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James Asbury

@jbury.bsky.social

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Software engineer @ Microsoft Views expressed are my own. San Francisco, California 🌁

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James Asbury @jbury.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Rules need to adapt with the times, not resist them. To me this is akin to banning code written using an ide when they were taking off in the 80s. AI is the tool; the software should speak for itself in terms of quality and utility

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 04/04/2026

Everyone knows the real reason why json won over xml is because the latter was too pointy and the former has much better affordances because it's curvier

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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 11/02/2026

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | by James Randall www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th... #programming #ai #devcommunity

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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 21/10/2025

I run all of my DNS queries through a local LLM because it’s more deterministic

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 07/10/2025

it’s really interesting to see how the popular conception of AI is exclusively the chat products There is no conception of things like an LLM acting as an engine for a different sort of product it would be like dismissing the internet on the basis of not taking AOL chat seriously

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix • @justinhendrix... • 1d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in Al now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on Al."

Headline:
America is now one big bet on Al
It's seen as the magic fix for every threat

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 30/08/2025

very relatable, honestly

Screenshot of dialog with Claude, reading

Problem 1: Incorrect bit offset calculation
You're incrementing offset by 2 bits, but then using offset % 32 directly as the bit position within a word. This doesn't work correctly because:

- After 16 pushes, offset becomes 32, so word_offset = 32 % 32 = 0
- But you should be at word_index = 1, word_offset = 0
- Instead, your code gives word_index = 32 / 32 = 1, word_offset = 0 ✓

Wait, actually that part works correctly! Let me reconsider...

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James Asbury @jbury.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I see a lot of rhetoric calling AI a “fad” that will fade away like NFTs a few years back. This is missing a huge point. The next generation of college graduates find AI tools to be second nature. When you become comfortable with a technology that makes you feel more productive, you can’t go back.

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James Asbury @jbury.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Somewhere here is a reality that hits close to home for today’s developers (for better or worse). Going forward we will see an abundance of college graduates who find AI tools second nature. Developers neglecting these skills will be seen as slower/falling behind en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Mov...

en.m.wikipedia.org

Who Moved My Cheese? - Wikipedia

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Rose W @rosew.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Dear AI coding helper, Sometimes a tab is just a tab and not a request to rewrite the line of code.

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James Asbury @jbury.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Respectfully disagree. There is no “one size fits all” approach to testing. Start with a thoughtful analysis of where regressions, bugs, and edge cases are likely to arise. Then pick the best way to guard against them for your project.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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