iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 2h

@thillsman.me I have probably eaten 12 bags of ranch sunflower seeds since I picked the habit back up a month ago 🥲

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 2h

We don't have an apprentice-journeyman-master model that is rate-limited by a local office. The software development career pipeline, as we know it, is entirely organic. If there starts to be more work that needs to be done and can be handled by less experienced employees then juniors will be hired.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 2h

Even if this is true, this is doomer storytelling. The truth is that there are no unions so there is no explicitly designed career pipeline. Companies hire software developers when there is more work to do than people to do it, and they hire at the lowest level that can do the necessary work.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 3h

I am traveling so much this year 😭 I'll be in NYC from Nov 13-16. Flying back out to Nashville 3 days later would end me.

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 5h

That's grandma and grandma, to you.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 7h

Most concerning is that this was already 8 months ago, I remember this one. Eugh.

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 8h

I have been following you for long enough now to know you frequently make these predictions on these time frames. It would be interesting to see the hit rate on what you thought would be easily achievable in 6 months, 6 months ago.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 8h

Yeah, 512 GB kills me. Every week I have several agents all tell me at once that they can't run any more commands because I have run out of disk space.

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 9h

We never found time to see The Odyssey and there were no pop culture ramifications from it. Same with Spider-Man. I guess that's just movies these days. It's also very easy to occupy two-to-three hours doing anything else: the value of occupying time is crashing. I'm just saying things now.

Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 02/10/2026

I am the only heterosexual cisgender iOS developer. This is my story.

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Too bad your favorite player and childhood hero, Mitchell Robinson, won't be there.

I've gotta be honest: I had never heard of the Kennedy Center before. Can't really get up for it.

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You don't get to pretend to have anything to do with that side of New York baseball. I reject the premise of your insult.

Happy your-credit-card-expires-this-month month to my inbox. Thanks for reminding me to cancel Notion.

Agents haven't broached smart home automation for consumers at all, yet, so that is another wave of hardware competition and desirable compute that is already baked in. Until every processor in your home is operating under 100% load, we are nowhere near the top of the curve of where we are going.

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The main thing that stands out to me is that they proactively suggest what they can do. I think they exist to solve the problem of most folks being unable to conceptualize their tasks into workflows.

Dots, Muse, Grok Bot, etc are the latest step in this phenomenon. The more autonomy that agents get, the more value and use we will grind out of all of the world's compute. We will look back on shipping M5 chips that sat idle in iPads watching YouTube and wonder how anyone got away with it.

We won't get relief from a computer parts supply crunch, even with historic buildout, until AI hits a wall for years and we stop coming up with new economically disruptive uses for compute. The shape of the graph of the price of GPUs and memory looks like the shape of Anthropic and OpenAI's revenue.

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Admittedly, every time this happens my first reaction is, "ugh, can I just leave it?" And the answer is always "no," because if my dog ever got lost I would want the first nice person to rescue him. Although… the data seems to suggest that people that lose dogs don't like them.

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Guess we don't need to talk about AGI anymore.

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