thoughts & links on AI & code

Claude Code is impressive but still quite fallible…

• “The Human in the Loop”, January 18 2026
  • junior dev / rote work is now automatable
  • higher-order review & direction is still key
  • “My worry isn’t that software development is dying. It’s that we’ll build a culture where ‘I didn’t review it, the AI wrote it’ becomes an acceptable excuse.”
• HN guideline reiteration “Don’t post generated/AI-edited comments”, March 11 2026
• Addy Osmani “Comprehension Debt”, March 14 2026
• petition to disallow AI-assisted PRs in NodeJS, fallout from Matteo opening a huge PR in NodeJS, March 18 2026
• “Thoughts on slowing the fuck down”, March 25 2026
  • “The point is: let the agent do the boring stuff, the stuff that won’t teach you anything new, or try out different things you’d otherwise not have time for. Then you evaluate what it came up with, take the ideas that are actually reasonable and correct, and finalize the implementation. Yes, sure, you can also use an agent for that final step. And I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you’re actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don’t need this.”
• “606: AI layoffs are BS — Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots” podcast, March 26 2026