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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsEvery developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsFor startups starting from scratch, they need to eventually rebuild all those systems: from eg ones for automated testing, manual testing, FF, canary rollouts, o11y, experimentation, migrations etc etc
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsRailway, Render, Fly io all examples of ones surely not as much red tape as eg AWS
- 6 days earlier
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François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Their wordsI think the "difficulty" of software engineering is essentially constant no matter what abstraction level you move to, because human cognition adapts to new tools until it can fully utilize itself.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsThe claude hack of adding everything to git and then diffing it is definitely an option but very heavy handed :-/
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsThese models are so much more now than text-to-code converters.
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Geoff Teehan quoted
Chief Design Officer at Lightspark
Their wordsI don't think it means that we're going to make the same amount of software faster. I think what it really means is we're just going to make way more software.
↗Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designeryoutube.com 5th of 15 in this recording
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Steve Klabnik quoted
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming…
Their wordsAnd the readability advantage for humans is even stronger for agents: the extra clarity of the text inline seems to (I haven't run real evals on this yet...) be more helpful and use less tokens and calls when looking at the actual call site.
↗Arguing about argumentssteveklabnik.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Our readingThe terminal may persist for coding agents and programmers longer than most people expect.
Their wordsI wouldn't be totally surprised if the terminal hangs around for coding agents and programmers longer than we all think.
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Chris Wellons quoted
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems…
Our readingCMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.
Their wordsThe world needs a good CMake linter, which could catch most cases statically.
↗What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsThe terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won’t be used by humans anymore. There’s no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 6th of 15 in this piece
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordshaving the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you
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Mitchell Hashimoto quoted
Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical
Our readingTerminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
Their wordsTerminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsThis is why everyone is rethinking code reviews, deploys, possibly even o11y
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Nev Flynn quoted
Head of Design at ElevenLabs
Their wordsI think that maybe the traits of that person like you say are needs to be a real systems thinker for sure and then ideally a pretty self-sufficient design engineer where the the design chops are as strong as the engineering chops
↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsThe days of language or runtime choice based on human convenience are over.
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Marty Cagan quoted
Founding partner of Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG)
Their wordsIt's a much simpler space for viability. But for most products, especially for AI products, that is not true.
↗Marty Cagan: Strong Opinions, loosely held (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 3rd of 15 in this recording
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Tamar Yehoshua quoted
Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian
Our readingThe right environment for prototyping is key to getting a prototype into engineers' hands faster.
Their wordsSo having the right environment for prototyping is key of getting it faster into the engineers hands.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 8th of 13 in this recording
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Ed Bayes quoted
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI
Their wordscreating these like really accessible interfaces just really expands the access of the power of coding agents to more and more people, which developers kind of got early and now I think rest of folks are kind of uh getting to know as well.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
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Ed Bayes quoted
Their wordsOne of the biggest barriers of of of folks like using tools like Codex is this like limiting factor of like, oh, it can't do that. But every time, at least I've kind of like pushed myself, you know, really expands the scope of what is possible.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 18th of 18 in this recording
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Kenneth Reitz quoted
Programmer, photographer and musician
Their wordsThese habits are useful in ordinary life. They become particularly important when ordinary life is so thoroughly mediated by software.
↗The Interface Is the Curriculumkennethreitz.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Evil Rabbit quoted
Founding designer at Vercel
Their wordsrealizing that the best thing to do is to actually build internal tools. And it's not just because it's cheaper or we don't want to pay to any other company because it's easier to actually customize it to your needs
↗Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercelyoutube.com 7th of 15 in this recording
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Evil Rabbit quoted
Their wordsI feel that what we what we do properly here at Versel is letting people do their their magic. You know, bring their thing and do it.
↗Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercelyoutube.com 11th of 15 in this recording
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Evil Rabbit quoted
Their wordsThese days I feel the reason is different. It's not money is not the problem because they actually there some people are paying more money to build the wrong tools rather than hiring an an existing product. I feel it's the purpose is the intention is the goal of that tool.
↗Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercelyoutube.com 14th of 15 in this recording
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Xe Iaso quoted
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer…
Their wordsUsing time for this sounds boring, but time synchronization is unironically one of the most complicated things in computing.
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Nick Janetakis quoted
Freelance web developer and instructor
Their wordsI have stronger opinions here, I like less choice because it's less surface area to remember.
↗The Real Reason I Like niri and Vimnickjanetakis.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Dillon Mulroy quoted
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026
Their wordsmy take has always been that "discipline doesn't scale" across teams and eng orgs and is a huge reason to use effect
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Craig Hockenberry quoted
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory
Their wordsThe biggest failure with the TipKit introduction is that it ignored the past and how apps have historically been built.
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Mitchell Hashimoto quoted
Their wordsI can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.
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Tom MacWright quoted
Software engineer and writer
Their wordsMapbox GL's license is not open source and requires the developer to have a Mapbox account and follow their Terms of Service.