Do you know how painful it is for a self-professed punk to admit that “Ripple”, by the Grateful Dead of all fucking bands, is the best song ever written? www.youtube.com/watch

AI has the intelligence of a 5000-year-old and the wisdom of a 5-year-old.

If my product was so essential to the government that the President threatened me in public with consequences of withholding it, I would think … that’s a pretty good day of PR. #Claude

Programmers aren’t going anywhere. But to be frank, “Able to leverage AI assistance for massive productivity gains” should be at the top of your resume.

Remember before the robots took over, it was popular to say “everybody should learn to code”?

Now? Everybody should learn to sew by hand. Very satisfying.

I connected to Xcode’s MCP server (xcrun mcpbridge), and requested a list of all the tools. Then I threw that at Claude and had it whip up a “cheat sheet”. In case you’re curious what the agents have at their disposal.

The Xcode MCP support exposes a small list of “tools” that can be invoked by agents. They accept parameters and return results of a pre-determined type. Maybe if they keep working on it they’ll invent AppleScript dictionaries.

“By 2030, almost 80% of people had lost their jobs.”

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Listening to the “How I Built This” interview with Jim McKelvey of Square. He acknowledged our dear departed Tristan O’Tierney as the original iOS developer for the service. Tristan always described himself as a “co-founder” and I think this interview validates that. RIP, Tristan. wondery.com/shows/how…

I just hugged my 17-yo son goodnight. It was a good hug. We always tell each other “I love you.” I hugged him at drop-offs in elementary school and other parents lamented “I wish my kids hugged me.” I know every kid is different, but our kids hug us because we always hugged them. That’s the secret.

I’m not going to shut up about AI because I’m right and the nay-sayers are wrong. This tool has such a potential to help. Its costs should obviously be considered, but carefully compared to the benefits it provides.

What if somebody offered you a tool that could make everything you ever wanted to achieve in life easier? Or expand everything you ever wanted to achieve to another, previously unimagined level? That’s AI. You either see the potential or you don’t. But if you do, it changes everything.

Most of the pushback I received from my “what if AI helps me project lots of progress to other people” suggests that I’m talented enough to get the job done without AI. Yes, but AI accelerates it. People who already bring utility or delight to the world are the ones who can best leverage AI.

My life has been jam-packed with unexpected twists and turns. My kids are delighted when they learn about some new aspect of me. I recommend living an interesting enough life that your kids never run out of opportunities to be surprised by what you’ve done.

Growing up, I never thought I looked like my dad, but I bet people who knew him well think that I do now.

My oldest alma mater. After I dropped out of high school at 15, I found a way to go straight to the local community college. Since then I’ve graduated with BAs from UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State, but Cabrillo will always be special to me.

Something I haven’t heard a lot of discussion about, and maybe I’m just not tuned in to the right channels, is whether AI use can be justified by the amount of benefit it projects. When I use AI to accelerate adding a feature to my app, I am improving the lives of, at a minimum, thousands of people.

As somebody who has stuck his neck out to defend AI’s power usage based, in part, on uncertainty about whether it will prove to be a net gain or net loss, I will say that I STRONGLY disagree with OpenAI’s Sam Altman comparing the energy costs of human brains (essentially) to that of AI machines.

THIS entitled traveler is feeling pretty glad that he just arrived home tonight.

I convinced my 14yo to start investing in “the whole stock market” about a month ago. He put a good chunk of his savings into Vanguard’s VTI, and watched it steadily lose value. I’m proud of him for being disappointed but steadfast in his resolve to ride it out. The market has always risen.

Today I’ve released updates to Black Ink on every supported platform. redsweater.com/blog/4258…

I was born in 1975. I’m 50 years old. Jesse Jackson taught me that a Black person might be president, and Barack Obama taught me that one would. Links on the chain.

So @steipete@mastodon.social racked up such a big bill from OpenAI that he has to go work there to pay it off? :p

The audaciousness of wanting to write your own web browser, and where it might actually lead you in life: bitsplitting.org/2026/02/1…

A customer bothered to write to me today, and I’m elated. A lot of people look at customer support as a burden, and sometimes it feels like it. But today one of my customers reported a bug that I’m sure will affect hundreds if not thousands of others. The feedback loop is golden.