Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

There's definitely a perception I've heard from folks who haven't spent a lot of time with the tools that the output of coding agents is always going to be a classical big ball of mud -- a horrible monstrosity with no clear architecture...just a jumbled mess of code that kind of somehow does the thing. It's not true, but that's what many folks think. So why not lean into it? I find myself engaging in software Dorodango pretty much every day.

Nobody rips out the plumbing. But the smartest homeowners upgrade their fixtures every chance they get.

The idea is simple. Growing rice tends to foster cultures that are more cooperative and interconnected, Talhelm and his colleagues explain Thursday in the journal Science. Why? Because farming rice paddies requires collaboration with your neighbors, Talhelm tells The Salt. Self-reliance is dangerous.

With this little experiment, I validated a critical threat intelligence workflow - we need to be monitoring for open-source vulnerabilities before (or if ever) a CVE is published. Threat actors are 100% already doing this in some form to quickly weaponise and exploit open-source issues. To emphasise the point: This is already happening.

The thing that surprised me most is that Claude Code doesn’t need you to be precise. You can describe what you want the way you’d explain it to a colleague, and it figures out how to make it happen.

“Vibe coding” satisfies the Builder. It feels great to see to pass from idea to reality in a fraction of a time that would take otherwise. But it has drastically cut the times I need to came up with creative solutions for technical problems. I know many people who are purely Builders, for them this era is the best thing that ever happened. But for me, something is missing.

The cost of code is going to zero. That’s genuinely neat, and mind blowing, and going to require reinventing so many things. It was still never the hard part.

Honestly I just wanted to play around with gradients. But gradients without anything on the horizon lack something, so I added horses. Since I can't draw horses, now you can draw them. And watch them parade across the screen alongside horses drawn by people you probably wouldn't like. Or maybe you would, how should I know?!

Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock.

I think we've just disrupted decades of existing intuition about sustainable working practices. It's going to take a while and some discipline to find a good new balance.