How organized are your thoughts? How well can you articulate what you want to do? How clear is your vision for what you are trying to build? In the future, these are the things that will separate the good software developers from the not so good ones.

Being able to express your ideas in an organized, actionable way will become the new "learning to code".

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-development-using-markdown-as-a-programming-language-when-building-with-ai/

#AI #ChatGPT #Copilot #Cursor #ClaudeCode

Oh no. It's true: The mouse cursor image on Wayland is delayed by one frame. 😭

Proof: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/

Great explaination by @lina: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input_latency#c_edq7tn

A failed attempt to fix this in @gnome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4249

It sounds like there is going to be a new kernel API that would allow updating the cursor independently and therefore earlier, but I couldn't find anything about that.

#Linux#Wayland#Mouse#Cursor#Kernel#DRM

Very thoughtful analysis by @grimalkina of the experimental design and results from the recent METR study on “the impact of early-2025 AI on experience open-source developer productivity”.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/are-developers-slowed-down-by-ai-evaluating-an-rct-and-what-it-tells-us-about-developer-productivity/

#metr #cursor

Very thoughtful analysis by @grimalkina of the experimental design and results from the recent METR study on “the impact of early-2025 AI on experience open-source developer productivity”.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/are-developers-slowed-down-by-ai-evaluating-an-rct-and-what-it-tells-us-about-developer-productivity/

#metr #cursor

“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”

I see no lie.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-tries-setting-less-money-on-fire-ai-vibe-coders-outraged/

#vibeCoding#shiteCoding#AI #cursor

“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”

I see no lie.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-tries-setting-less-money-on-fire-ai-vibe-coders-outraged/

#vibeCoding#shiteCoding#AI #cursor

As part of my job, I have to evaluate AI tools. Part of that evaluation is pushing them to their limit. Today, I realised Cursor has a setting where if you critique its work enough, it goes silent and refuses to apply changes.

It's a moody junior dev whose overconfidence and bravado quickly turn to surly silence when their work is questioned. The happy, helpful (and frequently wrong) AI is gone, replaced by a useless one with a bad attitude that won't make it past the next performance review.

Christ. I'm used to managing engineers, but I draw the line at managing AIs.

#ai #cursor #llm