https://justin.searls.co/shorter-form.xmljustin․searls․co - Shorter-form2026-04-01T16:16:03+00:00Justin Searlswebsite@searls.coHugohttps://justin.searls.co/favicon.icohttps://justin.searls.co/img/wide_logo.pngCopyright Justin Searls. All rights reserved.Where Justin Searls is content to post content.https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v53-pod-freeze/Breaking Change podcast v53 - Pod Freeze https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v53-pod-freeze/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-20T18:38:37+00:002026-03-21T01:54:55+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-19-09h45m28s/<![CDATA[Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps.
This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-19-09h45m28s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-19T13:45:28+00:002026-03-19T09:59:56-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-18-10h28m56s/<![CDATA[Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work and it's simultaneously juggling:
• Running Claude Code in three tabs at once
• Compiling multi-package Xcode builds
• Automating two iOS Simulators and a Mac build of my…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-18-10h28m56s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-18T14:28:56+00:002026-03-18T10:33:02-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-17-16h57m49s/<![CDATA[Claude sure goes down a lot for being a product targeting businesses.
Maybe Anthropic is just doing humanity a solid by helping us understand how much it will suck when the era of subsidized pricing for LLM-based…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-17-16h57m49s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-17T20:57:49+00:002026-03-17T16:58:58-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-17-13h38m21s/<![CDATA[Sent the DLSS 5 video to some not-very-online friends and they thought it looked incredible. Shame on them for not knowing that real gamers are supposed to be outraged! (I happen to think it looks slick as hell and am… https://youtu.be/4ZlwTtgbgVA]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-17T17:38:21+00:002026-03-17T17:42:13+00:00https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-freecodecamp-which-devs-are-screwed/Merge Commits podcast v - freeCodeCamp: Which Devs Are Screwed? https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-freecodecamp-which-devs-are-screwed/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-17T12:00:00+00:002026-03-17T13:22:47-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-17-07h50m27s/<![CDATA[We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-17-07h50m27s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-17T11:50:27+00:002026-03-17T07:55:09-04:00https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-03-16-models-are-commodities-harnesses-are-differentiators/Models are commodities, harnesses are differentiators https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-03-16-models-are-commodities-harnesses-are-differentiators/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-16T17:03:58+00:002026-03-16T18:38:16+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-15-15h41m02s/<![CDATA[Marathon is the first PVP-heavy game to get its hooks in me since… Unreal Tournament in 2001?
I fucking suck, but even playing solo it can feel incredible when you do manage to come out on top. If you want to roll with…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-15-15h41m02s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-15T19:41:02+00:002026-03-15T15:45:18-04:00https://justin.searls.co/posts/dual-loop-bdd-is-the-new-red-green-tdd/Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD https://justin.searls.co/posts/dual-loop-bdd-is-the-new-red-green-tdd/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-15T12:00:00+00:002026-03-15T12:49:53-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-14-11h34m10s/<![CDATA[Pro-tip to any devs who only discovered TDD thanks to coding agents: refactoring is inherently **directional**. It's more like prefactoring—you rearrange code to make the next change easy. That means you (and your agent)…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-14-11h34m10s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-14T15:34:10+00:002026-03-14T11:41:20-04:00https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-03-14-08h55m56s/Red-green rally https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-03-14-08h55m56s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-14T12:55:56+00:002026-03-14T09:12:06-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-14-07h19m36s/<![CDATA[Claude's electron app for macOS is such a buggy mess that I've uninstalled it and sequestered it to a Safari tab, just like I did to Slack, Discord, etc., six years ago. ChatGPT is a native app where things like the stop… https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-14T11:19:36+00:002026-03-14T11:21:34+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-13-12h10m21s/<![CDATA[I'll admit, it's hard not to get frustrated by all the posts about coding agents going viral lately that are saying the same shit I've been blogging and podcasting for multiple years at this point with little to no… https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-13T16:10:21+00:002026-03-13T16:13:32+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-11-14h18m08s/<![CDATA[GPT 4.1? In 2026? Is the State Department on a budget? Is every diplomatic cable just going to have 300 space-delimited emdashes now?… https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offloads-claude-underpinning-model-flagship-statechat/412022/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-11T18:18:08+00:002026-03-11T18:19:30+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-10-10h57m26s/<![CDATA[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 ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-10T14:57:26+00:002026-03-10T10:58:58-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-23h18m29s/<![CDATA[I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: justin@searls.co
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-23h18m29s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-09T03:18:29+00:002026-03-08T23:20:11-04:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-12h54m22s/<![CDATA[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]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-08T16:54:22+00:002026-03-08T16:58:45+00:00https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v52.0.1-len-testa-bring-back-the-starcruiser/Breaking Change podcast v52.0.1 - Len Testa: Bring back the Starcruiser https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v52.0.1-len-testa-bring-back-the-starcruiser/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-07T18:44:29+00:002026-03-07T15:46:46-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-07-10h23m05s/<![CDATA[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 ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-07T15:23:05+00:002026-03-07T15:24:35+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-06-15h49m22s/<![CDATA[If Nothing releases a folding phone, they should absolutely name it the Nothing Burger https://www.pcmag.com/news/hands-on-nothing-4a-series-midrange-phones ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-06T20:49:22+00:002026-03-06T20:52:23+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-05-15h45m01s/<![CDATA[Dear prospective sponsors,
You can't pay me to say nice things about you, but you CAN pay me to not say mean things about you. Please send inquiries to sponsorship@searls.co… https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-05T20:45:01+00:002026-03-05T21:11:04+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-05-08h27m49s/<![CDATA[You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit that the oil companies have been working hard to abolish ICE since before most of them were born
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-05-08h27m49s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-05T13:27:49+00:002026-03-05T08:28:01-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-04-15h55m50s/<![CDATA["$599 is a fucking statement." https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-04T20:55:50+00:002026-03-04T20:56:35+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-04-12h35m32s/<![CDATA[A lot of people were confused by Trump's immediate embrace of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, but it makes a lot more sense when you consider that he thinks they spell it "Golf"
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-04-12h35m32s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-04T17:35:32+00:002026-03-04T17:38:52+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-03-15h41m53s/<![CDATA[Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually.… https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-03T20:41:53+00:002026-03-03T20:43:07+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-02-14h11m46s/<![CDATA[The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will set Apple apart as the only company to release a product in 2026 sporting more RAM for the same price as the outgoing model. (8GB to 12GB)… https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/02/apple-announces-ipad-air-with-m4-chip/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-02T19:11:46+00:002026-03-02T14:16:41-05:00https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v52-skynet-anypercent/Breaking Change podcast v52 - Skynet any% https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v52-skynet-anypercent/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-03-01T18:06:30+00:002026-03-01T21:10:30-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-28-10h16m20s/<![CDATA[Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-28T15:16:20+00:002026-02-28T15:17:46+00:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-02-27-07h55m19s/Sushi Izuki https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-02-27-07h55m19s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-27T12:55:19+00:002026-02-27T08:24:28-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-26-22h09m35s/<![CDATA[The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a thorough simulation that I think it's convinced me to abandon my dreams of joining Starfleet when I grow up. Being a captain is no fun at all!
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-26-22h09m35s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-27T03:09:35+00:002026-02-26T23:51:57-05:00https://justin.searls.co/posts/agents-are-ushering-in-the-antisocial-coding-era/Agents are ushering in the Antisocial Coding era https://justin.searls.co/posts/agents-are-ushering-in-the-antisocial-coding-era/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-26T16:26:27+00:002026-02-26T11:35:28-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-26-09h16m42s/<![CDATA[If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed. Issues are now graveyards from Day 1.
No wonder my… https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/157470]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-26T14:16:42+00:002026-02-26T09:23:21-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-25-09h19m00s/<![CDATA[My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable parallel serial work—multiple agents running in multiple tabs, all committing to main instead of worktrees.
turbocommit does this by linking each session's commits:… https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit?tab=readme-ov-file#continuity-across-workstreams]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-25T14:19:00+00:002026-02-25T09:22:36-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-24-16h30m08s/<![CDATA[Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius? It's when every single item you ordered from Instacart has been replaced with something else. It's a thought experiment: are the bags on your porch still your order?
