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digital plumber. figuring out how these masses of agentic minions can help us write higher quality software.

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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
> Engineers are no less valuable, but their work is changing. All of the engineers who worked on this system would now rate Claude as better at writing code than them. > >But our engineers still supplied the invaluable understanding of the high-level inter-system components and the design tradeoffs
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 10/10/2026
software is entering this era
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Flo 🔶 @faz.ms · 08/10/2026
It's amazing to see people now just buying cheap hardware off AliExpress and turning it into 10x the value by building better firmware with Opus 5.5. For example, this 60$ synth now has firmware options that add lots of new features or even turn it into a Groovebox.
Orange M-Wave FM-1
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am chagrined to admit that I'm missing Opus 5 Claudish. I guess the obvious seams were load bearing for me.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oooh, nice. Where can I get some of those?!
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/10/2026
this 9,076 character regex matches all 4,030 4 letter words in the Scrabble dictionary - and nothing else. Those words would add up to 16,120 characters total.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love the video. Please put in YouTube. I want to share with folks who are allergic to substack
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the thing I underestimated most about progress in AI: its ability to self-organize to accomplish tasks. Also, what that means for agents like Muse and Dots, along with a music video explaining why we keep relearning The Bitter Lesson. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wtf kind of hotdog did I get?
A weird double hotdog in a bun with the America.gov "whatever you need from government, start here"
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My favorite slide of @simonwillison.net's talk. But I will punch up his follow on statement to the middle block of text : that's the crux of what software engineering has always been about.
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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The junk problem is an illusion, most of the programs written before AI are terrible crap. Now it is much simpler to write much better code. The crap produced will appear particular subpar since it can re-done better faster, and will be more isolated and forgotten.
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Daniel Saewitz @saewitz.com · 23/09/2026
for some, this is a worthy trade-off. for a craftsperson, this is borderline stupefying. i've found sticking to a human-in-the-loop while working with agents offers the opportunity to participate in this process. and keep the quality bar high, both in the product and architecturally.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so nerdy I had ChatGPT make me a scene by scene explainer of all the AI-twitter-ingroup jokes from the storyboard source repo: github.com/JohnHeibel/P...
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What kind of things are you doing with it?
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Kellan @kellanem.com · 22/09/2026
My brother turned 45 today. I was trying to think of what advice I have for 45, and the only advice I really have is that the elapsed time between 45 and 50 is measured in weeks if not days.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tracks my experience. In case anyone missed it- Claude Code has built in local agent session to session messaging. I now always have a separate review session for a PR with the directions to post a comment for a manager to the PR and message session pr-xyz with full comments.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/09/2026
Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision models simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/...
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling “System One models” (I’m with Maggie Appleton, I think “decision models” …
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I tried this today on a crusty legacy codebase. Holy shit. What an unlock for my understanding.
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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 14/09/2026
jesus christ it started as a joke but now I'm doing an ontology review on every change. It catches good stuff every time
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Miniware TS soldering iron, harbor freight parts bin, generic silicone soldering mat cut to fit and glued to the top, sewing bobbins wrapped with solder / kynar wire, brass wool in a little tin, and a tiny tin of tip cleaner, inside an Altoids box. Lots of room in the box for cutters, tweezers, etc
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 13/09/2026
testing astra's parametric modeling capabilities by asking it to reconstruct these marble maze pieces from reference photos, and then use them in threejs to make a marble maze builder with box3d physics.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 13/09/2026
i get more done than many of my coworkers because i’m an sre and have more perms than they do and this has never been less sustainable
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brennan @brennan.computer · 12/09/2026
this will perhaps poke everyone possible, but maybe the answer is that juniors just do senior stuff straight out of school either: - the same tool in two hands will produce different levels of output, in which case that's just 'being a junior' again - the same tool results in similar work: fine?
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you for this. I wish my bank would share news like this. And my ISP, and my...omfg everyone should be doing this and I'm worried they are not.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
> You know it smells crazy in there, but it doesn’t matter. Love this quote. This is so great. So true.
