Mark Schmidt

I’ve been thinking about this chart from Anthropic about code the pace of code changes going from 2.5K to 30K/day since May. Many developers instinctively will claim this is unsustainable but the question I’ve been asking myself is what if it isn’t? How do your product and users adapt to the pace?

We all agree that AI can make software worse, much worse. But it can also make software better! I have, once again, blogged:

A quick video update about Chatto!

It find it helpful to draw diagrams when things are hard to explain. Did I get this right?

Chatto is almost entirely built with agentic engineering workflows. I've written a blog post about what this means in practice.

Need a new smartphone for yourself, a friend or family a member? If you care about digital freedom, privacy & the planet, the Fairphone (Gen.6) with /e/OS might be the right choice for you! 👇

Very happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨

If you're not DRAMATICALLY improving the quality of your software with AI then what the fuck are you doing

Many of you forgot too fast the insane amount of shitty software we had to see and suffer in the pre-AI era.

I yearn for automation because automation fucking rocks

The Agentic Conf Hamburg 2026 after movie is here – and we promise it'll put some energy back into your Friday. This video is our big thank you to everyone who made Agentic Conf Hamburg 2026 what it was! Our attendeees, our speakers, our sponsors. And our volunteeers, thank you very much!

We heard you: the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOp...

woah damrnelson.github.io/github-histo...

Ja, verdammte Scheiße. Ich wäre nicht verwundert, wenn das Ticket 2029 um die €90 kostet und dann 2030 weg wäre, "weil keine Nachfrage existiert". Aber wenigstens das Dienstwagenprivileg ist gesichert finanziert. www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2... Archiv: archive.is/202603261446... #Deutschland

My two favorite things in life are coffee in the morning and going to bed knowing there will be coffee in the morning.

Whoever needs to hear this: hayzam.com/blog/01-you-...

Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

We’re doing an Agentic Coding conference in Hamburg on March 22nd! 🎉 Not many details yet, but super early bird tickets are on sale and selling fast. Super excited about this one! #hamburg luma.com/45lfeyeh

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Let’s see how fast I’m going to regret this… #digital #sovereignty

Interessante Ankündigung, hat leicht vibes der Verzweiflung. Aber das ist vielleicht ein gutes Zeichen, vielleicht gibt es wirklich eine nachhaltige Bewegung Richtung EU Tech 🎉 aws.eu/de/

A great point by @drfranksauer.bsky.social

What if using American cloud services becomes untenable for Europe due to deteriorating geopolitics? It's hypothetical for now, but no longer unthinkable. By @quentinsf.com: statusq.org/archives/202... Local-first software to the rescue?

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

YEAH! Wir müssen uns digital unabhängig machen. Ich habe damit Anfang 2025 begonnen (bin weg von MS Office, Google, Amazon, Disney+) und empfehle euch, das in Häppchen aufzuteilen. Mein Projekt für Januar 2026: Umstieg auf Linux 😅 #didit #dutgemacht www.youtube.com/watch?v=N77A...

👀 Some words about Chatto, my BIG project. It's a group chat app that - is incredibly easy to self-host - has very modest hardware requirements - scales really well - apache-2.0 license - hosted platform launching in 2026 Looking forward to writing much more about this soon. Let's do this. 🚀

It's my birthday, but today *you* get the presents! Introducing "Beans", a CLI-based, flat-file issue tracker designed for humans and their robot friends. 🫘 Track your work right in your repo, using the CLI. And if you work with coding agents, supercharge them with a full picture of your project!

Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities. Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom? And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.

I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Being a Software Engineer Pro: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself. Con: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.

Blue hour is starting 😍

Beautiful sunsets are beautiful!

Zero damns given 😱

Great stuff! And perfect timing…

Curl -v Google.com https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/