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Josh Marantz

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Web dev and dancer, he/him

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I also think engineers that use AI code generation to do things they would have struggled to do without it, but don't use some kind of AI code review to catch things they don't know to think/ask about, are more dangerous than pre-AI

06.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure "valuable" is the right way to think about it? Junior engineers can write a lot more working code than they could before, but they're not necessarily any better or worse at considering what code should be written

06.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is this the kinda thing where a rando with no project context (aka me) could parachute in and be potentially helpful? No hard feelings if it's one of those "would be more work to explain than to just do it myself" kinda things

npmx looks cool, so thanks for working on it either way!

03.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh god, this is that stuff SmarterEveryDay was on about, tiny bristles coming off and getting into the food and poking holes in people from the inside out

27.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All that said, good article and I'm gonna try out that snippet of instructions. Thanks!

17.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like I'm not one to use a `div role="button"` when I can use a `button`, but if I'm implementing a carousel or tabbed module I'm not sure where I would look for better instructions. The QA team where I work does not test on screen readers. Most clients don't pay for manual audits. I don't have JAWS

17.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The APG was also not created to serve as a pattern library, design system, or single source of truth for the β€œright way” to make something. Unfortunately, a lot of people treat it this way."

1. Rude to mention me in your article without notice
2. Dyou have a good alternate resource to suggest?

17.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

β€œWe found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”

Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

31.01.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 510 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 37

I use Arc when I specifically need chromium - psure it is mostly abandonware by a co that felt the need to move attention to their new "AI" browser, but it's been kept up to date so far so I'm onboard as long as ublock keeps working

26.01.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, so it's just a coworker being (intentionally or not) disrespectful to you and your time. Def an annoying thing to have to deal with

24.01.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm convinced there's something broken about like... analytics as a whole - I work on ecom sites and the people whose job it is to watch analytics say that that cancerous stuff gets more people to engage or whatever. I can't believe it, myself

24.01.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe you should turn off notifications for PRs that aren't passing basic CI then - unfortunate that the bots make it easy for things to get that far, but seems to be the world we live in now

24.01.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also if you add some kinda LLMs.md file to the repository with some common instructions you want LLMs to follow you might make it easier for lazy people to contribute productively

24.01.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That said, probably easier to respond by making use of an LLM yourself - it can probably do a decent job FAILING PRs for obvious things like overriding React internals if it's a decent LLM. If the bot doesn't see anything egregious the PR is more likely to be worth your time

24.01.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dunno if you mean specific business conduct guidelines where you work, but IMO you have genuine grievances here - even if an LLM is writing the code, devs asking you to review that code before they attempt to understand it themselves is objectively not doing their jobs correctly

24.01.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of first hand interviews with real people affected by the strike in various ways (strikers, locals losing money because of how the strike affects business, vacationers who can't do the thing they came for). Real journalism that informs and educates!

23.01.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's not often Youtube's algo serves me up something interesting, trustworthy, and important. Psure that's what this video is tho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLj...

23.01.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my wife and I caught a movie and there were a LOT of people, some in cosplay, queued up to get into the showing of the stranger things finale that was showing after

01.01.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

to be fair, nothing ELSE is priced to a tenth of a cent. Ngl when I was younger (like... 15 years ago) I thought the 9/10 on gas station signs was like... something to do with the quality of the gas or something

19.11.2025 00:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's sad that the ADL has turned into such a trash organization, like far too many other Jewish "public institutions". Just disgusting. Too easy just to say that they don't speak for me, too difficult to know what else to do about it.

07.11.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feels like she was going for this sentiment but maybe didn't phrase it well. bsky.app/profile/theo...

05.10.2025 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

is there a thread somewhere where I can see how this all started? I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out wtf is going on

05.10.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I don't mind that particular thing that much? If Safari is gonna support X feature in ios 26, I'd have to wait until at least then to think about using it (although proberally longer). Which is most of how ios versions affect my life

05.10.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you live near New York, NY and would like to watch Wagtail Space with other people, thelab is hosting a live watch party at their office!

They'll be meeting October 8-10 from 9AM - 2PM each day. Their office is on 14th W, 25th Street on the Fifth Floor.

02.10.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey all! If you're in NYC and interested in Wagtail Space 2025, stop by Thelab! We'll be streaming the whole thing live. 16 W 25th street, floor 5. There will be snacks!

02.10.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(in case unclear - this is wordplay not a proposal)

21.08.2025 13:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fanny packs for fanny supplies

21.08.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool blog, gg Thibaud. Some tantalizing hints of what y'all are hoping to bring in too πŸ‘€

11.08.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis

18.07.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

if the Go rewrite is gonna be TS 7.0, what do y'all have in mind for 6? Or are you just skipping ahead?

10.07.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0