Jeff Chiu

It'll be a while before we get a solid sense of the net productivity gains of AI coding agents, but one thing is certain: they make everyone much more impatient.

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Linus embracing AI is... certainly a moment

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

To celebrate the launch of our book about class struggle in Silicon Valley and the fight AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, Clarissa and I are organizing a book club with: @techworkerscoalition.org @organizeworkers.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @education.dsausa.org RSVP at tinyurl.com/ato-914

Had never seen the term “botlickers” and I’m adopting it immediately. 13/12, no notes

Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X

WSJ: The data-center backlash “is feeding off a ‘broader-based belief that the system is broken and no longer working for the average person. .. it’s become, I would say, even a poster child for it.’” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/inside-...

This is a great take. Using AI to assist or generate writing opens you up to the risk of plagiarism in complex ways. Can you afford that risk?

This statement from Codeberg maintainers, after their community voted to not use any code for LLM training and banned vibe-coded projects, is really good. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...

"But ChatGPT gives me dopamine." The real dopamine is when you spin the roulette wheel in your own mind and sometimes you get an elegant synthesis of Freud, Calvino, and Sartre as a kind of symbolic phenomenology and sometimes you get half-remembered episodes of Bobby's World from when you were 8.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

One thing we now know without a doubt as a result of AI is that doing the homework really does matter for learning.

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

Recently I was talking to some people (IRL, not online) and a question came up that nobody could answer authoritatively, but that each of us had some knowledge about. It could have been a fun conversation, but instead someone said "ask chatgpt" and that just killed it. This is life now.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

This repo has 62k stars. Compare with Ruby on Rails, which has 58k. More people want to talk to a caveman AI than use a web framework.

"... the most interesting and important fact about a technology is not what it does, but who it does it for and who it does it to"

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

One day, being able to code in Python will be seen as the equivalent of being able to speak Latin now.

Canvas appears to have been hacked. I'm seeing lots of reports on Bluesky about various institutions affected. This could be very, very bad.

This is such a great article.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

2014: Silicon Valley to journalists: “Learn how to code” 2026: About that. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

We are doomed: grith.ai/blog/clineje...

the software industry rn

I think this is the only time I've ever seen the cost of cloud hosting go up instead of down. we can thank AI for driving up demand for memory and storage 😔

On AI slopification: "What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that."

Sometimes using chatgpt for coding is like having a Terminator that trips every ten steps. It's shooting people, changing shape, doing badass stuff!! Then it trips over its own two feet and you have to pick it up. Every ten steps. Sure, a Terminator sounds cool but this feels kind of stupid.

Doing some hat research and...I guess I didn't realize that the Smurfs were a symbol of liberty?

While RAM kits have been hit the fastest and hardest by AI-induced shortages and price increases, we shouldn’t expect SSD pricing to improve any time soon, either.

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

This is a pretty cool publication.

Charts like this kill me. In a good way.

Good tips for maintaining your sense of wonder and creativity for programming

I really like the critique of the current status quo and the thoughtful principles set forth. I'm much less certain that AI can or will play the role that this manifesto imagines.

One in twelve rams are gay!!! And farmers kill them bc they won’t breed instead of allowing them to live out a quiet life of producing wool for freaks like me!!!

We have long known that people retain more from doing synthesis themselves than from a prepared summary. And yet, papers have abstracts, journals have review essays, and the web has Wikipedia. People decide for themselves—not always rightly!—when to consult the full text of original sources.

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives