Casey Brant

Oh, you do Detroit School AGENTS.MD? I'm more of a London School guy myself.

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

This is every single survey like this. The AI guys have this pathological need to constantly hear what you think, but they can't bear it if what you think isn't effusive.

I am certainly willing to believe that the pro-AI folks on this website are the best of the best.

Imagine how good software would be if programmers learned from previous generations of programmers, and if designers learned from previous generations of designers, and if managers learned from previous generations of managers, and if

I also have a few apps that seem to have "updated" to Liquid Glass by hard-coding new color values and it looks very funny on my non-updated phone. Thank god for that walled garden ensuring high quality standards.

I think htmx in appropriate contexts is a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed Hypermedia Systems, but 100% yes. To the extent that it saves any work, it does it by encouraging you to Just Don’t Do That for various features you might have baked in to a SPA + JSON API kind of situation.

I would not have believed you if 5 years ago you had told me I’d someday be sick of new raw-mode TUI application releases, and yet.

It really activates my Crabby Pants in a huge way that I've spent my whole career til now mostly failing to convince humans to do these things for other humans, and now they can't wait to do them for the chatbot. But I am trying to look on the bright side lol.

Anybody got an ssh client app they really like on iPad?

(I am not saying you gotta hand it to Steam, in case that wasn't clear. There's a gigantic list of things they deserve criticism for. Just always makes me tilt my head when someone thinks running something that huge is "nothing".)

You can make a strong case that their cut should be *less*, but sometimes I see takes like "Steam doesn't do anything! They shouldn't take any money!" and I tell you what, if you think operating and maintaining a distribution platform used by functionally every gamer is "nothing", then, uh...try it.

now get ready for the "well how much water does a *human* use per day, huh? probably also 2 million gallons I bet" posts

one of the big problems with the "we're shifting the nature of the work to specifying outcomes" is that it presumes you already understand the problem in sufficient depth to specify an outcome (in natural language, no less, which is by its nature imprecise)

Cosigned. The whole "users shouldn't have to think at all" thinking I guess makes sense for general purpose software/websites, but it infiltrated serious tool design as well. Smooth onboarding is great, but I'd much rather optimize for the serious user who is willing to learn!

move slow and repair things

I think at this point it would not be an exaggeration to say I’ve written more posts about how you shouldn’t have to write much boilerplate code if you know what you’re doing than I have written actual boilerplate code.

I mean he's right that I am a little bit conspiracy brained but 1, "the bluesky devs are dipshits" isn't really a conspiracy theory so much as it is an observation, and 2, my conspiracy theories keep turning out to be right anyway.

Apple hardware keeps getting cooler and Apple software keeps getting worse :(

Who knows where things will land legally (probably the dumbest result lol) but from an ethical stance, doing an “AI-assisted rewrite“ to get around an open source software license is like going into the store and pouring a box of cereal off the shelf into some tupperware you brought in.

Just checked in on LinkedIn for the first time in 2026 and it is somehow exactly what I knew it would be and also worse than I ever could have imagined.

I mean there are definitely a lotta guys out there who have moved past knowledge itself, I’ll give him that.

I’m not accusing anybody of doing this on purpose, but also if I were tasked with mounting a psyop campaign to get my competitors to waste a bunch of money and undermine their own products, it would be indistinguishable from existing corporate blog posts about how “agentic” coding is the future.

Oh yeah I could put a "0" up on a static website.

It's so tragic. Feels like I've lost a lot of online friends.

Screenshot of a bsky post reading "Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink."

Typing syntax into an editor hasn't been the primary time sink for me making software since I was 6 and my hands were too small to comfortably reach the whole Commodore 64 keyboard.

Completely unable to model the kind of mind that would, having experienced Windows 11, be planning to sign up for Windows 12.

"How much code did I make per unit of time" has never been part of my job success criteria. In fact, some of my most successful quarters have been ones where I posted a net negative total contributed LoC.

Very funny how quickly we pivoted from "you're fired if you even think about our proprietary technology in a public space without wearing a VPN hat" to "installing the codebase exfiltration VS Code plugin is mandatory".