Their customer…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-24-16h30m08s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-24T21:30:08+00:002026-02-24T16:37:10-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-24-13h18m48s/<![CDATA[Speaking of me nailing predictions, I feel like this one from 2023 is aging like wine. Not least of which because the decades-long debate over "10x developers" has been rendered moot by agents.… https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-24T18:18:48+00:002026-02-24T18:20:49+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-24-12h12m46s/<![CDATA[Are they sure it was the Citrini Research sci-fi substack that caused the crash and not my much tighter, more grounded "Brace for the Fuckening" post written three days prior?
Who's to say.… https://apple.news/AaV5OdPkJR12OiHpdMqOdYQ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-24T17:12:46+00:002026-02-24T17:24:06+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-22h33m30s/<![CDATA[The startup acronym of the day is "DTC", which stands for Down To Consume.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-22h33m30s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-24T03:33:30+00:002026-02-23T22:34:05-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-12h10m16s/<![CDATA[Common feedback when I write about AI: "if job loss is a real risk, then tell people WTF to do beyond, 'generate more revenue than you cost your employer!'"
Answer: if there were a process or playbook to make yourself…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-12h10m16s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-23T17:10:16+00:002026-02-23T10:15:12-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-07h21m43s/<![CDATA[Saying "please" and "thank you to Siri:
iOS 5-26: idiotic waste of time
iOS 27+: productivity life hack
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-23-07h21m43s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-23T15:21:43+00:002026-02-23T07:23:22-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-22-13h15m59s/<![CDATA[Over and over again, agents like Claude Code exhibit relentless productivity, exhaustive research, and mind-bending speed. But there's one thing they constitutionally lack: innovative solutions in the face of apparent…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-22-13h15m59s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-22T18:15:59+00:002026-02-22T11:22:34-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-22-11h00m28s/<![CDATA[A VP of Engineering wrote in to say my latest essay, "is fantastic and terrifying and absolutely necessary for us to be having conversations about." And that most people still, "have no idea what we're actually on the… https://justin.searls.co/posts/brace-for-the-fuckening/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-22T16:00:28+00:002026-02-22T16:06:49+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-21-08h14m06s/<![CDATA[Just had a really clever idea, but because I now work with 5 instances of Claude instead of actual humans—and knowing they'll all forget how smart I just was in a median 125k tokens from now—it feels kind of hollow.
So…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-21-08h14m06s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-21T13:14:06+00:002026-02-21T08:17:30-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-20-22h12m36s/<![CDATA[It's been a weird experience enabling turbocommit on my repos and watching it do a better job titling commits than I ever do. That it preserves my agent transcripts in the commit message alongside code changes is really… https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-21T03:12:36+00:002026-02-21T03:14:56+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-20-11h32m41s/<![CDATA[Glad to see John Roberts finally take meaningful action on America's affordability crisis. Just like the framers intended.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-20-11h32m41s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-20T16:32:41+00:002026-02-20T16:33:56+00:00https://justin.searls.co/posts/brace-for-the-fuckening/Brace for the Fuckening https://justin.searls.co/posts/brace-for-the-fuckening/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-19T16:32:19+00:002026-02-19T11:57:56-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-18-19h46m59s/<![CDATA[Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to write but not report, maybe it's time we tried hiring them to report but not write… https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-19T00:46:59+00:002026-02-19T00:48:27+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-17-16h53m35s/<![CDATA[If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating… https://gist.github.com/searls/841837b0e3ecd0461c292a0d1639a49f]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-17T21:53:35+00:002026-02-17T21:54:51+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-17-11h17m27s/<![CDATA[One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand.
Not saying programmers will be remembered as coal miners or 9/11 heroes…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-17-11h17m27s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-17T16:17:27+00:002026-02-17T11:53:03-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-17-08h30m19s/<![CDATA[Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.)…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-17-08h30m19s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-17T13:30:19+00:002026-02-17T09:50:58-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-16-22h45m10s/<![CDATA[Bought a bag of pears 3 weeks ago and they're still hard as rocks. Really looking forward to that 8 hour window next week when they all simultaneously ripen before rotting the following day.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-16-22h45m10s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-17T03:45:10+00:002026-02-16T22:45:51-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-16-13h58m46s/<![CDATA[At first glance, it looks like Apple has provided podcasts hosts no documented way to host video for their podcasts except through a third-party hosting provider. Boo.… https://podcasters.apple.com/support/5593-how-to-publish-video]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-16T18:58:46+00:002026-02-16T19:00:06+00:00https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v51-praise-bomb/Breaking Change podcast v51 - Praise-bomb https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v51-praise-bomb/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-16T17:35:38+00:002026-02-16T20:37:21-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-16-08h10m37s/<![CDATA[Enjoyed Dave's post coining Deterministic Core, Agentic Shell. Functions aren't going anywhere, but imperative code is shifting from if/else to an LLM's decisions.
