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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 02/10/2026

Watching the homies at the Remix conference has me so jealous 😭 I hope ya'll are having fun ♥️

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 13/09/2026

Question everything the AI salesmen tell you. Source: x.com/thdxr/statu...

@thdxr on Twitter: "ai couldn't figure out how to write good code so it's pivoting to killing us instead"

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 09/09/2026

So great to see Tailwind joining Shopify and getting all the benefits of having institutional support Source: x.com/adamwathan/...

@adamwathan on Twitter: "Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️"

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 03/09/2026

The internet used to be such a fun place 🥹

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dax @thdxr.com · 02/09/2026

however you feel about the reading code debate as an exercise you should try talking to the LLM and see if you can get to confidence about the code without directly reading the code

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 01/09/2026

Happy September! Claude Fable 5.1 is here 😄 Source: x.com/claudeai/st...

@claudeai on Twitter: "We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.

They're the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 30/08/2026

I generally agree with this sentiment. Most of my sadness and unhappiness about the automation of software development comes from my genuine interest and passion for the actual coding — understanding the syntax, writing the code, solving problems, etc. Source: x.com/denbvk/stat...

@denbvk on Twitter: "If you’re not saddened by AI automating software development, you’ve never truly been interested in programming. You could still be a good professional but it simply hasn’t been your passion."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 29/08/2026

Two 8-bit-inspired UI libraries that build on top of shadcn: - 8bit.cnlibs.com - www.8bitcn.com/ Gotta love the love for pixel art aesthetics 👾

An overview of the components included in 8bit.cnlibs.com

Retro 8-bit UI design features game elements, character stats, and sponsorships, highlighting gameplay mechanics and visual style from 8bitcn.com

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 27/08/2026

I not-so-fondly remember the days of debugging websites in IE6, but it was nevertheless a revolutionary web browser

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 26/08/2026

Must be because everyone's vibing all of their apps now /s Source: x.com/PolymarketM...

@PolymarketMoney on Twitter: "BREAKING: Apple App Store sales have declined for the first time in a decade."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 20/08/2026

The good ol' days... kinda.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 19/08/2026

Going back to client-side rendering everything just to feel that early 2010s nostalgia

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 16/08/2026

The most likely person to retcon React's success lmao Source: x.com/rauchg/stat...

@rauchg on Twitter: "I think people don’t realize how much of the success of React is actually
@shadcn
.

I once referred to React as the actual “LEGO brick for adults.” But in reality it was more the description of the geometry of the bricks. The spec.

Shadcn is what people actually wanted from React. Reusable high quality components that also tunable. It’s a pseudo-library. There’s code but it’s actually meant to be digested into your context window and remixed."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 10/08/2026

While I understand the sentiment behind this post, I don't think most people have the necessary skills to build a well-designed, well-written, engaging game. These skills take years to develop, and AI can only help so much, unless you're making copycat games. Source: x.com/NickADobos/...

@NickADobos on Twitter: "I’m pretty sure gaming as a category is dead because everyone is just gonna build their own games

Games don’t have ongoing maintenance cost like companies replacing SaaS vendors

Perhaps an argument for wanting someone else to build an experience for you, easier to watch a movie than create one.

But video games and vibe coding are so close the difference between creating the form and playing in a form is getting closer and closer to zero.

So why play someone else’s game?
Just pay chatgpt $20 and make you own"

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 06/08/2026

Great reminder to all the meat proxies out there gruhn.me/blog/2026-0...

From the article, "Don't be a meat proxy": "By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 02/08/2026

Sam Altman is truly high on his own supply and could use some connection with reality Source: x.com/sama/status...

@sama on Twitter: "cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 30/07/2026

Dax is on point. If you know what you're doing, you should now be able to use LLMs as a helpful partner in many software engineering workflows (esp web dev ones), and you should be able to explore problem domains to produce better solutions. Source: x.com/thdxr/statu...

@thdxr on Twitter: "you now have the ability to
- play with every possible solution to a problem
- refactor everything when you think of better patterns

so many people complaining about the code the LLMs produce, if you're not producing the best software of your life right now something is wrong"

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 27/07/2026

I think Grady is on point. We already see models like Kimi K3 disrupting the moat surrounding OpenAI and Anthropic. This is a good thing and will continue with further commoditization and increased competition. Source: x.com/Grady_Booch...

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom. As the competitive advantage of one LLM over another shrinks - particularly as open source models expand - the value proposition will turn to the neuro/symbolic harnesses that use those models, structures that encompass agents, agent orchestration, tooling, and component plugins. Even those from frontier AI organizations will fall to open source frameworks. The last thing standing will be those who command the data centers on which these things run, and even then, that will become a commodity, with the number of players shrinking to just a few survivors. They too will find pressure: as computational power rises, more and more such systems will be run locally."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 18/07/2026

Big facts. And it's obvious that folks are learning and understanding less than ever. Source: x.com/Grady_Booch...

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "Prompting is the new cut-and-paste programming style."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 18/07/2026

Returning to Kamigawa is just what I need 🤌🏻

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 12/07/2026

Hot take: sometimes bottlenecks are ideal Source: x.com/antirez/sta...

@antirez on Twitter: "It is my belief that many devs right now are not maximizing what they can do with automatic programming because they still look at the code. Doing it makes you the bottleneck. Your time is better invested in new ideas, QA, design, and asking yourself what is your goal."

