Tom Howard

Flow diagram showing four queues that code passes through on its way to production: uncommitted changes, unpushed commits, missing changesets, and stale release PRs. Local checks run every prompt, remote checks run on push.

An AI agent has no sense of accumulating work-in-progress. I built a Claude Code hook that surfaces it before every prompt. Four checks, four queues, no blocking.

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I told an LLM today that it was overloading my context window 😂

Drew Carey on the set of “whose line is it anyway” with the caption “welcome to vibe coding Where everything is made up And the code doesn’t matter”

#vibecoding vibes

I’m not saying LLMs will follow the same evolution, but its conceivable

But eventually, compilers became so good that they could produce machine-code far better than any human could

And there probably would have been programmers that used compilers to produce machine-code, that they then reviewed and tweaked directly

But you must admit that there 100% would have been assembly programmers that lamented the slop that early compilers produced

Psst. Just having a laugh. I found the analogy thought provoking. Them main difference is that compilers a deterministic (for the most part) whereas LLMs… 🤪

When something goes wrong in production with machine-code the compiler produces, do you troubleshoot the source code, or the machine-code?

Maybe the wildest part to me about the compilers is people acting like the machine-code itself just doesn’t matter anymore, now that we have this new abstraction of source code.

Training is paused until service is restored

a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign Alt: Sarcastic clapping from some American Irish late night tv host

Here’s to the companies that get fantastic employee engagement results by tying those results to individual bonuses 👏👏👏😒

US demands Australia lifts defence spending by $40b a year 'as soon as possible' The United States wants Australia to lift spending on defence to about $100 billion a year, with its Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warning of a "real and potentially imminent" threat from China.

I’d love to see the Aussie govt say:
“The US openly admits we bear the cost of its tariffs — it’s unreasonable to then demand we also boost our defence spending.”

#auspol

Developers will spend 3 hours coaxing an LLM to write 10 lines of code—just to avoid a 2-minute conversation with a teammate.

Collaboration, but make it antisocial.

You know how sometimes you have a shower after the gym, but it just doesn’t take—like, you’re clean but still end up sweaty five minutes later?

Yeah, I just had lunch like that. Ate, but somehow still hungry. Is it too early for second lunch?

The company I work for sends out a weekly intelligence briefing that is actually quite interesting.
- crypto kidnappings
- protests likely in Wellington
- transmitters found in Chinese manufactured energy equipment
And more

Photo of John Brøndum on stage with “The Architecture of (Solution) Architecture” on the screen in the background

I had the pleasure of working for John 20 years ago. So good to hear him talk at #slashNEW

Morning at the cafe. Afternoon at the pub. 👌

I bet they actually said something like “we’ll give it the consideration it’s due”

Great talk today @web-goddess.org
There’s so much about it that resonated, but my favourite part was when you talked about observability in the context of observing your finances.

Chart showing historic ties between the USD and the US 10 year bond yield and them diverging from early April onwards

That’s scary

Screenshot stating “Delays on the T1 and T9 train services as a result of an incident requiring emergency services at Artarmon. Consider catching Metro or buses. “

Anyone know what’s happening at Artarmon?

Scene from Game of Thrones featuring Arya Stark and her sword instructor, Syrio Forel. Arya stands facing Syrio, who is pointing a finger at her with a serious but playful expression. The image is overlaid with the caption: “WHAT DO WE SAY TO THE GOD OF 9AM MEETINGS? NOT TODAY.”

What do we say to the god of 9am meetings?

Selling super tax changes will require a steadfast advocacy from decades past The reforms of the 80s and 90s, often sentimentalised by people who weren't there, came about through a mixture of policy intelligence and political rat cunning.

@latingle.bsky.social, your use of “largesse” in this article is very… largesse.

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It feels like most tech folks are on LinkedIn these days? Or otherwise just gone AWOL?

Checked in on X, dead.

I love BlueSky for the calm pool of sanity that it is, but I wish more tech folks were active here.

Correction: Coalition unveils $90m strategy to *reduce* domestic violence

Is it the Koala’s again? I bet it’s the fucking Koalas