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  By far the biggest change in the agentic coding era has been that I'm no longer chained to my computer all day. Just got more done by sending a few messages from my iPhone on the driving range than I would normally achieve in an eight-hour work day at my desk.

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  So I guess we're all just agreed that, "it's not against the law if an AI agent does it," then? https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover

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  A skill we need to learn is how to ratchet up our ambitions until we uncover what the models truly cannot do. And each time they're improved, to once again test the fences. Confidence and certainty in one's own workflow have become trademark signs of ignorance and complacency.

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  Codex is extremely frustrating in that when you send "steering" instructions reminding it to do the work in a certain way, it will almost always reply to acknowledge the request and then STOP ALL WORK. I've tried coaxing it to keep working in AGENTS.md, but no luck.

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  Glad people are reporting success with Siri AI, but I never had a single positive experience with it all summer. Three times yesterday I watched it spin endlessly, reply "I don't understand" to banal requests, or just blink and disappear. https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri

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  First impressions: Series 12 is a massive performance improvement. Siri AI is much faster than on the 11, and for the first time the podcast app can actually play and download shows on demand without crapping out multiple times.

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  It's too bad Amphetamine for macOS is free. Given how many engineers' AI workflows depend on keeping their MacBooks awake at all hours, if only they'd charged a subscription they probably could have raised $50M at a $3B valuation by now.

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  Apple has been extremely cagey around usage limits for Private Cloud Compute, only sharing that subscribers of higher tiers of iCloud+ are allowed more usage. Well, my apps make liberal use of Apple's language models and I'm now constantly hitting my PCC usage limits. Welp!

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  A players hire A agents and B players hire C agents.

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  Opus 5.5 seems impressively competent and snappy! Get all your work done now before they nerf it to hell next week.

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  Across my 6 iOS apps, each GitHub issue is automatically triaged and assigned by an orchestrator agent to be implemented by a subagent UNLESS it's been labeled as "human" for specification or verification reasons. At this point, less than 10% of issues are labeled "human"

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  For seemingly the sixth time in my career, DHH has arrived at the same conclusion I have—this time, that AI coding means we should be building more native apps, because development cost is no longer the bottleneck—but the way he goes about talking about it couldn't be more different https://youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?t=1457&is=t5lg25x_naMgYtEB

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  I read way too many comments about DHH's Rails World keynote, and the substantive arguments seem pretty thin. Some people who love Ruby and Rails seem to feel disappointed/depressed/afraid to be told the things they care about don't matter anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/rails

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  I complete agree coding agents make software engineering harder, but the rub is that many professional software engineers are pretty bad at these new hard things and it's hard to see how they're not totally screwed. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/24/harder/

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  It is very surprising that disabling iPhone/iPad auto-lock (say, changing from "3 minutes" to "Never") doesn't require an authentication step. Bad actor with temporary access to your device could enable it and wait until you leave your phone out and fail to explicitly lock it.

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  Can't wait for iPhone Duo. Haven't had a folding phone since iPhone 6 Plus.

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  New iPhone 18 Pro is much better at staying cool in the Florida sun but it's still no match for a 65°C far infrared sauna. 🧖‍♂️

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  If I could go back in time 20 years and tell myself one thing, it would be this: "whatever it is, don't bother programming it if there's any way you can put it off until mid-2025."

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  The vast majority of programmers are late adopters. They don't follow programming news. They show up, do the job, go home. They may hear about things through the grapevine. They might go to a conference every 2 years. But they typically don't take the time to play with new stuff

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  Experiencing the common cold for the first time since I had turbinate reduction surgery and holy shit, this is how noses are supposed to work? You blow your nose and mucus comes out? And you can breathe all week long? Christ, you all had it good no wonder I was mad all the time

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  It is possible to believe that some developers are 10 times as productive than average while also believing the "10x developer" meme is harmful.

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  Heaven: - Groceries are delivered by Amazon - Social media is run by Facebook - Phones are made by Apple - Search is indexed by Google - Games are published by Microsoft Hell: - Groceries are delivered by Microsoft - Social media is run by Apple - Phones are made by Facebook - Search is indexed by Amazon - Games are published by Google 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2024-10-13-08h25m55s/

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  Full-breadth is the new full-stack. What might separate winners and losers in the AI era. https://justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/

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  Becky's Dyson Airwrap can connect to the Dyson app… just realized I can cURL her curler while she curls her hair.

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  Content Hiatus https://justin.searls.co/mails/2026-03/

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  For the extremely narrow Venn diagram of people who love both I Think You Should Leave and Disco Elysium, this is amazing https://youtu.be/6OKgdTXLWIg?si=RyS95BqxFBSEVwyQ

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  Hotfix deployed! Len Testa joins for a Galactic Starcruiser tell-all: What was the Star Wars hotel actually like? Why did Disney's executives learn all the wrong lessons? What's Justin's hourly rate and does it include foot stuff? Listen and find out! https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v52.0.1-len-testa-bring-back-the-starcruiser/

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  Barely a month goes by where I can check the news without being reminded of the Cracked skit about two comedy writers who were hired to run a fake Donald Trump campaign and then accidentally got him elected https://youtu.be/8qIQbydyHwc?si=COq7K0HLng3LHI1R

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  I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: justin@searls.co

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  Want to buy Becky's iPhone Air? I can vouch that it's in excellent condition (unlocked, $300 less than MSRP). Buy here on Swappa or send me your best offer justin@searls.co https://swappa.com/listing/view/LACO93287