience.
One of my directs had to request access to view his own IT request, so that he could forward it to me, so I could request access to view it, so that I could open another request to escalate it... Am I about to enter an infinite loop?
Wikipedia is one of the crowning achievements of humanity... and we all just kinda take it for granted now.
I'm in SF at GDC for one more day. If you'd like to meet up, DM me. (I'm not sure bsky has the critical mass for me yet for this to work...)
Anyway, I'm _stoked_ for the tsc written in Go. It's a prayer answered.
Like of course the pragmatic language designers are going to ultimately choose the language designed by other pragmatists. They explicitly and reasonably rejected the complexity of C++ style languages for over 4 decades. Why in the world would they choose Rust now?
TypeScript team choosing Go over Rust is hilarious. Like here's some TypeScript people, who used to be C# people, who used to be Turbo Pascal / Delphi people, and they are like, "Yeah, this Go thing is pretty good." Meanwhile, the type-obsessed folks are like "BUT THE BILLION DOLLAR MISTAKE!"
"Hide Distracting Elements" is probably my favorite new browser feature in a decade.
Above ground power lines in any major metropolitan area are kinda inexcusable at this point.