Lotta folks losing the thread here.… https://blog.davemo.com/posts/2026-02-14-deterministic-core-agentic-shell.html]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-16T13:10:37+00:002026-02-16T13:17:37+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-15-21h27m21s/<![CDATA[One month left on Anthropic CEO's prediction that, "in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." Myself and the folks I talk to have already been there for awhile.… https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-16T02:27:21+00:002026-02-16T02:30:59+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-14-16h27m06s/<![CDATA[One year into living with Tesla Full-Self Driving and: it's good.
The improvement from v13 to v14 is remarkable. Tap Start and it pulls out of the garage, drives you, and parks itself. Another tap and it drives home,…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-14-16h27m06s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-14T21:27:06+00:002026-02-14T16:30:30-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-14-14h20m41s/<![CDATA[How many billions of dollars does Anthropic need to update their apps to preserve newlines on paste? Absolutely bizarre how bad their apps are.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-14-14h20m41s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-14T19:20:41+00:002026-02-14T14:21:14-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-12-22h06m48s/<![CDATA[I'm developing apps for Apple platforms for the first time in 16 years so stop me if this is nuts, but the best feedback loops I've managed are when I've made the Mac build the primary one. No simulator jank. No waiting…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-12-22h06m48s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-13T03:06:48+00:002026-02-12T22:09:38-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-12-13h37m53s/<![CDATA[I like my doctor but his office is always full of sick people.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-12-13h37m53s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-12T18:37:53+00:002026-02-12T13:38:05-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-11-20h53m14s/<![CDATA[Sometimes for old times' sake, I'll Google for something instead of just asking an AI agent.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-11-20h53m14s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-12T01:53:14+00:002026-02-11T20:54:44-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-11-19h50m29s/<![CDATA[The new No Man's Sky × Wall•E mashup looks great https://youtu.be/tPuqNYu5kBs ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-12T00:50:29+00:002026-02-12T00:51:52+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-11-13h08m36s/<![CDATA[PSA: iPhone Air's microphone is located on the left side of the bottom edge of the device, AKA where a right-handed person's pinky would naturally rest when gripping the phone with one hand.
Anyway, that's why all your…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-11-13h08m36s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-11T18:08:36+00:002026-02-11T13:11:47-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-10-16h11m22s/<![CDATA[Added a `/prove` skill to my prove_it library. It pushes Claude Code to go beyond merely analyzing source and running tests to demonstrate the code is working.
Example: it spun up a complete example project and ACTUALLY… https://github.com/searlsco/prove_it]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-10T21:11:22+00:002026-02-10T21:16:09+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-10-11h07m25s/<![CDATA[One happy accident of the fact that Claude Code Opus 4.6 turns seem to reliably take 3-5 minutes in my experience is that it's proving to be the perfect companion to a strength training workout.
I just write prompts…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-10-11h07m25s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-10T16:07:25+00:002026-02-10T11:08:28-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-09-07h37m20s/<![CDATA[Free idea: hyperbolic_links.
