Brendan O’Leary ✅

Every once and a while the Discord loading experience is so bad...it just doesn't load.

Grok Code Fast being free for so long really revealed a whole untapped market desire for low-cost (free) agentic coding support. It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?

We should replace "Myers-Briggs" and the like with "What is your favorite and least favorite I Think You Should Leave " sketch.

We are living in the future here people.

It's crazy to me how often "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win" is true

Actual script I wrote because dealing with AirPods with a MacStudio, a MacBook, and my phone is far too much for me to deal with: https://gitlab.com/brendan/formation/-/blob/main/raycast-scripts/switch-to-airpods-raycast.sh?ref_type=heads

Unpopular opinion: I don’t like Will Wheaton as a narrator

Grace Hopper carried wire pieces in her purse to show engineers what a nanosecond looked like. She spent her career making computers speak human. Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted. https://brendan.fyi/grace

Hill I will DIE on: Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*

Men ought not to play God before they have learned to be men

Hearing Gwyneth Paltrow say "Apache Airflow" was NOT on my 2025 bingo card.

Dear Posthog: You're amazing That is all

Nobody will remember: - That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam - What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam - If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam ...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.

I got caught cheating on my wife with an employee on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert. Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵

Actually, Cognition AI is going to buy Windsurf for an undisclosed amount after the Open AI $3 billion deal fell through and Google invested $2.4 billion to license Windsurf and took their CEO and other talent.

Something I think people really underutilize is: having AI help you write the prompts for AI. And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!

In the conjoined triangle of intelligence, speed, and price, what matters most in the AI coding wars?

Is there some way to tell YouTube "please stop showing me breaking news, you are literally the place I go to try and escape doom-scrolling"

Some of y'all don't understand how undetemrinistic LLMs are, and it shows

So glad someone already wrote this so I didn't have to: https://oncilla.github.io/old-man-yells-at/

No one scares me quite as much as people who don't like git rebase and don't like squash and merge. There. I said it.

Sweden had to include a footnote in their GDP data for the quarter Taylor performed there. The impact on growth was so significant that it made it an outlier requiring a footnote. 

Hot take: Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.

I honestly don't understand the hype around these "CLI" coding agents - they are just ChatGPT for code in the terminal .. like I expected them to be more like Vim -- but they are further from vim then even VS Code would be. You don't see the actual code...

OH (in re: AI): "Trivia is out the window"

I didn't touch a computer from June 14th through June 25th. That is easily the longest in my life since at least college but probably longer.

Abraham Lincoln came back from the dead to be a vibe coder. Huge if true.

”Nothing wrong with being 40, unless you're acting 20.”

An administration that pardon’s people who assault police officers doesn’t quite have the moral high ground to talk about “law and order” that they think they do…

I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party didn’t want the federal government interfering with the States

If you are going to go out on Saturday - remember. Do not say ANYTHING to authorities except "am I being detained" and/or "am I free to go" If you are free to go, walk away calmly. Everything you say can be used against you so say NOTHING.

My favorite part of printers nowadays is how they don’t print

Joining an open source speed run startup has impact....

And we see why open source is so important in one sentence: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-co-founder-on-cutting-access-to-windsurf-it-would-be-odd-for-us-to-sell-claude-to-openai/

Us millennials now…

Setting up my potiz

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Speed runs be like

"I didn't vote for this!" You, in fact, did vote for this. This was not only foreseeable, but foreseen. You were too proud to listen to anyone on the left.

"let copilot help you draft" "can gemini write that for you" I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances

Incredible. Just incredible. The @kilocode.ai community has shocked me yet again as the love for Claude 4 has propelled us into the top 3 in OpenRouter And we’re just getting started - next week we will show autocomplete AND quick in-file promoting…what a ride

This is real I'm giving the money Let's all build something TODAY

App idea: Geoguesser but it’s just pictures different Hudson Bookseller shops in airports

That’s because it’s true

And that's okay! Good, even.