Ankur Oberoi

Ankur Oberoi

@aoberoi.me

Programmer, DevRel leader, and endlessly curious. Here to hold my handle and make sure I don’t miss any memes.

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Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

“Software eng has changed, we’re orchestrating agentic tools in a development lifecycle” “English is the new programming language, we’re moving up a layer of abstraction” Ok I’m with you. But the inevitable next step: “Most devs don’t need to read the code” That one’s uncomfortable

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

ChatGPT Atlas is kinda not good. I'm thinking this is just new product wrinkles. But people, we have known ways to deal with that. Use a beta period. Don't just launch half baked software. I'm afraid the collapse of software quality is accelerating.

Ankur Oberoi
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In case this is a good place to report - I'm trying to import from JSON on my Clipboard. I'm getting a Conversion Error, and when I tap Show, it highlights a step about ⅓ in and says "If failed because Shortcuts couldn't convert from Text to Dictionary"

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

I also tried saving the JSON to a file and chose to read the file instead of the clipboard - same issue. The JSON seems well-formed, because I used a JSON editor (Jayson) to write it to Files.

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

the hottest, scarce, hirable skill in the age of AI just dropped: clarity of thought, esp in written comms remove the noise, ponder/iterate a bit before crafting (but not too much), adapt your message to resonate with the intended audience. that's how you'll stand out, how you'll remain memorable.

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

Whats the equivalent of git for an AI coding world? We can’t really share the history of a software project by only committing source code. We need those prompts, chats, tool calls and decisions to accept and deny. The source code is derived data. It’s almost like checking in the compiled binary.

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

ok, AI Mode on Google Search is actually pretty useful. I'm conflicted about how it deprives publishers on the web of their traffic and therefore the revenue/incentives to continue publishing.

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

but the usefulness can't be denied. and if not Google Search, then all the other AI competitors will take that approach. 🤔 how do we preserve or build new incentives for publishing and sharing on the web?

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

The *minimum* price for a plan that supports Claude Code (AI in the terminal) is $100/mo. That stings. 
(yes, I know using an pay-as-you-go API key is also an option. feels risky in the way an AWS bill can run away from you.)

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

Okay, can we all just agree that when it comes to sharing knowledge with the world, we're just **not** going to host it on medium dot com? I'm tired of the "this first paragraph describes an interesting or relevant tech problem", scroll, "drats! out of free views", let's try again tomorrow - loop

Ankur Oberoi
@aoberoi.me

pinboard.in has served me pretty well for nearly 7 years (RIP del.icio.us) as a lightweight and easy to use bookmarking service. But the API is currently timing out, and it's been on a slow slide into unreliability. I think it's time to move on. What are all the cool kids doing for bookmarking now?

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