Let users create symbolic links mapped to HTTP resources. Since you can't literally link a file to a URL without changing the actual file system, hyperbolic would centrally handle…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-09-07h37m20s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-09T12:37:20+00:002026-02-09T07:40:22-05:00https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-08-09h57m02s/I just haggled with a chatbot https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-08-09h57m02s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-08T14:57:02+00:002026-02-08T13:04:48-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-07-14h04m25s/<![CDATA[My prove_it CLI is already proving valuable. Just watched Opus 4.6 complete an hourlong rewrite without me… ONLY because 6 times prove_it's own script & agent hooks blocked Claude from prematurely declaring victory. It's… https://github.com/searlsco/prove_it]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-07T19:04:25+00:002026-02-07T19:10:54+00:00https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-02-06-is-the-tool-bad-or-is-it-a-skill-issue/Is the tool bad or is it a skill issue? https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-02-06-is-the-tool-bad-or-is-it-a-skill-issue/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-06T13:01:26+00:002026-02-06T13:18:11+00:00https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-05-20h17m49s/I bought a Doggett https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-05-20h17m49s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-06T01:17:49+00:002026-02-05T20:30:31-05:00https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v50-spacexxx/Breaking Change podcast v50 - SpaceXXX https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v50-spacexxx/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-05T16:53:25+00:002026-02-05T14:22:44-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-05-08h27m58s/<![CDATA["3 things: reusable rockets, AI via satellite; and a real-time free speech platform. Rockets, space-based AI, and free speech. Rockets, AI…are you getting it? These are not three separate companies, this is one company,… https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-05T13:27:58+00:002026-02-05T08:40:04-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-04-13h58m11s/<![CDATA[I do not miss thinking hard https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-04T18:58:11+00:002026-02-04T18:58:50+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-03-17h39m03s/<![CDATA[A recurring theme in coverage on the effect AI will have on wealth/income inequality suggests there's a strong case to be made that AI is going to be bad for poor people.
I have nothing useful to add to that discussion,…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-03-17h39m03s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-03T22:39:03+00:002026-02-03T17:41:36-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-03-14h40m17s/<![CDATA[Whether or not the Xcode agent is any good (I'm dubious), the fact Xcode itself is exposing first-party MCP tools is great news—trying to get Claude/Codex to do fucking anything right in iOS is agonizing.… https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111428/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-03T19:40:17+00:002026-02-03T19:42:54+00:00https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-02-02-were-gonna-need-a-bigger-shovel/We're gonna need a bigger Shovel… https://justin.searls.co/links/2026-02-02-were-gonna-need-a-bigger-shovel/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-02T20:44:00+00:002026-02-02T23:07:48+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-02-01-20h43m31s/<![CDATA[Two new searlsbrew projects today:
* prove_it: verification-oriented baseline rules and hooks for Claude Code https://github.com/searlsco/prove_it
* scrapple: scrapes and indexes Apple's SDK docs/videos/sample code… https://github.com/searlsco/scrapple]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-02T01:43:31+00:002026-02-02T01:46:50+00:00https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-01-11h13m37s/Why is OpenAI so stingy with ChatGPT web search? https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-02-01-11h13m37s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-02-01T16:13:37+00:002026-02-01T11:22:15-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-31-09h29m11s/<![CDATA[Early in my career, I met a few COBOL developers who came out of retirement in the run-up to January 2000, getting paid $300+ per hour to remediate Y2K bugs when nobody else was left who knew COBOL.
Suspect a similar…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-31-09h29m11s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-31T14:29:11+00:002026-01-31T09:37:33-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-12h27m03s/<![CDATA[Coding agents are a TON of fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) have middling standards.
They are still fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) ruthlessly exacting standards, but markedly less so.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-12h27m03s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-30T17:27:03+00:002026-01-30T12:27:52-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-11h07m16s/<![CDATA[Now that I've spent ten hours with Claude Code after a few months with Codex CLI, I can say with confidence:
* Claude is much much faster
* Claude makes much stupider mistakes much more often, even with Opus 4.5
* With…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-11h07m16s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-30T16:07:16+00:002026-01-30T11:13:22-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-08h12m51s/<![CDATA[LOL, also apparently Adobe Premiere on iPad will frequently silently fail when generating captions. And there's no way to export them as text, subtitle files, etc.
This is starting to seem like bad software that…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-08h12m51s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-30T13:12:51+00:002026-01-30T11:13:22-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-08h09m22s/<![CDATA[Trying Adobe Premiere for the first time since version 6.0 in 2002. Paid for Creative Cloud Pro. First thing I tried: start a project on iPad, sync via cloud, finish on my Mac.
