Dan Palmer

The Mole was peak TV gameshow. This is a hill I have been dying on since the early 2000s.

Interesting reading about Kojima Productions moving their next game to Xbox, after Sony pulled the plug. The rumour is that it's because Death Stranding 2 sold poorly, and... well, yeah. I really want to play it, but still haven't...

No pause, no resume, infrequent saves, no way to recap where you were at. Cutscenes just cannot be 10+ mins without full video controls. I'd almost rather just read the book, or watch a YouTube cut of all the cutscenes.

Interesting reading about Kojima Productions moving their next game to Xbox, after Sony pulled the plug. The rumour is that it's because Death Stranding 2 sold poorly, and... well, yeah. I really want to play it, but still haven't...

Pre AI: 20% coding, 10% review, 50% technical non-coding, 20% people. Post AI: 5% coding, 20% fixing AI code, 20% review, 40% technical non-coding, 20% people, 30% fixing AI tooling.

I'm still somewhat optimistic. AI is great as a learning and research tool when used correctly, and some of the code it can handle well. But the tooling, skills, processes, etc are all janky as anything and need constant attention.

I was inspired today to use Gemini Spark (OpenClaw-ish like tool from Google) to automate a workflow. It worked, ish. And that's kind of the problem with all of those solutions, you can solve something quickly but it's expensive and the summary emails I get from it are different every time.

Oxide is doing awesome work, but their AI strategy of "you'll still need CPUs" is fine, but obviously missing GPUs/TPUs. cc @oxide.computer

Because a GPU is really a specialist CPU from one vendor, a new memory system (HBM), a whole interconnect story, new networking, an order of magnitude more power density to support, etc. It's going to be like building the whole rack again.

Oxide is doing awesome work, but their AI strategy of "you'll still need CPUs" is fine, but obviously missing GPUs/TPUs. cc @oxide.computer

You could argue that there's plenty of work that doesn't need these, and that's true, but if you are buying a compute strategy for the next 20 years, would you go for one without them? I wouldn't.

Adobe attempted to bribe me into accepting a bad deal for my employer. They offered me a personal Creative Cloud subscription, separate from my company's account, if I dropped my attempt to close old subscriptions we weren't using.

Sure code might be cheap now, but maintenance isn't free. Code is still a liability, and it being cheap to take on liabilities is not a good thing. Maintenance has likely come down in cost too, but certainly not to match.

This sort of thing is interesting, but what's the value? We already have Next.js, a copy of it is just code liability that needs to be maintained. We couldn't build this without the original existing due to the test suite.

I'm using AI to be quite productive, but on novel concepts it's not very good. No way it could build Next from scratch without it having existed before.

Wow, @1password.bsky.social really just jacked up their prices and *turned off billing support*. Every support email is met with an autoreply that says "reply to this email for support". Every email. Including those replies. No humans anymore just tone deaf autoreplies. cc @dteare.bsky.social

fortune.com/2026/01/29/1... These engineers are clearly just not writing complex enough code. I'm working on some of the more difficult stuff I've worked on in my career and AI is crumbling.

This punishment Musk is suggesting is lifted straight out of Iain M Bank's Culture series of sci-fi novels. In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.