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🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
🔗 Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
.. and again (because this is the 🖇️second rant of this ilk today) - I don’t think about this kind of stuff - I just get annoyed because I see it - and complain about it to the long suffering Jax - but I did not even know this was a conscious decision.
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
📸 Tonight’s sunset is very different to 🖇️ last night’s - probably a lot to do with the cyclone hitting tomorrow.
Software As A Sandwich
From an orginal idea of Andrew Mayfield . When he first mentioned it in a conversation, my mind took a turn. Finally I am at the first (of many I hope) iterations. Let me know your thoughts.
I had been meaning to write up a longer piece about Simon Willison’s appearance with Lenny 🖇️other than this one - and now no need - Simon did it himself.
🔗 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast
🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.
Maybe it is time to do it again❓
Then again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …
NO
ONE. THING. AT. TIME.
Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly. Posted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3 1/2 for sure.