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flo-bit @flo-bit.dev · 08/09/2026
you might not like it but this is what peak, not-AI-written commit messages look like
bunch of commit messages, most of them just called 'commit' with the occasional 'style', 'cleanup' or 'moar'
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 09/09/2026
Talking to your manager about testing in 2023: "I want to spend a week on our test suite, to help our engineers" no way, please go back to features 2026: "I want to spend a week on our test suite to, to help our agents" 100%, you're promoted, please teach your peers about agentic testing
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain":
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The key skills people are going to need to use LLMs effectively are around evaluation and verification. I think many people see that as "Oh, so I have to be the LLM's copy editor now" but this is because most people don't understand evaluation and verification in any systemic way.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wow. Thanks for sharing. I had never heard of it and it's now on my trip wish list!
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 02/09/2026
prompt engineering
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Luke Haas @lukehaas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I can't play an instrument, so I figured out music theory in JavaScript instead. I now understand why there are 12 notes and why notes in the same key sound good 🎶 I've written up my findings with code examples you can run and hear.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Already released before 2026 is ok? Not enough people know about _Oddity_ www.candlewick.com/978153623915... It starts off like a pre-civil war era historical fiction, and then a little magic creeps in, and a little more and at the end it's just bonkers.
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Oddity - Candlewick Press
“This strikingly original, beautifully written fantasy novel will appeal to high-level readers seeking magical adventure.” —School Library Journal (sta...
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This interface is the devil's poka-yoke. Physically it seems there is only one way to do it, but actually you can mix up wall warts and fry your electronics
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tea 🌸 @reggi.com · 27/08/2026
one day i'm going to do a talk about specification design and this image will be in my slide deck 😭🔌⚡️
center positive / center-negative dc barrel jack symbols
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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 27/08/2026
I wouldn't go as far as to say that I "love" it ("enjoy" would be more fitting), but AI coding does pretty much validate every belief I've had about code, engineering, and the people and culture involved for the past couple of decades, and that is pretty awesome, even if some of it is a bit painful.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fellow night owl advice: Embrace the 20 minute power nap in the middle of the day.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
More people need to be talking about how we can reinvest gains from AI into quality and security.
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hailey @hailey.at · 25/08/2026
because i did not know
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Glonzo, Explained
A page by @hailey.at
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In principle I want to agree. But is there value in aisle after aisle of racks full of 5 year old GPUs? What are they worth after the Dev/DevOps/Ops teams who continually herded those inanimate parts into a useful cluster are not paid / have left for a hyperscalar with cash left?
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 11/08/2026
IMO, software devs have long had a cultural undercurrent of self-perception as *artisans* doing highly-detailed small batch or bespoke work, which is both wrong as a matter of primary economic context and sets up the adherents for a bad mismatch with AI's utility for software engineering.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On, so I'm super curious. What's the rest of the story here? How did you get this picture!?
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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 04/08/2026
7 months ago I read about gas town and today I read the new thing. what worries me now is either he’s gotten less insane or I’ve gotten more insane.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Did you start off with a trainer or DIY from resources like k9nosework.com ? I'm super interested in trying this out with our cocker spaniel
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The question about coding skills getting sharper or diminishing misses the whole point. For some of us it's a new paradigm. It's like asking someone with an electric car if their skill operating a manual transmission is diminishing.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 26/07/2026
I love soldering because if you fucked it up, don't worry! you can always fuck it up worse next time.
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riansanderson.bsky.social @riansanderson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
want one
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🎱 Josh Branchaud 👻 @jbranchaud.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Git Archaeology and Project History tasks are a fantastic thing to hand off to LLM harnesses. Dev who hasn't worked on this specific app for years was sure they had added support for XYZ. Claude produced a detailed summary of when XYZ was added and later removed, with commit SHAs and context.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 21/07/2026
I interviewed Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at the AI engineer World's Fair a couple of weeks ago - the video is now out, so I've published an annotated transcript of our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/...
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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World’s Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic’s Claude Code team. We talked about Claude …
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 17/07/2026
Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.
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