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My brother, who did time for dealing, once lost his shit when he found a joint in my niece’s room. I think about this every time a university who made a deal with OpenAI punishes their students for cheating. Or anytime the NBA, awash in DraftKings money, punishes a player for gambling.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 03/07/2026

Watching Spotify get roasted after this circle jerk is so satisfying 🤌🏻 If Spotify made software worthy of praise, maybe this discussion would be very different. But they don't. As with most companies, they produce slop. And it's slop that exploits artists. Source: x.com/claudedevs/...

@ClaudeDevs on Twitter: "Boris sat down with Spotify VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson.

Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day, and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 02/07/2026

Time to get back to sloppin' CRUD Source: x.com/anthropicai...

@AnthropicAI on Twitter: "We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 01/07/2026

“We are gonna make so much software, bro” 🤣 Fucking brilliant, Mo youtu.be/Jn0F6tLLoaQ...

youtube.com

I’m freaking out about Sonnet 5

Anthropic needs to be stopped.

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Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Warhol BoP.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 28/06/2026

I find the narrative of “coding being solved” pretty disingenuous. It’s clearly a marketing ploy designed to rewrite history, as if all that ever needed to happen to build software was “writing code”, which is obviously not the case. I mean, was “coding solved” when compilers were invented?

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 27/06/2026

Nintendo homepage in June 2001 #WebDesignHistory

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 27/06/2026

Remix is on another level with their swag

Front and back of the Remix racing-inspired jacket

Front of the Remix racing-inspired jacket

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 26/06/2026

Not ruling out that this could be the biggest marketing stunt ever... Source: x.com/steph_palaz...

@steph_palazzolo on Twitter: "New w/
@leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 24/06/2026

Absolutely incredible news! Three cheers to unionization ✊🏻

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 21/06/2026

Who remembers when Google Stitch was supposed to be the death knell for web design? 😂

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 18/06/2026

Facts. Source: x.com/mitrajoy_/s...

@mitrajoy_ on Twitter: "having our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean water is a failure of the human species"

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 18/06/2026

When good intentions go awry.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 15/06/2026

In agreement with Grady. AI is a great tool for augmenting a developer's workflows, but there is still a serious need for software engineers. Source: x.com/Grady_Booch...

@Grady_Booch on Twitter: "And I am a realist who understands computing and AI deeply, having worked in the field for over five decades - where I continue to work - both witnessing the changes as well as inventing things that made those changes possible.

AI is useful.

But I’m certain AI will not do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 11/06/2026

I'm excited to share that I've joined bolt.new as a product design engineer! Over the past 18 years, I've helped design and build web products for organizations ranging from local businesses to startup unicorns. As the web matured, so did my role...

bolt.new

Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes

Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 11/06/2026

Damn dude tf just happened to the Spurs? Straight up crumbled that second half

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 10/06/2026

I'm interested to see how Anthropic's new data retention policies are going to shake out... Source: x.com/mtslive/sta...

@MTSlive on Twitter: "SITUATION DETECTED: Microsoft is limiting internal employee use of Fable 5 over Anthropic's new data retention requirements, per The Verge.

Fable 5 requires data retention to operate its safety classifiers, unlike other Claude models which run under Zero Data Retention rules."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 10/06/2026

I can't wait to give Claude Fable 5 a spin 🤌🏻 Source: x.com/claudeai/st...

@claudeai on Twitter: "Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 09/06/2026

Removing yourself from the loop is a recipe for long-term disaster. Stay in the loop. Be aware of what is happening. Enjoy long-term stability. Source: x.com/kushbhuwalk...

@kushbhuwalka on Twitter: "I’m pretty AI pilled. This loop stuff is slop. I respect
@steipete
for his innovation - but openclaw is a bloated unstable pile of garbage because of stuff like this.

I’m all for loops of crons and webhooks where an AI agent wakes up and performs some task like cleanup, or updates the docs or triages errors. I think these are great for standard well defined tasks with a fairly deterministic route (a.k.a workflows).

I think what these guys are talking about now is jumping the gun. The models need to be guided, and you want to atleast skim their output so you don’t end up with slop. Humans are far better planners and architects than models.

You absolutely shouldn’t delegate away prompting and reviews in my opinion. this encourages the creation of crappy buggy unsafe software that actually hurts adoption."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 08/06/2026

Thank you for inventing something that has not only ignited a lifelong passion, but also provided a stable career, and offered endless opportunities to learn, connect, and build ♥️

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 07/06/2026

Anthropic AI evangelists are continually trying to one-up their own hype train, and to what end? A massive IPO. But what about everyone else? Do we work less? Are we using better products? Or, are we just getting fed more ways to use tokens and feed these companies money?

@rohanpaul_ai on Twitter: ""I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. And this is transition we're going to see for the rest of the year."

- Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic."

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Keenan Payne @keenanpayne.com · 05/06/2026

Hard agree. You are not moving 100x faster.

@ThePrimeagen on Twitter: "I am so thoroughly convinced that anyone who thinks AI 100x's their output is a liar or a lunatic.

You are telling me you can make 1 years worth of decisions in 3.65 days? Let alone describing those accurately and coaxing the result from the AI... (1.8 days european time)?"

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/06/2026

I have something that Elon Musk will never have. Enough.

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