> Kirsten: All of this, to me, illustrates how quickly things are moving. I mean, when you really think about it, the whole tokenmaxxxing thing has become a thing, peaked, and now is seen disfavorably, within six months

Pretty sure from inception the phrase “tokenmaxxing” was never seen in a positive light…

Article and this post seems to be AI generated… but this is a good quote

> AI coding assistants hallucinate package names. They confidently suggest npm install some-plausible-sounding-package for packages that do not exist. Attackers monitor those hallucinations and register the names - a technique now called slopsquatting

Slopsquatting is a hilarious name for this

> I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications

There is no “best way”, it always depends on what you are building.

The main advice I would give is to always remember that there’s trade-off’s in every architectural choice…

I guess some general tenants might be… “great architectural solutions…”

- Allow new features to be added, without much complexity

- Have reliable and clear abstraction layers

- Allow tests and typing to validate it’s correctness

- Manage clearly understood limitations, rather than implicit surprise limitations

> we need to stop filming people, and we need a societal norm that treats a violation of this ban on par with spitting someone in the face.

Agreed. Filming strangers in public is making everyone scared to have fun trying anything new, as they’re afraid of online mockery…

I started believing at 4 years old when going to a christian school, then stopped believing a few years later when I realised I couldn’t see any proof of any god watching, planning or influencing the world in any way at all…

Finding bugs in PR’s are exactly what GitHub copilot, GitHub cursor bot and tonnes of other PR bots already do…

What does the AS stand for?

A polite fyi, when skim reading this, it looked like it said AssNotes…

The company is named App Software Ltd, so presumably that.

You can write your ass notes with it too if you like ;)

It's cheap to change code, it doesn't mean you have to add more of it...

Considering they’ve become a 1 trillion USD company, they’re truely moving fast and breaking things…