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Weekend Reading — Industrial complex
Tech Stuff
MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifacts, and AI coding junk. brew install cleanmymac
Writing & Editing Stack Using Zed, Harper, Vale, GPTZero and why that combo makes sense.
Jelly UI Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls.
Kelsey Hightower Yes!
The less busy work you have the less appealing these Al tools are.
Loading UI A curated collection of open-source spinners, loaders and animations for your next project.
Nativ Run frontier open models locally on your Mac.
"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."
DeepSQL Self-hosted AI UI for your database. And yes, there's also CLI access and MCP server so you can use with your favorite LLM.
A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
The aim of it is to 1) remove all fake human behavior in favor of conciseness, and 2) have the model refer to itself based on its actual LLM capabilities when applicable (e.g. say "the algorithm predicted" instead of "I think").
Stop Using OpenCode A look into the many many issues that plauge OpenCode. I experienced enough of these myself that I switched over to Pi.
Reverse-engineering is cheap now
Coding agents change that equation entirely. The effort to get a simple automation working has dropped, as has the cost of trying and failing to get it to work. Since the code is so cheap, the idea of having to maintain it in the future - or throw it away and start again - carries way less psychological baggage.
LLM cliché highlighter Paste some text and it highlights sentences that match known LLM clichés, like “no X, no Y”, "worth naming", "the entire … is", et al.
Replit — The Self-Driving Company
In every example, the human didn't get automated out. They got promoted. Self-driving turns doers into directors, and the people thriving are the ones who think in outcomes and set direction. That is the most valuable work there is now.
Nothing Works and Everyone Is Euphoric “Until this attitude changes, the great software quality decay will continue.”
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right. We’ve been repeatedly told that AI will write 100% of the code by the end of the year. Whether that’s true or not, this may not be the best time to sit back.
Which AI actually reads your site? Two months of LLM traffic, measured
Every hour you’d spend perfecting a
.mdpipeline is better spent making sure your rendered HTML isn’t 80% navigation and script tags. The Markdown crowd is real but smaller, and it’s served automatically by negotiation anyway.
Time still matters as a software moat
Link each request to evidence. Record the customer’s job, the observed behavior, the requested change, and the outcome after release. A request without context is an opinion. A measured result before and after release becomes product knowledge.
Eye for Design
I’m sure the lawyers think they’re best served by letting everyone know about fine print updates, but Shake Shack, I really, really do not care about your terms of use. I buy a better-than-you’d-expect Veggie Shack from you perhaps twice a year, and that’s the entirety of our relationship.
When I want something from a service now, I hope the service has a CLI so I can send an agent, and I never see the interface at all. If the service doesn't have a CLI, and it's something I want to use regularly, then maybe I can build my own.
Peoples
The Prompt-Wait-Evaluate Loop: How AI Kills Flow Without You Noticing My experience as well:
You have a task. You think about it for a few moments. You write a prompt. You submit it. You wait. The model generates something. You read it. You evaluate it. Maybe it’s close, maybe it’s off. You adjust the prompt. You submit again. You wait again. You read again. The cycle repeats.
Prompt. Wait. Evaluate. Re-prompt.
This is not flow. This is the opposite of flow
Early in my career, a more senior colleague gave me a bit of advice. "You act like you are expecting the cavalry to ride over the hill and rescue everything," he said. "There is no cavalry. Nobody is coming. The only people who will rescue us is us."
I think about that a lot
OverpAId "Artificial Intelligence built from the ground up to do your CEO's entire job — strategy, "vision," motivational all-hands emails — better, faster, and without ever once asking the board for a bigger jet."
Business Side
My current prediction: In-house and hosted inference of open-weight models will define the market, not "big" AI. This will also lead to a model exchange and less a market. Sure, some models will be proprietary but they will also feel the pressure of being allowed to run on-premise for a fixed (subscription) price, not per token.
RSS in 2026 — the best distribution channel nobody uses
RSS subscribers read 10x more posts per delivery than email, churn at 1/8th the rate, and require zero infrastructure to support. Almost no creator uses it. Here is why that is a mistake.
Machine Intelligence
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found TL;DR
Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped.
‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’ The new religion:
The whole essay is very much worth reading, and might make you feel saner for harboring your own doubts regarding just how much has been changed in the world by generative AI. The gist of his argument is that the entire corporate world — not merely the computer/tech/industry — is caught up in an AI mania that brooks no dissent. It’s a religious fervor and heretics are excommunicated. But the dissenters, who feel they must remain silent, are largely correct.
I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade.
To really understand how absolutely terrible an idea it is to have AI answer 911 calls, I'll present you with a single real-life call:
Upon answer, the caller calmly began ordering a pizza. Large, pepperoni. Side order of chicken wings. To be delivered promptly.
The only sign the caller gave that things were amiss? She rather ignored the first few questions from the calltaker.
Because she was being physically abused, had already been beaten, and her abuser was IN THE ROOM listening to her order pizza.
Tell me how your AI is going to read between those lines.
Insecurity
For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it in early July, 2026. Is there a single tech company that gives AF?
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
The car alarm your dealer installed that makes it possible for "any hacker within Bluetooth range send radio commands to silently unlock the car at will, turn off its alarm, honk the car’s horn or flash its lights, or even disable its ignition and leave a driver stranded.
Everything Else
adding "industrial complex" after normal words to win arguments
Watch your tone when you speak to me. I’ve been pre-selected for credit card offers you’ve never even heard of.
highly praised and little read
My 5 day old baby has already experienced two british prime ministers
There should be an award for putting just the right amount of milk on your cereal.
i need people to talk to me with the clarity they reserve for their most expensive prompts
This "vlizotrap" is a Dutch device traditionally used to manage population size. Once a year, usually in the summer, every Dutch person completes the challenge of using this extendable stepladder to fetch camping equipment from the attic. Those who are too old or unhandy die trying.
This Discord server could have been an indexable, publicly-available forum.
When the internet started, we did not have many cat pictures to send around.
Digital photography was very expensive and cats never held still in the cat scanners.
It was a difficult time.💁🏻♂️
Bring Back Doors The latest trend in hotel rooms are bathrooms without doors. I guess they don't like it when strangers stay together in the same room. This website helps you find hotels that have bathroom doors.
The fastest way to get a slow reply The challenge: customers forwarding AI-generated diagnoses of their own problems. Most of these are confidently wrong:
Meanwhile, a language model confidently inventing a plausible-sounding internal mechanism it has never actually observed is something that happens constantly. It is well documented, and requires no conspiracy at all. Just a model reasoning toward whatever sounds most like a real explanation. After all, these models are trained on being "helpful".
The Valley of Pimps and Pushers (aka Silicon Valley) keep the drugs out of their own neighborhood
"As far back as 2010, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter his kids had never used an iPad and that “we limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
Hacker Memes "weekend plans"
