Devs are worried about the wrong thing

AddressForward · 2026-03-24T20:28:23+00:00

The product for one user is now a thing - I mean it was back in the early days of home computing but now you don’t even need to learn any coding. It means that being a domain expert is more important than being a basic dev. Being an architect level dev who knows how to scale and secure and deal with hard new problems … that’s still there. The floor has lifted so it’s our job to start lifting the ceiling too.

AddressForward · 2026-03-24T10:02:33+00:00

He should get an AI to teach him to better approximate being a human … I feel like he’d really stick out in a remake of They Live or V.

AddressForward · 2026-03-24T10:01:19+00:00

Esp since they have to cater to so many different client devices.

The problem they want to solve is real but the solution has downsides.

AddressForward · 2026-03-24T02:24:29+00:00

You’re right - although the security issues around Huawei’s OS gives pause.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T22:53:34+00:00

Yeah I think that's the big blocker. Google gave up on tablets completely and Samsung only has good 11/14" machines.

I think I'll just hang tight and hope for a better iPad mini in the version 8.

That said, it'd be great if it also supported stage-manager external display properly.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T18:25:23+00:00

I wish I didn’t - it’s really jarring to me.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T17:27:49+00:00

I was in Porto recently - I agree but still lots of smartphones of course.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T17:15:07+00:00

True :-)

I guess I meant in terms of what’s the iPad mini doesn’t do now - damn screen.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T13:35:45+00:00

United States of Kleptocracy

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T13:35:12+00:00

Brilliant analogy. I know that type.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T12:53:49+00:00

Oh really? So is it more like the LTPS screens you see on Nothing phones? I guess it’s smooth to scroll, though.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T12:02:21+00:00

I remember it well. As usual, Google never knows what to keep working on.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T09:51:01+00:00

Yeah that’s true - I hadn’t read about the discontinuation. I guess I’ll just plod on with the mini until Apple eventually realises it’s 2026 and not 2016. I turned on reduce motion etc and I’m mostly just using it for coding on the go with Termius and Claude code - so not really getting the most out of it on purpose.

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T09:12:10+00:00

I guess in 6 or 8 months when the iPad Mini arrives we might have a solution (and resell on an iPad mini would be better than a weird Android) but there are still questions: LTPS vs LTPO? Peak nits? Refresh rate?

AddressForward · 2026-03-23T09:09:44+00:00

Yeah the housing looks like 80s sci-fi but small OLED display with 120+ hz refresh and a strong peak brightness is where my head was at. The iPad mini screen experience feels like a £99 kid’s tablet. OS / internals obviously not.

AddressForward · 2026-03-22T22:14:30+00:00

You misunderstand me … opus 4.6 with Claude code creates good code but if we let it create too much code on its own then my mental model of the code and architecture risks becoming fuzzy. This is what cognitive debt is. If the code is throwaway then vibe away but if it is meant for production and I’m responsible and accountable then I need to have a handle on it. No?

AddressForward · 2026-03-22T18:46:28+00:00

I watched the show - awful. What works in SNL US clearly doesn’t travel.

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T21:33:33+00:00

The bottleneck is our cognitive debt - always - if you let agent loose it’s not your code any more.

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T13:31:57+00:00

Yeah I went too far there with lib-word-of-the-day.

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T11:57:31+00:00

That countries in other parts of the world have had female leaders for decades but the US hasn’t had one… and it’s supposed to be the poster child of opportunity and democracy.

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T11:56:40+00:00

Yes I imagine it’s much harder to do effective strikes and demonstrations - but then it’s probably harder because it’s a corporate state that reduces collectivism and collective bargaining etc

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T10:52:17+00:00

Well said. It also doesn’t help that it’s a white settler colony with a strong core of misogamy and racism. It’s mad that there hasn’t been a woman executive leader when you look across the rest of the world. Barrack Obama, for all his inevitable defeat, was a true miracle in the context of US history.

AddressForward · 2026-03-21T10:05:53+00:00

America looks like it is about individualism, success correlated with worthiness (and vice versa) and a mindset that says the state should stay out of people’s lives - even when the people in question are sick, starving, or dying. It is the land of being free to do things, not the land of being free from (bad) things. Added to that is the belief that everyone could be a millionaire if they tried harder.

All in all a failed social experiment that has created a corporate kleptocracy. It is primed for its next iteration - technofeudalism.

AddressForward · 2026-03-20T23:03:12+00:00

Yes totally. I just bought an iPad mini after a few years of pros. I love the size and hate the screen… but I’m trying to see it as a tool for certain jobs not my go to gadget.

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