LOL, nope. Their "cloud" can't sync…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-30-08h09m22s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-30T13:09:22+00:002026-01-30T11:13:22-05:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-29-15h28m09s/<![CDATA[Hey America, I'm back. What the hell happened.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-29-15h28m09s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-29T20:28:09+00:002026-01-29T21:26:38-05:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-28-05h42m04s/Tabelogged: 蕎麦 鷹乃 新静岡セノバ https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-28-05h42m04s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-28T05:42:04+00:002026-01-28T05:42:08+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-28-05h46m38s/<![CDATA[Over the last 20 years, my time in Japan felt like Season 1 of Pluribus. A nation acting in harmony, going from happy to see me everywhere I went to constantly signaling they "need some space"
In cities, it's thanks to…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-28-05h46m38s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-27T20:46:38+00:002026-01-17T05:50:29+09:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-27-10h06m57s/Tabelogged: 浪漫 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-27-10h06m57s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-27T10:06:57+00:002026-01-27T10:07:03+00:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-27-08h55m51s/Tabelogged: The Villa & Barrel Lounge https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-27-08h55m51s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-27T08:55:51+00:002026-01-27T08:55:55+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-27-09h59m13s/<![CDATA[Tooling for coding agents is overly focused on scaling numerous parallel workers instead of ensuring correctness. That continues to be where all my time goes and is the real barrier to scaling up. (e.g., Why am I…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-27-09h59m13s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-27T00:59:13+00:002026-01-27T17:55:18+09:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-27-08h20m36s/<![CDATA[This Opus 4.5 failure mode rarely happens with Codex: Claude copy-pasted a source listing by mistake, edited _that_ instead of the correct file, declared success. When I pointed out its error, it confidently asserted:…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-27-08h20m36s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T23:20:36+00:002026-01-27T08:36:00+09:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-19h50m16s/<![CDATA["Brakeman, hosted on GitHub under the stewardship of developer Justin Searls—known online as presidentbeef"
Pump the brakes, man.… https://www.webpronews.com/brakemans-static-vigilance-securing-ruby-on-rails-from-code-to-cloud/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T10:50:16+00:002026-01-26T12:29:38+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-19h49m44s/<![CDATA[Is anyone really surprised that Entropy fell apart over time? https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entropy-a16z-backed-decentralized-custody-startup-is-winding-down-and-returning-capital-to-investors ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T10:49:44+00:002026-01-26T10:50:40+00:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-26-09h44m45s/Tabelogged: 静岡かきセンター 呉服町店 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-26-09h44m45s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T09:44:45+00:002026-01-26T09:44:50+00:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-26-08h45m23s/Tabelogged: ほんな骨 静岡店 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-26-08h45m23s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T08:45:23+00:002026-01-26T08:45:27+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-14h40m56s/<![CDATA[After hearing lots of Opus 4.5 hype, I decided to switch to Claude Code this month from Codex CLI (with which I have a separate set of frustrations), and I've learned two things:
1. Claude Code is significantly more…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-14h40m56s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T05:40:56+00:002026-01-26T14:44:00+09:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-13h34m53s/<![CDATA[I wonder how many people accidentally book hotels in Akasaka because they mixed up the pronunciation of Asakusa.
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-13h34m53s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T04:34:53+00:002026-01-26T09:35:11+09:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-09h35m12s/<![CDATA[Commuter trains in Tokyo are so packed that the tip of my iPhone triggered proximity contact sharing via AirDrop with the passenger next to me.
I didn't want to admit it was a mistake, so we're getting lunch together…
🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-26-09h35m12s/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-26T00:35:12+00:002026-01-26T09:38:56+09:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-25-16h47m41s/<![CDATA[Look on the bright side, Apple chose not to ruin Aperture's icon last week. https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/ ]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-25T07:47:41+00:002026-01-25T07:48:22+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-25-08h28m23s/<![CDATA[Given that it's just as often programmers who have no clue what to build with the coding capacity offered by AI agents, I WOULD say the issue is that many people are horribly uncreative.… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/24/jasmine-sun/]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-24T23:28:23+00:002026-01-24T23:31:20+00:00https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-24-10h38m18s/Tabelogged: 大衆食堂BEETLE 原宿 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2026-01-24-10h38m18s/Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-24T10:38:18+00:002026-01-24T10:38:22+00:00https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-01-24-13h14m05s/<![CDATA[Twenty years working on Windows command line tools? Glad the dude is retiring but I'm sure he's a shell of his former self.… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/23/1915259/powershell-architect-retires-after-decades-at-the-prompt]]>Justin Searlswebsite@searls.co2026-01-24T04:14:05+00:002026-01-24T04:15:33+00:00