Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 01/07/2026I’m Black, it isn’t wrong, it’s how we talk. Every noun gets an extra ‘s’, Many sentences don’t really need that verb. And I axe questions while at the libary. 030
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 27/06/2026I propose that Black people aren’t a monolith and our leanings go from progressive to conservative. The problem is the word conservative has been stolen and pillaged. (Im sensing a theme…). I agree about risk aversion, though because the real risk is ropes on trees or death by cops. 270
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 27/06/2026I’ve probably shared this before, but you can’t use GenAI as a substitute for your lack of taste. That goes for coding, writing, and other planning tasks. GenAI is a multiplier and that means `💩x GenAI = 💩` 063
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 27/06/2026Those who don’t understand how powerful propaganda is are the same people who are most likely to fall for it. 040
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 24/06/2026Machine learns to write— the dash betrays its author— no human typed that 071
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 20/06/2026Aren’t you all tired of imagining if Obama did something like we are seeing now? Things can be bad without a comparison to the Black guy we (still) like. 1141
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 20/06/2026The people in charge act like this because they think others will treat them with the same contempt they have for people of color. 050
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 15/06/2026You gave me a SpaceX shirt from that event. I trashed it a few months back. 1151
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 14/06/2026I took a long walk around DC today. Here is the reflecting pool. I’ve never seen it this green. Congratulations to all. 2160
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 06/06/2026This is the problem. Black people are losing rights in real time and you come in and say, “women too!” Our collective lack of focus is killing us. 010
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 30/05/2026Your favorite GenAI talking head used to be a crypto talking head. In two years, they will be a fluxity talking head. 053
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 25/05/2026You can have both. Are you not reading every line? Are you not pressure testing every assertion? 000
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 25/05/2026I’ve seen some blog posts and YouTube videos saying we should move from markdown to html when working with genAi agents. You can already embed html in markdown if needed. Why do we continuously try to reinvent the wheel and call it progress? 150
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 20/05/2026So, come to find out, it is possible to create a reparations program after all. 2367
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 14/04/2026I now see why people own multiple 3D printers. Got a Bambu P2S recently and I’m now contemplating another one or a bigger one. 060
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 13/04/2026Those are blasphemous words on Bluesky. AI is the bringer of all things bad. 🤣 But, I watched Claude beat firecracker into submission this afternoon and I’m a believer. 050
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 04/04/2026In this case it was Runna/Strava. I wanted something to tell me where I need to improve, what type of workouts I should focus on, and what my trends are. Put together something that does exactly that. I don’t need an app to tell me about workouts as I already know those. 100
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 04/04/2026I wonder about this too. I don’t know the future answer, so I take advantage of present. Paid apps are going to have to step their game up. 110
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 04/04/2026My Claude Code subscription pays for itself. I get more out of it in function and $ than I put in it. This morning's session got me 100% of the features I use for a running app I subscribe to. 241
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 31/03/2026This is in the article. Perhaps the judge gave Penn a subversive “out”? “In his ruling on Tuesday, Judge Pappert said the university would have to share the information it had but that Penn would not have to reveal any employee’s connection to “a specific Jewish-related organization.”” 230
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 31/03/2026But it does have to do with Chinese folks. In 1886 and 1898 children of Chinese nationals expanded the meaning. This has been litigated already. After 1868, but still important. If the law is applied in a discriminatory way, it violates the equal protection section of the 14th amendment. 151
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 30/03/2026Seeing who said what brings culpability. Who wants culpability? I’m hiding behind the milquetoast summary. 141
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 29/03/2026It took about a minute to get this set up. Now there is no reason for Xcode. 020
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 29/03/2026I’m a huge fan of this. I created a todo app for iOS that thinks the way I do this morning. I did open Xcode to hit the run button and install it on my iPhone. I likely didn’t even need to do that. 120
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 26/03/2026How am I supposed to show up every day and be a productive member of society, when I frequently see stuff like this? 44916
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 23/03/2026It was a long, but it had a lot of story to tell. I think Gosling is corny, but I still enjoyed it as entertainment. I’ve also read the book. It came off less like “white guy saves everything” than the book did. 030
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 23/03/2026Now that more people are using gen ai, there other skills to focus on that you can’t automate away: 1. Taste - you build a sense of what works/doesn’t work after getting your hands dirty over time 2 - Marketing - how do you share a project/idea with the world? 070
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 23/03/2026In my tech career, we've gone from modems to frame relay to ISDN, to cable modems to FIOS with a potential for multiple Gb/s to my house. We also moved from flip phones to Palm Treos to iPhones. I've coded in C, Java, Python, Go and Rust. I used to write most of my software. Now claude-opus does. 1170
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 15/03/2026The people who built Kubernetes and React weren't only good devs. They were deep in one area and literate across several others. Don't look at the outputs and assume the hard part was the building, not taste. GenAI doesn't change this. You still need to develop taste for what will and won't work. 1151
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 08/03/2026I have other ideas: it’s hard to get out of east or west Baltimore even on public transportation. The food deserts are real. And it’s much easier to do elicit stuff than get a job that gives you dignity and pays the bills. This is my opinion as someone from Baltimore. 120
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 08/03/2026My guess is that is results of lead reduction. Not policy or anything else. We removed a poison that messed people’s brains up. 110
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 08/03/2026If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...blog.bryanl.devAI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out. 611129
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 08/03/2026One person’s villain is another person’s freedom fryter. Or maybe I missed the pun. 000
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 07/03/2026I’m using agents in Claude cli and Kiro cli to answer what if. Previously, we could never go chase down all the questions in our heads due to lack of time and energy. Today, I’m building things only to see what happens. If I don’t like the outcome, I build another thing. Feels like a super power. 2171
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 03/03/2026If it’s good, why care where it came from? I get this is about passing of off as our own, but in the end, does that really matter? 010
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 01/03/2026This is my #1 use of Claude desktop. I have it build visual explainers for all types of topics. 050
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 21/02/2026It’s a similar problem at a different level of abstraction. Tossing words at a model and hoping to see something good is a fool’s errand. Giving it some detail and having it build something that would have taken you weeks in a couple of afternoons is where it feels amazing to me. 220
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 16/02/2026That’s false. Look at how many cities and towns police their Black citizens. There are still multiple law and amendment violations happening today. But, I will give you credit for seeing those other things as bad. 040
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 15/02/2026I’m having lots of success using tools like Claude code to think, iterate on ideas, and write useful code. As someone who has been coding a very long time, this is a real improvement. The best part is that if I want to write something myself, I still can. But why? So many problems, so little time. 3270
