This post is so great I want to frame it

If you’re an engineer opposed to AI coding—or if you haven’t started yet—you need to read this.

https://matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/

The fine folks at Astral have created a new type checker and language server for Python, called ty!

Today, I’ve set it up for the Helix editor, and I’ve made a write-up of how to make them work together, including some notes on where to find third-party packages!

https://blog.lanzani.nl/2026/using-ty-with-the-helix-editor/

📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣

The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉

WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛

HOW TO FIX IT? Deploy these tools strategically: available broadly when errors are cheap, but restricted when the stakes are high. 💸💸💸

A great explanation of why RAM prices have risen

“To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn’t been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn’t exist to populate GPUs that also haven’t been produced to go in datacenters that haven’t been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn’t exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can’t exist while economists talk about this thing they call the “rational markets hypothesis”.”

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115742732861618099

#irony #ai #openai

Work with agents on the terminal?

Then do yourself a favor and try out Toad, which is THE superior way to do so.

It offers:

• Snappy fuzzy search
• Markdown streaming 🤯
• Run all your CLI apps with full color, interactivity, and mouse support 🤯🤯🤯
• Shell-like tab completion
• Copy the content to the clipboard as text or as SVG 💪

WOW!!!

http://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/

However, whenever a customer went beyond the rigid scripts, the chat had to be routed to a person, only to reset the password to “Welcome97” (the previous one, in fact, was “Welcome96”, so it couldn’t be reused. Security, go figure!) and wasting everybody’s time while doing so."

I still love this bit of writing from an article about agentic use cases that drive revenue

What we all knew all along: Italian cuisine is the superior choice!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/10/italy-cuisine-first-unesco-heritage-recognition

Can’t decide which LLM to use?

I just stumbled upon this (free) app, called Concurrent, that lets you do just that!

I especially like the feature to measure and compare the quality of AI responses

Link in the comments!

What a marvelously succinct article about typography with a punchy take-home message!

And never choose times new roman or arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy.

https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html

Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said.

Tools like Anthropic Claude CLI, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, etc. can be super useful but, by default, they don’t execute commands before asking for permission each time.

As a result, multi-steps tasks can become tedious to validate each time. You need to keep constant attention to it, track what it does, approving all changes and actions.

However, there’s a way around it, the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. Using that flag, the agent starts doing things in the background and you can go on with your life and check back once it’s done.

But agents hallucinate, and, sometimes, they do so big time. Like what happened with LovesWorkin (username checks out) on Reddit: Claude run a rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ command, wiping their whole home folder 😱

Check the link in the thread to read what happened in all its glory!